Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
BARTlETTS TURK.
Mr.. JOSEPH BATTELL,
RENDAIA, Seneca Co., y. Y, |
Nov. Il, 1890. !

hIs JOSlIll DA l Eli,
Dear Sir--Io on doubtless think by this
time that you are not to have your in
quiry answered as promised. | beg to
inform you that | have had sufficient
reasons for not getting it done and will
not enter into details. | have filled out
the blank you sent aud will now give
some information about the ancestry and
the quality of the dam and grandam of
Bartlett's Turk. My father was Il great
lover of a horse and believed in the idea
that the best was none too good to raise
and to get such animals the best and
purest blood must be used as parents. In
my young boyhood days 0Si0) he had
the Cubs. Sweet-Briars, Consuls, Do
meds, Turks and Alfred, followed by de-
scendants of Messenger, Traveller, Alb
dallah On. Y. Rattler) and used Kings
Champion without results. Since his
death (lS59) my brother, Andrew Jack
son. and myself have bred to Coleman's
American Star, Seneca Chief, VIM. NJ.
Rysdyk, Rochester, Bashaw, Star Henry,
Premier Gift, Enchanter, Mordecai and
Excelsior, using mares by Seneca Chief
Abdallah, VIM. NJ. Rysdyk, Clayton
(son of Andy Johnson), Coleman's
American Star, Kipp's Duroc and Bart
let's Abdallah Star. MY brother now
has ten head of very fine young animals,
while have now on hand four very fine
animals We have not made the raising
of horses IA business, but have had one or
two colts a year from our business (farm)
mares.
My fathers Consul mare was squarely
built, IL hands high, with plenty of sub
stance and fine disposition. RoXanna
(the Diomed mare, and dam of Turk)
was Il very stylish mare, a fine saddle
mare. very speedy at the running gai,,
and was the mother of several colts that
made good market horses. Father bred
her to her son Turk. She foaed a fine
bay colt. This colt was the only one
that | ever heard of being in any way
vicious. He was not much so. Father
sold him in his four-year-old form, wher
he was trained as runner. When las
heard from he had never been heaten
He travelled through Canada and the
Northern States, but | do not know un
der what name. He was bright bay
: with black legs, not a heavy tail, IL.
hands high, having the appearance o
being leggy. RoXanna was family
mare and great business mare. RoX
anna was sired by Young Diomed, who's,
sire was Diomed, brought from Virgins
by the Hon. Robert ). Rose of Seneci
county for his own use, he believing hin
to be the best he could find in that famed
[at that time) horse State.
"Imported Turk was got by Goodlass
Catfoss, his dam by Rotsey's old Nolun
teer; grandam by Battle Stephenson
noted coach horse Cathrop; great-gran
? dam by Lawrence Stephenson's old hors
. which went in one season to three hun
< bred mares. Catfoss was got by Youn.
: Turk his dam by Volunteer, grand-dan
by Dunley's noted coach horse. Catfos
5 was allowed to be the best horse tina
t travelled England and carried off the pre-
| NUNS wherever he was shown, nine o
= which he took in one season, and wa
k from the most valuable and celebrate,
e breed in England. "Mr. Weddle in
| formed my father that Turk belonged t.
+. the class styled in England the roadste
h or carriage horse, which was of beautiful
Il form and action with high speed and Ell
Il during in carriage, harness or under tn
saddle" These quotations are take
4 the bills put out by +. S. Bartlett in lS4
to 1914, and of Amasa Woodruff in 1851
n If there is anything more that you woul
4 like to know about the horse, on being il
n formed will try and supply it.
: Respectfully yours,
It +. SEELl BARTLETT.
IS BOYD'S BLACK HAWK.