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THE MORGAN HORSE 



TROUBLE 2:24%; 



Bay, white hind ankle, 15 ^ hands; foaled 1879 ; bred by Lewis Miller, 

 Orangeville, O. ; got by Nigger Doctor, son of King David, by Dave Hill, 

 son of Black Hawk : dam Nelly B., said to by Sherman Black Hawk. Owned, 

 1888, by W. A. Limbert, Orangeville, O. 



KINSMAN BOY 2 : 28^ 



Black with snip and three white ankles, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; 

 foaled 1870; bred by Isaac Meacham, Kinsman, O. ; got by Case's Dave 

 Hill, son of Pelton's Dave Hill : dam Lady Trumball, black, bred by Isaac 

 Meacham, got by Vermont Trotter, son of Black Hawk ; 2d dam bay, bred 

 by Isaac Meacham, got by Sirocco, son of Count Piper. Sold, 1871, to C. S. 

 Case, Kinsman, O., who trotted him 10 years with success. A good-looking 

 horse, but inclined to be cross. Stock reported good. 



BLACK HAWK (McCRACKEN'S, TWITCHELL'S) 

 Brown, 15^ hands; foaled 1845 j bred by Charles N. Hayward, Brid- 

 port, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam bay, said to be by Sir Charles, son of 

 Duroc. Sold, when two days old, to Solomon Jewett, Weybridge, Vt., for 

 $50 ; to Silas M. Burroughs, Medina, N. Y., who took two other colts by Black 

 Hawk at same time to Medina ; to Andrew Ellicott, Medina ; to J. G. Mc- 

 Cracken, about 1850, who kept him at Lockport, later at Buffalo, in care of Sam- 

 uel Twitchell, and about 1853 took him to Kenosha, Wis., thence to Califor- 

 nia, 1860, and kept him at Stockton and Sacramento. Died 1871. A blocky, 

 strong horse, a little coarse. A correspondent of the " California Breeder 

 and Sportsman " says : "The get of this horse are quite as well known as 

 those of any horse ever brought to the State. No horse in the State has pro- 

 duced a better class of livery and road horses considering his opportunities 

 in the stud". Solomon W. Jewett writes that one of the other colts referred 

 to above was from the Howe mare by Liberty, and the other he thinks was 

 bred by Judge Sollace, Bridport. 



Sire : McCracken's Golddust, i. 



Dams of George Treat 2 1251/4, Ha Ha 2 :22%, Loyaleer 2 .-30, Overman 2 :i9%. 



Second dam of Mary Lou 2 :ig l / 2 , Little Albert 2:10%. 



Third dam of Alto 2:26%. 



BILLY McCRACKEN 



Black; foaled 1850; bred by John Letts, Medina, N. Y. ; got by Mc- 

 Cracken's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be of Messenger 



