Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-03-21

ged him so persistently for years for the
crime of being Morgan winner, or not,
history does not say. And now, as we
have seen, the same kind of false pedi-
gree has been attached to his greatest
son, on the dams side, and has been re-
corded by the same interesting fellow
that published the scurrilous articles
about the sire.
People inquire what we want of Nor
gan Register. There are score of rea-
sons that will not mention; but if there
were but the single reason that as long
as we do not have one we must submit to
to such treatment from this New York
clique as | have just been reciting, that
alone would be amply sufficient. For, as
| have said, the influence of this systemat-
ic rOguery cannot be estimated. This
literature was the best accredited in the
country. The editor was the official
Register of the National association
The consequence was that these lies, not
being shown up, were almost universally
believed. Think how it must have
changed the plans of those even most
favorable to the Morgan family. 1t
could be shown by the records, by re-
putabe and recorded pedigrees, that it
was impossible to get speedy horse that
should be Morgan on both sides. The
result was that the most intelligent and
thoughtful breeders, those that form
public opinion and have large follow
ing. would not breed a Morgan mare to a
Morgan horse; and so the whole current
of breeding was changed. and it is only
now that we are getting back to the
facts; the current was changed by this
mass of lies, told in their own interest bv
those who had a stock, not as good as
ours, as they knew, and yet stock they
wanted to sell to us and did sell to us
for inordinate prices, to take the place of
our own. | know something of it. I
went through the mill. believed these
lies for long time. have fine mare
that have bred to the three best sons of
Rysdyk's Hambletonian, with one excep-
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| got three tilies, not one of which was
ever, so far as | could get offered, worth
5000. | took the same mare to the Nor
gans horse Ben Franklin, and got colt
that sold when he was coming four for
$1,000, and learn that his present own
ers have refused $500 for him. | then
began to get my eyes open, and our
breeders throughout the State are all, or
nearly all, having like experience. The
very best colts, and those most sought
by purchasers, shown at our recent
breeders meeting, have been inbred Nor
gan; such as Peerless Ben by Ben
Franklin out of a dam by Holabird's
Ethan, and Claremont by Lambertus,
out of dam by belongs Ethan. And
yet it is only for a short time that our
breeders have dared to breed that way.
They will do so more in the future, as the
demand for colts TO 90 West and get
dams for the next generation of trotters
is for strong outcross, and the Morgan
colts most sought are those that are Nor
gan on both sides.
But | am making this too long. |
want to say word of the descendants of
Woodbury.. The first Morgan trotters
were Woodbury's. Lady Sutton, the
first mare but one to make a record in
2;3O, was by Morgan Eagle, son of Wood
bury Morgan. This Morgan Eagle got a
son of his own name that wandered off
to Coldwater, Michigan, and there got
the famous sire, Magma Charta, that has
there founded family of trotters. and is
still more renowned as sire of the dams
of trotters. The distinction is his of get
ting the dam of the beautiful gray geld
ing Jack, 2:l5, that at Lexington last
fall won in three straight over such stars
as Nelson, 2:l4i, and Alcryon, 2:l54.
This Nelson, by the way, is related to
Royalton; the dam of his sire, Young
Rolfe, was by old Darco, and it is now
asserted with great confidence that
the third dam of AXtell, III, the mighty
three-year-old that wears the stallion
crown. was by the same sire. But to re-
turn to the WoodbuIys. The first geld
ing that ever trotted mile in , 80 was
Beppo by Clifford, son of Woodbury.
Morgan. From Clifford has sprung IA roy
al trotting family. He got the Bar
nard Morgan, that in turn got Vermont
Morgan. Vermont Morgan was taken
West and passed into the hands of l.. l..
Dorsey of Louisville, kentucky; there
the two streams of Arab blood were re-
united, as Vermont Morgan was coupled
with daughter of the imported Arabian
Zilcaadi, and the produce was Golddust
one of the finest horses that ever stood
on iron. The Golddusts are now a we'll
known trotting family; the old horse had
"A short career in the stud and that brok-
en- up by the war; but he got line of
trotters and trottng sires that are not to
be overlooked. The fastest of his get
was the elegant mare, Lucille Golddust,