Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-10-18
THE AMERICAN HORSE

In the American Horse Breeder of Oct.
Sth tabulated pedigrees are given of five
late 2:10 trotters. Three trace in male
line to Hambletonian and two to Mann
brine Chief. All five trace through dams
to the inbred Morgan horse Seely's Amer
lean Star. Two also trace to the Morgan
horse Pilot Jr., and one in two lines to
Gray Rose bred in Addison County, Ver-
mont, and whose sire was almost
certainly son Of Harris Hamiltonian,
ard dam Morgan mare brought from
Fort Ann to Bristol, Vermont, by the
breeder of Gray Rose. Another traces
by dams to Magma Charta, son of Morgan
Eagle, and Flushing Boy son of .Jackson's
Flying Cloud by Black Hawk, son of
Sherman Morgan. A second traces to
Bradford's Telegraph, son of Sherman
Morgan. In all there is quite good deal
of unknown blood. AS usual the Morgan
inheritance is very marked.
The Horse Review of Oct. !, under
title BERTHE dam of two ? 10 trotters says:
Under the caption of the Ten Great
est Brood Mares, we,presented, in the
issue of the Review for April %, tab
ulated list of the ten matrons which, to
the close of 1906, had each produced two
2:l0 trotters; together. with some general
observations,on their 'pedigrees and his
tories. To.Ithis selectest of all brood
mare lists an eleventh name has now
been added-that of BERTHE 2 :36, dam of
Lamp Girl 200, who trotted to her record
in race at Lexington, KY, in October,
1900; and of Gold Bur 2:09s, who trotted
to his record in a race at Syracuse, n. Y,
three weeks ago.
BERTHE was.a chestnut mare, about 10
hands in height,Iwas foaled in 1887 and
bred by Mr.. George T. James, of Trower,
Accomac county, Virginia. Her sire was
Signet, trotting.record 2;264, chestnut
ton county, Virginia these two counties
| forming the narrow lower extension of
the peninsula also containing Delaware
and part of Maryland, which is separ-
dteu from tile 1ldlilld1u Vi virginia ny
the Chesapeake Bay Signet was foaled
in 1877 and trotted to his record of 2;264
to high wheels in 1889. His sire was a
horse called Hambletonian Pilot his dam
Linda, by Soult; his grandam Rosalie, by
Dorchester. Hambetonian Pilots name
would suggest a combination of Ham,
bletonian and Pilot. Jr., blood, but all
that is known of his pedigree is that he
was represented to be a son of Guy Miller,
| the well-known son of Hambletonian and
daughter of Nanny's Bolivar. Guy
Miller was one of Hambletonian's early
sons, and died when but four years of
age, in 1860 soon after having arrived in
California, whittier he had been taken
from Orange County, New York. Among
his get was. .Whipple's Hanlbletonian,
one of the greatest of the early Califor-
MIA sires, whose blood is carried by many
of the fastest trotters ever bred there, in
Guiding such as Azote 2 ;044, tGeorge G.,
2:O54, and Toggles S;0s4; beside the
Charter Oak winner Georgena ? ;O7t, etc,
etc. Delmonico, another son of Guy
Miller, sired the famous old-time cam
paigner Darby 2;l6t; also Sultana, the
dam of Sultan g "a, among whose de-
scendants are 50 many sensational
trotters, including this seasons super
sensational one, Sonoma Girl 2:05t.
Sout and Dorchester, the sires of the
dam and grandam of Signet, are horses
whose names are to be found in neither
the Trotting Register nor the American
Stud Book. Their breeding and histories
whether trotters, PAGERS or runners
appear to be entirely unrecorded. Signet
sired one 2:30 trotter, Clifton 2:27, and,
beside BERTHE, has two other producing
daughters, one the dam of that good
campaigning trotter and frequent win