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CHIEF LEO 



Chestnut with star and snip, 16 hands, 1 100 pounds ; foaled 1879 ; bred 

 by John Bouga, Pentwater, Mich. ; got by Oceana Chief, son of Aldrich Colt : 

 dam Mollie Baum (dam of Maggie Knox 2 : 24^), light chestnut, bred by C. 

 A. Van Slyck, Berlin, Mich., got by Sir Henry, son of Seeley's American 

 Star ; 2d dam bred in Canada, said to be by Sherry Cobbler ; and 3d dam by 

 Breckenridge's Predictor, thoroughbred. Owned successively by O. W. 

 Knox, B. S. Carver, R. M. Turner and Messrs. Knox & Chappell. Made 

 four seasons at Hart, Mich. O. W. Knox writes: "He trotted seven races 

 and won five of them ; has shown quarters in 36 seconds ; is rangy, with 

 long neck, and a very safe, pleasant driver". 



RAVEN 



Black, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1848; bred by Robbins 

 Battell, Norfolk, Conn. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Polly, bay, 14^2 hands, 

 1000 pounds, a fast trotting mare for her day, bred by Harvey Yale, Middle- 

 bury, Vt., got by Young Cock of the Rock, owned at the time by Mr. Yale, 

 son of Barnum's Cock of the Rock, by Duroc, son of imported Diomed ; 

 2d dam called an Indian pony. Died property of breeder, 1858. A fine, 

 stylish driving horse, and a good trotter. Received ist premium at the 

 Connecticut State fair, 1855. 



Sire of Nellie Wilmarth, dam of McClure 2 :3o. 



MORGAN FUSION 



Foaled May 7, 1856 ; bred by Judge H. B. Munson, Seymour, Conn. ; 

 got by Raven, son of Black Hawk : dam Dolly Hale (half sister to celebrated 

 trotting horse Ripton),bred by Anthony Strong, W^oodbury, Conn., got by 

 Green Mountain Morgan ; 2d dam said to be by Bacon's Young American 

 Eclipse, son of American Eclipse ; and 3d dam by imported Silkstockings. 

 The above is from Mr. Linsley. The white-legged trotter Ripton, of 

 world-wide reputation in his day, was bred by Burr Meeker, near Westport, 

 Conn., and got by a horse known as the " Herron Horse ", that was bought 

 when a colt following its dam, on Long Island, by Morris Ketchum, a New 

 York banker, who had a country residence at Westport. This Herron Horse 

 is supposed to have been highly bred, but was injured, and used as a work 

 horse. 



BLACK HAWK (WILLIAMSON'S) 



Black with star, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled about 1848; bred by 

 Robert Williamson, Putnam, N. Y. ; got by Black Hawk : dam a large, fine- 

 looking black or brown mare, bought by Mr. Williamson of John Graham, 

 who had her of John French, both of Putnam, N. Y. (This mare was some- 

 what vicious, and changed owners a number of times ; she has been said to 



