Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-11-27
HORSE NOTES.
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field, by John Nelson dam by George
M. Patchen, Jr."
The foregoing is very straightfor-
ward story, and one to be accepted as
authentic, unless intentional misrepre-
sentation, for (which no apparent cause
exists, is supposed. Its information
comes almost direct from the owner of
both the sire and dam of Lou Dillon,
at the date of the service which produced
Lou Milton. To a certain extent there
is corroborative evidence in the fact that
Milton Medium was in race in Califor-
MIA in 1879, and in one in Oregon in
1880, and all his later races were in the
latter state. There being no question
that this horse sired Lou Milton, it
simply goes to show that Mr.. Green
Thompson's memory was correct as to
the year when the mare Fly, carrying
the dam of Lou Dillon, came into his
possession. Mr.. Thompson also fixes
1881 as the year Lou Milton was foaled,
although the Year Book, Vol. X, says
1880. Assuming Thompson's recollec-
ton to be accurate, Fly must have been
foaled in 1862 and it is with her pedigree
that we are principally concerned. As
for the intimation that she may have
been by Belmont 81, son of Alexander's
Abdallah, it is extremely improbable.
That horse was foaled in 1864, bred at
WOODBURY. Farm, and spent all his life
there. He would have been four years
old at the time had he sired Fly. The
records of no breeding establishment
were more carefully kept than those of
Woodburn, especially regarding Bel
mont, who was the premier stallion.
Lou Milton became what is technically
called great brood mare in 1890, and
had her dam been by Belmont GA the
chances are hundred to one that the
fact would have been ascertained. AS
for the Williamson's Belmont notion,
he died in 1865, and could not have
been the sire of Fly, who was foaled in
1869.
Brushing aside, therefore, the Belmont
versions, all that seems to be fairly well
established about this now very import
ant Fly is that she was foaled in 1869,
was owned by the late William C. Raj
ston, passed from him to j. S. Kimball,
and from Kimball to John Mendenhall,
who bred Lou Milton from her.
In the last paragraph of the quotation
from the writer to the California paper,
however, is point that may prove to be
a leader in the right direction. l refer
to the memorandum of Mr.. Gamble:
"Kimball mare, a chestnut, by Red Iron,
known as Daniels Mcclellan" 1t is my
assumption that Daniel Gamble is mis-
print for Samuel Gamble, in the letter,
because the latter is an old-time horse
man of California, and to my own
knowledge had supervision of the trot
ting stock of the late Daniel Cook. The
inference is that the note was about a
chestnut mare owned by Kimball, which
Gamble was thinking of buying for Cook,
and the only mare of that color that we
have heard of as being owned by Kim
ball was Fly. He may have owned
many others, and there is no proof, but
there is suggestion of probable
truth. Another hint in the same direc-
ton is in the fact that the banker Will
liam C. Ralston, owned Fly before Kim
ball died, and Ralston was the possessor
of four-in-hand team all by Easton's
Dave Hill, son of Black Hawk. Dave Hill
was foaled in Shoreham, VT, in 1S49,
and went to California in 1855. Mr..
Ralston's purchase of four animals by
him shows his prediction for the stock.
He was born in Ohio in 1926, and Red
Iron, alias Gen. Mcclellan, was foaled in
Ohio in 1855, and reached California in
1861, so that he could have sired foal
of 1869. 1t may be that this clue will
lead to a discovery of the truth. l have
written to my old friend, Samuel Gamble,
but got no reply as yet, and fancy he is
in New York city for the Horse Show
and the Fasig-Tipton sale this week.
Something important may arise later.
Nearly fifty applications for registra-
ton were received last week at the office
of the American Morgan Register, and
all paid up. A big bunch of them were
from the Morgan Horse Co., Carpenters
vile, ILL.,, including fourteen young
stations, and most of the rest filles. AS
an example of how the blood of Justin
Morgan is being preserved to the utter
most in Illinois, / select, almost at
random, the mare Lorena, foaled 1900.
Her sire was Luke Morgan, he by Kings
Billy Root, son of Wildair, by Putnam
Morgan. by Woodbury. Morgan. Luke
Morgan's dam by Colby's Young Morrill,
son of Morrill,, by the Jennison Colt, by
Little Randolph by Woodbury. Morgan;
End dam by PaddIeford's Black Hawk,
son of Black Hawk; Bird dam by Black
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