DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 



483 



Races won, 33. Races lost, 61. Total races, 94. 



BLACK HAWK (PADDLEFORD'S) 



Black, white hind foot, heavy mane and tail, 15^ hands, 1075 pounds; 

 said to be by Black Hawk : and dam chestnut, by Woodbury Morgan. Taken 

 from Vermont, about 1855, by a Mr. Wetherbee, to near Elgin, 111., where he 

 was owned by John Paddleford. Died 1863. E. K. Whitcomb, formerly of 

 Elgin, writes : "Without training trotted in 2 138 ; many of his colts trotted 

 in 2 140 without much handling, but most of them were taken to the war. 

 His colts were black or chestnut. He was almost faultless ; had he been 

 handled like Ethan Allen, I think he would have made quite as good a rec- 

 ord". W. H. Black of Elgin writes: "The people of Elgin are profuse in 

 their praise of this horse, not so much for his speed as for his fine style, 

 though many of his colts did show considerable speed. As these Black 

 Hawks and many of the Willard Morgans came up to the required standard, 

 almost every Morgan in this vicinity was purchased for a regiment of cavalry 

 formed in Kane county under Gen. Farnsworth at the beginning of the war". 



HARD ROAD (FICKLIN'S BLACK HAWK) 



Black with star and one white hind foot, 16 hands, 1185 pounds; foaled 

 1849 ; bred by Bela Howe, Shoreham, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam black, 

 large and coarse, with good length neck, big ears, said to have been by a son 

 of Bishop's Hamiltonian. Sold to C. F. Hammond, Crown Point, N. Y., 

 1850; to S. W. Ficklin, Belmont Stock Farm, Charlotteville, Va., 1858, for 

 $2000, whose property he died Oct. n, 1877. A good horse, and left valu- 

 able and popular stock. He was taken to Richmond, Va., together with a 

 son called Crown Point and a two-year-old stallion by Ethan Allen, bred by 

 Mr. Moore, Shoreham, Vt. 



ALBANIAN 



Dark bay; foaled Aug. TO, 1866 ; bred by S. W. Ficklin, Charlotteville, 

 Va. ; got by Hard Road, son of Black Hawk : dam Albany Maid, a fast trot- 

 ting mare, bought in Vermont, 1859. Owned at the Belmont Stock Farm, 

 Charlotteville, Va. A very superior saddle horse. 



BAYARD BLACK HAWK 



Bay, i6hands, 1270 pounds; foaled 1877 : bred by S. W. Ficklin, Char- 

 lotteville, Va. ; got by Hard Road, son of Black Hawk : dam Daisy Ann, 

 bay, bred by A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky., got by Bayard, son of 

 Pilot Jr. ; 2d dam bred by A. J. Alexander, got by Cracker, son of Boston ; 



