Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-23
From the Rider and Driver.l
THE HACKNEY HORSE.
Joseph BATTELL,
Middleburv. VI.
HIS CLAIMS TO RECOGNITION AS A ROAD
STER AS BASED ON BREEDING AND
PERFORMANCES.


Euren, Secretary English Hackney society.
The wear l762 saw Pettigrew's Grey
Barb-height, l5.l4 hands-in Norfolk;
and also roam horse by Roundtead.
son of Flying Chiders, out of "a we'll
bred mare" He is recommended las
stout a hunter as was ever known, aud
gets well-shaped and bony foals. ms
roam stood IN the country till the year
l7G5 In the year 1863 Yorkshire
chestnut, son of Creature, which was by
FLYING Chlders, and of mare which
was three parts Yorkshire blood Is
advertised as challenging any horse in
walking, trottng, and galloplng in
Norfolk, where his owner, Jeremiah
Green, of Skipton, then offered his
services. In the same year, Active, Il
son of the Duke of Works Arabian, is
advertised as good at the walk, trot and
gallon; while both second orkshlre
horse, Young Cumberland (Fenwick 81,
I5.2 hands i'm height, "up to 252 pounds,
and Thornhaugh's Dainty Davy, are
certified by =. W. Overend, of Bentham,
Yorkshire, as "out of Sampscn's mare.
one of my hunters, this same hunter
having four generations recorded, and
one of the sres, Pullen's chestnut
Arabian. The next year, 1864, there
stood at Stollesby, near Great armouth,
a "Mountain barb l5l hands high,
"bred by the Emperor of Morocco;
while there was travelling in the county
a seven ear-old chestnut horse named
Smiling Ball, whose recommendation
is that he evil trot fourteen miles an
hour with ease" The following years
saw half dozen PXcellently-bred horses
in Norfolk; and in the year l7G7, "Fair-
play; of the Hunting or Road sort; got
by MIR. Ellerby's (of YORKSHIRE bay
horse, out of hunting mare" travelled
the county. An advertisement in the
Norwich Mercury of April p, l161, Is
one of the most instructive which can be
imagined. John Darby. of Abby, noti-
fies that his three year-old chestnut
horse Blaze, l2l hands high, will travel
the county His sire "the Walcot
chestnut bald face grandsire spot.
IIalesworth horse" He goes on to
recommend Blaze in these terms
He came out of my famous bay mare
called Smart. bred by MIR. Samuel by
ball. at Ably; she was got by "a son of
Unthank's horse, and granddaughter to
Mr.. Dawson's famous running horse at
Norwich she is very famous for hunt
ing, ploughing and travelling the road.
MI BAYFIELD, certified that he had rode
her eighty miles Il day, and can testify
that | have rode her eight-fOur miles IN
eleven hours and performed the last
mile rs well as the first; she is rising
twelve wears old never knew her sick
or lazy one hour; when not in foal she
is able to hunt with any horse, mare or
gediug in Norfolk.
So the record goes on. In les three
thoroughbreds of Chiders, Croft's
Brilliant and Godolphin Arabian blood
with three others "of the hunting on
road sort" cut of Yorkshire and Nor.
folk mares every strong and bony.'
In 1853, with other pure-bred stations
a four year-old gray son of Sir c. SaUn
dprs' Grey Barb, 1.-THE second Barb his
honour brought over, and looked upon as
one of the finest ever brought into thi,
kingdom" and Emperor, IA three-year
old son of the same horse out of d
"Scotch mare" bred at Ileveningham
so that the Barb IN question would APP
pear to have stood in Norfolk in the
years 1854 and 1868. In I'LL one adver
tisement recommends son of Godol
phln Arahan-a "back and brown
horse. l54 hands high" as being "a-
fine coach or wagon horse as any in
the county" In l772 and l773, adver
tisements recommend stations as calcu
lated to get horses "of the saddle Kind
or as ''lillcly to make fine hunters and
road horses" Omitting further refer
ence to the thoroughbred stations
which, year after year, stood or Travelled
in Norfolk, from l7GS to 1880 the fol
lowing advertisements are worthy OF 4
place, for the light they throw on tn,
endeavors then being made to produce
good Hackney horse.
~. NJ, April, l772. Godfnder
chestnut, three years old. l5.3 hands
high, bred 10y Thomas Giddings. lie
has fine forehand, gees well on hi,
legs as any colt whatever. Got by
Wallets horse Farmer, which was go
by the noted horse Old Golden Farmer
Farmers dam was got by noted horse
of Mr.. Epworth's, which was son OF
Golah. Goldhnder's dam was got by
Fearnot, and was bred by the noteC
Langton Gays. Esq, of POpton; prime
hunter, and able to carry twenty stone {
hunting; which mare is allowed by
good Judges to be as fine mare anC
good goer as any in that country.
A trOtting horse, son of this SAINT
Wallets Farmer, was brought to Suf
folk from Lincolnshire, in 1867, by
Andrew Blake, of Ipswich, to cross OF
the Suffolk chestnut horse. See Sufioll
Stud Book, page 43.
IN. NJ. March ?, l77G.] Sedbury, I
gray horse, four years old, 10 hands
high, got by Tartar; his dam, Mr.. Mott