Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-10


been especially misleading in the past
and we know that they have been made
up again and again from little or no ma
terial, eagerly caught up and recorded
at New York, without examination, and
without qualification, especially in order
to show that this was the fountain
source of trotting speed. No more mon
strous proposition was ever announced.
There Isn't one particle of common
sense or truth in it. 1t is the deusion
of one who prefers delusion to fact,
and who is satisfied with a delusion If
only lie can make 1t appear fact.
And so the truth has been sacrificed,
and a thousand false pedigrees announ-
ced, and are now being maintained
when they are known to be false. The
fool has said in his heart that there is
heart that lie can live.
OF these manufactured Messenger
pedigrees we instance: Lady Suffolk
appeared as the first trotter to beat 2 80
to sully, and II very great race mare.
She had Messenger blood through her
dam, and fair proportion of it. but
this did not answer. Her grandsire,
Engineer. was comparatively an I'M
known horse, and so pedigree was
made up for him and he was said to be
son of Messenger, and this is so rec
orded now in the American Trotting
Register, without qualification, though
it is perfectly false. 1t was stated by
those who had him in charge in 1916
that he was imported by an English
officer and captured from this officer in
the war of 1Sl2--l4. So he was adver-
tised in the Long Island papers; and we
have recently got some very extraordi-
nary additional evidence to establish
this fact, which in due time is to be
made public. So in the case of Goldsmith
Maid false pedigree is given to her dam.
The same is true of Harold; the same of
Huntress, the greatest three-mile per-
former; but passing by these, and a
thousand Others of greater or lesser note,
for all this delusion about Messenger
blood being the source of trotting speed
has been propagated by false pedigrees,
we come now to the case in question,
which will be considered in connection
with other noted pedgrees that are sup
p 'sed to be of the same blood.
These will be taken from Mr.. Wallace :
:" Great Table" 50 called, a. published in
his last year book, it being the table of
, 80 performers. First. under Smith 5
Columbus the dam of Sea Foam. , :244, is
given as by Harris Hambletonian. This
is entirely false. The mare came from
Boston. and her pedigree is, and always
has been, utterly unknown.
Next, Black Maria, the dam of Smith
Columbus, that has II very creditabe
trOtters in = 80 or better, and is the sire
of Phil Sheridan with as many more
is given by Harris Hambletonian
This. too. is utterly false. We have at
last found the true breeding of this mare
which will appear in the Morgan book.
Next comes Cuyler, with nine trot
tiers, and his dam. Gray Rose (alsc
the dam of Stillson) is given by Harris
| IIambletorian. This, too, is not so. Har
ris' Hambetonian was dead several year:
before this mare was foaled.
Under Ethan Allen the dam of IIotspur
a very game trotter, (2;24), is given by
True John, son of Harris Hambetonian
This used to read by Abdalah. Boil
pedigrees are made out of full cloth. The
mare was bred by Edward Morton, Mid
dlebury, Vt, and got by Green Mountain
Morgan, son of Clifford Morgan.
Under Harris IIambletonian appear.
Lady Shannon as one of his 80 trotters
Her pedigree is entirely unknown. Also
Hero, PAGER, , :204, which is entirely un
true. We have fortunately also sue
ceeded in tracing Hero to his breeder
He is no more by Harris Hambletonial
than the grandam of Nelson, 2:l4t, which
used also to be given so. The trotters o
this list, Green Mountain Maid and Lad,
Sontag, are correct. Again it is set dow
that Harris Hambletonian got the dam
of Annie g., Jack Stewart, Major Edsall
Nelly Holcomb, Panic and Sea Foam. |
isn't known that he got a single one o
these. 1t is almost certain that he dic
not get single one. We have spoken o
Sea Foam. The dam of Jack Stewar
was bred by Austin Dana of Cornwall
VT, and got by Sherman Black Hawk
her dam also was bred by Mr.. Dana an,
got by old Black Hawk. Pane was bre,
in northern New York and got by so
of Hills Sir Charles, though Wallace Ell
roneously gives him by Sherman Blac
Hawk. | have correspondent with tn
|, breeder and am told that the breeding o
the dam is hopelessly unknc wn. Tn
dam of Major Edsall was almost certain
ly Morgan mare. That of Annie G..
unknown. | think it possible the dam O
Nellie Holcomb was by the Harris horse
ITndar Morca Horca nv Euronaon