Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-17
LETTER FROM Mr.. BEEBE.
SwANToN, VT, Jan. %.

JOSEPH BATTELL, Esq,
Dear Sir Il see by the press OCCASION
ally that you are alive and hard at work
on the great and important record of the
little giants of the farm, road and turf
Your work is a great one and wish you
God speed and ample success. | have
filled out your pedigree as well as
could in regard to my old horse, but for
want of room we cannot enter one side
of the field which his merit entities him
to as stock horse, as a trotter and as
the most genuine specimen of the old,
world-renowned Morgan now living. The
feet, the heavy, wide chest, the long,
round-turned hip and body, the strong,
broad loin, short back, perfect shoulder,
breast, neck, head. eye and ear, make
him the counterpart of old Justin him
self and the road and trotting qualities
he Inherited from Telescope, old Black
Hawk and the lasting elements that
Justin handed or impaired to Woodbury.,
old Green Mountain with Hale horse,
Hawk give him high place on the pa
ternal side; with such horse as Old
Charlie, the Brainerd Horse his sire, who
was a prime horse in his thirty-fourth
year, but change of feed gave him the
collie, from which he died in 1886. You
will notice by my pedigree that the Brai-
nerd grandam was by Billy Root and a
Messenger mare. This Morgan mare
with Messenger dam was coupled with
! Hills Black Hawk. From this service
Lawrence Brainerd. ST., had dropped to
him Black Hawk mare, color, bay; he
also had another mare from old Black
Hawk the same year, think. These two
/ Black Hawk mares were coupled with
Old Green Mountain Morgan, and the re-
horse, as before stated, was called Old
Charlie or the High stopper. and the 9th
er was named David, after Mr.. Hill. pro-
prietor of old Black Hawk.
think my horse is the only stallion
left from these two horses and the only
grandson of Green Mountain Morgan in
this section. Old Foxy, my horses
grandam on the maternal side, was a
short-legged, long bodied. high-necked,
big-eyed, short-headed, dappled bay Bill
ly Root mare that could trot as fast as a
good horse could run. At three years
old she was driven so miles i'm one day
without fatigue or worry. She was al
ways driven with a nice, twisted, double
jointed bit until she had been breeding
some time. After Black Diamond beat
Ira Allen in three straight heats in . Us
with ease made up my mind he was the
horse to couple with my mare. The re.
suit was dark dapple brown mare that
could trot like the wind and tougher than
lignumvit1; would weigh 1000 lbs, Il
hands, and as long as a rail. Diamond
| should Judge by his makeup, his speed
and endurance, was highly tinctured with
Morgan blood. After his race with Allen
he made his mile in . ~ and was sold tc
a party in Connecticut.
cannot be beaten. My object in breeding
is to reproduce old Black Hawk and his
style. Enclosed find pedigree of Yer
mont Knox, a grandson of old Genera
Knox. | consider him in many and mos
points the best representative of all the
Morgans and Black Hawks now living
He was stolen and sold in Canada and
was four years getting him back, and
fear from the usage he had while there
cannot make the points intended or be
leved could in the line Of speed. vii
send you picture of both the horses al
soon as taken; shall have cuts of then
and if you would like to have them grace
your book will get them out and ready
in time for you, if you will post me OIL
the time you go to press with your work
Shall want your book when it is out.
Truly yours,
A. j. BEEBE.