Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-04-22
BLACK HAWK AND
ETHAN ALLEN.
Old Controversy Over Their
Sires Reviewed by Allen w.
Thomson
Ill


# Ticonderoga, N. Y, anu ioaied
June ~, l849. This dam was small
gray mare, Parson. Murray states
she was 20 years olu at This time.
She was one OF the mares that bred
directly after the horse, her ioals
taking the form, size, color, dIsposl-
tion ana travel vi their size ohe had
speed, and 1t ID believed that ii
trained she would have LroLLeu close
to 2.4O. 1hls she transmitted " her
ioals when bred To horses that Lrans-
Inltled speed, ana it shows she must
have had u Cross or TWO oil LroLIInH
blood. She was raiseu III Hague,
N. T., toaied about 1925; catch
colt. her sire, gray tMo-y ear-olu
colt, jumped the Ience ana got her
dam, AN old black mare WIN toal,
ami impress on the toal that lie sired
Ethan dam his jumping nature,
as she was one of the great jumpers.
A sire impresses his mental ana
physical nature on-hls offspring Just
as 1t ID when he begets 1t. Many o.
our great trotters were noteu jump
els. here were five luals breu irou
Ethan dam when owned at Hague.
Little is known of them, as speeu
tuen was not held as high as now. IL
was about lS4U that she came into
tAe possession oi Vim. Ii. Cook Oh
iiconderoga, N. Y. She had got ON
her bone spawn by abuse. Mr.
Cook bred tour foals from her by the
Derge horse or Young Sir Charles.
ite was large bay horse, had NO
speed, nor did he transmit any. IL Ii
understood that her toals by hm
we're nothing remarkable. She came
iato the possession OF j. W. Hal
comb OF Ticonderoga, N. Y, the tall
OF lo43. and the next year, 1874, he
bred her to Black Hawk, hls irsi
season at Bridport, VI. She brings
tue next year, lS45, Black Hawk
Maid; is returned tins season TO Black |
,iawk and brings the next year,
lo46. Red Leg; is bred this season
to q. N. Wicker's bay, Sir Waiter.
aud brings the next year, l847,
Day filly; is returned to Black Hawk
this season and misses to him. She
,as no foal in lS48; is returned I,
Black Hawk this year and brings The
ext year, l849, bay colt, known III
eime as the horse Ethan Allen. Sh,
as returned to Black Hawk this
season, kept the most of the season
Bridport. On being returned, il
was found that she was not in toai.
and a three-year-old Black Hawk col,
jumped the fence and got her III
foal (G. N. Wicker told the write,
tnis). She died in the spring OF
1850 and was opened and black
colt found.
Black Hawk Maid and Red Ley
we're Black Hawks in looks anu
,tvle. The Maid got record of 2.36,
md it was believed Red Leg woulu
ave been as fast if he had not hau
spawn. 1t is claimed that the Sir
Waiter filly was 6rst She was killed |
~ overdriving from Whitehall to
ilconderoga on the ice by her
drunken owner. 1t was understood
and believed at first. that Ethan's
ire was Black Hawk. and if he had
iot made the wonderful trotter he
nd, little or no attention would have
'een given his breeding. he hold-
lug the four-year record. 2.36, slx
years, it being beaten by Magma
Charta in 1859, two and half sec
inds, and Ethan holding the tastes
wagon record, 2.2S. for awhile and
the fastest stallion record, too, made
1t very desiroug to have the credit oi
slring him to any horse or to an,
breed. When there is dispute. 90
each side should be fair, impartia.
and let the credit go where it justl,
belongs. But they are not always.
They will claim and have it so re-
gardless of the facts. A criminal
will deny at times his guilt to the
last. When the claim was started
that Ethan's sire was Flying Morgan.
Mr.. Hill and his friends felt greatly
wronged in having Black Hawk
robbed of the credit of string him
and made fierce fight against it.
II was called that the story, first
started by Halcomb, Ethan's breeder;
that he got mad at Hill for his pay
ing 20 much for Black Hawk SER