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THE MORGAN HORSE 



Black Hawk (probably Silverheels), son of Black Hawk, 

 property of breeder. Trotted to wagon in 2 144. 

 Sire of dam of Sister 2 125%. 



Died, 1864, the 



ALLEN SONTAG 



Chestnut with stripe in face and white on legs, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds ; 

 foaled June 7, 1858 ; bred by Simon R. Bowne, Flushing, L. I. ; got by Ethan 

 Allen : dam Lady Sontag, gray, foaled 1846, bred by Mr. Mathewson, Bristol, 

 Vt., got by Harris' Hamiltonian, son of Bishop's Hamiltonian ; 2d dam said 

 to be by Nicholas, son of Alexander, a spotted horse bought of Page's circus, 

 about 1831, by a company at Middlebury, Vt., for $1000. Sold to Messrs. 

 Ladd & Bros., Richmond, O., October, 1858, at National Horse fair, Spring- 

 field, Mass., where the dam and colt took ist premium ; to Joseph Flemming 

 and Frank Rahm, Pittsburg, Penn., 1865 ; to Thomas Collins, John Bell and 

 William M. Hersh, all of Pittsburgh, Penn. Kept in western Pennsylvania 

 and Ohio. Could trot better than 2 :4o. Died January 12, 1885, at Gettysburg, 

 Penn. Stock good. 



Total, 6; 2 in 2 130. (i p.) ; 5 race-winners ; i ten-race winner. 

 Races won, 25. Races lost, 38. Total races, 63. 

 Dam of Black Frank 2 : 24%, Black Bess 2 : 30. 



ETHAN ALLEN (DELONG'S) 2:43 



Bay with small star, snip and one white hind foot, 15^ hands, 1070 

 pounds; foaled June 26,1858; bred by Henry J. DeLong, West Cornwall, 

 Vt. ; got by Ethan Allen : dam bay, foaled the property of Mr. DeLong, 

 thought to be Morgan; 2d dam brought by Horace Payne, Shoreham, Vt., 

 while in foal, from his native town in eastern Vermont, and sold by him to 

 Mr. DeLong. Always owned by breeder. Stood at Colchester, Vt., season 

 of 1 863 ; at all other times at West Cornwall, Vt. Died, 1 890. Trotted, when 

 four, atVergennes, Vt., in 2 143. He got many excellent roadsters. 



