Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-08-07

Eagle; second dam by imported Janus.
| cannot now give her other dams, but
may be able to do so.
"'My father desired to breed this
mare to Timoleon, and engaged, or re-
quested my uncle, Daniel Barksdale,
now a very old man, living, the last
heard from him, near Athens, Ala, to
take the mare where Timoeon was
standing and breed her to him. My
uncle did take the mare and breed her
to Timoleon, and the next year she
foaled light, or yellow, sorrel colt,
with white feet and ankles behind half
way to his hooks, one white fore foot,
a large star and white snip. My father
named this colt Stump-the- Dealer.
When he matured he was about
154 hands high, with faxen name and
red tail. He was a very stylish and
highly finished horse. When the colt
was old enough my father had him
trained, and he ran and won many mile
heat races, defeating some of the best
horses of his day. | not only remember
him perfectly, ana saw him in many of
his races, but | purchased him in the
latter years of his life, and he died my
property at our old homestead near
Belfast, where he was foaled, about
1913 or 1919.
'Stump-the-deale was always known
as a pure thoroughbred, and his breed
ing, as have given it, was never ques-
toned in this section. The dam of
Stump-the-Dealer was, as | have stated
by Potomac. son of Diomed. She was
also bred to Constitution, a son of Do
med, and produced colt called Poto-
mac, that was one of the best horses
upon the turf of his day, and rarely lost
a race. He ran celebrated race at
Elkton, Tenn, about 1884 or 1886,
against Jerry. The race was mile heats
and repeat. Potomac was then about
ten years old he carried $50 pounds and
won the race.
'Stump-the Dealer sired several first
class race horses, and his get was noted
for their gameness and endurance in
mile heat races. Big Stump, one of his
sons, was foaled near Petersburg, Tenn.
have seen him run dozen or more
mile-heat races, and he could defeat
anything that was brought against him.
This direct evidence of Mr.. Lowe.
corroborated by the facts that Stump
the-Dealer was a race horse of the high
est order, that his sons were race horses,
and that his dam, when bred to Con-
stitution, produced the fast and game
Potomac, would seem to effectively dis
pose of the alleged prjma tacie case sug-
gested by Mr. Wallace. and to conclu-
slvely establish two propositions, viz.
first, that Stump-the-Dealerw was II pure
thoroughbred, and, second, that he was
sired by Timoleon, sire of Boston, and
that his first dam was by Potomac, son
of Diomed; second dam by imported
Spread Eagle; third dam by imported
Janus.
1.-The Importance of this question to
the breeders of this State will be appre-
ciated when it is considered that Adams
Stump, son of Stump-the-Dealer, sired
Julia johnson, the dam of Tom Hal,
who sired the great campaigners Hal
Pointer (2:09E, Little Brown jug
(2:llD and Brown Hal (2:l24), and
that Adams Stump also sired the dam
of the almost matchless Bonesetter
(2:l9) and that Suggs's Stump, another
son of Stump-the-Dealer, sired Old
Traveller, the fountain-head of one of the
best pacing families this State has ever
had, and that this same blood coursed
through the veins of old Gen. Hardee,
believed by those who knew him to
to have been the fastest horse this State
ever produced, and is today found IN all
the great pacing families that have made
the name of Tennessee revered wherever
speed, gameness and endurance in the
the track horse is appreciated and adj
mired.