Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-10-09
NELSON AND ALLERTON.

In the grapiC and Interesting sketch OF
Allerton from the American Horse Breed
er, published in the REGISTER last week,
there is one surprising omission. Lady
Franklin @ :29a), second dam of Jay
Bird, is set down in the tabulated pedi-
gree as OUTRAGED" She is a very sig
nificant factor in the pedigree, as, aside
from her wi great merit as a trotting
campaigner, her daughter, Cottage Girl,
has a record of 2:295, and her other
daughter, Lady Frank, is the dam not
only of the famous Jay Bird but of the
successful trotting mare, Early Dawn
(2:214), if the pedigrees of these noted
animals as given in the books are correct.
Now it is unfortunate that compilers
having once known a pedigree, should
forget it perhaps not as serious a lapse
of memory as that of the student who
chad known the cause of the aurora
borealis but had forgotten it'-for he
forgot something no one else ever knew,
while the pedigree artists only forget
what it is their business to remember.
NIdl W Z lIChh W say IL, Illdl lllc BtulSItc
of the distinguished trotting mare, Lady
Franklin, :294, was at one time known,
recorded and published. In Linsley's
Morgan Horse, page 279, we find 'EsTY
HORSE was sired by Black Hawk, g.-sire,
Sherman, g.-g.-sire Justin Morgan. Dam
sired by Romeo, owne by +. Pike.
Height, 154 hands; weight, 1000 lbs;
color, black roam. Good style and fast,
but never was trained. Was burned in
a stable when five years old. lie was
sire of the noted trottlng mare, Lady
Franklin"
In Wallace's American Trotting Regis
ter, Vol. l, p. 1875, is entered :-'LADY
FRANKLIN, alias Carrie, 70. M, foaled
1S47; got by Esty's Black Hawk, son of
VT. Black Hawk; dam unknown. Bred
by Luther Hayes, n. II. (See calendar)".
And in the appended calendar is a list Ct
her trotting victories extending from
1854 to 1861 inclusive.
In the same work, Vol. 3, p. l4S, APP
pears :-''COTTAGE GIRL, CHI. IN. ,,foaled
1870; got by Mambrino Star, son of
MambrinO Chief; dam Old Lady Frank
lin, by Esty's Black Hawk, son of YER
mont Black Hawk. Bred and owned by
Charles Leggett, Spring Dale, Ohio.
Record , 30"
The breeder of Lady Franklin (who
writes that her dam was raised in Gil
manton, n. H., and called a Morgan
mare is still living, writes an excellent
letter, and appears to have watched the
mare with pride through her long and
successful career.
In view of all this and of the further
fact that Jay Bird at 10 years Is sire not
only of Allerton, king or would-be king
of trotting stations, but also of Eagle
Bird (2;2l), sire of Monbars @ :l94),
prince of all entire colts that ever trotted
at two years, it is not a little astonishing
that the name and record of his second
dam should be remembered in his pedi-
gree, and her breeding forgotten; and
yet so it is, not only in the article re-
ferred to, but in Wallace's Year Books
from 1855 to the present, from which,
very likely, the Breeders tabulaticn was
hastily compiled. Can it be because
Lady Franklin was a Morgan that this
streak of oblivion has crept in? If it be
because the learned compilers do not
know the breeder CT Esty's Black Hawk
"a singular modesty on their part, all
things considered) we can easily relieve
them. He was bred by William Esty of
Dover, New Hampshire.
Setting the word ''untraced" against
the name of Lady Franklin, and the pedi-
gree of Allerton has only the distant
Morgan strains, that come through the
second dam of George Wilkes. 1t is
largely Messenger, through Hambletc-
MAN and Mambrino Chief, with strains
of Clay blood through the dams of
George Wilkes and Mambrino Boy. The
unrivalled interest of the contest now i'm
progress between him and Nelson for
the stallion crown leads us to recall the
blood lines of the latter horse. His pedi-
gree in brief is as follows:
Nelson, bay stallion, foaled 1882, bred
by C. IL. Nelson, Waterville, Me-, got by
Young Rolfe (2:2lD by Tom Rolfe by
Pugh's Aratus by Aratus, son of Direc-
tor by Sir Archy by imp, Diomed. Dam
by Gideon by Hambletonian by Abdallah
by Mambrino by imp. Messenger. Second
dam by Black Hawk by Sherman Nor.
gan by Justin Morgan. Dam of Young
Rolfe by Draco 2;2S4l by Young Nor