Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-01-27

Pelham was distanced In this heat The
fourth heat went to Lady Sutton in 1919.
The fifth and six were dead heats. The
time was 1882, 2:3l, respectively. The
seventh was won by Lady Suffolk in
? :3s.
Lady Sutton vanquished Lady Suffolk
twice in bard-fought races. Her first
victory over the famous Messenger mare
was in six-heat race at Centerville, L.
l., May 10, 1918. There were three
starters, viz. Lady Sutton, Lady Suffolk
and Lady Moscow Lady Sutton took the
first and second heats in 2 :33. Lady Suf-
folk got the third and fourth in 2 80. 2 81.
Lady Moscow took the fifth in 2 :3S, but
Lady Sutton was first at the wire in the
sixth in 2 :36.
The last time that Lady Suffolk and
Lady Sutton met was at Centerville, L.
l., Oct. s, 1919, about two months after
the seven-heat race above mentioned.
Pelham was in this race also. 1t was
one of two-mile heats. best three in five.
Lady Sutton won in straight heats !;
time. GIG, 5.17. 500. This shows that
even at that early day the Morgans
possessed both speed and endurance.
Lady Suffolk was also defeated four
times by the Maine-bred Morgan trotter
Mac, another descendant of Woodbury.
Morgan. The sire of Mac was Morgan
Caesar, also known as Morgan Post Boy,
II son of Woodbury. Morgan. The four
races in which Mac defeated Lady Suffolk
were all to saddle, and it was in one of
these that Lady Suffolk, though defeated,
got her record of = :26. This was over
the old Cambridge course, near Boston.
June II. 1919. There were three contest
ants, viz: Mac, Lady Suffolk and Gray
Eagle. The latter was drawn in the sec
ond heat. Mac won the first heat in 81.
Lady Suffolk got the next in 2:2G. but
Mac outlasted her and won the next two
in 2:27, 30, respectively.
Among the other noted trotters of Nor
gan descent (and by these we refer only
to those which trace directly to Justin
Morgan in the paternal line) were Lancet
g :273), Ethan Allen (2:254), Hot>pur
(2:24. Fearnaught l2:234), Galatea
2:24l), Gomez (2:l9D. Camors (2:l9D.
Lady Maud Gasp and Lord Clinton
(2:l04), all of which with the exception
of Fearnaught and Galatea, were direct
descendants of Vermont Black Hawk.
Ethan Allen was at one time the cham
piOn trottng stallion of the world; Fear
naught, the first stallion to get a wagon
record of , :234, and this from standing
start in the third heat of race; Galatea.
the first trotter to get a record of :254
as four-year-old, and Lady Maud, the
first tiye-year-old trotter to make Il rec
ord of , ;22i, and this in spite of the fact
that the Morgans were not popular as
trotters.
The Morgan cross seems To- have been
of greater value as an auxiliary in the
noted trotting families than when a prime
factor. 1t was the distinguished trainer
Dan Mace who remarked years ago, when
the Morgans were very unpopular among
most trotting hOrsemen, that he liked a
dash of Morgan in trottlng pedigree.
The result of the past few years trotting
showed that this shrewd horseman was
right.
The Morgan cross has proved valua-
BILE factor in the most popular trotting
families. Gloster (2:l7) was unquestion-
ably the fastest trotter in his day that
Volunteer ever sired. He got record of
2:l1, was taken to California. if memory
serves us right, and died before coming
to maturity. His dam was by Stock
bridge Chief, son of Vermont Black
Hawk.
Rarus was the first trotter to get rec
ord of 2;l3i. He was game campaign
er, too, as his lS5 heats in , 30 or better
show. Goldsmith Maid is the only trot-
ter in the world that is credited with a
greater number. The dam of Rarus was
by Telegraph, son of Burr's Napoleon,
out of Lady Hunter, a daughter of YER
mont Black Hawk.
Hopeful (2:l4s) was the fastest trotter
that the Clay family had produced up to
his time. He held the champion trotting
wagon record (2:lG4) for years. Hope
furs dam was by horse of no known
speed, that never sired fast trotter, and
none of his other daughters ever pro-
duced one. His second dam, however,
was by Whalebone, sire of the game lit
tie black mare Blackstone Belle, which
j. j. Bowen drove to IA record of :2S1 DC
years ago last July. WhalebOne was by
Sherman Morgan, sire of Vermont Black
Hawk. Hopeful was not only the fastest
trotter got by Godfrey Patchen, but he
won more than twice as many heats in
, 30 or better as all the other trotters got
by his sire.
Pilot Medium has proved the most sue
cessful son of Happy Medium as "A sire.