Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-05
GlLllG AND THE FAIR HAVEN ERA

will not soon be forgotten.
GlLLlG AND THE FAIR HAVEN ERA.
We had expected that as soon as
Gillig's great victory came to the ears
of the very Young gentleman who runs
the horse department of the Fair Haven
Era, there would be an explanation.
AS that department seems to be run for
the exclusive purpose of depreciating
Vermont stock and putting money in the
pockets of New York and Kentucky
breeders, we did not expect an unquai-
fled statement that the Vermont horse
Aristos, Morgan bred on both sides, was
entitled to the credit of getting the win
ner of the Clay stakes. We expected the
blood would be sifted and analysed so as
to show that really after all New York
, and Kentucky were entitled to the great
er part of the credit. But the outcome.
given below, exceeds what Mrs. Mala-
prop would call "our most sanguinary
expectations" We quote from the last
) Era:
Gilig has now the fastest record for
any stallion bred in the State of Vermont,
/ his 23a suppanting the 2 ~ of Addison
, Lambert. lie also has the best Vermont
, four-year-old record, the old record being
) 2 :2S1 by X. ID. +.
! Gillig is certainly the best Lambert or
= Morgan ever foaled not excepting even
: Gomez. His dam is of Clay blood and
> his granddam is a Hambletonian. OF
. course the fact that he is by Arstos is
: well known to the readers of the Era.
In view of Gillig's wonderful perform
. ance at Island Park, we suppose his
+ breeding will be of interest. Here it is
q Gillig is by Aristos. dam by Pearsall ;
9 granddam Lady Snow. Aristos is by
, Daniel Lambert; dam Fanny jackson, by
: Stonewall jackson; granddam by North
! American. Daniel Lambert is by Ethan
e Allen; dam Fanny Cook by Abdalah.
sire of Hambletonian. Pearsall is by
, Jupiter, son of Long Island Black Hawk
dam Empress by Abdallah sire Handle
} tonian; granddam by Engineer End
: Ethan Allen is by Black Hawk. There.
:, fore Gillig inherits the greater part OF
. his speed from the following fountain
- heads From Abdallah l2i per cent, from
, Black Hawk TT per cent, from Long Is
land Black Hawk (Clay) Ct per cent
from North American 81 per cent.
- This is the greatest horse yet formed
- by union of the IIambetonian anC
II Ethan Allen or Lambert blood.
y This is "heads we win, tails you lose
3 with vengeance. Our friend is no
. so young as not to have learned the
trick, so long and so successfully played
by which a Morgan victory is explained
Il away to nothing and Hambletoniar
- triumph is set up in its place. 1t look
plausible. 1t is not difficult. at is a
a easy As lying; in fact it is hard to dis
- the practise of the art just mentioned
N and to illustrate this we propose to shov
rs that there is not single statement mad
rs in the above quotation from the Era tina
is true.
, |. "Gillig has now the fastest record TO
n any stallion bred in the State of Vermont
,G his 2;234 supplanting the :27 of Addi
10 son Lambert. Untrue. 1t supplantet
- the 2 :24t of Draco Prince, bred by Anse
Burbank of Bethel, Vt.
Il ,. "He also has the best Vermont four
y year-old record, the old record brin.
= = ;2S4 by Il. ID. F." Untrue. The ole
Il record was , ~ by Leicester.
II 3. "Gillig is certainly the best Lam
y bert or Morgan ever foaled, not exceptin!
10 even Gomez" Untrue. He is not Ger
tainly better than either Lucille Golddus
6 2:l6t, Charley Ford 2:l6f, Lady Mau,
y 2:lSt, Captain Emmons :l9t, Iron Ag
- 2:l9i, Joe Young 2:l9t, Frank 2:l9
q with running mate 2:0slD. ii. b. Win
ship , ;2O4 with running mate , 0G) o
y many others; while he must place hi
!, mark at 2:l9t and place Il heats in , 3
II or better to his credit, before he can tax
a the palm from the swift and elegant Go
II mee That he may do this none NOR
- heartily desires than we; but to say tina
15 he has done it already is premature, t
q say the least.
% /. " His dam is of Clay blood and hi
10 grandam is Hambletonian" An exh
q bition of ignorance. His dam has not
IA drop of Clay blood in her veins, and hi
20 grandam is not known to have drop q
IN Hambletonian
II of the pedigree by which it is made t
- appear that Gillig carries Ct per cen
X each of Clay, North American and Blac
II Hawk blood, and twice that amount, O
y ia per cent, of the blood of Abdallal
~ This is misstatement-part doubtless VI
d intentional, and part probably deliberate
The unintentional part arises from the fac
) that the second dam of Aristos is called i
10 the books Betty Condor by North Amer
n can. Now nothing is more certain tina
"a that, if the Condor mare was the secon
- dam of Aristos, then the second dam G
~ Aristes was by Sherman Black .Hawl
II For in an interview with Elmer Barnur
26 of Shoreham and Joseph Battell, pull
II lished in the :Middlebury REGISTER c
- August g. 1856, Terry Condor states DO,