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Black Hawk 20 was renowned for his speed and great beauty. He 
often participated in trotting events and history has it that he never 
was beaten. He was used in the stud mainly after coming to Brid- 
port, Vt. J. H. Sanders, in the Breeders’ Gazette of April, 1891, 
said: 
We run up against this Black Hawk family in so many unexpected places in 
combination with other strains * * * that we are compelled to recognize 
him as a stallion of marked prepotency as a sire and one in whose descendants 
the capacity and disposition to trot fast exist to a remarkable degree. 
Many sons of Black Hawk sold at high prices: Wherever they 
went they were appreciated, and from them sprang families of sur- 

Fic. 4.—Mansfield 7255. Sire, Bennington 5693; dam, Artemisia 02731 
passing excellence and the highest adaptability for the general pur- 
poses of business and social life. Black Hawk was the grandsire of 
Indian Chief 538, a noted show horse and sire of show horses, prom- 
inent among which was Lady de Jarnette. Indian Chief blood is 
conspicuous in many saddle-horse pedigrees. 
_ Ethan Allen 50, a son of Black Hawk, was a bay horse with white 
marks, with a harness record of 2.2514 and with running mate to 
pole of 2.15. The following statement by Mr. Wallace, in Wallace’s 
Monthly, is quoted from Volume I of ‘‘The Morgan Horse and 
Register,”’ by Battell: 
Of all the horses that have been favorites with the American people, no one 
has ever approximated the popularity of Ethan Allen. His remarkable beauty, 
his wonderful speed, his perfect action, and above all his kind and gentle dispo- 
sition made him the admiration and pet of everybody. 
