486 BLACKWOOD AND SWIGERT. 



Blucher. A full brother of this horse is owned at Flint, Mich., by 

 Foster and Goodwill. 



SwiGERT, a brown colt, foaled 1876; dam by Goldsmith's Abdallah; 

 second dam by son of Hungerford's Blucher; is owned by Gilbert 

 Adams, of Racine county, Wis., and is a very promising colt, referred 

 to at the close of Chapter II. 



Robinson is a brown stallion, owned by Mr. Wood, I^a Crosse, 

 Wis. His dam was by Whitestockings, a grandson of Hungerford's 

 Blucher. A good trotter at four years old, and trotted quarters in 35 

 seconds. 



Vero is one of the very promising sons of Swigert; foaled 1875; 

 dam Lady Jane, by Goldsmith's Abdallah; second dam Dollabella, by 

 son of Hungerford's Blucher. He is owned by George W. Graves, 

 of Rochester, Minn. 



Another son of Swigert, foaled 1875, owned by Thos. Rowlands, of 

 Genesee, Wis.; dam Lady Belle, by son of Hungerford's Blucher; 

 second dam the thoroughbred mare, Mary Bird, by imp. Mickey Free. 



DON CARLOS. 



Besides the foregoing distinguished stallions, Norman left another 

 son, named Don Carlos; a dark bay stallion, foaled 1870. Dam Ella 

 Jackson, by Ewalt's Abdallah, son of Alexander's Abdallah. He is 

 owned by Geo. N. Ferguson & Son, of the city of New York, and I 

 find an item in a turf journal giving a report of a private trial at 

 Fleetwood Park, when he was seven years old. It is described as a 

 racing-like trial of three heats, without a skip or break, in 2:29^, 2:27-j, 

 and 2:291^; also that on another occasion he trotted a half mile in 

 1:10^. He is described as a dark bay, upward of sixteen hands high. 

 He is scarcely known to the public, but his breeding should commend 

 him to favorable consideration. I have never seen this stallion, but 

 assuming that he is correctly represented in the pedigree and descrip- 

 tion above set forth, I should incline to the opinion that he is a valu- 

 able stallion. He will differ widely from the two foregoing stallions 

 in that he will be totally lacking in the Duroc- Messenger characteris- 

 tics. The union presented in him will be watched with interest, and 

 should he fail as a stallion, it will be still more suggestive of the 

 remarkable qualities of that Duroc-Messenger combination that affords 

 a ready and fertile field for every good sire. 



