Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-05
JOSEPH BATTELL,
Middlebury, VT.
THoUGHT-SIRE OF MACK, 2:22X

Editor Register Inquiries concerning
the sire of Mack @ :22a) are so frequent
that give you short sketch of him,
thereby informing more people than could
be reached by any other medium. The
matter is of great public interest here
from the fact that the bay stallion, Mack,
holds the fastest record of any stallion
bred in Vermont, and has also trotted the
fastest heat, and the fastest three conse-
cutive heats ever trotted on a Vermont
track, and that too as five-year-old, in
his first season on the turf; season in
which he trotted eight races, winning
four and taking second money in two
others. The eminence to which Mack so
suddenly sprung, coupled with the fact
that his dam was an ordinary mare that
could never trot mile in four minutes,
got by an obscure son of Young Column
bus known as Billy Ring, that never sir
ed speed, has stimulated curiosity as to
the sire that could produce such results
from such material.
Thought, sire of Mack, is bay horse
of the highest finish and proudest car
riage, standing l54 hands and weighing
about 10l5 pounds. He has stripe in
the face, spreading so as to cover the
space between the nostrils below, a
splash of white on the lower lip, and a
pair of white ankles behind; he is ex-
tremely compact and muscular, back
extremely short, hip long and smooth,
limbs and feet excellent. He carries
small, intelligent and handsome
head high on neck of more than
ordinary length and the greatest SYM
metry; his ear is delicate and sensitive,
eyes prominent, set wellapart, and always
kindly in expression; name and tail
black and very abundant. His DISPOSE
ton is the finest imaginable and his in
telligence very high. His road qualities
are such that do not remember ever tC
have heard a person who has enjoyed
ride after him say that he had ever sat
behind more perfect roadster; his adj
mirable poise, his sensitveness to the
slightest hint that may be telegraphed to
him through the bit or by word from
his driver, the pride of his carriage, with
the head, without check or martingale,
always held high and straight to the
front, and withal his superb action and
speed combine to make him very close
to the ideal gentemans driving horse
Thought is also something of a trotter
having trOtted in all eighteen races, of
which he has won eleven, the most not
able of which was the seven-heat stall.
lion race of the Vermont Breeders as
ISOLATION in 1856, over the then very slow
half-mile track at Rutland, beating Mann
brine Archy that the same season made
a record of 2:244, and Gilroy that the
next season took mark of 2:2S3.
Thought here made his record of 81 ,
which is his best official record, although
he has trotted mile better than 80
than the one he bears.
Thought was bred by Cyrus B. Stow
of Weybridge, Addison county, Yer
mont, foaled in 1877, and got by the
famous Daniel Lambert, that, for several
years, headed the worlds list of trotting
sires as measured by their get in the , &c
list. His dam was fine and fast trot-
ting bay mare brought by Mr.. Stow
from Saratoga, where he traded for her in
the summer of 1872, under the following
circumstances. She was one of pair OF
bay mares shipped up the Hudson to q
gentleman stopping at Congress Hall
They were fast trotters, and this gentle
man for some time. was able with thi,
pals to hold his own against any
trotting pair in Saratoga; but finally
both were taken sick with the pink
gress Hall stables to those of vet
Urinary surgeon for treatment. They die
not improve, and at length the surgeon
under the direction of the owner, TRADED
them to MIR. Stow for likely anC
serviceable pair of Vermont horses tina
he owned. Nothing of the breeding o
the mares was said at the time of tn,
trade, but afterwards Mr.. Stow saw the
owner, who gave him the pedigree of tn,
mares, writing it off on piece of paper
This paper Mr. Stow now has, or die
have recently; no name is signed to 1t
but the dam of Thought is there state,
TO have been by Rysdyk's Hambletonian
from dam by Seely's American Star
the other mare by Robert Bonner. MI
Stow also states that he saw anothe
gentleman, who claimed to know tn
breeding of the mares, who gave him tn
same statement verbally. Mr.. Stow i
reliable man, and there would seem t
have been no reason for the gentleman