Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-09-30
THE MORGAN CROSS.
Mr.. Parlin in Am. Horse Breeder.

Mr.. G.. G. Graves, who owns half
interest in the champion yearling trotter
Tom Gillg q :373, has no prejudice
against the Morgan cross, and in few
years will see some that were bred by
himself go to the front. One of his own
breeding that will be heard from is a
FLY by Early Bird; dam by Daniel
Lambert; second dam (the dam of Hus-
So, 2:20t), by Waikiki Chief. This filly,
now three years old, is in Mr.. George
II. Hicks stable at Beacon Park. Mr..
Graves also has a youngster in Yer
mont bred in lines similar to the COM
bination which produced Pamlico
(2:16a). Its sire is Meader (2:2G4);
dam (sister to Gomez, :19D by Daniel
Lambert.
Mr.. G. is naturally somewhat elated
by the performance of Tom Gillig, but
the last time we met him he was wear
ing the same sized hat as before the
colts grand performance. In COM
pany with another gentleman Mr..
Graves bought Tom Gillig at Rutland
during the late Vermont Breeders
meeting. The price was not extrava-
CANT, for the youngster, though avery
promising individual, lacked the fash
ionable Wilkes Electioneer Nutwood
strains, which readily command high
figures when associated with superior
merit.
Tom Gilig's sire is w. W. Moore's
promising young stallion Gillig (2:233).
Gillig is by the inbred Morgan trotter
and trotting sire Aristos (2:27a. whose
sire was Daniel Lambert, by Ethan
Allen G. :25b), son of Vermont Black
Hawk, and whose dam, Fanny Jack
son, was by StOnewall Jackson, by
Williamsons Black Hawk, another son
of Vermont Black Hawk. Gillig's dam
was Alice, by Pearsall, son of Jupiter,
by Long Island Black Hawk and
Alice's dam was the trotting mare
Lady Snow, with a record of 2 80.
The dam of the young champion, Tom
Gillig, is by Ben Franklin 2:29), an
Daniel Lambert; dam, Black Kate, by
Addison, son of Vermont Black Hawk.
The second dam of Tom Gillig was by
Belongs Ethan Allen. a son of Ethan
Allen (2:25A), by Vermont Black
Hawk.
When this inbred, dyed-in-the-wool
young representative of the Morgan
family won his grand race at Nara
gansett Park, beating the best New
England representative of the Wilkes,
Electioneer, Dictator and other great
Hambletonian sires, lowering the New
England yearlng record some nine sec
onds, the well-filled grand stand was
as silent as though funeral procession
was passing, and the cheer which was
proposed for the Morgans was the faint
est sort of an apology for such.
1t will make no difference in the re-
suit, however, for the Morgan element
has always proved capable of getting to
the front through sheer merit and will
continue to do so. 1t was found in
Rarus q :l3D, which, at one time, held the
worlds trotting record in the little gray
gelding Hopeful (2:l43), the champion
wagon trotter of the day; in Nelson
(2:l0, the champion regulation track
stallion; in Monbars (two-year-old
record 2:l6D; in Hamln's Almont
Jr. q 1863, sire of the champion double
and triple team of the world; in Lobas-
co, which holds the champion stallion
race record 2:l0a in Lord Clinton. the
champion gelding race record trotter
2:lOi; in Wilton (2:l9D, sire of the
champion four.year-old trotter Mo-
quette (2:l0); in H. b. Winship, the
champion pole trotter with running
mate. 2:06; in Westmont, which, hitch
ed with running mate, has paced fast
er mile 2:0la, than any other side
wheeler has ever done; in Red Wilkes,
which heads the list of George Wilkes
producing sons, and in host of other
noted performers and producers.
The Morgan strain may not help in
crease the speed of trOtters, but no man
will claim in the face of established
facts that the Morgan cross retards it,.
Keep right on breeding these mares of
good, old Morgan stock, particularly
those of the Lambert family, to the
best stations that you can find, and
you will come nearer to producing a
world-beater than 90 out of 100 of those
breeders who ''don't want any Morgan
i'll mine"