140 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



He was a large, powerful horse, of nearly 16 hands 

 and weighed 1200 pounds. He was a light step- 

 per and was difficult to pass on the road. There 

 were no tracks in his neighborhood, and he was 

 not trained. He was a resolute horse and of 

 a kind disposition when justly treated. Charles 

 Backman was a great admirer of the Harris 

 Hambletonian stock, and when he laid the foun- 

 dations of Stony Ford the gray mare Rosa Lee, 

 that he had driven many miles on the road, ap- 

 peared in his first catalogue as a brood mare. 

 She was by the Harris Horse. Gray Rose, dam 

 of Cuyler, also appeared in the catalogue. She 

 stood 15.2 and was a gray daughter of Harris's 

 Hambletonian. The two trotters from Harris's 

 Hambletonian were Green Mountain Maid, 2.28^, 

 and Lady Shannon, 2.28^. His only pacer was 

 Hero, a gray gelding, 2.20^. The gray mare 

 Sontag, 2.31, who defeated Flora Temple once, 

 was by Harris's Hambletonian, out of a daughter 

 of Nicholas by Alexander, an Arabian. She was 

 the dam of Toronto Sontag, sire of the great 

 brood mare Sontag Dixie ; also sire of Sontag 

 Nellie, dam of the celebrated producing mare 

 Sontag Mohawk. The gray gelding Vermont, 

 two miles 5.09^, and Gray Trouble, 2.34 to saddle, 



