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THE MORGAN HORSE 



with over 30 horses and took ist premium ; also at Ohio State fair in Cleve- 

 land, at which were four other Vermont horses. 



PROPHET (BLACK HAWK PROPHET) 



Dapple bay, 16 hands, 1150 pounds; foaled 1847 ; bred by Elmer Jones, 

 Shoreham, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam chestnut, bred by Nazro 

 Northrup, Shoreham, Vt., got by Sir Charles, son of Duroc. Sold to Gustavus 

 A. Austin, Orwell, Vt., about 1850; D. J. Wetherbee, Muscatine, la., 1855 ; 

 to a company at Springfield, 111., several years later. G. A. Austin offered the 

 following challenge in 1854, inserted in many Vermont papers, but not taken : 

 " I will pay $5 oo to the Vermont Agricultural society if any one will show from any 

 horse seven years old, six colts three years old, six two years old, and six one 

 year old and six with their dams, that shall excel my horse Prophet's colts in 

 speed and other qualities ". An Illinois correspondent writes that old-time 

 breeders where he stood are firm in the belief that his equal as a sire of first- 

 class road horses will never be seen. Prophet received the ist premium at 

 the Muscatine County fair, $200, for best stallion, also sweepstakes premium 

 of $100 for the best horse exhibited, trotting a mile in 3 :oo. He also 

 received ist premium at National Horse show, Galesburg, 111., as the best 

 horse exhibited, and ist premium with 16 entries at the Illinois State 

 fair in 1860; also as roadster stallion in 1861 ; also ist at Iowa State fair. 



D. C. Wetherbee writes : " He was a fine horse ; never saw a finer one. 

 Had fine head, big eyes, bony swan neck, short back, hip longer than back, 

 strong loin, wider across stifles than hips, good bony legs, flat and clean, 

 heavy tail, long mane ; never trained, but have driven him in 2 150 ". 



Dr. O. L. R. White of Lanark, 111., writes : " I raised from Black Hawk 

 Prophet 15 colts, six of which I sold for$4O25, the most of them while young". 



Dam of Otho 2:2214. 



PROPHET (SIMS') 



Bay, 16 hands, 1250 pounds; foaled 1863; bred by Mr. Neal, Loami, 

 111. ; got by Prophet, son of Black Hawk : dam sorrel. 



Sire of dams of Mambrino Queen 2:26%, X. Y. Z. 2:2914. 



LION BLACK HAWK 



Bay 15^ hands, 1200 pounds; foaled 1879 : bred by S. L. Twitchell, 

 Virden, 111. ; got by Sims' Prophet, son of Prophet, by Black Hawk : dam bay, 

 bred by Ira Twitchell, Weybridge, Vt., got by Black Lion, son of Black Hawk. 



HARRY BLACK HAWK 



Brown, 15^ hands, 1250 pounds; foaled 1883; bred by Samuel Bru- 

 baker, Farmersville, 111. ; got by Lion Black Hawk, son of Sims' Prophet : 

 dam bay, bred by G. M. Chedster, Virden, 111., got by Frank, a Canadian 



