Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-28
MRS, CAUDLE,

Mr.. Cyrus Lukens of Philadelphia
sends the following interesting letter
about Mrs. Caudle to w. L. Chester of
Turf, Field and Farm, which, while not
directly proving anything, seems to
indicate that she was of Morgan blood:
Dear Sir Over three months since you
asked for information relative to Mrs.
Caudle, dam of Ericsson, and grandam
of Clark Chef, remarlling that your
attention had been called to her by the
great speed shown by many of her de-
scendants. Thirty years ago my atten-
ton WAS called to the same subject. al
though the fast speed element was not so
plainly apparent. February, 1865. my
old friend, Charles l.. Sharpless, and GU"
mutual friend. Charles Mathers, visited
Kentucky. While on this trip, Mr..
Sharpless purchased Lady Montague, by
Mambrino Chief, whose daughter, Lydia
Montague, by Tippoo Bashaw, is now
dam of two in the 2 80 list. At the
same time Charles Mathers purchased
Mambrino Whip, by Mambrino Chief.
III" was very handsome brown stallion,
bred by r. F. Van Mater, and showed
his fine thoroughbred Inheritance ON his
dams side, descended from Whip and
american ECllpSe. lie cOulu SNOW
about Il three-minute gait.
After the stallion arrived at Mather's
home, Penlynn, Montgomery county,
"Charie, why did you not buy Clark
Chlef?" Said he: Cyrus. you are
right; the best-gaited M,mbrino Chief
stud in Kentucky; but ii | had brought
him home my friends would have said
Charlie, what did you bring that big
flat-footed horse h me for? " To which
| queried, us that facl?'' Yes
said he, 1.-THE largest fiat front foot you
ever saw The fact that his grandam
had been Mrs. Cdude was the reason
why had called Mathers' attention to
Clark Chief. knew that she had been
IA fast trotting mare of pure, square
gait, aud that she had been brought from
New England down to New York some
where in the fortics and had been claimed
to have been of Morgan descent.
MIR. William L. Porter then editor of the
only sporting horse paper in New York
city, had bought this mare. and had sent
her to il friend, from whom he had pur.
chased her, in Savannah, Ga.
She was used there some years, and
when Mambrino Chief went to Kentucky
there was more fuss made about him thar
.
ess County. n. Y, which attracted hel
owners attention, and he shipped hel
r to Enoch Lewis of Kentucky, who bret
her to that stallion and produced
Ericsson, who was driven by Warner
Peabody mile to wagon in his four
year-old form ina race, the fourth hea
J in BOA
This Morgan history of Miss Caullt
stu k to her through all these years, ant
Ericsson was for time, when quit
young, known as Morgan Chief, com
) bining the names of the two families il
[ one, as has so frequently been done
! Although bred in Kentucky, Ericsson
: like large percentage of our most fiji
5 nous trOttlug stations, owed his an
: cestry to the trOtting horse families bre,
east of the Alleghanies. During Angus
meeting of Charter Oak Park, 1878,
. was in the smithshOp of w. b. Smit
i with old Mr.. }. Z. Gilbert while he wa
= assisting in shoeing CrOxie, 2:l9, an
i talked with him about her large, fla
. front feet, remembering full well Charli
Mathcrs' remarks of twelve years pre-
vious. have noticed large, fiat iron
feet in other descendants of Clark CHIEF
now famous as a brOOdmare sire. sha
o never forget story Mathers used to r.
e late about their visit at that time (l865