Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-01
SOME WINDSOR COUNTY BREED
ERS AND HORSES.

ERS AND NURSES.
On warm July day we left Middle
bury and drove east and south nine miles
to Lake Dunmore, where our friend j. X.
Parsons keeps the new, handsome and
popular summer hotel thence by way of
Forestdale and the Brandon pass we
crossed the Green Mountain range to
Rochester. This beautiful village is nest
led in fertile valley surrounded by
wooded hills enclosing fat meadows that
form the tilage land of excellent farms.
while the hills, watered by the purest
mountain springs and brooks, afford pas
lures hardly rivalled by any in the North.
Within few years the subject of horse
breeding in Rochester. that had for a
long time been neglected, has taken a
new and intelligent impulse, so that at
present one finds young representatives
of nearly all the popular sres that are
accessible.
We stopped with II. II. Cushman, Esq,
an enterprising young merchant of Ro-
chester, son of Gen. ARENAS Cushman,
who, though now 81 years of age, still
retains the keen intellect, solid judgment
and strong sense of equity that have so
long made him leader of opinion in that
community. The younger gentleman
lost no time in taking us out for drive
after an animal toward which we per-
haps feel shade of prejudice, as we had
a share in her breeding. although she is
now owned outright by Mr.. Cushman.
This was the black three-year-old filly,
Maggie B. B.. by Ben Franklin. out of
Gen. Cushman's famous road mare,
Black Fan by Black Jim by Black Eagle
by Black Hawk: second dam. the Amy
mare. Morgan mare long noted as queen
of the road between Boston and Ran
dolph, Mass. Maggie b. B. now stands
fifteen hands. weighs $50 pounds and Is
clothed in black satin without a white
hair. She is the most perfectly broken
animal of her age | have ever seen. do
ing the greatest credit to her breaker.
Mr.. Frank Hussey of Rochester. as well
as to the iudicious handling of her own
tI' s'llc - d " liCll DldCh lldN h. is line
and handsome "a the founder of the fam
lily: and she combines with ideal road
qualities speed promise that should
make her star among the shining lights
of the line she represents. Her dam is
the dam of the chestnut geldng Counsel
or, by Ben Adhem, that recently at four
years won a race on half-mile track
and took record of :3S. promising
speedy entry to the charmed circle: and
Black Fan was herself a trotter and win
ner of country races in her younger days.
On our way we called at the lower
Mill Village on J. S. Tower, ESQ, who
showed us his elegant three-year-old en-
tire son of Daniel Lambert, Abdallah
Lambert, very handsome bay, standing
l54 hands and of great merit. We did
not see him in harness, but it is said by
good judges that he is very speedy. His
dam was by Como @ :3G), son of Billiards.
Cassius NJ. Clay (sire of three in the 80
list; second dam by Barre Morrill,.
Passing along we crossed the shining
waters of the White River, now reduced
almost to a brook by dry weather, and
drew up to the farm of Frank Hussey.
Mr.. Hussey showed us a strkingly hand
some stallion, son of Richardson's Young
Columbus q 80, from a Kentucky mare
largely of thoroughbred blood; this no.
bic colt is four years old, seal brown.
nearly lG hands high, and of great per-
lection of form and action. He is
greatly appreciated by the neighboring
breeders, and Mr.. Hussey has made
large season with him. \ daughter of
Ben Franklin from the dam of this colt.
Mr.. lIussey sold at three years for four
hundred dollars. He has some fine young
stock from such sires as Aristos, Dean
Sage and Smiths Columbus.
Mr.. Cushman also has, from the dam
of Maggie b. b., an excellent two-year-
old black filly by Addison Lambert @ :27),
that is we'll broken and full of promise.
Among the other breeders in this vicn-
ity, Mr. John r. Upper has some excel
lent youngsters by Ben Franklin, Aris-
tos and Phil Sheridan, Jr. Mr.. F. f.
Washburn has two fine four-year-old
mares by Thought y 80, sire of Mac
@ ;30) and son of Daniel Lambert. DIR.
W. ID. Huntington had a fine filly some
years ago by Ben Adhem, that got Grip
pied as a sucker in the pasture, and he