DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 



Total 8 ; 8 race winners ; i ten-race winner ; i fifty-race trotter. 



Races won, 44. Races lost, 50. Total races, 94. 



Sires: Challenge, i; King Herod,3 ; Logan, (?) i; Vermont Hero, i. 



Dams of Baron Luff 2 127, Little Crow (?) 2:28%, Trouble (?) 2:24%. 



Second dam of Ignis Fatuus 2:20^. 



YOUNG MYRICK (CYREN JOSLYN HORSE, MITCHELL'S BLACK 



HAWK) 



Black with star, 1 5 *4 hands, 1050 pounds ; foaled 1848; bred by Hiram 

 Pond,Panton,Vt. ; got by Sherman Black Hawk. Sold, February, 185 1, to Samuel 

 F. Ellis, who took him to Waitsfield, Vt., and there owned him in company 

 with Jonathan Campbell and Cyren Joslyn. Joslyn finally became the sole 

 owner and sold him, at the Vermont State fair, Montpelier, 1857, for $1600, 

 to Mitchell & Houston, Bedford, Ind. 



Mr. Mitchell writes : " Young Myrick was kept in my stable in Bedford 

 for 20 years, getting all the business he was able to do. He trotted at the 

 Montpelier State fair, 1857, in 2 150. Has also trotted at Indiana State fair, 

 New Albany, Bedford and elsewhere, but never faster than 2 150". 



ROCKET (JOSLYN HORSE) 



Black, 155^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1852 ; bred by Cassius Joslyn, 

 Waitsfield, Vt. ; got by Young Myrick, son of Sherman Black Hawk : dam 

 Vina, black, foaled 1847, bred by N. G. Joslyn, Waitsfield, Vt., (sold for 

 $500), got by Negotiator, a tall and rangy brown horse brought by N. G. 

 Joslyn from Quebec, about 1843, an d said to be an imported English 

 Hunter ; 2d dam chestnut, bred or purchased at Randolph, Vt., by Rev. 

 Mr. Green, Stowe, Vt., said to be by Sherman Morgan. Sold to a stock 

 company at Waitsfield, Vt., for $1000, and kept there until nearly or quite 

 30 years old, then sold to J. M. Joslyn, Morrisville,Vt. Died September, 1885. 

 He was a pure-gaited trotting horse, and his stock were noted for their gen- 

 eral excellence. 



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