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| caption = Black Allan at James Brantley's farm, {{circa|1905}} |
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| breed = [[Tennessee Walking Horse]] |
| breed = [[Tennessee Walking Horse]] |
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| sire = Allandorf |
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| grandsire = Onward |
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| dam = Maggie Marshall |
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| owner =James Brantley <br /> [[Albert Dement]] |
| owner = James Brantley <br /> [[Albert Dement]] |
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| honors = Posthumously given registration number F-1 by the [[Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association]] |
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'''Black Allan''' or '''Allan F-1''' (1886{{ndash}}1910) was the [[Foundation bloodstock|foundation sire]] of the [[Tennessee Walking Horse]]. He was out of a [[Morgan horse|Morgan]] |
'''Black Allan''' or '''Allan F-1''' (1886 {{ndash}} 1910) was the [[Foundation bloodstock|foundation sire]] of the [[Tennessee Walking Horse]]. He was out of a [[Morgan horse|Morgan]] and [[Thoroughbred]] cross mare named Maggie Marshall, a descendant of [[Figure (horse)|Figure]] and the Thoroughbred racing stallion [[Messenger (horse)|Messenger]]; and sired by Allandorf, a [[Standardbred]] stallion descended from [[Hambletonian 10]], also of the Messenger line. |
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Black Allan was registered as No.{{nbsp}}7623 by the American Trotting Registry. Although Black Allan was supposed to be a [[harness racing|trotter]], he preferred to [[horse gait#pace|pace]], and so never raced. Besides the pace, he performed a lateral [[ambling]] gait now known as the running walk. |
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He was a [[black (horse)|black]] stallion standing {{hands|15}}, 5 feet high. He was given the designation Allan F-1 when the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association, precursor to the [[Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association]], was formed in 1935. He had multiple owners throughout his life, but his last owners, James Brantley and [[Albert Dement]], were the only ones to recognize Black Allan's use as a breeding stallion. |
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He was sold many times throughout his life, the first time at the side of his dam. He was bought by George Ely, who already owned an 1882 colt out of Maggie Marshall, Elyria, whose record for trotting the mile was 2:25. Ely hoped Black Allan would compare to the older colt, but sold him in 1891 when he discovered that Black Allan was a 'pacer'. It is now known that Black Allan also performed the lateral [[ambling gait]] known as the running walk.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EizYYhYeDwQC | title=The Tennessee Walking Horse | location=Mankato, Minnesota | publisher=[[Capstone Publishers]] | author=Coleman, Lori | date=January 1, 2006 | page=8 | isbn=0-7368-5461-4 | id={{ISBN|978-0736854610}} | accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> He was lightly raced, but was unable to produce a burst of speed toward the end of his races and generally finished last. Nonetheless, due to his looks, early speed and long stride, he was put to stud.<ref name="Moody">{{cite book | last1=Moody | first1=Ralph | title=American horses | date=2004 | publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] | pages=137–141 | isbn=978-0-8032-3248-8 | edition=Bison books | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5ec9FwrRegC | accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Allan was bought by John P. Mankin of [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]] for {{US$|335|link=yes}}, only to be sold again a few years later. One owner, J.A. McCulloch, used Black Allan as a "teaser" to see if mares were in [[estrus]] before they were bred to jack donkeys to produce [[mule]]s. Another owner traded him for a black filly, a milk cow and $20. When Black Allan was sold to his most famous owner, James Brantley, in 1903, his purchase price was $110.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net" /> He was sold without papers, but Brantley eventually recovered his registration certificate.<ref>{{cite book | first1=Ken | last1=McCarr | location=Lexington, Kentucky | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 | title=The Kentucky Harness Horse | isbn=978-0-8131-5969-0 | publisher=[[The University Press of Kentucky]] | date=February 2015 | pages=12–13 | accessdate=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Brantley rode Black Allan himself, and his son French Brantley sometimes rode the horse to school.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net">{{cite web | url=http://www.westwoodfarms.net/reference/allan.html | publisher=Westwood Farms | title=Reference: Allan F-1 aka "Black Allan" | accessdate=February 28, 2016}}</ref> At the very end of Black Allan's life, he was sold by James Brantley to Albert Dement of [[Wartrace, Tennessee]], one of the earliest Tennessee Walking Horse breeders. The horse's price was $140, and he was sold with the guarantee that he would live through the breeding season.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net" /> Dement stood Allan at stud for only a few months before Allan's death, during which the stallion was bred to 111 mares.<ref name=TWHBEA>{{cite web | url = http://twhbea.com/features/allanf1 | title=Allan F1 | website=TWHBEA}}{{dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> He died at Dement's farm on September 16, 1910 at the age of 29 years old.<ref name=Walkerswest>{{cite web|url = http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/AllenF1.htm |title=In Memory of Allan F1|website=Walkers West}}</ref> |
