Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-09-28

prominent trotting meeting. Cephas
beat a field of eight good ones and
lowered his record to 2:144 in the third
heat of the race, which was the first
heat won by him IN that event and the
fastest in the race.
Dan Miller, which beat YELLOW Ash,
Flying Mig, Silver Street by Nelson
q :09), crit, Billy Frazier and four
other good ones at Lawrence on the 10Th
inst. belongs to the same class. His sire
was Daniel Lambert, and his dam, Daisy
Miller, was by Administrator q '293),
son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian. Dan
Miller took second, third and fourth
heats in this race in ? :25, :233, 2:23i.
Another one still is Haley (2:204), by
Nelson g :09) dam by Grey Fearnaught.
Haley won one of the most exciting
races on the 18th inst. ever trotted on
the Augusta (Me.) track. He took the
first two heats in 2:203, 2 :231, lost the
next two heats TO Gene Briggs, by
Messenger Wilkes (2:23), IN 2:l9A,
? :245, and captured the fifth in 2:234.
Haley, by the way, is the fastest, gamest
trotter that has yet appeared by Nelson
q :00).
Gene Briggs, which fought Sc gallant
ly, also gets a distant Morgan cross
through the dam of his grandsire, Red
Wilkes. 1t is some ways off, it is true,
but it is there, and it did not prevent
Red Wilkes from leading all other sons
of George Wilkes as a sire of 2;30 per-
formers.
Then there is Robbie p, that took a
record of 2:l2l at Butte, Mont, last
week. His sire, Charles Caffrey, was by
the Morgan stallion Gen. Knox and
Charles Caflrey's dam was Rosalinde
(2:213), by AleXander's Abdallah.
Silicon, which beat Mary Best, Visit
full, Dancourt, Margrave and four others
at Terre Iaute, Ind, on the 10Th inst,
in the S24,000 four-year-old futurity
stake, in 2:l4, 2:l34, 2:l54, is by Wilton
(2:19D, whose sire was George Wilkes
and whose dam was by Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian, out of a daughter of the in
bred Morgan, Adams Flying Morgan.
Red Bud (2I54), one of the most
successful three-year-old trotters out
this year, gets Vermont Black Hawk
cross through his sire, Red Fern, whose
third dam was Belle sheridan, by Blood ;
Black Hawk, son of Vermont Black
Hawk. Rather far away to have its
influence felt, perhaps, still it is remote
factor in the pedigree.
There is the wonderful four-year-old
lilly Fantasy, which reduced her record
to 2:074 last week. She gets through
her dam no less than four crosses of the
Vermont Black Hawk branch of the
Morgan family.
The above are only a few of the most
prominent of the turf performers bred
in HambetOnian and Morgan lines that
battled successfully for hOnors from
Maine to Montana last week. There are
still just as good mares of Morgan de-
scent right here in New England as
those from which the distinguished turf
performers above mentioned sprang, and
the average small breeder who hunts
them up and mates them with the right
sort of IIambletOnan stations will
make more money in the end than the
average small breeder who aims for
speed alone, for the produce of such
mares will almost invariably prove good
roadsters if they don't trot fast enough
to win money in races, and good road
sters are in demand.
There are many descendants of Daniel
Lambert in New England today, which,
if their tails were banged like those of
the Hackney, can outstyle and outroad
the best Hackney ever brought to
America and surpass him in beauty
either to halter, in the show ring or to
harness upon the road. This remark is
not intended to disparage the Hackney
in the least for the writer has a very
high opinion of that useful family of
horses.