DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 495 



The Messrs. Downing brought Downing's Messenger to Kentucky, besides 

 many other horses, but liked Vermont better than any of them ". 



Sire of second dam of John D. 2:30. 

 Third dam of Jean Valjean 2:14. 



VERMONT (GILL'S OR HURST'S) 



Bay ; foaled 1852 ; bred by L. M. Hurst, Kentucky; got by Downing's 

 Vermont, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be by Barclay's Columbus ; 2d 

 dam by Bertrand, son of Sir Archy ; and 3d dam by Matchless, son of Prince 

 Albert. Sold, in 1857, by administrator of Mr. Hurst, to John S. Gill, Lan- 

 caster, Ky. 



Races won, 12. Races lost, n. Total races, 23. 

 Sire : Kentucky Whip, I. 

 Sires from Daughters : 



/-Count Wilkes, i Sportsman, i p. (?). 



Athlete, 5. 1 Gambetta Wilkes II, 12 p. Strader, 2. 



1 The King, 4. 

 Dams of 



Abel 2 :24%. Enigma 2 130. Nelly L. 2 :23%. 



Col. Bradshaw 2 :2O%. Junemont 2 .-30. Outlaw 2 :28%. 



f Gambetta Wilkes 2 126. Neddy H. 2 : 17%. Pappoose 2 125. 



1 The King 2 :29%. Pearl 2 =30. 



Second Dams of 



Adjuster 2 :26. Fanny Swope 2 :i9%. Phil Thompson 2 nS^. 



Administrator Wilkes 2 :28%. Pearl Medium 2 124. 



COACHER 



Bay with snip, left hind and right fore foot white, 16^ hands, 1315 

 pounds ; foaled 1876 ; bred by A. T. Cooper, Winchester, Ky. ; got by Gill's 

 Vermont, son of Downing's Vermont, by Black Hawk : dam bay, said to be 

 by Moore's Blacklander, son of Robert Wilson ; and 2d dam by Wild Traveler, 

 son of Independent Traveler. Owned successively by S. D. Hinkle, Bloom- 

 field, Ky. ; Sims & Moore, Columbus, Ind., and G. C. Moore, Hope, Ind. 

 Died 1887. 



COACHER B 



Bay with faint star, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled May 28, 1884; 

 bred by Herman Shoemake, Petersville, Ind. ; got by Coacher, son of Gill's 

 Vermont : dam bay, bred by James Talley, Columbus, Ind., got by Daniel 

 Boone, son of Stucker's Rainbow ; 2d dam bay, said to be by Anderson's 

 Mohawk, son of Gadd'Y Mohawk. Sold to A. M. Benjamin, Hartsville, Ind. 



MORGAN 



Bay, 16 hands, 1200 pounds; foaled 1887; bred by D. C. Hopkins, 

 Rugby, Ind. ; got by Coacher, son of Gill's Vermont : dam Nellie G., bay, 

 bred by John Galloway, Hartsville, Ind., got by Chestnut, son of Live 

 Yankee. 



