Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-21
ELIMINATING THOROUGHBRED
GRnS SEC

ELIMINATING THOROUGHBRED
CROSSES.
From Horse Breeder.1
There has been a little controversy
lately in regard to the breeding of Stump
the-Dealer, Tennessee horse, whose
cross is found in the game stallion Bone
setter, and also in the distinguished pro-
gentor of record-breaking PAGERS, Tom
Hal. Those opposed to the thorough
bred cross in trotters and PAGERS, partic-
ularly such as have strong aversion to
the Diomed strain, very naturally dis
puted the assertion that Stump-the-Deal
er was a thoroughbred, and were EN-
phatic in their denial that he was a son
of Timoleon, by Sir Archy.
A correspondent of the Kentucky Stock
Farm has settled the question beyond
cavil as appears from the following arti-
Gle copied from that publication:
SIN a former communication to your
Journal respecting the pedigree and gen
eral history of Old Traveller, | stated
that he was sired by the thoroughbred
DluIHp-lIle-DedleT, son OF 1llnOlcOl. sire
of Boston, and that his dam was Betsey
Baker, who was sired by Whip horse
belonging to the family of Kentucky
horses of that name, and that the sire of
Betsy Baker was a thoroughbred, or
nearly so.
"Since writing that article have be-
come satisfied that Old Traveller was
sired by Suggs's Stump, son of Stump.
the-Deale, instead of the great son of
Timoleon, but this error is not material
for the purpose of this article. In the
September number of Wallace's Monthly
the article | had written was copied in
full, and in the October number Mr.. Wal
lace copies that portion of it relating to
the pedigree of Old Traveller, and then
editorially says:
1.-THE first thing we have to do here is
to decapitate this reputed sire. limo
leon, the sire of Boston, had no thorough
bred son named Stump-the-Dealer, nor
any other kind of a son having that name,
that we ever heard of. Years ago we
went over all the thoroughbred records
of this continent and we never found
any trace of a son of Timoleon called
Stump the-Dealer. Col. ). ID. Bruce
claims to have done the same thing, and
as neither of us have found any trace OF
such IA horse. a clear primd .tdciu case i.
made out. :
"As Mr.. Wallace was probably never
in the State of Tennessee, and therefore
has no personal knowledge respecting the
condition of affairs here in the prosper
Gus days of this section, | may be par
doned for brief depression, preliminary
to statement of facts upon which the
pedigree of Stump-theDealeri is founded
",The people who settled this State
brought with them love for the race
course and the chase. The inhabited ter
ritory was owned by comparative few
They owned large tracts of land upol
which was raised cotton, corn and othe
agricultural products. These immens,
farms, or plantations, were cultivated b,
slave labor, and the landowner was
king; and'in the palmy days of this sec
ton no foreign potentate reigned witt
, more ma estic splendor than the class o
people who ruled and governed the wei
fare of this State. They were wealthy
generous, courageous, and eXceedingl,
fond of those sports and amusement
that tend to elevate mankind, lessen tn
of adI
charm and splendor to:its existence.
, "One of the most prominent of tn
sports and amusements of this peopl
was the running races. There are a
: present but two mile tracks in this State
but if Mr.. Wallace will visit here vii
will show him where there were a
, least ten times that number of mil
tracks built and kept up on the farm
of these people, where running race
were had as an amusement, and som
> of the horses INDUCED in thes
,, races, or did stud service in this section
: were among the very best this countr
has seen.
y "Among them may be mentioned in
ported Glencoe, imported Leviathar
y Timoleon, imported Fop, imported Tel
- erifie, imported Espersykes, Pacolet, Jel
u ry, Stakeholder, Ariel, Wild Bill, by 81
Archie, Chickahomony, Potomac, 81
II Richards, SAKE Weimer, Robin Adail
/ Stackpole, Commodore, son of Boston
l' and at a later date Bob johnson, son c
Boston, Rousseau, by Commodore, Mus
Il gins, by Jack Malone, and Others whic
" | will not stop to enumerate. And thes
D. horses were not owned or kept by an
y large stud, but were owned and kel
! promiscuously upon the llarge farm
u and for the purposes | have mentioned.
u "rhe devastating hand of war oblite
: ated this luxury, laid waste not onl
II many of the beautiful homes and ell,