Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-04-15

could trot IN three minutes.
| BLACK Hawks dam was n large
coarse, rawny mare, black with white
hairs mixed in. called steel mixe,I.
She had white stripe in the face.
She was fast, but was mixed gated;
paced, sinRle-footed and trotted. Il
was said when she was going fasI
was about straight line througi
from her back to her head. That
way PAGERS go). Her organ ala,
breeding we give from John Bellows
and +. A. Weir. She was bred az
Walpole, N. A., By James Weir.
foaled about 1920, sired by the blacA
English horse, Traveller. from Con
necticut, that stood the second tim,
at Walpole about 1919. Hel dan,
was black Narragansell mare from
Rhode Island.
About 1925 one oil the Bellows
family represented Walpole and Mr..
Weir let him ride the traveller niafe
to Concord, with leave to sell hei,
which he did She was worked un
a butcher cart at Concord few
years, then was one of the wheel
horses of a four-horse team that ran
from Concord to Portsmouth, n. h.
1t was when on this team that Benja-
min Kelley saw her at Haverhili,
Mass, and swapped for her and took
her to Durham, N. Ii. She was rep
esented to him as Narragansett
mare.
Paddy was bred at Walpole by
Aaron Hodgskin, but foaled at Lyn-
don, VT. about 1909; was sired by
the black English horse, Traveller,
that stood at Walpole the first time
about 1910. His dam was bay
mare, that showed part French; it
was said she had a SPAWN. which
Paddy had. Some of the Black
Hawks had curbs spavins. The Nor
gans are free from all hook unsound-
ness.
Paddy was dark mahogany bay.
almost black at times. His lore
parts were longer than his hind
parts; weighed at times $50 pounds,
and was about Is hands. He had
great speed as trotter and was
wonderful ior long drive. He was
first called Young Traveller and 70
advertised by Royal Corbin at Crafts
bury, VI. and sire, given Old 1rav-
eller. After while AN IrishmuD
ow ned him and he Was then called
Paddy.
One great writer says. Time
proves all things" and i, has in RI
gard to what breeds of horses pre-
luce the trotter. 1t has been found
that the low. despised Canadian
pacer has done much toward Rivinl
speed to the American trotte, 1t j,
,lood which alone will pru,tuce u Z
trotter. 1t was not 40 with the M.n
gan blood, which alone will not i
luce the trotter; All unbred Morpsn
has not speed.
This was proved when the tianRi
ters of tlale's Green Mountain nm
bred to their sire They did MOI lro-
ince speed. II is only Wien tie Nj Il
gsns are crossed viii III. bint.r
slriding horses that we iiri s,te'
among those that aIo called A.m
9ans. The shape of tile Morgan,
With their broad breasts, fore les +
wide apart, short bodies, short lepA
and stride, show that they canDoi
have speed for mile. Can they
speed with thin, narrow-breastes
l'ng-stridine horse. as was Lamle,i
Can a bull dog run with gray
mound, or can white man beats
speed with an Indian canoe?
Black Hawks pedigree breeding
n,w looks reasonable, according hs
the laws of nature. His two cross. 9
OF Old Traveller gave HIM his jet
black color, thoroughbred looks and
style and his prepotency to transmit
is. No sire can be strong prepo,t mt
sire unless he has two or more
crosses of thoroughbred blood Ore
can judge which horse would be fie
most likely to sire such horae as
was Black Hawk. one that had no
speei. and that transmitted npne
ike Sherman Morgan, ., pne that
lad great speed and transmitted it,
like Young Traveller?
AT the great show of Morpans and
pfack Moruana nj the atata E,;r az