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BLACK HAWK (BLOOD'S, VERMONT BLACK HAWK) 

 Brown with stripe in face and one white hind ankle, 1 5 hands ; foaled 

 1847 ; bred by S. D. Blood, Wells River, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam old 

 Polly, light bay, 15^ hands, said to have been bought by Mr. Blood of J. 

 E. Maynard, Boston, Mass., and to be Morgan. Kept at Danville, Vt., by 

 C. Bovee one or more seasons; then, about 1853, taken to Lexington, Ky., 

 by Mr. Blood, where he was kept several years, and sold to H. T. Duncan, 

 Fayette Co., Ky., who kept him near Lexington, and whose property he died. 

 Advertised, 1855, to stand at Lexington, Ky., at $20, by S. D. Blood. 

 Received 2d premium at Michigan State fair, and ist premium as best harness 

 horse at the Kentucky State fair, 1856. B. F. Van Meter of Kentucky 

 writes : " When hitched up and driven he appeared full 16 hands high, and 

 was the finest show horse that I ever saw. Belle Sheridan was his exact 

 color and was as fine a mare as he was horse. They both received premiums 

 at the fairs of Kentucky until they could show no more ". French Morrill 

 of Danville, Vt., says of the dam : " She was a very nice mare, said to have 

 trotted to wagon in 2 130. Mr. Blood bred from her two mares by Black Hawk, 

 besides this stallion. He kept her till she died. She became blind ". Hon. 

 Geo. B. Loring writes, June 19, 1886 : " I have had a good deal of corres- 

 pondence about Blood's Black Hawk. I think his dam was owned at one 

 time by Dr. S. G. Howe of South Boston, and I do not know exactly how 

 my name became connected with her. I cannot remember her, and I have 

 endeavored in vain to get any information about her from Dr. Howe's 

 family. Dr. Howe died several years ago. Dr. Howe was connected with 

 the Blind Asylum at Boston". 



Sires : Blood Chief, 2, i p ; Harry Lathrop, I ; Indian Chief, 2, I p. 



Sires from Daughter: Almont Jr., 16, 4 p ; Allie Gaines, 6, ip; Baywood, I p; Blackwood 

 Jr., 5 ; Fieldmont, 2. 



Dams of Almont Jr. 2 :26, Blackwood Jr. 2 '.2.2%, Von Arnim 2 :i9%. 



Second dams of Badger Boy 2 129, Belle Brasfield 2 120, Dr. Almont 2 -.21%, Lanark 2:29%, 

 Proteine 2 :i8. 



Third dams of Emma Balch 2 :2O%, Holstein (?) 2 129%. 



BOVEE HORSE 



Chestnut, about 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled about 1852 ; bred by 

 Courtland Bovee, Danville, Vt. ; got by Blood's Black Hawk, son of Black 

 Hawk : dam said to be by Batchelder Horse, son of Sherman Morgan. A 

 stylish, nice-looking horse ; stock good drivers with considerable speed. 



HARRY LATHROP 



Sorrel, 15% hands, noo pounds; foaled 1855 ; bred by Daniel B. Hib- 

 bard, Jackson, Mich. ; got by Blood's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 chestnut, bought by Daniel B. Hibbard of Harry Lathrop, Jackson, Mich., 

 said to be by Gen. Morgan, son of Royal Morgan. Sold to some person in 

 Dowagiac, Mich. ; to some one in Niles, Mich., that used him in a work team, 

 the last known of him. Daniel B. Hibbard writes : " He was a blocky, fine- 

 gaited horse, and when four could trot in 3 :oo. All his stock that I ever 

 saw were very fine and blood-like ". 



