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THE MORGAN HORSE 



sie, N. Y., and said to be a Messenger. (The dam of the old Walker Horse, 

 M. B. Walker states, was bred at St. Johnsbury,Vt., and he thinks was Morgan.) 

 Always owned by breeder. A horse of excellent reputation, having got much 

 good stock. 



Sire of dam of Charley Ray 2 -.29. 



CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT (DYKE HORSE, FURMAN HORSE) 

 Black with white face and legs, about 15 hands, 960 pounds; foaled 

 1846 ; bred by Miles Johnson, Pittsford,Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam sorrel 

 with white face and legs, said to be by Green Mountain Morgan. Sold to 

 Mr. Dyke, Chittenden, Vt., 1846 James M. Furman, Bethel, Vt., 1851 ; to a 

 man in Rhode Island. Afterwards owned in Illinois near Chicago. Kept, 

 1854, at Bethel, Vt. A finely-made horse and could trot in 2 155. 



Sire of dam of Draco Prince 2:24%, winner of 12 races. 



VIELE HORSE 

 Black, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds ; foaled about 1846; bred by William 



B. Viele, Hinesburgh, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam brown, said to be by 

 Hamiltonian. Owned by Mr. Viele until about 1860. A very handsome horse 

 and got many good colts. 



MORGAN CHIEF (FREMONT) 



Bay, 15 hands, 1035 pounds; foaled about 1856; bred by Charles E. 

 Miller,Williston, Vt. ; got by Viele Horse, son of Black Hawk : dam chestnut, 

 bred by Chas. E. Miller, got by Pilgrim Morgan, son of Dubois Morgan ; 2d 

 dam said to have been a noted trotting mare from Addison county, Vt. 

 Sold to Amherst W. Aldrich, Cuttingsville, Vt., 1872 ; to Willis S . Butterfield, 

 Landgrove, June, 1878; went to Keene, N. H., 1879. Kept at Wallingford, 

 Ludlow and Londonderry, Vt. Stylish and gentle. Trotted to wagon in 2 146. 



FLYING CLOUD (ORR'S, WICKER'S) 



Black, white fore foot, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled about 1846; 

 bred by Charles G. Wicker, Ticonderoga, N. Y. ; got by Black Hawk : dam 

 Ketcham mare, 16 hands, very powerful, bought of Oliver Beckwith, Orwell, 

 Vt., and said to be by Hammond's Magnum Bonum ; 2d dam bred by 

 Frank Farrington, Brandon, Vt. Sold, about 1851, for $1200, to D. \V. 



C. Doane and Rollin Birchard, Shoreham, Vt., who took him to Monroe- 

 ville, O., and he was soon after sold at Cleveland, for $3000, to James Orr, 

 Nevada, O., whose property he died, January, 1879. Advertised in "Ohio 

 Farmer", 1856, by James Orr and Henry Ladd, to stand in Crawford and 

 Seneca counties. Mr. Wicker says : " He was a splendid horse and a trotter ". 

 He is said to have trotted a half-mile track in 2 132^. Awarded ist premium 

 for speed at Ohio State fair, 1858. 



