Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-05-14
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,
Mr.. Hamilton Busby has the following
in American Horse Breeder:

TIE sTRIDEAwAY STRAIN.
The well known trottingstallion Stride
away, owned by c. P. Keller & Com
pany of Boston, died in that city on Sun
day, June IA, 1874, of inflammation of
the bowels. | quote from Turf, Field
and Farm of June 10, 1874: "Strideaway
was a very fast horse, and is said to have
shown his owners recently half mile on
poor track in 0S. Last season he was
out of fix on account of lameness and
Providence in Tom Carpenters stables,
and this spring had shown himself to b.
very speedy; and his owners had conf
dence in him to the extent that he was
named for Mr.. Blanchard's great stallion
race, to be trotted next September, when
it was perfectly well known that he
would meet some of the best stations in
the country. The horse was valued at
$50 600, and its owners will have the
sympathy of all turfmen, as well as
others at their loss. The following is his
pedigree: Strideway, b h, foaled 1868,
bred By r. s. Denny. WATERFOWL, Mass,
by Black Hawk Telegraph; dam, old
Pocahontas, by Irons Cadmus; second
dam, a road mare of great stamina and
speed, whose pedigree has never been
traced. Black Hawk Telegraph. by Yer
mont Black Hawk, out of mare by Sir
Walter. Strideaway was also entered in
the grand stallion race at Beacon Park,
for 1926 class, to be trotted on the 22d of
September next"
When Strideaway was mated with the
stout hearted road-mare Daisy, owned
by A. B. Darling, his name was project.
ed into the future. The result was
Young Daisy, who never acquired a rec
ord but who produced such record hold
ers as Prince Lavalard ella Greylight
(2.161s) and Duke of Wellington C2.2O).
Bred to Kentucky Prince, horse with
out record, from non-record holding
ancestors, Young Daisy produced Mar
guerte, a mare that never trotted to a
record, but who is the dam of six with
records, including Marguerite A. (2.124),
Axtellion (2151p, Axworthy {2.l5t) and
King Darlington (2.16). Axworthy is by
the track-developed stallion Axtell (2.12)
as three year old, and he is recognized
as phenomenal sire of early speed.
Among his So sons and daughters with
records are Hamburg Belle e 04A. Gen.
Watts 81 t206a), Tom Axworthy (2.OO
and Guy Axworthy C2.0Sa). Marguerite
A. e 1919 sister of Axworthy, is the dam
of Marguerite o. (2.O54), and two others
with standard records, and Mary AK.
tellou, sister of Marguerite A., trotted to
a record of 2,261a and was timed mile
in 2.l2. Strideaway, carrying the blood
of Justin Morgan and of the famous PAGER
Pocahontas (2.171a), is the stout root of 4
strong and steadily growing family of
trotters. He trOtted to record of 2.31,
but had his life been spared he probably
would have reduced this record ten or
twelve seconds. His reputation, there
fore, rests not upon officially verified
track performances, but upon the trans
mission of latent speed force. When
he died it was not dreamed that he would
become the head of such an important
family of trotters. He was helped i'm
mensly by the blood of Kentucky Prince
and Axtell, but he was a strong factor
himself in speed production.
1t was very unfortunate for the Nor
gan family that Black Hawk Telegraph,
the sire of Strideaway died when only
seven or eight years old, as he was evil
IDENTIFY wonderful horse and impressive
sire, as his family contain some of the
most fashionable branches of the trotters
of the day. In an interview about 1886,
Mr.. VIM. q. Baldwin of. Ticonderoga, n
Y, says of him: "Black Hawk Telegraph
was black horse with satin coat, bred
by me; dam by Wickers Sir Walter; sec
ond dam by Burge Horse. Wickers Sir
Walter was by Sir Walter by Hickory
The Burge Horse was by (Hills) Sir Char
les son of Duroc, dam large thick sci
black mare, not very tall, pretty good
neck"
A letter from Mr.. E. d. Hines of Fow
Ter, Vermont, owner of Lambert B. anC
Kinds Ethan Allen says he is to sell {
number Of young Morgan stations and
mares at the Forest Park Farm auction
June I'd and Sd at Brandon, Vt. Mr.
Kinds horses are in fine condition anC
8 should prove big attraction TO the sale
A letter from correspondent in lows
asks if the Morgan would make goot
saddle horses. We have been trying Il