Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-10
GRANDAM OF BLACK FLYING
CLOUD.

ROCHESTER,, Mimi, Dec. ~, 1889.
j. BATTELL, Esq,
Dear Sr:-From the letter of ). W.
Jewett published in the REGISTER of
Dec. 10, we are to infer that the grand
dam of Black Flying Cloud was II bay
mare, that was sired by Black Hawk.
Enclosed send you letter from 5. w.
Jewett, written March 3. 1888, and sent
to me when | lived in Milwaukee, Wis.
In this letter he says "the Messenger
mare l owned, the dam of Flying Cloud,
was gray" Why does he call this mare
Messenger?I also enclose poster of 1880,
for horse named Cloud, which gives
the dam of Flying Cloud as by Black
Hawk; granddam by Harris lIamble-
tonian, great-granddam by Sir Charles,
and this poster was copied from one is
sued for Flying Cloud. From Mr.. Jew
ett's letter to me we are to infer that
Lady Messenger was the dam of FLYING
Cloud. From his letter in the REGISTER
we are to think that Lady Messenger was
not related to Flying Cloud, for he says,
II had mare, Lady Messenger by Bish-
ops Iambletonian. She had colts by
Black Hawk" But he says nothing
about inbreeding her colts to Black
Hawk, neither does he say that the bay
mare which he purchased of Charles
Howe was the granddam of Flying Cloud,
but he does say that he bred that mares
colts to their sire, and we know that is
the way Flying Cloud had his origin.
Mr.. y. h. Knapp, now a resident of this
city, bought FLYING Cloud of Mr.. Hall of
Albion, New York, in 1851. The horse
was then four years old. Mr.. Jewett
was present at time of sale and said the
granddam of Flying Cloud was IA Mes
senger or English mare. | am great
admirer of Morgan horses, and | also
like the Messengers, and take pride in
having my horses trace TO old Messen-
ger; but. like YOURSELF do not want any
false pedigrees. There are no better
horses than the Black Flying Clouds,
and it seems as if the breeding of the
Howe mare could be established. 1t is
possible that so many years have elapsed
since Mr.. JeWett raised Flying Cloud,
that he has forgotten Just how the grand
dam was bred. 1t may be unnecessary
for me to write this letter, but the eyi-
dence is. that in your book the grand
dam of Flying Cloud will be given as I'M
known: when careful investigation will
prove that she was sired by Harris or
Bishops Hambetonian. If we have been
wrong in our belief as to the breeding of
this mare we are willing to lie set right.
We like the breeding as it has stood for
forty years. The Flying Clouds have
long, slim ears that run to fine point
and sometimes stand as close to each
other at the top as they do at the base.
Mr.. Jewett says this popularity is inner
tied from the dam of Flying Cloud. |
have meyer seen the same kind of ear in
other families of horses. They do not
get it from the Morgans. Neither did
Cloud get his size or markings from
Black Hawk. If Cloud was three-fourths
Black Hawk, it would seem as if he
should resemble his sire. He had a white
face, and three white legs half way to
the knees. His granddam was bay, his
grandsire was black; his dam was gray,
his sire was black. From what source
come the peculiar markings on Cloud.
and the gray color of his dam? Does it
not come from Messenger?
Yours truly,
G. NJ. GOTTEN.
We publish this letter, which we con.
slider an exceedingly good one, in full
1t re-echoes our own feeling exactly, in,
Guiding its liking for the Messengers
When we bought the grand old mare
Alike at the Kellogg sale, as true &
specimen of the Messengers, as we un
derstand it, in their best quality as We
have ever seen, and near as good one
as ever lived, we did so with full APP
probation of the noble quality of tn,
mare, large, grandly built, intelligent
honest and gray. We fancy this gray
or white color. 1t is the garb witt
which nature clothes our northern
world a part of the year and is to us il
itself one OF the most agreeable color'
there is. Well, we got this mare.
was the one mare that we picked GU
which we wanted to take home. We cross
ed her with pure Morgan, of the very
purest type, Motion, and trotter as goo(
using the words of w. H.Wilson of Ken
lucky to Dan Mace good as ever strucl
the turf, "and'', he added, "NIr. Mace, j
you take him you will put every baa
in race with him under 2 20 Wei
these two animals. both typical of thei
two great families, both died young
but we raised three colts from them, al
trotters of the very best quality, TIN
only one trained, Squirrel, that shove,
so sensational mile at the State Fai
at Burlington when four years oil
that, he was called up in front of tn
grand stand and his pedigree announced
We'll, then, as we say with willi1gne>
to welcome any Messenger pedigree