The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-06
HIGH BRED HORSES
IN ROCKINGHAM
Has Become an important and
Profitable Business.
nhRRls0NPURC THE CENTER
KARRlS0NBURG THE CENTER
The Hackney. the Thoroughbred Trotter
and the Registered Sadder Are
All Securing Growing Attention.
Fine Breeding Farms,

The raising and selling of high class
horses of all breeds has become n bust
ness in this country which is growing
IN magnitude each year, and promises
Ia make IIarrisonburg, the coUnty-seat of
Buckingham county. one OF the most
prominent horse markets in the state
For many years the large landowners
r!,urt here have been breeding horses.
cattle and sheep, but it is only the past
fow years that their attention has been
turned to the breeding of the hackney
the thoroughbred, the trotter and the
registered saddle horse.
Major George Chrisnan. whose breed
Ing establishment. known as the Marion
farm, situated about eight miles north
west of Earrisnnburg, is engaged il
raising saddle horses and hackneys. MI
3or ChriSman has been closely ldchulieu
with the Improvement in the hreed OF
Buckingham horses. and his experience
along this line ADDS weight TO MS opLi-
tors. He is a firm believer IN the saddle
horse and hackney as being eminentiy
fitted for usefulness as we'll as orna-
ruept and has at the head Of mis- stud
Tie very handsome and stylish young
saddle stallion Montrose Squirrel, III
whose veins flows the best blood of the
American horse. for he was sired by
Montrose, No 106 out of Romola by Black
Squirrel, No. IS. He is five years old,
weighs close to eleven hundred pounds
md is a beautiful dappled bay with three
white feet: he has all the saddle galts.
rroiS suuarels- in harness. and was bred
.r old Kentucky He will serve about
forty choice mares this season and his
owner has refused twenty-five hundred
dollars for him. There are ten brood
,.3aIes at this establishment besides young
stock Eliza Southall. by General Miles.
I ny
oral Miles. out of Heroine, by Glenely;
Misty Morning by imp. Sir Roger, out
of Heroine, and Maid Of the Mist. by
Mcntrose Squirrel out of May. arc most
highly priced by their owner. The young
mare Misty Morning captured the sweep
stakes at the Rockingham Horse and Colt
Show, held in iarTisonbuTg last year.
BLACK SQUIRREL.
The get of the great saddle stations
Montrose and Black Squirrel have taken
pfi2es in all the large cities Of this coun-
try and they are considered the best
saddle Sires in America. Montrose, iO6,
was sired by Diamond Denmark, No. 6S,
first dam by Halls Glencoe, by imp. Glen
cce.
Back Squirrel No. ss, was sired by Black
Eagle No. IA. first dam Mollic. by Gilt
.7cr's Highlander.
F,enchman. a saddle gelding by Black
Squirrel cut of Lady French. by Peo-
vine. sold in st. Louis for thirty-tour
hundred dollars: I'ayette McCord.
granddaughter of Black Squirrel, SOLD
in New York city for eighteen hundred
dollars. and Patsy McCord, sold for two
thousand dollars. taking first prize at the
N;dison Square Garden. She has Black
Squirrel colt.
FINE BREEDING FARM.
The breeding establishment of the Her
ring brothers, situated six miles from
1ialTsonburg, is run on a. large scale,
and here about eighth head OF hoses are
kept; there are eighteen brood mares on
the farm The IIerrings are interested
in the breeding and training OF saddle
horses hunters. hacl1neys and uotters.
Retirement" by which name the estate
is known. is a beautiful farm of about
four hundred acres and is held Ivy the
Herring fami1s under the original grant
given TO their ancestor, John a. Herring.
.ov King George IL, in the year, 1876.
THE present owner is Captain John Her
ring His son, Mr.. Henry Herring, runs
the breeding establishment and is a gre2
lover Of the well-bred horse. For thir-
teen wears he ran a horse ranch in Texas.
hut has now moved back TO his old home
in Virginia and is donating his time and
means To the business in which he is
deeply Interested.
The IIerrings also own twenty-seven
hundred acres of fine grazing land in
Highland county, where a. great many OF
their horses are sent to run over pasture
during the summer months. For many
Years this family has been engaged in
raising high-class horses, and among the
weil-bred colts on the place are the get
of the registered sattle stallion, General
Miles, $50. L. s. II, r., q. superb specimen
of horse flesh. General Miles is sired
* a., J,,I-
Diamond, 10: is dark bay with white
hind feet, stand. l6 hands. weighs nearly
twelve hundred pounds; has all the sad
die gaits and in harness is a smooth driv-
err was the winner OF sixteen premiums
out of seventeen entries in his native state,
Kentucky, before he was four years old.
The Breeders Gazette pronounced him 10
he the finest type OF the heavy weight
carrying SADDLE horse in the State.
CHORISTER.
Chorister, the thoroughbred son of Fall
setto and Addie G. horse who has done
credit TO himself on the track and in the
stud.
St Lorrimer by st Leonard, out OF
White Rose by Warwick
Sam Corey, a steeplechaser. hy Long
Taw, first dam Alsaba by imp. High
lander.
Imp. Sir Roger. 1890. Z. H. S. 3. by
Cadet first dam Queen by Shahs (Sir
Roger is the sire of David Harum who
was a prize-winner at the Horse Show in
Richmond last falp. and Restorat ton by
Sam Purely, first dame Nellie Buck. by
Wild Wagner.
MIR. llenry Herring has quite a string
OF snowy youngsters in training for the
Horse Show which comes off in Harrison-
burg next month
WHERE TRoTTERs ARE RAISED.
Among the other breeding farms in the
neiEhhorhood OF Harrsonburg are those
OF IN. Samuel Cox, Belgravia stud. in
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