Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-07-27

fastest records yet to his credit. The
sire of Johnston is recorded in this
Register and was of Morgan and
thoroughbred blood.
Lord Clinton 2:l04 in a winning race
"a race record at the close of 1892 never
beaten by a gelding) and winner of 81
of the % races he has trotted, is by an
inbred Morgan horse of the Ethan AL
len strain, aud has no known trotting
Inheritance from his dam. Kitty Bay
ard holds the half-mile track race rec
ord in 2:l24. Nelson 2:l0, that has
several times held the stallion record of
the world, which he would probably
hold today had he not been ruled off
from all fast tracks the last season, and
whose 2:ll1 against the watch is the
fastest time ever made on a hafmie
track, is largely of Morgan blood.
The double team record t2:l24) is
held by Honest George and Belle Ham
lin. Honest George is Morgan on both
sides, while Belle Hamlin traces four
times to the great Morgan sire, Black
Hawk, and carries twice as much of
his blood as of that of Hambletonian.
These instances might be extended
indefinitely, and are especially promi-
nent in the long-distance trutting, where
there is more of Morgan blood so far as
known than belongs to any other one
family But we have mentioned enough,
we think, to show that the Morgan
blood is capable of going as fast as any,
and may at any time capture any rec
ord. The table of fifty-race trotters
given in the appendix, as also that of
ten-race winners. shows that for the
quality of endurance, that enables a
horse to live out many contests, the
Morgan is in the first position.
1t is IL significant fact that four stall
lions recorded in the Morgan Register,
two tracing to Sherman, and one to
Woodbury. Morgan, appear in the list Of
fourteen sires selected as the foundation
stock for theiI Register by the National
Saddle-Horse Breeders ASSOCIATION, Or
ganized in Kentucky in 1891.
We decided to admit the Pilot family
was bred, as well as the quality of the
horse, suggested strongly that he was
a Morgan, at least on one side, and our
tracing, so far as we were able to trace.
sustained this theory; so that he and the
famous Ddnsereau breed to which he be-
longed seemed fairly entitled to a place
in this Register. These are rated as
possessing one-eighth Morgan blood.
The investigation of the pedigree of
nearly every Morgan horse involves the
examination of several others in cOllate
raj lines. In the nearly five thousand
pedigrees registered in this volume, a
large proportion of the noted horses of
America are named. OF course, no
breeder of Morgan stock can know all
that is to be known of the origin of his
own stock without an exhaustive know
ledge of the pedigrees of those animals
whose blood comes in collaterally to the
main lie. Many of them of necessity
must be outside the Morgan family.
Not few of these animals can be
found set down, with more or less accu-
racy, in the eleven volumes of the
American Trotting Register, in the
Breeders Trottng Stud Book, in Wal
lace's American Stud Book, in the works
of Edgar or Herbert, or elsewhere.
Many of them would be found registered
III grossly inaccurate way, and, in
nearly all, the authors guess would
fact, with no mark to indicate which
was the fact and which the guess. Great
numbers of these pedgrees would not
be found at all, as they have been en-
tered in no book of registration, and are
to be discovered only by patient eXami
nation of files of ancient newspapers, or
by interviews with aged people; and
this class of unregistered pedgrees is
by no means confined to obscure horses,
but in it are some of the best.
We early began arranging the infor
ultllOu ItCtlNtu rs W SUCH IlOlStS, llOl
Morgans, as entered into the Morgan
pedigrees, with view of giving what
could be learned of their pedigrees in an
appendix to this volume. But we soon
learned that there was too much material
for an appendix, and that there was but
one satisfactory course to pursue. The
work must be made as full and accurate
as possible, must include all noted
American horses, so far as known, and
must be issued as separate book.
Such work we have now we'll towards
completion, and il will be issued as soon
after this as possible. In it a great
number of errors, many of them of long
standing and connected with horses OF
the first consequence, will be corrected.
1t will contain, also, in one volume, or
at the most in two, all the matter of
interest now contained in a small lib
rary of horse literature, and, in addition,
a very large amount that has never be-
fore been published.