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Black Allan sired 111 known foals in his lifetime, among them [[Roan Allen]], registration number F-38, Hunters Allen F-10, and [[Merry Legs]] F-4. Black Allan died September 17, 1910, at the age of 29. |
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Black Allan{{efn|Although Black Allan's name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Allen"{{snds}}he was registered as "Black Allan"{{snds}}the misspelling probably arose from a [[scrivener's error]] by the registrar, so in his descendants the name is spelled "Allen".}}<ref name="Patten" /> was [[foal]]ed on a limestone pasture in the middle of [[Tennessee (state)|Tennessee]] in 1886. He was out of a 17-year-old black Morgan and Thoroughbred cross mare named Maggie Marshall (b. 1869), bred by Truman Pollock of [[Augusta, Kentucky|Augusta]], [[Kentucky (state)|Kentucky]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Battell |first1=Joseph |title=American Morgan Horse Register, Volume 2 |date=27 October 2022 |publisher=Legare Street Press |isbn=978-1017398809 |page=506 }}</ref> by Allandorf (b. 1882), a 4-year-old [[gray horse|gray]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Reference: Allan F-1 aka Black Allan |url=http://www.westwoodfarms.net/reference/allan.html |website=Westwood Farms |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref> Standardbred stallion. |
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From 1877 to 1888, Maggie Marshall had been annually bred to produce foals. She was first bred by a Billy Marshall to Mambrino Patchen (b. 1862), a black Standardbred stallion, which produced a black colt in 1877; and from 1879 to 1885, Maggie Marshall would be alternatively bred back to Mambrino Patchen and his half-brother, the Standardbred stallion Mambrino King. Both stallions also had mixed Thoroughbred and [[Saddlebred]] ancestry, with both being of the [[Messenger (horse)|Messenger]] line. Mambrino King was linebred to the American Thoroughbred racing sire [[Sir Archy]] (b. 1805), as well as the Thoroughbred stallion Duroc (b. 1806), a son of [[Diomed]]. |
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During this time, Maggie Marshall most oftentimes threw black trotter foals, passing her coloring to her offspring. This also was true of Black Allan, who was her first and only foal by Allandorf. Black Allan would be the mare's last foal, with her final breeding to the Standardbred stallion Red Wilkes (b. 1874) - a grandson of [[Hambletonian 10]], largely Thoroughbred, with ample Morgan-cross blood - resulting in stillborn bay filly in 1888.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=John Hankins |title=United States Trotting Association Register, Volume 8 |date=17 October 2015 |publisher=Arkose Press |isbn=978-1344774321 |page=433}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Black Allan was a [[black horse|black]] stallion standing {{hands|15}}, with a [[horse markings#Leg markings|sock on his left hind foot]], coronet on his right hind foot, and a [[horse markings#Facial markings|blaze]] on his face.<ref name=Walkerswest /> He was registered with the American Trotting Registry, and given registration number 7623.<ref name=Hendricks>{{cite book|last1=Hendricks|first1=Bonnie L.|title=International encyclopedia of horse breeds|date=2007|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]] |location=Norman |isbn=978-0-8061-3884-8|page=414 |type=Pbk. }}</ref> |
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He was sold many times throughout his life, the first time at the side of his dam. He was bought by George H. Ely of [[Elyria, Ohio|Elyria]], [[Ohio (state)|Ohio]], who already owned an 1882 chestnut colt out of Maggie Marshall by Mambrino King, Elyria, whose record for trotting the mile was 2:25. Ely hoped Black Allan would compare to the older colt, but sold him in 1891 when he discovered that Black Allan was a pacer. It is now known that Black Allan also performed the lateral [[ambling gait]] known as the running walk.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EizYYhYeDwQC | title=The Tennessee Walking Horse | location=Mankato, Minnesota | publisher=[[Capstone Publishers]] | author=Coleman, Lori | date=January 1, 2006 | page=8 | isbn=0-7368-5461-4 | access-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref> He was lightly raced, but was unable to produce a burst of speed toward the end of his races, and generally finished last. Nonetheless, due to his looks, early speed, and long stride, he was put to stud.<ref name="Moody">{{cite book | last1=Moody | first1=Ralph | title=American horses | date=2004 | publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] | pages=137–141 | isbn=978-0-8032-3248-8 | edition=Bison books | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5ec9FwrRegC | access-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref> |
