Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-02-05
VERMONT MORGAN HORSE
BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
Hon. JOHN w. STEWART, PRES.
PROF. T. E. BOYCE, SEC.
JOSEPH BATTELL, REGISTRAR.
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.

Middlebury, Vt.
Bingen, 2.064, is again in the lime =
light as the leading speed sire of the
year 1908. AS he stood at Ticonderoga
the greater part of the last year until
purchased by Mr.. Bradley of New York
for his Stock Farm in New Jersey, to
take the place af the stallion Todd,
which died very suddenly last season,
it will probably interest the readers of
the Register to look into his breeding
and consider his blood lines he is de-
scribed in the first volume of The Amer
lean Stallion Register, which is now in
the hands of the binders:
Bay, 15a hands, 1925 pounds; foaled
1 1893, bred by A. Smith Mccain, Lexing-
ton, KY; foaled the property of David
Bennett, Lexington, Ky. Got by MAY
King" dam by Norman, son of Morse
horse, by European and Sd dam by Davy
Crockett) son of Electioneer dam by
Harry Clay dam Lady Surrey, ridden
horseback from Surrey, N. H., to New
York by( Henry Clay son of Neaves'
Cassius Nj. Clay dam young Miss bay,
bred by A. Smith Mccain, got by Young
jim, son of George Wilkes; Cd dam Miss
Mambrino, bay bred by A. Smith
Mccain, got by Red Wilkes; dam by
Red Jacket son of Billy Root by Sherman
Morgan) son of George Wilkes; Sd dam
Miss Clark, bay bred by John w. Clark,
Lexington, KY, got by Alaric, son of
Almont, ed dam by Pilot Jr) 4th dam
Kate, said to be by Clark Chief, son of
Mambrino Chief, and 9Th dam Ida by
Vandal, thoroughbred. Sold to Geo. w.
Leavitt, Readville, Mass, to E. w.
Greeley, Ellsworth, Me-, etc.
As Bngen's sons and also his grand
SONS are sring speed of high order and
are probably as fashionable family at
present as any, it is naturally pleasing to
the lovers of the Morgan to know that
he gets that blood through his I'd, Sd and
fourth dams.
Clark Chief one of the two handsome
sons of Mambrino Chief had for his Cd
dam Mrs. Caudle, the dam of the champ
ion four-yr old trotter of his day; Nor
gan Chief, 800 :, afterwards known as
Ericsson. In speaking of Clark Chief,
Mr.. Cyrus Lukens in a letter to Turf,
Field and Farm, New York, March, 81,
1893, saws: The fact that his grand
dam had been Mrs. Caudle was the rea
son | had called Mather's attention to
Clark Chief. | knew she had been a fast
trotting mare of square gait and that
she had been brought from New England
to New York and claimed to have been
of Morgan descent, and that she had pro-
duced Ericsson. who was driven to wagon
10y Myron Peabody, in his four r-old
form in a race the 4th heat in 30lo The
Morgan history of Mrs. Caudle stuck to
her through all these years and Ericsson
was for time when quite yoAlg known
AS Morgan Chief, combining the names
! of the two families in one as has so fire.
quently been done"
Last summer when the writer was Wis
iting Silver Spring Farm, Mr.. Wicker was
the door of the stable where Bingen was he
turned to me and said Nov will show
you one of your kind, you like Morgan
built one and sure enough he was Nor
gan built one. There We're a number of
horsemen in the party, and do not sup
pose at the time that any of us thought
the resemblance to the Morgan family
was nything but an accident. But an
analysis of his blood lines shows that he
could not very well have any but the
Morgan build, as this blood is a very
potent factor in shaping conformation.
Figuring the percentage of Morgan
blood allowing that through the Canad-
ian horses David Crockett and Morse
horse Bingen gets 132 per cent.
Kruger, 2;12 the worlds record to-
saddle, Nov. Sth, 1907 carries lot of
Morgan blood too He being by Mercury
q, as Mercury c was by Sidney and out
of Juno dam of Idah 30 by Buccaneer
Mercury c. gets close up infusion of
Morgan through both sire and dam, as
Santa Claus 2:1715 dam Lady Thorn Jr.,
by Williams Mambrino, son of Erics-
son, whose dam was Mrs Caudell. mem
toned above in Bingen's breeding, was
the sires of Sidney, and Juno's sire
Buccaneer was nv Towa Chief son of