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Jacket, sire of Minna, dam of Kentucky Wilkes, 

 2.2iJ, the famous stallion owned in the Marsh- 

 land stud by Benjamin F. Tracy, was by Billy 

 Root, a son of Sherman Morgan. The grand 

 dam of Red Wilkes, one of the greatest of pro- 

 ducing sires, was also by Red Jacket. The 

 Sherman Morgan blood was carried forward by 

 his son, Black Hawk (Vermont or Hills), a black 

 horse foaled in 1833, the property of Ezekiel 

 Twombley, of Greenland, New Hampshire. He 

 stood 15 hands and weighed 1000 pounds. His 

 dam was a black mare, a fast trotter, and one 

 version is that she was a half-bred English mare. 

 Black Hawk was a square trotter, and it is claimed 

 that he never made a break on the road. He 

 died the property of David Hill of Bridport, 

 Vermont, in November, 1856. He trotted in 

 several long-distance races and covered single 

 miles in 2.42. He was a prolific sire, but only 

 four of his sons and daughters obtained standard 

 records. These were Ethan Allen, 2.25^; Lancet, 

 2.27^; Belle of Saratoga, 2.29; and Young America, 

 2.23. The latter was a pacer. It was as a foun- 

 dation sire that Black Hawk 5 is entitled to dis- 

 tinguished consideration. Fourteen of his sons 

 are speed producers. The star of the cluster was 



