io8 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



speed producers. Fearnaught was not equal to 

 his splendid opportunities. He died in 1873. 



Royal Fearnaught, chestnut horse of 15.3, 

 foaled in 1873, dam Lady Smathers by Draco 

 by Young Morrill, spent the greater part of his 

 life in Michigan, and is the sire of St. Elmo, 

 2. 1 6 J, and nineteen other trotters and five pacers. 

 Two of his sons and ten of his daughters are 

 speed producers. 



The Morrill tribe, like some of the Indian 

 tribes, is passing with the years from a valley 

 of activity and trumpet-blowing to obliteration. 



Morgan Eagle was a bay horse with black 

 points, 15.2, foaled about 1824, and by Wood- 

 bury Morgan, dam untraced. He sired the 

 brown mare Lady Sutton, who was celebrated 

 on the turf from 1847 ^^ 1849, and who trotted 

 to a record of 2.30 at Centreville, Long Island, 

 August 3, 1849. In her old age Lady Sutton 

 grazed in a Long Island pasture with her once 

 determined opponent, Lady Moscow, and the 

 two were close friends. Lady Moscow died in 

 the afternoon of September 9, 1865, and Hiram 

 Woodruff writes : " As we stood there on the 

 green hillside looking at the mare that lay dead 



