Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-06-04
AMERICAN HORSE
NEWS DEPARTMENT
News Items Pertaining to all
Kinds of Horses are Solicited.
Address Matter for this Department to
G. A. Chapman, Room 81, Battell Block,
Middlebury, Vt.


A few weeks ago we published a very
| short review notice of the american
Stallion Register" saying at the time
thing more. The opening Introductory
chapter relates to the intimate connec-
ton between the horses of Northwestern
Vermont and the Eastern Townships of
Quebec from numerous letters and in
terviews with prominent horsemen OF
both the Eastern Townships and North.
ern Vermont. These letters and inter
views show conclusively that the Dan
sereau breed from which Old Pilot, the
sire of Pilot Jr. came, was undoubtedly
Morgan in the male line, as this blood
enters largely in that Of Maud S., Jay
Eye See, Directum, Star Pointer Major
Delmar, Arion, Allerton, Kremlin, Lou
Dillon, Cresceus, etc. And when we
add to the above the fact that Copper
bottom is apparently clearly traced from
Vermont when he was bred by David
Blunt at Danvile and by him taken to
Bolton, P. O., when he moved there
from Danville, VT, prior to 1912, and
sold and taken from Bolton to Kentucky
in 1916. it is easily seen the Morgan plays
a very important part in the history of
the worlds champion trotters and PAGERS.
1t would be very strange if the horses of
northeastern Vermont and the Eastern
Townships were not one and the same
breed as that part of the Eastern Town
ships was settled by people from the
Connecticut river valley and were all
more or less related or connected
The next chapter is historical and is
composed mostly of extracts from vari-
GUS sporting papers of early days in the
United States. and written by famous
writers from 1853 to 1859. Among these
writers are Henry William Herbert
Drank Forester) who was at one time
one of the most talented and prominent
turf writers in the country, Hon. J. S.
Skinner, founder and editor of the
American Turf Register, Mr.. George
Barnard of Sherbrooke, P. @. who wrote
for the Spirit of the Times New York;
and Albany Cultivator along in the early
forties, and others, as we'll as comments
by Mr.. Battell, this chapter is partic-
ularly interesting and contains a great
amount of information in a small COM
pass.
The next chapter or department con-
siders breeding in It's different phases
treated by various writers as follows: by
Sanford Howard, editor American Gull
tivator, a paper delivered at State House
Boston, April 1st, 1855, in which he
speaks of the famous breeds of all time,
with quite little about the Morgans
following this is compilation of de-
scriptions and statistics relative to the
Horses of Maine from Maine Agricul
tural reports, 1856, also very interesting
report of experiments at Palo Alto com.
piled by Senator Stanford for Turf Field
and Farm and published in that paper in
1888. A few facts relative to inbreeding
by Mr.. Battell are well worthy careful
consideration of thoughtful breeders.
A short article about color in horses by
Mr.. Brohead in letter to Kentucky
Stock farm is of great value. 1t will pay
any horse breeder to read carefully the
words of "Anchor" from The Horse
Review, Oct. 27, 1896, on page SO entitled
Beauty and Style in Trotters," and 8
number of short extracts from various
journals by eminent writers on the pac
ing gait, is of much interest and ought Il
be help to all horsemen. Quite 6
treatise on the Norfolk Trotters, English
Trotters and Hackney, also age and size
in breeding as treated upon by experts
and as we quoted in the Register a few
weeks ago full history of American
Star is published in this volume.
A letter by Mr.. Cyrus Lukens to w. T
! Chester of Turf Field and Farm on Mrs
Caudle, dam of Ericsson and grand dan
of Clark Chief will be of interest to al
lovers of the Morgan tribe, and to finisl
this chapter Xonophon is quoted on how
to Judge horse and if any of our up-to
date experts can beat it we would b,
most happy to give them space in tn,
Register at any time.
Chapter 4. The Morgan Horse, open
with quotation from Shakespeare,
Look when painter would surpass hi
life
, In lineing outa well proportioned steed.
.. 80 on completing the two stanzas.
And letter from Hon. L. E. Chitten
: den, register of the U. s. treasury during
Lincoln's administration and grea
grandson of the first governor of Yer
mont, shows that he loves good horses
4. especially Morgans, extract from Tn