DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 489 



Gen. Stark, son of Black Hawk Chief : dam a black saddle mare. Taken to 

 California, when a colt, by Mr. Tyler. 



Races won, 16. Races lost, 25. Total races, 41. 

 Sire : Gen. Reno, 2, i p. 



GEN RENO 2:30^ 



Black; foaled 186-; bred by W.W.Worthing, Honey Lake Valley, Cal. ; 

 got by Tyler's Black Hawk, son of Gen. Stark ; dam Topsy, said to be by 

 Gray Eagle ; and 2d dam Rosa, by Iowa Chief. Wilber F. Smith, Sacra- 

 mento, Cal., writes : " I knew Gen. Reno and his history very well. He was 

 a good, almost a great horse, deserving of greater patronage and of being 

 better known". 



Races won, 20. Races lost, 38. Total races, 58. 

 Dam of Maud Patchen, 2:25. 



BLACK HAWK CHIEF 2D 



Black, 14^4 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1858; bred by Judge 

 Prout, Salisbury, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 said to be by Gifford Morgan ; 2d dam by Sherman Morgan ; and 3d dam by 

 Bishop's Hamiltonian. Sold, when 18 months old, to S. Whitman, Roches- 

 ter, Wis. ; brought, in 1860, by George W. Yearley, to Owatonna, Minn., 

 where he got much valuable stock. 



BEN BUTLER 



Bay, i$*4 hands, 950 pounds ; foaled 1859 ; bred by M. M. Doud, Salis- 

 bury, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam dapple gray, 

 15^ hands, 1000 pounds, bred by M. M. Doud, got by the Orson Taylor 

 Colt, son of Black Hawk ; 26. dam chestnut, said to be a cross of Morgan 

 and Arabian. Could trot in 3 :oo. 



BEECHER HORSE 



Bright bay with star, 15^ hands, over 1000 pounds; foaled 1849 ; bred 

 by Dr. E. Beecher, Hinesburgh, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam bought of 

 Mr. Holabird, Shelburne, Vt., and said to be Morgan. Sold, 1852, for 

 $600, to J. Fay and J. Rounds, who took him to Ohio, where he died within 

 two years. He left some stock in Vermont. 



