Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-01-16
HE BLOOD OE DOLLY.

EuUOF DUHJOHS opuU oT me IuT II
now lay before your readers the particu-
lars in the matter of the pedigree of the
famous brood mare, Dolly. Heretofore
it has been accepted as by Mambrino
Chief first dam by son of Potomac; Sec
ond dam by Sake Weimar, and so re-
manned unchallenged for ten or fifteen
years. The facts are these: A number
of years ago, at the home of the late
James Carter, living in the, locality of
White Sulphur Springs, Scott county,
Ky, a nephew named Henry Brand, of
Bourbon county, was making prolong-
ed visit. riding there q good-loolling
chestnut filly, then perhaps four years
old, that could pace and trot. During
Brands stay there he traded the filly to
Mr.. Carter, and in turn of events she
was named Kate. When Kate reached
the age of six or seven years, Mr.. Carter
bred her to SAKE Weimar, the son of Sir
Archy, that then was in service at the
stable of William Glass, about two IN les
! from Carriers. The result of the union
of SAKE Weimar and Kate was dark
bay or brown filly, which was in turn
called Nance, and an ordinary animal
she proved herself; good worker and
could trot fairly. When Nance attained
her fifth year, Mr.. Carter let his son,
John w. Carter, who was at that time
about fifteen years old, have her to raise
a colt from. At that time there was in
service at Threlkeld's Mills, about four
or five miles from Caters, "A fire saddle
stallion, racker and trotter, called Ben
Franklin, and he was owned by James
b. Wilkinson, now of Belltown, Bell
county, Tex. Mr.. Wilkinson was not,
in the ordinary sense of the word, a
horseman, and so little or nothing was
ever heard of Ben Franklin without the
radius of a few miles. Young Carter,
John w., bred Nance, and the result
was IA chestnut tilly, with her coat con-
siderably charged with white, which af-
forwards became Fanny, and she, to the
cover of Mambrino Chief, produced Dol
ly, the dam of the famous triumvirate-
Thorndale, Director and Onward. Fan
nv, of course, was foaed the property of
John w. Carter, and he traded her to his
father, who, in turn, presented her to
his daughter-Mrs. William Nutter-and
at public sale of Mr.. William Nutter's
Fannie was purchased by Steve Lucas.
She subsequently, passed into DR.. Adams
hands, and he sent her to Mambrino
Chief.
But to return to Ben Franklin, the al
legged son of Potomac. Between % and
30 years ago there was in the vicinity of
the Stamping Grounds, near Threlkcld's
Mills. a bay mare by Johnson's Copper
bottom. PAGER; dam by SAKE Weimar,
owned by Mr.. William Hazcrgg, that
VS. noted throughout the region for her
great qualities as a pacing and brood
mare. This mare Mr.. Hazelrigg bred to
a saddle horse, and the result of this I'M
ion was IA fine-looking bay colt, which at
four years old, and this was in 1915, was
purchased by Mr. James b. Wilkinson,
and called Ben Franklin. The horse Haz-
u Va WIS SuuNtlC uOI SC III HIS
day about Georgetown, was bred by A.
Louis Oflutt of Scott county, and among
others who owned HIM was Mr.. F. C.
Ford, father-in-law of DR.. Adams, the
breeder of Dolly. Hazrack was by Col
den Farmer, also called Fearnaught, and
his dam was by Johnson's Copperbottom,
the PAGER. Golden Farmer, alias Fear
naught, came from Virginia, and was
doubtless thoroughbred, or nearly so.
That the cross of Hazrack is an element
of import in the composition of Dolly's
three great sons Is patent when we reflect
that a line of it appears in another celeb
rity, to wit: Lula, the second dam of
which, Mary Blame, was by Texas, who
was by the gray horse, Texas, and out
of mare by Hazrack. Still another,
and an extraordinary piece of mechan-
ism, is Sannie G., her dam being by Tex
as Otto Holsten, in 1882.