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THE MORGAN HORSE 



BAY SHERMAN 



Bay, 15 hands, 950 pounds; bred by Albert Chapman, Weybridge, Vt. ; 

 foaled the property of A. L. Pennock, Delaware Co., Penn. ; got by Black 

 Hawk : dam gray, said to be by a Morgan horse brought from Warren, Vt., 

 to Lincoln, Vt., where he was kept by a Mr. Tucker, hotel-keeper. Sold, 

 about 1858, to a stock company in Buck's Co., Penn., for $1500. 



Sire trom Daughtei : Perkins' Merrill, i. 



FLYING CLOUD (WARD'S) 



Black with star, white hind feet and very little white on off fore foot, 

 about 15 hands, uoo pounds; foaled 1849; bred by Gustavus V. 

 Cook, New Haven, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam brown with a little white 

 in face and some white feet, a compact Morgan-built mare, 950 or 1000 

 pounds, bought by G. V. Cook of Almon Atwood, New Haven, Vt., who is sup- 

 posed to have bred her, said to be by Hackett Horse, son of Gifford 

 Morgan. Taken to Kane Co., 111., by George W. Cory, fall, 1854, for the 

 breeder. Kept in Green and Jersey counties until fall, 1857 ; then sold to 

 Minor B. Williams, Glasgow, Mo., and George V. Ward, Georgetown, 

 Ky., for $3000 ; kept at Georgetown many seasons ; in Owen Co., 

 Ky., charge of Thomas Brown, 1867-68. Died spring, 1869. He 

 trotted at New Orleans, February, 1860, for $5000, against Peerless, another 

 son of Black Hawk, but was beaten in 2 '.51^, 2 153, 2 149^. He is said to 

 have very much resembled his famous sire. D. H. Gayle, cashier of Citizens' 

 bank, New Liberty, Ky., writes : " His colts were all good ones, and the 

 fillies especially valued for brood mares ". "The Vermont Stock Journal " 

 of January, 1857, published at Middlebury, Vt., and edited by D. C. Linsley, 

 gives the pedigree of dam as we give it, and states that it was furnished by 

 G. V. Cook, the breeder. 



Sire: Viley's Cripple, i. 



Sires from Daughters : Alpine, I ; Denning Allen, i ; Kentucky Belmont, 3. 

 Dams of Belle K. 2:28%, Defender 2:26, Early Rose 2 120%. 



Second dams of Egbertime 2:25, Eventime 2:29%, Illinois Egbert 2:16%, Linnie 2:25, Mac- 

 Allister 2:28%, Shadeland Onward 2:24%, Temple Bar 2:17%. 



CRIPPLE (VILEY'S) 



Brown or black ; bred by A. J. Viley, Georgetown, Ky. ; got by Ward's Fly- 

 ing Cloud, son of Black Hawk : dam (dam of Ashland Chief), bay, bought at 

 the sale of J. B. Clay, at Ashland, Ky., September, 1857, by A. J. Viley, and 

 said to be thoroughbred, by imported Yorkshire ; 2d dam imported Flor- 

 ence, by Mulatto. 



Races won, 23. Races lost, 71. Total races, 94. 



ROANOKE 



Roan, left hind foot white, 15^2 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1859; 

 bred by John Killpatrick, Tennessee ; got by Flying Cloud, son of Black 



