492 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Frank Wolford, son of Telegraph, by Black Hawk : dam said to be by 

 Norman Jr., son of Alexander's Norman ; and 2d dam by Romulus, son of 

 Murdock, thoroughbred. Owned by R. W. Minor & Bro., Mitchellsburg j 

 Ky. Died February, 1891. One of the 14 stallions selected as the founda- 

 tion stock for saddle horses by the National Saddle Horse Breeders' 

 association. Went the different gaits, and, it is said, racked very fast. H. 

 Purdom writes in the " National Saddle Horse Breeders' Register" : " Prince 

 Albert was a good saddle horse, and was the sire of many premium saddlers, 

 and was well known and recognized by horsemen in this section as a sire of 

 saddlers. His colts are clear-gaited trotting, racking and running-walk are 

 the most natural gaits. Nearly all of them are bays, with good manes and 

 tails. They are high-priced sellers ; many of them have been sold for the 

 New York market". 



GRAY EAGLE (EARING'S) 



Gray, 15^ hands, 1080 pounds; foaled 1849; bred by Samuel P. Nash, 

 New Haven, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk : dam white, 950 to TOGO pounds, bred 

 by Col. D. P. Nash, New Haven, Vt., got by Alexander, a spotted horse, 

 bought from a circus ; 2d dam bay, large, purchased of Gilman Bass, Bristol, 

 Vt., and called English. Sold to Gifford & Co., fall, 1853, and in spring, 

 1854, taken to Dodge Co., Wis.; then sold to H. B. Marsh, Horicon, Wis. ; 

 James Delaney, Fort Howard, Wis.; George Earing, Richmond, 111., 1867; 

 B. F. Stan ton, Bassett Station, Wis., July, 1869; to Michael McCahill, 

 Woodstock, 111., where he died, March, 1875. A horse of fine proportions, 

 and could trot in better than 2 150. 



BLACK TIGER 



Black, i$% hands, 1000 pounds ; foaled about 1849 j bred by S. F. Per- 

 sons, Shelburne, Vt., and Capt. R. W. Sherman, Vergennes, Vt. ; got by 

 Black Hawk : dam Cynthia Pierce, dam of Silverheels, which see. Taken, 

 1856, to Clayton Co., la., by William Hodgkins, who sold a two-thirds interest, 

 for $2000, to Dr. Warner and Judge Williams of Clayton. Kept in Iowa some 

 three seasons, and is then said to have been taken back to Vermont by the 

 same William Hodgkins. F. L. Williams, Postville, la., writes : " He left 

 very fine stock here, marked by kind disposition, great endurance and speed 

 on the road. He was a horse of excellent disposition, and in his day con- 

 sidered a fast trotter". A Black Tiger by Black Hawk, we think this horse, 

 was at Lancaster, Wis., about 1860. 



BLACK HAWK (LEACH'S) 



Chestnut with stripe in face and one white hind ankle, 15^ hands, 

 1 100 pounds ; foaled about 1849 ; said to be by Black Hawk : and dam by 

 Sir Charles, son of Duroc. Sold by Nathan Russell and Mr. Howe, Brid- 

 port, Vt., one of whom probably bred him, to Shepherd Leach and Horace 

 Miller, Cherry Valley, 111., about 1853; then to a company at Payson, 111., 

 about 1857, for $1700 ; to go to Iowa, about 1860, and died there. Kept in 



