Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-09

being that developed running naDlt
was found IN the mares whence our
thoroughbred horses spring; in the
others, the habit of trOting had been
so deeply impressed by centuries of use
that it could not be conquered. Two
advertisements, to be found in the Lon
don Gazette. show that at the beginning
of the century the two PAGES which had
been alternately in favor yet existed.
The first advertisement. in the year
100, spoke of "a dark iron-gray horse"
which PAGES altogether: the other in
the year 1909 of "a bay mare" which
'trOts altogcther"-the word "altogeth-
err" according to the new English die
tionary, edited by DR.. Murray, in each
advertisement, signlfying "uniuterrup-
teddy, without deviation or admXture.'
The country newspapers are found
occasionally to furnish Information AS
to the process going on for converting
| the old English Hackney horse into the
modern variety. In Cosgrove's Nor
wich Gazette, of the year l725, is seen
the advertisement of an cold gray pad
stallion in use in the county of Norfolk /:
his height If hands. advertisements
n the Norwich Mercury of the year
l727 tx the height of large, stout
coach gelding at - hands. y bay
Hackney is advertised in the following
June as lost-his height, too, is 10
hands. Other horses are advertised in
July. I77S. as from l3 to II hands. y
Then there is the first sign of the i'm
provement which doubtless had gone ON
from Blundevile's time. ON April -,
l729 there is an advertisement in the
NorN ich Mercury which reads as fol-
lows: "Lately come into Norfolk, a
famous stallion, an Arabian, by the
size II hands 3 inches, and strength pro-
portioned." The next mention of an
introduction into the county is found in
an advertisement in the same journal
dated May ,, I7ll. 1t speaks of "A
"very large bay stallion, exceeding
strong;" height 1913 hands; its sire,
"a fine. strong hunter of Squire Pnlten-
ey's, near Beverly. Yorkshire, and was
bred by IA mare of Farmer Bells, upon
York Wolds: the same mare bred the
noted running mare called Lady Leggs.
and afterwards Painted Lady" On
May lG. III. there is the advertisement
of stallion, "Incitatus," five years old
color brown bay, height l5.2 hands
recommended as having 1.-THE strength
of troop horse, with the beauty, shape
and speed of a running horse" Refer
ence is also made, about the same time.
to "the old brown stallion kept at the
Black Swan, in st. Peters. Norwich. =
From that time there is Il regular sue
cesson of advertisements, which dem
proving the original breed of English
horses owned by the gentry and farm
ers in many parts of England; for it
may be supposed that the Improvement
was not limited to one district of the
kingdom.
The Cambridge journal of March %
l755, contains an advertisement which
processes to set forth the breeding of
dam of RUbinson's Sampson-( son
of Blaze to which Mambrino, the racer
and trUtter. anu his son Messenger, the
ancestor of American trOtterS, trace
back). 1t is worthy of note that the
advertisement appeared just ten years
after SIMPSONS birth. Its special in
terest lies in the positive contradiction
given to 1t, in 1910, by John Lawrence
The advertisement reads as follows:
At IIolbeach and Long Sutton. bay
horse, l54 hands, seven years Old, mas
ter of any weight. ale Is out of famous
SIMPSONS dam, and'got by Badger, son
of Partner; his dam was got by Hip,
son of the bay Barb his grand dam by
Spark, son OF the lIonyecomb Punch.
son of the Tatfolet Barb; his great grand
dam by Snake; his great great grand
dam by son of Hautboy. out of a
brother to BabOOn, that won ESQ at
Bishop Auckland. the subscription at
Black Hambleton, and ESQ at Morpeth,
all he started for that year"
The question of the breeding of this
horse, Sampson, is of special interest in
the discussion of the breeding of the trot-
ting horse. Lawrence's positive state
ment is found in his treatise, third edi-
ton, Vol. l., PIP. 222-3;
1t is yet easy to conceive how liable the
pedigree of IA horse must be both TO error
and imposition and that the best proof of
true blood must ever consist in peIform-
ance. Various accidental bastard cross
es have occurred in our racing breed at
different periods, chiefly distant ones
and they are frequently easily enough
distinguishable in the figure of the
stock by IA critical eye. The two most
remarkable instances within my recOl-
lection are those of Bay Bolton and
Sampson The latter was got
by Blaze out of hunting mare. 1t has
been prefer ded that Sampson was out of
"A thoroughbred daughter of Hartley
Hip but | well knew the man who more
than half century ago led SIMPSONS
dam 70 Blaze, and who afterWa ards bltted
and broke the colt; he has repeatedly
assured me that the pedigree of the mare
[ WAS unl<nOWn and thar she annporad