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YOUNG RIX 



Black with star and one white hind foot, 16 hands, 1250, pounds ; foaled 

 1862 ; bred by J. W. Stoddard, Lower Waterford, Vt. ; got by Chieftain, son 

 of Black Hawk: dam dark brown, foaled 1853, bred byjosiah Stoddard, got 

 by Wheeler Horse, son of Vermont Morgan Champion. Sold to Sewell Shute, 

 1862 ; Alpha Goodall, Littleton, N. H. ; R. B. Kennerson, St. Albans, Vt. ; 

 to M. G. Ovitt, Fairfield, Vt., for a house and lot valued at $1800. Kept 

 several seasons at Woonsocket, R. I. Died 1882, property of E. A. Austin, 

 Georgia, Vt. He won a number of races and is said to have trotted in 2 13 1. 



SIREOF jl| JJ | | |il|i|j|l SireofDam. 



[bone, by Flying Morgan. 

 Gen. Geo. A. Ballard bl 112:30 1875 1882-89 1885 17 30 Blake Horse (?), s. of Whale- 



METEOR 



Brown, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled July, 1883; bred by P. Rea- 

 gan, St. Albans, Vt. ; got by Young Rix, son of Rix Horse, by Black Hawk 

 dam bay, bred by P. Reagan, got by Peacock, son of Sherman Black Hawk 

 2d dam bred by George Thorpe, St. Albans, Vt., got by Buckskin, son of 

 Revenge, by Justin Morgan. Sold to Silas H. Soule, Fairfield, Vt. 



YOUNG CHIEFTAIN 



Fifteen and three-fourths hands, noo pounds; foaled May, 1863; bred 

 by H. Caswell, Waterford, Vt. ; got by Chieftain, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 said to be by Vermont Morgan Champion, son of Sherman Morgan. Adver- 

 tised by breeder, 1867, to stand at Lyndon, Vt. 



BLACK DIAMOND 



Black, one white hind foot ; bred by Carlos Pierce, Stanstead, P. Q. ; 

 got by Chieftain, son of Black Hawk : dam said to be by Defiance, son of 

 Cock of the Rock, by Duroc ; 2d dam by Billy Root, son of Sherman Mor- 

 gan ; and 3d dam by Woodbury Morgan. Bought by S. C. Pomeroy, Kan- 

 sas, who kept him several years, and sold to Mr. Lewis, Hiawatha, Kan. 

 Mr. Pomeroy says : " He was a small, pony-built Morgan horse, one of the 

 best of horses, and got as good colts as ever were raised in Kansas". 



COMET 



Said to be by Black Hawk : and dam by Green Mountain Morgan. 

 Owned by Judge W^m. T. Hopkins, Morris, III, who says : " At the Illinois 

 State fair, 1858, Comet took ist premium for beauty, speed, roadster, and 

 gentleman's family horse, beating Getaway, then called the fastest horse 

 in the State, in 2 134 ". 



ANDREW JACKSON 



Black, 1050 pounds; foaled January 18, 1852 ; bred by Harrison Bacon, 

 Barre, Mass. ; got by Black Hawk : dam Lady Jenkins, dam of Pathfinder 

 (Benedict's), which see. Owned, 1856, by breeder. Linsley says : " He is a 



