Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-03
VOORHEES, BLACK HAWK MEEK
Frs HAMBLeTONiAN, ETC.

En- y TIfNWo OlNIfNIN, e ".
LODI, n. Y. JAN. IS, 1889.
Mr.. JOSEPH BATTELL,
Dear Sir: Looking over some old let
tiers find yours of March 3, 1856, asking
me to fill out enclosed blanks for Gen.
Clifford and other Morgan horses that
was familiar with. did fill them out,
but was taken sick very soon after. | do
not find any acknowledgment of them
reaching you or the paper you represent.
| have looked over all old papers saved
and do not find them. They were sent
or cast into the waste basket. My atten-
ton was called to you by hearing that
you wrote to Mr.. Jacob Meeker in regard
to Voorhees, Black Hawk. My daughter
read the letter to Mr.. Meeker. He did
not remember the horse. He is very
old man and cannot write any more nor
read writing. He. did not remember ever
breeding to the Voorhees, B. H., but he
did, and she was fine mare and foaled
many fine colts after he let her go. Her
dam was by Gen. Clifford, therefore
Meeker's Hambletonian had two crosses
of Morgan. have not seen Mr.. Meek
er or | would know more what you want
ed him to do. He has sold his horse:
went to Long Island he is fine one
and his fine style and action come from
the Morgan family, his size and color
from the Hambletonian and Champion.
= If those papers have or have not reached
you, please write me; and if they have
not been received, send blanks and will
attend to it at once. There was several
of General Gifford's colt kept for stud
purposes that can send if you wish it /;
will send the voorhees, b. II. also.
1t is a great mistake that the breeders
in this vicinity have let the great Morgan
family run so near out There are but
few that are nearer than the third or
. fourth remove from the general. He
was the greatest Morgan horse | ever
saw, and if had him or his son. Busso-
rah, would show the Morgan haters
that they would have to come to them If
they wanted to breed fine and fast hor-
SEES. 1t plainly shows itself in all that
have the cross, even if it is four or five
crosses off. You will find it so in all sec
tons where horses of good Morgan blood
were kept for stud purposes; but the
breeders here as a general thing do not
- look back further than the second dam
or sire; therefore the Morgan cross is
forgotten, the very cross that gives the
strongest points to their horses When
remind them of it, they will say that it is
J. so and let it pass. and go pell nell and
breed to something new, instead of try
ing to find some stallion of fine breeding
that has the Morgan cross. By doing so
they might breed on and get several
y, crosses of Morgan blood in the horses
:. being bred now. | am fearful by so
great a strife for something new the
y blood of the great and noble Morgan
horse will be forever lost. No man I'M
!. less he has had well-bred Morgan
:, horse knows what it is to have a fine and
>, stylish dryer and an everlasting slayer.
| drove pair of mares of Is hands,
sired by Gen. Clifford, 10 years, and they
carried me thousands of miles in the time
and did Il great deal of hard work be-
sides, and they were just as sound as
: colts after all that hard wear and tear,
/: and to think of the pleasure | took when
o driving them. | never drove up to even
# one man standing on the ground but they
y seemed 10 think they must show them
IS SELVES, which is characteristic of the
l. Morgan. am often asked by gentle
/, man to look over his stylish Hambletoni-
S an, Champion or Clay as the case may
It be. ask for his dams breeding and ii
n generally ends up that one of them was
a Morgan. say to him, there is where
!, your horse gets his style and action. sob,
d no; he is regular so and so;' it's not
/ the Morgan" The fact is that great
= style and action are rarely found in any
other family of horses. GIVE me Nor
y gan and | will never tire riding
S after them, and they are sure to at
g tract attention. | showed General
# Clifford at Goshen, Orange county
e in 1854, against Cassius NJ. Clay. There
l. were at least 100 men there and | could
n take the crowd to man except the one
i who led Cassus NJ. They called him
r the pony, but he could look over their
e brag horse if he was II hands high
;. When look back and see the great mai
IS esty and power that was in the general
> my blood fairly boils.
Is | have dark golden sorrel colt foaled
e April Is. 1883: three white ankles star
r and diamond and fine size, that is per-
a feet Morgan. lie was sired by Seneca
d Golddust, he by Eden, he l.. L. Dorsey
a Golddust. First dam was sired by Com
bination, he by Middletown by Rys-
t, dyk's llambletonian, second dam by Gift
l. ford's Black Hawk, he by Vermont
:, Black Hawk; third dam by General Gift,
n ord; fourth dam by Comet, thorough
IA bred seneca ColdduSt'S dan, Nac cirad