Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-10
A FAMOUS MARE DEAD.
Jennie Lind to Whom Gen. W. T. sher.
man Once Awarded Blue Ribbon,
Has to Be XII ed-L History.

Jennie Lind, d famous thoroughbred
mare, owned by Pliny Moore, proprietor
Of tine Hancock Hill arm of this city, is
dead. She had won honons in the SHOW
ring and in the harem, but the greatest
distinction came to her in the fall of
1882. In that year Gen. William T. Sher-
man placed upon her bride blue rib
bon. That year, as guest of the New
England Agricultural Society, Gen.
Sherman judged the horse classes at the
fair and gave to Jennie Lind the blue
ribbon that sh, so richly deserved.
Pliny Moore naturally mourns greatly
the loss of Jenny, for she was the pride
and pet Of all her owners stock, and her
place it will be hard to fill. He had
bred her; he owned her mother. He had
seen Jenny pass through the stages of
colthood. He had driven her on the
streets of the city. He had won prizes
with her in the show ring, and later
he had also swept classes with her Off
spring. But, after living a score of
years, the allotted time of the equine
family, she is dead. But it was an I'M
timely death. This week she was struck
with snow and ice falling from a roof,
and so badly injured that death was
the only thing to bring relief to her suf-
ferings.
Jenny was foaled on Hancock Hin
farm, July 4, 1878. Her sire, Major
Breckenridge, was a horse with a his
tory and stamina, and both he trans
mitted in a remarkable degree to his
daughter. Major Breckenridge was
bred in Kentucky, but when 20 years of
age was brought to Spencer, this state,
where he spent the last days of his life.
The journey from the Blue Grass State
to Spencer was made on foot, his owner
riding him CT ~ 1aa
though the distance Is over 1900 miles,
it was made in 80 consecutive days. 1t
was ten years later that he produced
Jenny Lind.
Jenny was a mare of extraordinary
intelligence, fine in form and conforma-
ton, pleasant in disposition, vigorous in
constitution, and never during her long
life was she off her feed, even for a
single day. She began her career in the
show ring when only three months old.
and for Is years she won prizes, until
she got to be 80 old that her owner did
not enter her in any competitive classes.
In 1881, at the New England fair, held
in this city, she captured first prize in
her class, and the following year, with
Gen. Sherman, as stated judging, she
was again given the highest honors
When yet young mare, she was put
to breeding, and her offspring inherited
us mOUnerS Prize winning aDlll1leS. Her
first colt when IL months old was
awarded a premium of 500 by the Mas
sachusetts Society for the Promotion of
Agriculture, in 1885. The following
year Jennie's second foal landed a prize
of $50 from tine same society, and later
received Chonors from the New England
fairs and other agricultural shows.
Marena, one of her later foals, was
awarded second premium at the New
England fair in 1898, and in 1896, as a
four-year-old, won the blue ribbon. She
was winner at the fair again last
fall J,f
Jennie Linds breeding was a COM
bination of the best thoroughbred blood
in the land, and had she been bred to
some of the fast trotting-bred stations,
there would have been chance for a rec
ord-breaking performer. she traced five
times to Imp. Doomed, and on her dam s
side, through Grey Eagle, to Imp. Glen
coe. The blood of such horses as Davy
Crockett, Boston, Sir Archy, Sir Charles,
Timeoleon, and host of others equally
famous, coursed through her veins.
Jennie at the time of her death was in
foal to George B. Inches thoroughbred
stallion Binnacle.