Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17


will hang themselves in due time, sc |
have waited. The statement made by
the writer under the cover of the name
of j. ii. Wallace was libelous. Suppose |
had depended upon the income from he
horse for my bread and butter; and the
men who paid me 5000 for services by
him were breeding to him expecting to
sell his colts at a fair price; how would
this ''catch filly" dam affect their COM
mercial value?
Alexander Neave and Christopher A.
Morgan were bosom friends from in
fancy to death. | had their statements
in their letters to me regarding the mare
Old Pilot, or Lady Pilot, her breeding
and where she was bred to Neave's Clay.
| had o. b. Gould's statements, also the
statement of his pastor, Rev. j. w. Sea-
brook, as to the breeding of the mare
and date of the birth of the foal upon o.
B. Gould's farm. | had also the affidav-
its of Col. G. A. Morgan's man, also Aft
davits of Mr.. Gould's foreman and en-
ployes, who knew the mare for years as
Col. c. A. Morgan's pet drying mare up
to the time he went into the war, the
summer of 1861 but | thought that so
long as a great public were under the
dictatorship of Emperor Wallace, to
whom | had too much self-respect to
submit, | would endure in silence, breed
ing my horses to a standard of blood
which would be recognized by a more
in%telligently informed people than such
as boosted of 'standard bred in Wal
lace.
When Peter C. Kellogg & Co. an
nounced the first sale in New York city
of the buildings of Mr.. L. j. Rose of
California, his catalogues flooded our
land, also went abroad.
As a large number of the colts were
interbred to the blood of Clay Pilot, the
tabulated pedigrees made the ''catch
filly" dam of Clay Pilot very conspicu-
Gus; but as one and ~two-year-old colts,
interbred to the blood of Clay Pilot,
would sell at auction at $1,000, $4,000,
$4,000 and up to $4,000 felt that |
could still keep silence.
When the produce of Beautiful Bells
(the granddaughter of Clay Pilot, with
the Wallace ''catch filly DAM" would sell
at public auction for S5l 900, for her
four-year-old son, and the rest at APP
preaching figures as sucklings, yearlings
and two-year-olds, | still remained silent,
wondering, however, if all the American
horse-breeders and buyers were idiots, or
preferred catch illy blood in their pur-
chases?
One son of Clay Pilot had gone to
Scotland, and from there to Dublin, and
to Manchester, England, then to Ger
many, scOoping up the money as he
went by his great trotting speed with
staying qualities, landing at last In Aus
~tro-Hungarian stud; but the Wallace
catch filly followed him, and they wrote
me from all points for explanation. His
trainer and driver takes one of his get
and develOpes it, after winch we find
him winning at ST. Petersburg, and he
writes me 'that it makes little difference
to him what we people Say about the
dam of Clay Pilot, as his son and
his granddaughter had been good
to him, winning him bags of mon
ey;" but he adds, ''why don't your peo-
pie know how your horses are bred?"
Clay Pilot was by Neave's, or Cod
wins, or DePew's or Mitchells Cassius
NJ. Clay, Jr., the first colt got by Cassius
NJ. Clay by Henry Clay. The dam of
Clay Pilot was by old pacing Pilot,
grand-dam by Grey Eagle out of a mare
by Bertrand, by Sir Archie by Diomed.
As an individual horse, no man ever sat
behind a better roadster, or a gamer trOt-
ter for one mile or for 80 miles; and |
used him several years before he died
upon long, hard drives. As a sire he got
trotters and coach horses always in de-
mand by horse buyers who knew that
their money was in the purchase of good
and game horses, rather than ~lOaters.
His last foal for me was a black filly.
same color as his son, The Moor, which
Mr.. Rose took to California in Novem-
Der, 1863. | have his sons and daugh-
tiers interbred to his blood, and with my
fifty years practical experience in hor-
ses am well satisfied. With regard to
this man Wallace | have no interest; but
do think the horse breeders of America
would pay him the amount of money
they would eXpend for old boxes and
barrels, with which to make "A town
election bonfire for his books and papers.
then make a grand national bonfire
which should shine to the old world, in
forming the able horse breeders there
that in the future we should breed our
horses in families and make blood with
breeding our standard, many would APP
plaud us: while others who have been
glorying over our ignorance would be-
come very jealous, anticipating possible
shortage in their export accoun
With and in this letter vour raadars