Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-07-16
AMERICAN HORSE
NEWS DEPARTMENT
News Items Pertaining to all
Kinds Of Horses are Solicited.
Address Matter for this Department to
C. A. Chapman, Ferrisburgh, VT.

C. A. Chapman, Ferrisburgh, Vt.
We had the pleasure of look in at
the Government Farm last week and
found Gen. Gates and Red Oak looking
well and the foal of Marion Gates by
Lambert B, 2.221-4 growing up as he
gave promise when first foaled. He has
great style and bids fair to make fine
horse, and apparently a true Black
Hawk model. There is a stallion in
France said to be strictly French bred
that is racing under the name of Jockey
that trotted a mile at Modena, Italy, on
May I'd in 200 IA AS this is remark
able performance, it has led to much
talk and investigation and with the re-
suit that it looks very much as if his
dam was by horse by Mambrino Pilot
and whose dam was by Sherman Black
Hawk. If this proves to be correct it
will be quite a feather in the Morgan
cap as Mambrino Pilots dam was by
Pilot Jr., which would make the son of
his from a Sherman Black Hawk dam
an inbred Morgan.
Mr.. S. W. Parlin has a long article in
last week Horse Breeder on Vermont
Black Hawk Influence. Among other
things he says: 1.-The history of this
colt is we'll known. 1t is also a well
known fact that many of the best road
sters as well as the fastest trotters and
PAGERS that ever were in harness. in
herited his blood - The colt had been
named Morgan and was so called until
he became the property of Benjamin
Thurston who named him Black Hawk "
Before Thurston got him and while he
was still called Morgan, he beat all the
fastest trotters around Portsmouth, n.
H., and his owner, Mr.. Seavey, says he
never had made a break. In this ar
ticle Mr.. Parlin says of Black Hawk
of step and a graceful pose in harness
unlike the majority of the Morgans, anC
transmitted these qualities to his off
spring with considerable uniformity
!
his day and majority of his get were
noted as superior roadsters, while sew
eral of them were fast trotters for thei
day. His influence in improving tn,
beauty, style and gait of the road-horse
: of America, from Maine to California
I was undoubtedly greater than that o
S any other horse that ever lived. :" Thi
is great praise and while it is no NOR
than all Vermonters that know any
thing about horses, and have made
study of them, know it is very pleasing
5 to all Morgan lovers to hear it from s
r good an authority as Mr.. Parlin an
t have it so widely disseminated as hi
e paper will certainly do. Furtheron i
his article Mr.. Parlin gives list o
horses that carry a good percent. Q
= Morgan blood or particularly Blac
q Hawk blood, and as it is very interest
e ing and right in line with what we hav
It been trying to impress our readers wit
q all winter We give it in full as follows
There is scarcely the shadow of
doubt that the second dam of Sidne
Dillon was by son of this Easton
Dave Hill, and it is not improbable tn;
his third dam may have been an inbre
Morgan and of Vermont Black Haw
stock as represented. Following al
: some of the noted trotters that al
known to be descendants of Vernon
| Black Hawk
The dam of Major Delmar Q.59 s.
was by Autograph (2.161-2), and Aut
graphs second dam was Young Flax
by Bradford's Telegraph, son of We
. mont Black Hawk. The third dam
Major Delmar Il. SO 3-4) was by Proph
Jr., and he by Prophet, a son of We
mont Black Hawk. This gives Mai
Delmar Q.593-4 two strains of We
mont Black Hawk blood. The not
trotter Sweet Marie (2.O2) also inner
ed two crosses of Vermont Black Hav
5 through her dam.
= Kinney Lou (2.O73-4, another ia
" trotter by Mckinney (2.11l-D, W
= from Mary Lou (2.lO, and his seco
dam was Brown Jenny, by Dave H
Jr., son of Easton's Dave Hill,
Vermont Black Hawk 5. Nelson, tn
lowered the worlds champion reco
for trotting stations three times
1890, reducing it from PIP to 2.1O3
to high wheels, and the following We
made record of 2. 10 to high whe
IAN IAN over a regulation track, was FRI
the Gretchen, by Gideon l45; second d;
ny. nv Kate, by Vermont Black Hawk
o. Rarus, that reduced the worlds cha
AZ pion trotting record from 2. IA to 2. 10
in 1873, was from Nancy Awful, whC
sire was Burr's Napoleon, and whc
"a dam was Lady Hunter, by Verne
TO- 10. Black Hawk 8.