Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-03-27
EARLY ADDISON COUNTY HORSES
AND MAMBRINO.

AND MAMBRINO.
The very excellent history of Nam
brine that appeared in recent issue of
the REGISTER was written for the New
York Sportsman by W. II. Merritt, now
manager of the New York department of
the Boston Horse Breeder, who writes
under the name of Vision. We under
stand Mr.. Merritt TO be very careful
and generally accurate writer. We
think, however, he is misinformed in
some particulars. The statement con-
corning Harris Hamiltonan that sin a
region where nothing except Morgans
were then appreciated, he was prepetua-
ted only through his daughters" is in
correct in this, that in that region there
were then practically no Morgans, and
Harris Hamiltonian, If he can be said
to have been perpetuated at all. owes his
posthumous fame almost exclusively to
line of mares falsely represented to
have been his daughters, and so recorded
by John II. Wallace.
The records, as well as the memory of
all more elderly people in this region,
show that, when Black Hawk came to
Brdport, in the fall of 1874, Is years
later than the Harris horse. there was
only the lightest sprinkling of Morgans
in Addison and Rutland counties, where
the Harris horse stood. We recall only
Fox and Clifford Morgan, the latter only
two or three seasons, as Morgan sires in
Addison county west of the mountain,
before that time. The leading sires in
this county prior to that time had been
the Diomed stations, Hills Sir Charles,
by Duroc, Barnum's Cock of the Rock
by the same sire, and DoOlittles Post
Boy by Dnwiddie, another son of imp.
Diomed; the English blood of Doolttle's
King William and his supposed son.
Smiths Liberty Enterprise by imported
Figure, number of sires from the line
Of imported Wildair and Barney Henry
by Signal; the Spanish blood of Yale's
Alexander; an excellent strain of Arabian
from Young Dey of Algiers; the racing
blood of Telescope, and the Messenger
strain through the Freeman horse, third
in the line OF descent from Messenger.
The blending of these noble strains
formed line of horses so full of merit
as to be very hard to displace. Bishops
Hamiltonian, no doubt an excellent son
of Messenger, came to Granville, n. Y,
in 1919, with quite a flourish of trumpets,
and his fame spread rapidly. Breeders
In this county were prepossessed in his
favor and were anxious to try his stock,
and several of his sons did service here.
Allen Smith and Asa Hemenwav of Bird
port each had one, and Harris Hamil-
tonian was here during half of his active
life; yet none of these horses made any
distinct and lasting impression on the
stock of Addison county. They were
not superior to the then existing stock,
or. if they were so, their superiority was
not generally recognized. a horse really
superior to all others in his region.
whose superiority is known to the public.
carries all before him with astonishing
Black Hawk in Addison county changed
the complexion of her horses as if it had
been raining ink upon her pastures.
Harris HamiltOnian, who died two
years after Black Hawk came to Bird
port, was good horse, probably the besl
son of the Bishop horse that came into
this region, but he was by no means the
sire that modern Ananiases would make
him. He is credited by Wallace with
four 80 performers, two of which
Lady Sherman and Hero, he did not get
also with the dams of six 80 trotters
five of which he certainly did not get
and the other doubtful; also with the
dam of the Morse Horse, sire of Alex.
ander's Norman, likewise false; also will
Grey Rose, dam of Cuyler and Stillson
which is not true; also with the dam OF
Young Columbus, like the rest, lie. Ii
fact, as we have before shown, of fifteen
distinguished animals registered by Wal
lace as the get of Harris Hamiltoniar
ten are certainly spurious, three are
doubtful, and only two are ascertained
to be genuine. We haye already pub,
lished proof of these statements. but fol
the accrediting OF these animals to this
horse no evidence has been given to the
public. The tame of Harris Hamilton,
ian, such as it is, has no true and aseer.
famed foundation save Green Mountain