Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-31
MACK, 2:2ZA AND THOUGHT. HIS
SIRE.
JOSEPH
Middlebury, VT.

ONE.
The victory of Mack at White River
Junction vas the strongest argument in
favor of the Morgan element that has
been made for years. 1t was a great field
of royalty bred trotters that was pitted
against him. Robinson ID. (Baby Dean,
2.24t), by Daniel Boone, son of Rysdyk's
Hambletouian, was thought to be able to
distance the field. He trotted a trial
mile at Lewiston last year in 2.214. Tn
fortunately, he was off at White River
junction, and after finishing fourth in
two heats he was withdrawn. Judge
Rysdyk, inbred to Rysdyk, sire of Cling
stone, (2.l4), also inbred to old Royal
George, and backed up by the best of
thoroughbred crosses, was there for
honors and made a game fight, but he
had to watch the heels of the unfashiOn-
ably 90 inbred Morgan. The speedy
stallion H~arkaway, by ~Strathmore, son
of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam, Wait
a-bit, (2.31). also took part in the chase.
Nutmont, a promising eight-year-old
stallion of remarkably choice breeding,
also took a hand in the fight. He is by
Nutbourne, full brother to NutwoOd
(2.lSD {; dam, Strabo, by Knickerbocker,
son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian; second
dam by Volunteer, one of the best of
Hambletonian' sons.
Tn time made was the most remark
able feature of the grand victory, 2.23f,
2 224, 2.234. The track was certainly
not at its best. as is shown by the time
made by some ~well-known ~trotters. The
game stallion Charlie Wilkes, which trot-
ted Narragansett track a few weeks since
in 2.2l |, was sent for a fast record at
White River junction, and turned the
track in 30 on the salnc day that Mack
bore the Morgan banner aloft so grandly.
This remarkable performance of Mack
will inspire the friends of the n.uch-abus-
ed MOrgans with fresh courage. Keep
your best Morgan mares for brood pur-
poses. The time is near at hand when
their produce by first-class fashionably
bred stations will command big prices.
Mack is a bay stallion, foaled in 1885,
and an inbred Morgan. His sire was
Thought, which won a seven-heat race at
the Vermont Breeders meeting, Rutland,
Vt, Sept. 8 and 10, 1856, getting a rec
ord of 2.37d. Thought was by Daniel
Lambert, from a mare said to be by Rys-
dyk's llambletonian. The dam of Mack
is by Billy Ring, by Young Columbus;
second dam by Ethan Allen (2.25I). son
of Vermont Black Hawk. 1t is. reported
that an offer of SD 1000 was refused for
Mack after his splendid victory Horse
Breeder.
The true breeding of the dam of Mack
is AS follows: Topsy, bay mare, l5t
hands, 1850 pounds, bred by jerome B..
Cherbino, Weybridge, VT, got by Billy
Ring, son of Young Columbus: dam, al
so bred by Jerome b. Cherbino, got
by Ira Twitchell's son of Bantv,
he by Ethan Allen; the dam of the
Twitchell horse was by Washington
Grey, son of Young Soldier, he by Old
Soldier hat was brought from Long Is
land to Putney, VT, and said to have been
got by Washington Grey, the horse rid
den by Gen. Washington in the Revolu-
ton. Topsy was sold at 4 years for S2lO
to Joseph Battell, who used her about
two years, and sold her with mate to j.
l.. Worth of New York City for seven
hundred dollars. Mr.. Worth took the
pair to New York and kept them some
two years and then traded them back to
Mr.. Battell, who, this time, kept Topsy
several years, and sold her to one Foster
of lsipton for Sl75. She was then about
II years old and perfectly sound. Mr..
Foster sold her to Royal f. Bentley,
then of ltipton and now of Rutland, who
bred her to Thought, the produce being
Mack, 2:224. Topsy was Il very service
able mare with Il fair road gait, but not
speedy while Mr.. Battell owned her she
was used for team work.
Thought is now ID years old. He is a
winner of eleven public races, some
of which, by neglect of secretaries to
make returns, have not appeared in Ches-
ter's Record. His record is really 2 :37,
instead of ? :374, the former figures being
made in a race at Mortified, VT, in the
fall of 1888, when he beat Engineer and
Others in straight heats; this being one
of the races not officially reported.
Thought has repeatedly trotted trials be-
low $50, and has been timed separately
in 2:3l9. His record was made on a
SLOW half mile track. In the seven-heat
race at Rutland above referred to ne beat
Gilroy, 2 :2S4, and Mambrino Archy, , PA.
Thought is II great ~favorite among
those who know him, being of great ele-
gance of form and style, "A pure, game
and honest %trotter, and universally adj
mitted to be an ideal road horse, one of
the most perfect gentleman's drivers
alive. Add to this his high intelligence
and extreme gentleness, and it becomes