Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-05
KATE CLAYTON,
DAM OF HARRlE, 1928.
JOSEPH BATTELL,
MiddleburY, VT.
CANTON, y. Y, July %, ]

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Kate ClaXton, dam of Ilarrie , :2Si and
of two other flllies which are showing
great speed, by Elial c. 2l99, was sired
by Rocket, the Joslyn horse, but have
had great difficulty in identifying this
mare. She is black mare, rising IL
hands high, with one or two white
spots on her back, which are undoubt-
eddy saddle marks, blocky built, quite
long bodied and trappy gated. She was
purchased at a sale made by Isburgh d
Co., to u East street, Boston, Deem
Der, 1881, by Mr.. j. NJ. Haven, then
proprietor of the Bates House, Rutland,
and now proprietor of the Haven House
at this place.
She was labelled on the catalogue as
No. 0, "kate Claxton, an elegant black
mare, raised in ST. Johnsbury, VT,
sired by Joslyn Horse out of Black
Hawk mare. This mare is six years
old, weighs 1000 pounds beat in sleigh
last winter :35 has not been handled
for speed, but can now show a , 40 gait
and has but few superiors as natural
worthy the attention of buyers, and is
warranted sound and kind
Mr.. Haven informs me that, mated
with another mare which he owned in
Vermont, she could easily go 20 miles
in a day and could show him mile in
about $40. Since discovering her value
as breeder have vainly endeavored
to trace her pedigree so as to have it well
fixed upon the registration which | am
anxious to make. | have been unable
at this late day to discover Isburgh e
Co., and therefore could not follow out
her pedigree as | wished. But in cor
responding with friends of Mr.. Haven
who seemed to know something about
it, and to whom he referred me, namely,
with j. d. Miller, Esq, of st. Johns
bury. b. F.. HavIland of Danvile. c. F.
Rumsey of Waitsfield, | find strong
probability that she was raised by Dana
House; when three years old was sold
to A. c. Lovejoy of Moretown, who
drove her in , 40 as four-year-od and
who sold her to Horace Peck of Barnet,
who sold her to a man in Providence,
and it was claimed that she trOtted there
in , :33 and was sold to somebody in
Boston; that her grandam was Nor
gan mare which was bred to Canada
horse called yankee BIZ, the produce
being chestnut filly which was stinted
at six years of age to the Joslyn Horse
Rocket, the produce being black filly
which trotted in 2 49, She was called
"Nell'' or the blouse Mare. This in.
formation is obtained from letter from
Nj. Rumsey.
If his statement is correct, instead OF
being six years old in 1881, she mus
have been IL, although she is strong
vigorous mare yet.
find in Chester's Complete Trottina
Record this entry, page $50: "Nelly
black mare 2 ;52i, by the Joslyn Horse
A. f. Lovejoy, Waitsfield, VT, Sept
2, 1874, $50. White Mountain Maid 3, 4,
Ginger ,, Betty Hayes @ DISC 3 :O04
2:5sA; 2:53, 2:54, 2:55; 2:52a, Four.
year dds
| Judge that that mare is the one re
ferred to by Mr.. Loveioy and Mr.. Rum
sey. | can easily understand why she
should be sold 10 Boston without a re
cord, for II years ago it was considered
OF more advantage to keep out record!
and change names than it is at the presen
day, when mares of this class are Sc
valuable for breeding.
l do not know the object of your in
quiry of the 10th, but am very glad to re
ceive it, aad if you could furnish any
information to me upon the subject which
would be of advantage in registration,
should be glad to get it. The blacl
mare Harrie, now SIX years old, is
think the fastest animal that was eve
raised in this section. She started .
tendon by careless driving when she wa
recovering from the horse distempeI
the spring she was four years OF age. anC
has No, ally recovered from it. Not
withstanding this, she got her record al
four-year-oid on a half-mile tract
against two horses that had then re
spectively records of 2G4 and 25I. sh,
leading them at the end Of the first hal