Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-07

come satisfied that Old Traveller was sir
ed by Sugg's Stump, son of Stump-the-
Dealer, instead of the great son of limo
leon, but the error Is not material for
the purpose of this article. In the Sep
TENDER number of Wallace's Monthly the
article had written was copied in full,
and in the October number Mr.. Wallace
copies that portion of it relating to the
pedigree of Old Traveller, and then edi-
torially says:
"rhe first thing that we have to do
here is to decapitate this reputed sire.
Timoleon, the sire of Boston, had no
thoroughbred son named Stump-the-
Dealer, nor any other kind of son hav-
ing that name, that we ever heard of.
Years ago we went over all the thor
oughbred records of this continent, and
we never found any trace of son of
Timoleon called Stump-thc-Dealer. Col.
). ID. Bruce claims to have done the same
thing, and as none of of us have found
any trace of such horse, clear primd
fdcie case Is 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 pros
porous DAYS of this section | may be
pardoned for a brief depression. prelimi-
nary to statement of facts upon which
the pedigree of Stump-the-Dealer is
founded.
'The people who settled this State
brought with them love for the race
course and the chase. The inhabited
territory was owned by a comparative
few. They owned large tracts of land,
upon which was raised cotton, corn and
other agricultural products. These i'm
mense farms, or plantations, were cult
waited by slave labor, and the landowner
was king; and IN the palmy days of
this section no foreign potentate reigned
with more majestic splendor than the
class of people who ruled and governed
the welfare of this State. They were
wealthy, generous, courageous, and ex-
ceedingly fond of those sports and amuse-
ments that tend to elevate mankind
lessen the cares and necessities of life.
and add charm and splendor to its exis-
tence.
Zone of the most prominent of the
sports and amusements of this people
was the running races. There are at pre-
sent but two mile tracks in this State.
but if Mr. Wallace will visit here will
show him where there were at least ten
times that number of mile tracks built
and kept up on the farms of these people
where running races were had as an
amusement, and some of the horses that
INDUCED in these races, or did stud SER
vice in this section, were among the very
best this country has seen.
Among them may be mentioned i'm
ported Glencoe, imported Leviathan,
Timoleon, imported Fop, imported Ten
eriffe, imported Espersykes, Pacolet,
Jerry, Stakeholder, Ariel, Wild Bill, by
Sir Archie. Chickahomony, Potomac, Sir
Richards, SAKE Weimer, Robin Adair,
Stackpole, Commodore. son of Boston,
and at a later date Bob johnson, son of
Boston, Rosseau, by Commodore, Mug
gins, by Jack Malone. and others which
will not stop to enumerate. And these
horses were not owned or kept by any
large stud, but were owned and kept
promiscuously upon the large farms and
for the purposes | have mentioned
1.-THE devastating hand of war obliter-
ated this luxury, laid waste not only
many of the beautiful homes and elegant
surroundings of this people, but armed
hosts marched over this fair domain. and
carried with them many of the choicest
and best race horses then existing, leav-
ing in their pathway ruin and desolation
as one of the terrible incidents of civil
war.
'There was no stud book in those
days, and hence it Is that in many in
stances the correct pedigree and breed
ing of many of these horses were not Of
ficlally preserved. What their owners
desired, and all they demanded to know
was whether the horse they owned or to
whom they desired TO breed, was possess
ed of an extreme speed element While
the horses generally used for racing pur-
poses were pure thoroughbreds, there
was another class known as quarter
horses which were very speedy for a
short distance, but not able to run
mile heats.
'These horses were part thoroughbred
and the horse Whip, sire of Betsy Baker,
dam of Old Traveller, belonged to this
class. And while, therefore, as applied
to certain sections of this country, it
may be, and probably is, true, as stated
by Mr.. Wallace, that in many instances
when the pedigree of remote ancestor