464 THE MORGAN HORSE 



bred by Simpson James, got by Comanche Chief, son of Black Hawk. Owned 

 by Walter I. Hayes, Clinton, la. 



STAR ROYAL 



Chestnut with stripe in face and white hind legs ; foaled 1889 ; bred by 

 Mailman Bros., Clinton, la. ; got by Star of the West, son of Jackson's Flying 

 Cloud : dam Lady Hughes, chestnut, bred by W. A. Kentner, Dixon, 111., got by 

 Royal Chief, son of Niagara Chief ; 2d dam bay, bred by W. A. Kentner, got 

 by the Herrington Horse, son of Eastman Morgan. Owned by Walter I. 

 Hayes, Clinton, la. 



CHAMPION (MIKE) 



Black with stripe and off fore foot white, 15^ hands, about 975 pounds ; 

 foaled 1862 ; bred by S. L. Warner, Lanesville, Conn. ; got by Jackson's Fly- 

 ing Cloud, son of Black Hawk : dam brown, bred by William Teachout, 

 Highgate, Vt., got by Black Hawk ; 2d dam said to be by Billy Root. 

 Gelded when six. Mr. Warner writes of the dam : " She was a mare of rarest 

 intelligence, style and beauty of action. Not fast, but a good roadster. Her 

 nostrils were most extraordinary, expanding when driven until they became 

 as tissue paper. Carriage lofty and graceful. I bred her to Jackson's Flying 

 Cloud, then kept by Timothy Jackson of Jamaica, L. I. He stood that year 

 at Nelson Haight's in Dutchess Co., N. Y. The outcome was Champion, 

 one of the finest horses I ever saw. I made a great mistake to castrate 

 Champion at six years of age. In 1861, Star of the West was foaled, about six 

 miles west of me, and taken with his dam to Minnesota. Sire Flying Cloud, 

 dam by Eureka. There never was a horse that got such unusually good 

 stock in our section as Jackson's Flying Cloud ". 



Sire of dam of Bucephalus 2:2914. 



STOCKBRIDGE CHIEF 



Dark chestnut, 16 hands, 1250 pounds; foaled May 15, 1848; bred by 

 Absalom Tupper, Ferrisburgh, Vt . ; got by Black Hawk : dam roan, about 15 

 hands, 1000 pounds, purchased by Mr. Tupper of Calvin Martin, Ferrisburgh, 

 who had her of James Barton, a blacksmith of Ferrisburgh, who had bred 

 several colts from her, said to be by Sir Charles, son of Duroc ; and 2d dam 

 by Brutus, son of Justin Morgan. Sold to Sylvester Hooper, Greenwich, N. 

 Y., at 13 months; P. W. Bishop, Troy, N. Y., about 1855 ; Gen. Dunham, 

 Troy, N. Y. ; Joseph Cooper, Glendale, O., for $4500, about 1857 ; to Hon. 

 Aaron Shaw, Lawrenceville, 111., some years later, and died his property, about 

 1870. Received ist premium at New York State fair, 1854, entered byT.T. 

 B. Halsey, West Stockbridge, Mass.; also ist premium in class of roadster 

 stallions and sweepstake premium at Ohio State fair, 1857, against 56 

 competitors; also $1000 premium, at St. Louis fair, 1859. 



James R. Best of Hudson, N. Y., closes a very interesting letter to us 

 on the Stockbridge Chief family as follows : 



" It is as plain as the day that if the Chief family is not up to Mr. Van- 

 derbilt's standard of excellence for size, speed and beauty, they stand first in 

 our county down to the present time. When a daughter of Stockbridge 



