624 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Dams of f Divan 2:15%. Prince Nutwood 2:26. W. H. P. 2:27%. 



( Blackie 2:20. Shakespeare (?) 2:30. Young Rolfe 2:21} 



May Gould 2:24%- Clifton Boy 2 126%. Lightning Maid 2 : 



7 dams, 6 trotters, I pacer. 

 Second dam of Sister Barefoot 2:25. 



DRACO CHIEF 



Bay, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled about 1855 ; bred by H. S. Gif- 

 ford, Barnard, Vt. ; got by Draco, son of Young Morrill : dam chestnut, bred 

 by H. S. Gifford, got by Davis' Gifford Morgan, son of Gifford Morgan ; 2d 

 dam said to be by Plato. Sold to Mr. Davis, Barnard, Vt. ; to Leonard T. 

 Tucker, Royalton, Vt., about 1859; to T. D. Baker of Lake Village, N. H., 

 about 1860; to Fred A. Baker of same place. A well-proportioned horse of 

 fine appearance, good disposition, and fast. 



COL CROSS (ANDY JOHNSON) 2:40^ 



Bay, left hind foot white, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled June 12, 

 1859 ; bred by Dr. G. V. Pickering, Laconia, N. H. ; got by Draco, son of 

 Young Morrill : dam bay, bred by Lyford Ladd, Meredith Bridge, N. H., got 

 by the Bowman Horse, son of Running Deer ; 2d dam Miss Ladd, said to be 

 by Morgan Trotter, son of Bulrush Morgan. (The Bowman horse was bred 

 by Baxter Bowman of Montreal, P. Q., and his dam was said to be by Black 

 Hawk. He was kept at Laconia, N. H., 1847-48, by Daniel Bowman, a 

 brother of Baxter Bowman. The sire of the Bowman Horse was imported to 

 Canada, about 1837, and is understood to have been thoroughbred ; his service 

 fee was $50 without warrant). Owned, 1888, by breeder, who writes that 

 he is without blemish and can still trot a half-mile within i 120. 



Races won, 8. Races lost, 33. Total races, 41. 

 Dam of Mischief 2 :24%. 



YOUNG DRACO (MCALLISTER'S) 



Black with star, 16 hands, 1175 pounds; foaled May, 1860; bred by 

 Steele McAllister, Chelsea, Vt. ; got 'by Draco, son of Young Morrill : dam 

 black, bred by J. Nelson, Fayston, Vt., got by Yankee Bill, said to be son of 

 Black Hawk ; 2d dam black, bred by J. Wells, Duxbury, Vt. Kept at Chelsea, 

 Randolph, Corinth, Washington and Wait's River, Vt. Died June, 1881. 

 He had fine action and good disposition. Stock were good and sold for 

 high prices. Trotted in 2 144. Received several ist premiums at local 

 fairs. 



YANKEE BILL 



Dark bay, heavy mane and tail, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled about 

 1864 ; bred by Chauncey Bohannon, Chelsea, Vt. ; got by McAllister's Young, 

 Draco, son of Draco : dam said to be by Yankee Bill, son of Black Hawk. 



