6io THE MORGAN HORSE 



WILDAIR 



Dark chestnut, 14^ hands; foaled 1874; bred by Sprague & Akers, 

 Lawrence, Kan. ; got by Ethan Allen : dam Belle Brandon (clam of Gov. 

 Sprague 2 :2o^), mahogany bay, 15^ hands, foaled 1854, said to be bred by 

 Howard Shaw, HowelPs Depot, N. Y., and got by Hambletonian, son of Abdal- 

 lah ; 2d dam bay, bred by Howard Shaw, got by Beaks' Wildair ; and 3d dam 

 a running mare owned by Jessie Worden, HowelPs Depot, N. Y., and got by 

 Exton Eclipse, son of American Eclipse. Purchased by Wm. Pickhardt, 

 New York city, and kept at the Willbrook Stock Farm,.Schroon Lake, N. Y. 



ALLEN 'ST JOE 



Bay with star, snip and right hind ankle white, 15^ hands, 1130 pounds ; 

 foaled 1874; bred by Sprague & Akers, Lawrence, Kan.; got by Ethan 

 Allen: dam Belle of St. Joe, chestnut, foaled 1864, bred by George W. 

 Greever, Tonganoxie, Kan., got by St. Joe, thoroughbred son of St. Louis ; 

 2d dam by Tom Watson ; 3d dam Mirth, by Medoc. (Belle of St. Joe was 

 bought by Gen. Grant, for $800, at the closing-out sale of Sprague & Akers.) 

 Owned by Thomas Ryan, Topeka, Kan., and, 1887, by J. J. Gardiner, Val- 

 ley Falls, Kan. Trotted, when two, in 2 156 ; and, when four, in 2:40^. 

 Awarded ist premium at Kansas City over 22 stallions in sweepstakes ring; 

 and also ist in roadster class over a large number; likewise, at Leavenworth, 

 in both classes, with many competitors. 



ETHAN ALLEN (KNIGHT'S) 



Black, 15 hands, about 1000 pounds ; bred by Mr. Adams in New York; 

 got by Ethan Allen : dam said to be Morgan. Owned, 1876, by Capt, 

 Knight, near Palatine, 111., who was agent of the U. S. Express Co. 



BLACK PRINCE 



Black with small star and left fore foot white, 16 hands, 1175 pounds; 

 foaled May 18, 1877 ; bred by I. C. Towner, Elgin, and foaled property of 

 Charles Switezer, St. Charles, 111. ; got by Knight's Ethan Allen, son of Ethan 

 Allen : dam Kittie Towner, bay, 1200 pounds, bred by I. C. Towner, got by 

 Woodward's Ethan Allen, son of Ethan Allen ; 2d dam old Jane, black, 1150 

 pounds, purchased, 1865, by Mr. Towner of Confucius Balch, St. Charles, 

 111., who said she was by Gen. Gifford, son of Morgan DeForest. Owned 

 successively by S. L. Wilcox, Jencks Bros, and W. S. Metcalf, Flandreau, 

 S.D. 



PILOT ALLEN 



Black, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; foaled 1875; bred by B. F. Akers, 

 Lawrence, Kan. ; got by Ethan Allen : dam Lady Pilot, brown, bred by A. 

 J. Alexander, Woodburn Farm, Ky., got by Pilot Jr., son of Pilot; 2d dam 

 Nellie Blythe, said to have trotted 18 miles in an hour. Advertised for sale, 

 at auction, 1878, by B. F. Akers. Owned by P. M. Hamlin, liveryman, 

 Lawrence, Kan. Has got many promising colts. 



