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Chief Jr. was bred to Volunteer, she foaled the most promising trotter the 

 world ever saw. What son or daughter of his has proved his equal, taking 

 age and size into consideration. A friend of mine was in Chicago when 

 Gloster was shipped to California. When they brought him to the car a 

 gentleman said : ' Don't ship him. I will giVe $50,000 '. The offer was 

 refused ". 



Linsley says : " Is a well-proportioned, strong-going horse. At a State 

 fair, at Providence, R. I., he trotted a mile in 2 -.44 ". 



Races won, 2. Races lost, 2. Total races, 4. 



Sires : Mambrino Black Hawk, i ; Rattler, 2. 



Sire from Daughter : Atlantic Chief, i. 



Dams of Black Diamond 2:1914, Egalite 2:20%, Gloster 2:17. 



Second dams of Areida 2 :2yy 2 , Graceful 2 :i8 %, Gracie (?) 2:27. 



YOUNG STOCKBRIDGE CHIEF (VIBBARD'S, ST CLAIR, GRAY 



MESSENGER) 



Gray, 15^ hands, 1080 pounds; foaled June, 1851 ; bred by Henry P. 

 Dorr, Canaan, N. Y. ; got by Stockbridge Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 Fanny Dawson, dam of Stockbridge Chief Jr. (Rood's), which see. Bought, 

 about 1855, by Alphonso Patton, Troy, N. Y. Taken, April, 1858, to San Jose, 

 Cal., by P. G. Vibbard, who sold to Charles Hosmer, San Francisco, for 

 $4000. He resembled the Morgans. Received ist premium at San Jose 

 fair, 1851. Died, about 1866, at San Jose. He won a number of good races 

 while in California. 



Sire of dam of Nightime (?) 2:29%. 



MESSENGER (SAWYER'S) 



Gray; foaled 1859; bred by Peter Quirey ; got by Vibbard's Young 

 Stockbridge Chief, son of Stockbridge Chief : dam chestnut, said to be by 

 Easton's Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk ; 2d dam Lady Davis, chestnut, 

 thoroughbred, dam of the famous running horses Dashaway, Beauregard and 

 Richmond, got by Red Bill, son of Medoc. 



Dam of Rosa Mac 2 :2O%. 



RATTLER 



Dark chestnut with small star, 16 hands, noo pounds; foaled May TO, 

 1854; bred by William Yincent, Spencertown, N. Y. ; got by Stockbridge 

 Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam sorrel, four white feet, excellent road mare, bred 

 by Mr. Robinson, Dutchess county, N. Y., got by Othello, son of Eclipse ; 2d 

 dam said to be by Liberty. Sold to Dillon Bristol, Spencertown, N. Y., 



