346 THE CHAMPIONS. 



any other. After returning to the State of New York, King's 

 Champion produced Nettie Burlew, G. B. Daniels, C. B. Myrtle, 

 Buckskin, and other noted trotters. 



CEAWPORD COUNTY CHAMPION". 



This was a chestnut stallion, foaled 1851. He was by Grinnell's 

 Champion, and his dam was a Morgan mare. He went at an early 

 age to Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and was kept for several 

 years. He since died in the State of New York. 



His stock were not equal to the other Champions, and have not 

 been known to turn out any trotters of distinction. It is not a 

 certain success to unite the Morgan and the strong Messenger 

 families, although by such union great results have been sometimes 

 achieved. 



wood's champion. 



This horse was by Grinnell's Champion, dam by Red Bird. He is 

 a chestnut, and was foaled in 1860. He was brought to Illinois and 

 kept for awhile in Livingston county, and afterward sold to W. J. 

 Neely, and was called Neely's Champion. He is now owned by 

 Jeremiah Wood, of Ottawa, 111. He is a good looking horse, fine 

 size, and shows good quality. His stock are good roadsters, but have 

 not yet shown great speed. 



Grinnell's Champion, the original, was sold in 1859 to Thos. T. 

 Smith, of Independence. He left some good stock in Missouri, 

 among others a stallion called Almack, from a mare by American 

 Eclipse. 



NIGHT HAWK. 



This horse was by King's Champion, and was foaled about the year 

 1862, and has been owned by J. S. Vankirk, in Michigan. The 

 blood of his dam was unknown, but he is a good sire, and has left 

 some good roadsters in that locality. He is a chestnut. 



He has one son also called Night Hawk, foaled in 1865; dam, a 

 mare called a Bellfounder. He is owned by Daniel B. Hibbard, 

 Jackson, Michigan. ^ 



The two horses are yet in that State; they are producing some very 

 elegant roadsters, mostly chestnuts, and are showing the gait or 

 way of going which distinguishes the family. The family are as 

 clearly marked by their gait or way of going as by their adherence 

 to the chestnut color. 



