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MORGAN (VERMILYEA'S) 



White with blue spots, 16 hands, ro6o pounds; foaled 1841 ; said to be 

 Morgan : and dam white, by a son of imported Messenger. Owned by Gen. 

 Sprague,Wooster, O.,who sold to F. M. Keith, Massillon, O. ; he, 1847, to Philip 

 Vermilyea of the same place, who kept him one season in Lucas county, O., 

 then took him to Noble county, Ind., where he kept him three years, and, 

 about 1855, sold to John Pancake, who took him to Champaign county, O., 

 and there sold him. A very elegant horse. 



BLAZING STAR 



Bay ; foaled 1853 ; bred by Lysander Pelton, Gustavus, O. ; got by 

 Henry Clay, son of Romeo, pacer : dam said to be by Spencer's Post Boy 

 Jr., son of Post Boy, by Tippoo Saib, son of imported Messenger. Died at 

 Ashtabula, O., about 1880. In interview with Mr. Kistler, the well-known 

 horseman of Warren, O., he said : " There was a horse about Gustavus, O., 

 a number of years ago called Blazing Star, a compact-built fellow, looked 

 like a Morgan ; the stock much thought of ". 



Total, 7 ; 3 in 2 :3o (2 p. ) ; 7 race-winners ; 2 ten-race winners ; i fifty-race trotter. 



Races won, 48. Races lost, 113. Total races, 161. 



Sire : Mountain Boy, i. 



Dams of Dandy 2 119%, Georgie W. 2 :23%, Vesta 2 :27%- 



MOUNTAIN BOY 2 : 27 



Bay; foaled 187-; said to be by Blazing Star, son of Henry Clay, by 

 Romeo : dam Susie H., a famous road mare, said to be by Black Hawk, son 

 of Sherman Morgan. Purchased in Pennsylvania, 1887, by L. S. Braddock, 

 Mount Vernon, O. 



Races won, 4. Races lost, 24. Total races, 28. 



SNOWSTORM (STEELE'S) 



Gray, nearly white, about 15 hands. Brought, it is thought, from 

 Canada, by Henry Avery; passed to a Mr. McFerran, near Bowling Green, 

 Ky., from whom he was purchased by Thomas Steele of Franklin county, 

 Ky. William J. Steele, son of Thomas Steele, writes : " He was a fine sad- 

 dle and harness stallion ; could trot in 3 :oo, then considered good time. 



