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St. Johnsbury, Vt., who used him hard a year and sold him to Mr. Filer, 

 Burke, Vt., who soon traded him to Eleazer Smith, Haverhill, N. H., and he 

 a few months later in the spring traded him back to Filer, who took him in 

 the summer or fall of 1845 to Springfield, Mass., and sold him to some one 

 who took him to Warehouse Point. That autumn he was traded to a man in 

 Sharon, Conn. April 1 8th, 1847, Messrs. Bemis and Hoyt brought him back to 

 Lyndon, where he was kept 1847, '48 and '49 at Hoyt's stable. In 1850 he 

 was kept again at Highgate, and 1851 at Lyndon. He died very suddenly, 

 April 25th, 1852. His death was supposed to be caused by the rupture of a 

 blood vessel. He was a horse of extraordinary life, energy and action. His 

 stock are small, but have become widely and justly celebrated for spirit, 

 action, endurance and durability. 



Mr. Linsley, from whom the above account is largely taken, says : 

 " The hair on his body was rather long, but soft and silky ; he had but few 

 long hairs on his legs, and had excellent feet". 



W. H. Hoyt of Lyndonville, Vt., says : " I tended Billy Root for 

 six years and in that time bred him to 600 mares, three-quarters of 

 which he got in foal. I never saw so handsome a horse as he ; never saw 

 him make a false step. Abner Howland, Brookfield, Mass., bought many 

 of his colts". Mr. E. J. Dole, Danville, Vt., a very intelligent horseman, 

 says : "He was very stylish and a fine goer". 



Mr. Benjamin Hibbard, who took care of Billy Root the winter before 

 he was four, says : " Three different times the dam of Billy Root was driven 

 from Portland, Me., to St. Johnsbury, 120 miles, in one day. Billy Root 

 was her only foal. She was sold to a man in Brattleboro, Vt. In harness she 

 was right up on the bit all the time". 



MORGAN (SMITH'S) 



Bay with stripe in face, 15 hands, 975 pounds; foaled 1837; bred by 

 A. J. Smith, St. Albans, Vt. ; got by Billy Root, son of Sherman Morgan : 

 dam black, said to be by a Morgan horse. Died 1856. Sire of 2d dam of 

 Woodburn Boy 2 129^. 



YOUNG COMET (SMALLEY & ADAMS HORSE) 



Bay with star shaped like a half moon, 15 hands, 1060 pounds; foaled 

 1837 ; bred by Smalley & Adams, St. Albans, Vt. ; got by Billy Root, son of 

 Sherman Morgan : dam bay, bred by C. W. Van Rantz on Long Island, got 

 by American Eclipse, son of Duroc. (This mare passed to George Parrish, 

 Ogdensburgh, N. Y., who sold to Smalley & Adams, who bred this and 

 probably other foals from her, and sold her to Hon. Hiram Allen, Highgate, 

 Vt., after which she was known as the Allen mare. She was the grandam of 

 Goff's Comet.) Sold, 1844, to Silas Robinson, North Hammond, N. Y., 

 who sold, 1850, to Benjamin F. Pope, Elkhorn, Wis. Said to be of fine 

 appearance, very active, of great endurance and able to travel 12 miles an 

 hour with ease. His stock resembled him in style, motion and disposition. 



