Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-05-27

horse. lie was out of Nell, by Caven's
Blind Davy Crockett, and Capt. Moore
says was the fastest PAGER he ever saw in
his day, under saddle.
George Coons lived near Clark and
bred the same mare several times to Bald
stockings, getting three colts.two chest
nuts and bay. Two of these he sold to
klrtley. The latter took them to Tonnes
see, sold the bay, and after leaving the
chestnut for one or two seasons, brought
him back to Kentucky and sold him to
Expert, a chestnut, with bald face and
hind legs white to knees.
"This horse was the youngest of the
/ three, and was foaled not later than 1919
or 1850. The other chestnut was sold to
E. Mcdaniel of Leesburg, Ky, who had
him gelded' This information comes from
Judge Halsey and from DR.. Higgins c..
smith of Broadwell, Harrison Co., Ky, II
nephew of the Mr. Chinn who bred Bald
stockings. George Coons lived at Leesburg
when he bred these horses. Their dam was
a mare by Whip Comet, horse that APP
pears in the pedigree of the trotting sires
Meander, Nugget and Egmont. He was
owned by Col. Ben n. Shropshire, and
his breeding is stated as 'by Virginia
Whip, dam by McCoy'sComet'.
Expert was foaled in 1919 or 1850,
being said to be II years old when bought
by Warnock in 1861. In 1864 Warnock
sold him to Joseph Shropshire, who took
him to Woodford county He was after
wards bought by James Clark, Bourbon
county, and died in 1882, being at least
30 years old.
"This brings us to Kittrell's Tom Hal,
the progenitor of the Tennessee horses of
that family, or most of them. Dr.. Smith
and Judge Halsey agree that he was
brought to Tennessee by kirtley and sold
here. Also that klrtley bought him of
Gaines before 1850. They do not speak of
Expert as having been brought down at
the same time, nor did Dr. Smith, when
lS9l) know that Expert had ever been in
Tennessee. Both speak of Kirtley as hab
itually trading to Tennessee, and as bring
ing the bay horse down in course of his
trading. But Dr.Smith places his purchase
of the two stations in the forties, and
as Expert was foaled not later than 1850,
and the kittrell Horse not earlier than
1915, the purchase must have been in
1913 or 1919.
"Major Marion B. Kittrell, now living
at kttrell. Rutherford Co., Tenn, was
then in Wilson county, about three miles
from Lebanon. Kirtley was in the habit
of coming to his house every fall with a
drove of mules and a horse or two. There
was some rivalry in horses between Major
Kittrell and Col. Edmond Chambers.
now of Austin, Tex, and in 1S49 or
about that year the latter brought to
Wilson comfy roam stallion called
Copperbottom. Major Kittrell determin-
ed to get one to beat him, and spoke to
kirtley OH his next visit, who insisted
that Kittrell come to Kentucky and see
four-year-old he had. If this horse was
not fast enough. his neighbor, Thomas
Corbin, had five year-old even faster.
"Kittrel went, and as Corbin's horse
(Which he thinks was called Baldstock-
ings) was light bay with bald face and
stocking legs, he rejected him and took
kirtley's, a dark bay, right hind foot
white nearly to ankle, small star, l6
hands high, with heavy name and tail,
powerfully muscled and fast PAGER.
"kirtley, who. seems to have cared
little for pedigree, stated to Kittrell, ac-
cording to the latter's recollection, that
this horse was by 'Clark's Tom Hal,
from Canada,' and out of Daredevil
mare. Major Kittrell never saw his sire,
although he was in that neighborhood at
the time. His recollection is distinct
that Kirtley said he was bay horse.
but this is evidently wrong, as the only
bay horse owned by Clark was Clark s
Bay Tom, horse several years younger
than the Kittrel Horse, and also son
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of Baldstockings.
'Kirtley had one or two Daredevil
mares of his own, and may have posed
as the breeder of Kittrell's horse. lie is
dead, and nothing can be learned from
any of his family. He left neither wife
nor child. None of his neighbors know
of his having any horses at all cores
pondlng in pedigree, description oil
qualities with the Kittrell Horse, except
the two bred by Coons, and as both DR.
Smith and Judge Halsey are satisfied the
bay horse from Coons is the Kittrel
Horse, and as he agrees exactly in ag,
and color with that horse, | an thorough
" satisfied of their identity.
"Kittrell's Tom Hal made the sea
sons from 1850 to 1857 in Wilson county
Tenn, in Major Kittrell's hands, Ii
1857, after he had served during part o.