Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-04-17
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manded that the name of his horse known
as Morgan should be changed; and that
no foal by him should be called Morgan.
MI. Kellogg was a popular man to that
event of the Morgan abduction, in which
his brother-in-law was the leading char
acter. A great many Scotch emigrants
were passing through Bloomfield to set
tie in Monroe and Genesee counties be-
yond. They were dressed in the High
lander garb, and were invariably called
"Highlanders' with respect; for they
were a good people and their dress adj
mired. Mr.. Kellogg took this name for
his little, proud, snowy and game horse,
Sherman Morgan.
Although small, this Morgan horse
did a large business, and his get, from
the best possible mares, were in demand
as Highlanders. His sons grew up with
the name to be scattered east and west
as H~ighlanders. Shelton's, and, later,
Paul's Highlander, was from a daughter
of Bold Richmond (inbred to his own
blood and from this horse came the
mare which was bred to Henry Clay, the
produce being the mare to produce Geo.
Wilkes; Henry Clay and Morgan dams.
Colonel Sawyer held on a few years,
but at last disposed of everything and
moved to where, no man knew. His
Messenger horse Defiance he sold to a
physician at Benton, Yates county, N.
EoIIo~r col old ksSharmnp Nor
gan" (alias Highlander) to go West.
Bush Messenger broke his neck. Blind
Paymaster, Binghampton and the sons
of all these horses took their places
thus from 1872 to 1916 there was a
foundation blood in the brood mares in
that country not surpassed in quality by
the combined breeding establishments
in America for 1891. 1t was these mares
which mated with Henry Clay, added to
to which was the blood of many differ
ent thoroughbreds. Despite the SUI
perior quality of the horses | have
named, all men in these counties rated
Henry Clay as equal to the best as an
individual and as a sire. From 1880 to
1887 | received from Colonel Edward
Sawyer letters in pencil creditable to
many men but 40, while he was "a and
past.
My letter is long without telling even
a little. l would speak a few words
more of the "Wallace Time Standard
Registry Stud Books" The wealth of
our land cannot sustain them, for they
are untruthful. They may be continu-
ed for a time, but cannot last; nor can
his deceptive and untruthful pedlgrees
be built upon.
will, in closing, cite one case, like
which l know many in those books, but
as the horses were not at anytime mine,
l will not name them. l can speak of
my own.
In volume l, page 100, the horse
'Clay Pilot" is recorded, "a bay horse,
born 1859; sire, Neave's Cassius NJ.
Clay, Jr., dam by Pilot, Jr., grandam
by Manbrino Chief" {. ! !
No amount of letter-writing could
change the recorded year of birth of this
horse, or untruthful breeding of his
dams, as recorded by Wallace.
The first get by Mambrino Chief in
Kentucky came in the year 1856. A
filly by Mambrino Chief when a year
old in 1857 must be bred to Pilot, Jr.,
in 1857 to produce a filly in 1853, which
while sucking its dam, in 1858, must be
bred to Neave's Clay in order to produce
Clay Pilot in 1859. Can anything be
more silly?
Effort was made by the most reputa-
BILE men to correct this but because the
breeders and owners of Clay Pilot and
his dam had deprecated the methods of
j.. II. Wallace their requests were UNI
needed.
Wallace's volume ii was published in
1874 without mention of the horse.
still no correction. Volume 4 appeared
in 1882, and in it the horse Clay Pilot
had a lottery number (and a winning
one of 93) pinned to his name; but the
same most ridiculous and preposterous
begetting and birth with untruth-
full dams was repeated.
Clay Pilot vas born in the very early
spring of 1862. His dam was "A beautiful
bay mare, 1ecked with white hairs in
her TANKS, with gray at the roo of the
tail, and was marked with four white
socks and a strip in the face, which
markings she transmitted to the third
and fourth generations. As | nave kept
track as well as | could of primitive
Clay horses, | knew of this colt.
In 1873 and 70 the late Daniel S. La
throp Ga very precious friend of mine)
of Albany, n. Y, urged me to add Clay
Pilot to my collection of Clays. | want
ed, first, to make my selections and col
l~ections of the best living sons and
daughters of Henry Clay thorough ;
next, the choicest grand-sons and grand
daughters, Sc that | did not heed Mr..
Tathrop's ranuact until 1899 THAT u,;n