Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-05-22

the result of the mating. The grandam
of the Drew was by Winthrop Mes
senger. His dam in 1913 was taken to
Massachusetts, where she was known as
Grace Darling, and afterwards was
known as Boston Girl, under which APP
pellation she is said to have taken mark
sons Vol. II, Noted Maine Horses.
But two of the Drew horses get have
trotted in ? 80 or better, these being the
bay horse Gen Mcclellan, 2:26, dam by
Shark, which is not represented in the
2: 80 list by any of his get, and Dirigo,
2:29, which has six. Stella, 2 :33, to
wagon in 1867, and Ben Mcclellan, 2 80,
are included in the list by Wallace, though
the pedigree of the latter is enshrouded
in doubt. His son Dmigo has six and
Winthrop one, that being the second dam
of the phenomenal yearling, Freedom,
2:293, while his list of producing daugh-
tiers show the dams of Iolanthe, , 80.
Iron Age, 2:l0i, Midnight, 2lSi, Minnie
Moulton, 2:27f, and Volunteer Maid,
2:27.
Dirigo, once known as Geo. b. Nc
Clellan, was foaled in 1853 out of mare
whose pedigree is unknown. He made
his record of , 20 at Belfast, Sept. 81, Is
Ga. Becoming impotent and physically
disabled, he was destroyed in 1854. All of
his get in the list are gedings, which are
Bully Brooks, 2 rs, Comors,P :25t (Which
should not be COMPOUNDED with the geld
ing of the same name by Gen. Knox =,
John Virgin 30 and Little Fred, 2:2Gl.
Dirigo can justly be called prepotent
sire, as three of his four performers are
out of mares which are given in the Year
Book as unframed. Comors, 2;254, is
given as being out of a mare by French
Tiger, IN Vol. IL, Noted Maine Horses,
which would make that horse the sire
of five dams of , 80 performers, if true.
Horace, his only son to beget a 80 trot-
ter. is mentioned later on and his only
producing daughter is Fanny, the dam of
the ill-starred gelding Pemberton, :29l.
Pemberton was a horse of elegant APP
pearance and an ideal genteman's driver.
\ great son of the Drew horse was
Hiram Drew :311, and his achievements
are net confined to the first generation.
He got Red Jacket, which has a mark of
2 81, while another which will 60 down
in the annals of equine history as great
Maine good mare is Lady Bach, the
Seavey mare, which produced foals by
Gen. Knox, Gideon and Hambletonan
10. Beausire, her son by the latter horse,
sold for high price under the hammer
(S5 ,150) and now stands in New York
or a suburb, if we remember correctly.
He was in the stud at Pennington, Me-,
one season, and the foals which he got
were all nice ones. We recall several
now which are vastly higher in quality
than the get of any horse which stood
here for no longer time. Echo, by Gen.
Knox, out of Lacy Bach. gave a public
exhibition mile in , &c. Gen. Sherman
by Gen. Knox, Violet and Pequawket by
Gideon were all fast and capable of doing
miles below the , 80 mark, which was a
rate of speed much more appreciated fiji
teen to twenty years ago than at the
present time. Pequawket is represented
in the charmed circle by his three daugh-
tiers, Sadie s., Stella Blake and Sweet
ness, while his son Pickpocket also has
three performers in the female line, the
same being Mamie w. 2;27, Piclpania
2:274 and Margaret NJ. (three years
, :2l4. Hiram Drew is also the sire of
the sensational four-year-old performer
Margaret 5. 2:l2t. Here we find the
blood of Gideon in his most prepotent
son combined with that of the Drew
family and this blood is also found in
Gray Dan 2:3lf, whose dam was by
Dirigo and is the sire of Gov. Plaisted,
Maud l.. and Surprise, all in the 80 list.
1t would seem from this above that the
''htte leaven" of thoroughbred blood
possessed by these descendants of the New
Brunswick cunning bred colt had leaven-
ed the lump of sluggish Messenger blood
possessed by the gray son of Hambleto-
nan.
Ezra L. 2:2li, of which mention is
made by Trainer Feek in his work on
training the trotting horse, was out of a
mare by Tom Benton, son of Drew horse
III, again Illustrating the potency of the
Drew-GideOn cross, while Boston Girl
2:25i, which is generally credited to
Gideon, though claimed as daughter OF
Won Moltke 1875, was out of a mare by
Gen. Sherman whose dam was Lady
Bach by Hiram Drew. Won Moltke, sire
of the ? 80 trotters, Flora and Cunard
was by the Morrill, colt, a son of "Old
Drew. CunaId is also the sire of Maud II
2:27 and Cunard Jr, 2:2Si, which was
from dam said to be by young Hi,
ram Drew. Cunard, Jr., was practically
on the turf during the season of 1885
only, yet his seven heats in 80 or better
in races during one brief Maine season