Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-02-05

London dray horse stallion; and that
again in 1928, another Cleveland Bay
stallion with two thoroughbreds, Bare
foot, the st. Leger winner of 1923, and
Serab, who unfortunately proved i'm
potent, were imported into Massachu-
setts by the late Admiral Sir Isaac COT
fin, no less distinguished for his pa
triotism than for his eccentricity and
galantry in the British service.
cannot, of course, pretend to assert
that the race of the animals in question
are ipsO fdctO the descendants of these
very imported mares and stations, but
when one finds, in any region or district
of country, a certain stock, be it of
horses or of neat cattle, of sheep or even
Of swine, strongly showing the charac-
teristic marks of some well known dis
tinctive race or races and then ascertains
that progentors or progenetriXcs of
those very races were actually intro
duced into that district, for the avowed
purpose of improving the native breeds,
at period prior to any positive notice
or description of the now existing
stock, he would hardly, think, be rash
in ascribing the present family to the
intermiXture of the bloods of those an
cestOrs in Il greater or lesser degree.
This view, it must be observed, con
corning the draught horse of Vermont,
which have venturcd ,to term a family,
Is not intended to initiate against the
opinion SET forth above rs to the posi-
mlity of creating by intrrmiXturc of
bloods, a family which shall reproduce
itself unmiXcd. No such claim has been
set on foot for the Vermont draught-
horse. although something of the kind
has been attempted concerning Il single
| highly bred branch or offset. as | regard
| II, of the general stock of the region.
| do not even mean to assert that these
horses can claim any one, or more,
individual family ancestors common ia
all, or that they have any such actual
blood connection among them, as should
constitute them. in actual fact, a family.
All that | believe, or desire to put
forth, is that there now exists II peculiar
! type OF horse of great merit for many
| purposes, oyer large district of coun-
try subdivisihle into three or four Soc
ondary classes, modified, as should
Judge by the possession of more or less
blood mean OF more or less thorough
blood of the English or American
racer-yet all showing the characteris-
tics of the other English families which
have named, ana | doubt not having de-
rived part Of their own peculiar merits
from each one of those families.
| believe that the mares OF all the var
ious classes of this type, from the heavi-
est to the lightest, are the best brood
mares by many odds of any one elias.
that have seen in America, from which
to raise stout, hardy, sound, active and
speedy stock for all practical purposes
to well selected, large sized, bony thor
oughbred stations. At any time when
the stock of heavier, larger and slower
mares appears to be becoming scarce, re.
source should be had to powerful stall
lions of their native stock not to be Join.
ed as sires to weakling, understood high
blooded mares, in order to recuperate
the race-for that they will not debut
to be coupled to the finest and roomiest
mares of their own class, fl ON which un.
ion will probably result something with
yet more bone and less blood, in other
words, coarser than either parent; and
this offspring, if colt, when castrated
will prove Il capital team horse; if Il
flly, will be exactly what is wanted tC
stint to the thoroughbred.
This is nearly what | believe to be the
history of the Morgan horse as it is styl
ed, when 1t was in its first prime. Thai
is to say, | believe it to be an entirely
made or artificial animal; made, prob
ably in great degree, in this instance,
by the assessing small portion Of one
particular strain of blood.