DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 427 



Races won, u. Races lost, 18. Total races, 29. 

 Sire: Black Ralph, i. 



BLACK RALPH 



Black with small star, snip and little white on heel, 15% hands, 1000 

 pounds; foaled 1852 ; bred by Michael Calligan, Peru, N. Y. ; got by Orr's 

 Flying Cloud, son of Black Hawk : dam black, bred by Timothy Calligan, 

 Peru, N. Y., got by Black Prince, son of Cock of the Rock ; 2d dam black, 

 bred by A. Chase, Peru, N. Y., got by Black Roman, son of Red Roman. 

 Sold to Richard Stave, Plattsburg, N. Y., 1855, who kept him in Essex and 

 Clinton counties; to parties near Mooers, N. Y., 1878, and went thence, it 

 is said, to Fair Haven, Vt. An attractive and gentle horse. Showed trial in 

 2 132 on half-mile track. 



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Geo. D. Sherman bl g2-.2gY 4 1880-83 l8 83 10 17 



Dams of Frank L. (?) 2 :27%, j. B. S. 2 :29%, Lady Winship 2 :23%, Prince 2 :27%. 

 Second dam of Leicester 2:17%. 



OHIO BOY (FLYING CLOUD) 



Dark bay with small stripe in face, 16 hands, 1150 pounds ; foaled 1879 > 

 bred by James Orr, Winterset, la. ; got by Orr's Flying Cloud, son of Black 

 Hawk: dam Bay Maggie (dam of Ohio Maid 2 129). said to be by Ohio 

 Bellfounder, son of imported Bellfounder ; and 2d dam thoroughbred. 

 Owned by L. P. Baker, Oakland, Cal. 



LIGHTFOOT (WOODWORTH'S BLACK HAWK) 



Chestnut, 15^2 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1846; bred by David Hill, 

 Bridport, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam chestnut. Sold, 1849, to Dr. James 

 Woodworth, Bethel, Vt. Died 1851. Very stylish and a good traveler, with 

 natural trotting action. 



NEAL DOW (WARREN COLT) 



Light chestnut with star and one hind and one fore foot white, 15^ 

 hands, noo pounds; foaled 1851 ; bred by Pliny Warren, Bethel, Vt. ; got 

 by W'oodworth's Lightfoot, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be by Gifford 

 Morgan. Bought, September, 1854, for ^400, by H. B. Hatch, Bethel, Vt., 

 who sold the next winter, for $1250, to Strong & Lewis, Northampton, Mass., 

 whose property he died. Mr. Hatch writes : "In October, 1854, when three, 

 he beat Plato of the same age at Windsor Co. fair, at White River Junction, 

 Vt., in 2 159. When mature he could trot better than 2 140. A perfect 

 pattern of a Morgan, and one of the best stock horses in the county ". The 

 " Vermont Stock Journal " of October, 1857, says : " Exhibited at National 

 Horse exhibition at Springfield, Mass., September, 1857, by Strong Lewis, 

 and attracted much attention by his fine action and thorough training ". 



