Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-05-19
A MALICIOUS LIE.
nBELs ON DENNlNo ALLEN AND THE
ETHAN ALLEN STOCK.

from several INTENDED patrons vi Deh-
ming Allen that they were hesitatlng on
the question of breeding to him because
as they understood, Wallace's Monthly
in its last issue, had announced that he
was not the sire of Lord Clinton. Indus
trIous search for copy of that rare
pamphlet unearthed one in distant
town in the hands of a stakeholder in
the association which prints 1t. In 1t,
under the head "Some Pacing Blood,
by l.. E. Clement, was found the follow
ing drivel:
"There Is a brown or black horse call
ed Lord Clinton and he has record of
2l0i and is given in the Year Book as
by Denning Allen, son of Honest Allen,
dam Fannie untraced. Years ago there
was brought to Arkansas running-bred
horse, from Tennessee, and called an
[Erel, or Stokes Eriel If the tradi-
tons are right he sired horse called
Shilo, and he sired Rock, and he sired
Red Buck, and he sired Rondo, and Ron
do sired horse called Stockton's Roudo,
that was owned by Tom Stockton and
was a PAGER. He was used for short
running races, and he says that while in
training for running races there were
only one or two on the place that could
run fast enough to make Rondo break
from his gait at the trot. Rondo was
bred to Printer mare, and the produce
was called Mike McCool and left a nu-
merous family, among them son, called
Bundle Bee, that was very fast quar-
ter horse and left some extra drivers and
saddlers. There are today plenty of the
sons and daughters of Mike McCool that
are extra drivers and quite number
that can show a good three-minute gait.
Among others bred to Mike McCool was
a daughter of Bakers Bill, son of Harry
Bluff, dam by Omaha Dick, called an
Eriel. This mare was owned by Tom
Stark of Liberal, Mo-, who, the follow
ing spring, had brown or black colt
foaled which he sold to Armfeld e.
Tucker julie Armfield broke the colt
and ran him in races, and proving good
race horse at short distances, Armtield
sold him to Tom Stockton, and worked
for Stockton the next year, and among
Others handled the brown colt called
Little Tom. Stockton sold him to John
Phillips of Pleasanton, Kan, for $400 {;
he passed through several hands, one
Stafford having him at one time. Mar
shall Patten of Van Buren,, Ark, wrote
to his old trainer, julie Armfield, that he
had Little Tom at Fort Scott, Kan, and
proposing that they make trip south
with HIM. Armfield joined Patten at
Fort Scott, taking with him the thor
oughbred Harvey ", and they made a
southern trip from Fort Scott, Kan, to
Fort Smith, Ark, where they met
parties from Little Rock who proposed
trade for Little Tom. Harvey V. was
sent back to Sprintield, Mo-, and Patten
and Armtield took Little Tom to Little
Rock and traded him off. He was run
with some success, but while handling
him in his races they discovered he was
quite trotter, and he was developed at
that gait and passed into the hands OF
the driver of Black Diamond, protege
of Pat Stewart of Kansas City. At
Sedalia and St. Joseph, Armtield saw
the horse and at once recognized his old
friend, Little Tom, now called Lord
Clinton 2l04."
This would appear to have been caught
in shorthand from the rawlings of some
horse lunatic. But doubtless there is
method in the madness. The entire
tumble of Omaha Dick, Bundle Bee,
Mike McCool, Stokes 4Eriel julie Arm
field, Pat Stewart, Tom Stark, Bakers
Bill, Harry Bluff, and other new and
original nondescIipts has been foisted
on the public through the columns of the
organ of the American Trotting Register
association, evidently for the sole pur-
pose of producing a smudge from
which a shot could be safely sent through
the reputation of Denning Allen. Nc
sillier article ever contained a more
malicious lie.
We have the proof that Denning Allen
is the sire, and Fanny Scott the dam, OF
the black gelding, Lord Clinton, 2 :l0t
from his breeder, from the owner of
Denning Allen when he was begotten
from the trainer and owner of LORD
Clinton, from the man who sold Fanny
Scott to Lord Clinton's breeder, and
from score of others in Little Rock anC
vicinity, which place we personally visit
ed to see Denning Allen and Lord Gin
ton. From no person was a doubt raised
or suggestion made of any question as
to the parentage of Lord Clinton. We
now own both his sire and his dam. We