Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-03-17
Horse News from the Home of Solicitor.
From American Horse Breeder

From American Horse Breeder
Messrs. A. B. Manchester & Sons of
Valley Farm, West Randolph, VT, are
making some progress in developing the ir
stock farm. They have, what is some
what rare in rugged Vermont, meadow
of 100 acres, as beautifully graded as a
lawn, backed by 200 acres of upland
pasture. During the fall they had a
regulation half-mile track laid out and
put in condition to settle and be ready
TO finish in the spring. The soil is a
loan with clay bottom, and it is thought
by those who have examined it that the
track will have superior qualities Messrs.
Manchester also expect to make some
changes in their building in the spring.
The stock is wintering WE'LL no sickne IS
on the place. At the head of the es-
tahlishment stands b lmont's son,
Solicitor 1925, whose dam has the dis
tinction of being the only mare that has
six producing sons to his credit. S"lici-
tor is in much better form than when he
won the first prize at the National Horse
Show in Boston, April 1889. He runs
out in yard several hours every pleas
ant day. and as he Frances about no one
would guess his age, being as active and
nimble as four-year-old. The percent
age of mares already heavy in foal
show him to be remarkably potent sire.
Among the 80 head on the place is a
good five-year-old son of Como, out of a
Morgan dam. The brood mares are
largely of Morgan lineage, looking to
the Belmont Morgan cross. A daughter
of Challenge. son of Daniel Lambert; a
daughter of Don Giovanni, son of Hamp.
ton; dam by Volunteer; another by
Kent, sire of several in the list; daugh-
ter of Dean Sage Che by Hambletonian
10, dam by Seely's American Starr; dam
by H,le's Green Mountain; a Highland
Gray mare, etc. But the class that at
tracts most int est is the young st, nine
stockings, large, highly finished, and
with strong resemblance to their paternal
ancestry. But few are standard bred.
There is large per cent of Morgan in
the Sc dams; two are from Kentucky
mares that carry some warm blood. One
fine filly's dam is by Don Giovanni; Sec
ond dam by Old St. Lawrence; third
dam from the imported Messenger strain.
Another foe filly has dam by Lock
wood, son of Aberdeen. Perhaps the
best in the lot is filly whose dam is a
flea-bitten gray" Hickey" mare, that has
produced several fast trotters. Among
those on the place to be bred are severa
owned by w w. Hi /: j llv, sire OF
Bismuth, due TO foal in February by
S lict, +; Lolita. standard. bv Mambrino
Char'a; Kitty q 3O), by Billy Boulegs
HOB; E Il, by Al;antara; dam, Kitty,
above. a fine two f"ar-rld FLY by vi
king, owned by Flank III dickinson
Among the othsr rs of which special men
ton should be made is Sewn r. D., b>
Solicitor; dam, Maggie Brown. by a sol
of Black Hawk, anu the dam of severa
good mes. He is an elegant horse, thai
trotted to pole as five-year-old in 2 Al
and went quarters with little work in 3;
seconds. Probably one of the best Cob
den fillies in the vicinity is Cobdeana
At Is months old she stood Is / anC
weighed 925. Her dam is Bell Giovanni
She won fits prize at the state fair, 1890
and shows fine spirit and action. Sht
and some of the youngsters are often il
the harness.