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Black Allan was bought by John P. Mankin of [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]], for $335, only to be sold again a few years later. One owner, J.A. McCulloch, used Black Allan as a "teaser" to see if mares were in [[estrus]] before they were bred to jack donkeys to produce [[mule]]s. Another owner traded him for a black filly, a milk cow and $20. When Black Allan was sold to his most famous owner, James Brantley, in 1903, his purchase price was $110.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net" /> He was sold without papers, but Brantley eventually recovered his registration certificate.<ref>{{cite book | first1=Ken | last1=McCarr | location=Lexington, Kentucky | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMseBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 | title=The Kentucky Harness Horse | isbn=978-0-8131-5969-0 | publisher=[[The University Press of Kentucky]] | date=February 2015 | pages=12–13 | access-date=March 28, 2016}}</ref> Brantley rode Black Allan himself, and his son French Brantley sometimes rode the horse to school.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net">{{cite web | url=http://www.westwoodfarms.net/reference/allan.html | publisher=Westwood Farms | title=Reference: Allan F-1 aka "Black Allan" | access-date=February 28, 2016}}</ref> |
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At the end of Black Allan's life, he was sold by James Brantley to [[Albert Dement]] of [[Wartrace, Tennessee]], one of the earliest Tennessee Walking Horse breeders. The horse's price was $140, and he was sold with the guarantee that he would live through the breeding season.<ref name="westwoodfarms.net" /> Dement stood Allan at stud for only a few months before Allan's death, during which the stallion was bred to 111 mares.<ref name=TWHBEA>{{cite web | url = http://twhbea.com/features/allanf1 | title=Allan F1 | website=TWHBEA}}{{dead link|date=March 2016}}</ref> He died at Dement's farm on September 16, 1910, at the age of 29.<ref name=Walkerswest>{{cite web|url = http://www.walkerswest.com/Champs/AllenF1.htm |title=In Memory of Allan F1|website=Walkers West}}</ref> |
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== Bloodlines and offspring == |
== Bloodlines and offspring == |
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[[File:Hambletonian10.jpg|thumb|right|Hambletonian 10 is an ancestor of Black Allan]] |
[[File:Hambletonian10.jpg|thumb|right|Hambletonian 10 is an ancestor of Black Allan]] |
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Black Allan's pedigree traced back to [[Figure (horse)|Justin Morgan]], the foundation sire of the Morgan breed, on his dam's side and to |
Black Allan's pedigree traced back to [[Figure (horse)|Justin Morgan (Figure)]], the foundation sire of the [[Morgan horse|Morgan]] breed, on his dam's side; and to Hambletonian 10, the foundation sire of the [[Standardbred]], on his sire's side.<ref name=pedigree /> Through Figure, his dam could also trace her sire line back to the [[Byerly Turk]], and her dam line back to the [[Godolphin Arabian]], two of the foundational stallions of the [[Thoroughbred]] breed, as well as lesser-known [[Arabian horse|Arabian]] and [[Barb horse|Barb]] foundational bloodstock. |
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It is also through Figure that Black Allan's dam, Maggie Marshall, could trace her lineage back to the "Samuel Burt [[mare]]", recorded as a Thoroughbred and [[Narragansett Pacer]] cross by the Thoroughbred stallion "McCurdy's Young Wildair" (b. 1771), in turn by Wildair, a [[bay (horse)|bay]] English Thoroughbred stallion (b. 1753) of the Godolphin Arabian line. Wildair was purchased by [[James De Lancey (loyalist)|James De Lancey]], a [[New York (state)|New York]] [[Loyalist]], and imported from England to the American colonies in 1765; after 8 years standing at stud, Wildair was later resold to Edward Leedes of Yorkshire, England, in 1773. |
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The De Lanceys bred Wildair to the "Peter De Lancey mare" - owned by James De Lancey's father - who, in turn, was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion True Briton out of a mare by the Thoroughbred stallion Telemachus (grandson of [[Flying Childers]], by the [[Darley Arabian]]). The resulting foal was "McCurdy's Young Wildair", a colt who was sold to [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]] judge and [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]] sympathizer<ref>{{cite web |title=John McCurdy House |url=https://www.ctirishhistory.org/website/publish/trail/inventoryDetail.php?192 |website=Connecticut Irish-American Heritage Trail |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref> George Grant McCurdy of [[Old Lyme, Connecticut|Old Lyme]], [[Connecticut (state)|Connecticut]],<ref>{{cite web |title=McCulloch Farm - Farm History |url=http://www.whippoorwillmorgans.com/html/FarmHistory.html |website=McCulloch Farm |access-date=9 June 2023}}</ref> who bred the colt to his own Narragansett Pacer mare to produce the "Samuel Burt mare". |
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Black Allan sired an estimated 111 foals.<ref name=Walkerswest /> Three of his offspring, [[Roan Allen]] F-38, [[Merry Legs]] F-4, and Hunters Allen F-10, were given special registration numbers beginning in the designation F, which mark them as [[foundation bloodstock]]. Most of Black Allan's best offspring, including Roan Allen and Merry Legs, were produced from [[crossbreeding|crosses]] on [[American Saddlebred]] mares, especially those from [[Denmark (horse)|Denmark]] bloodlines.<ref name=Patten>{{cite book|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924000436281;view=1up;seq=137|author=Patten, John W.|title=The light horse breeds: their origin, characteristics, and principal uses | publisher=A. S. Barnes |year=1960 |page=145 |via=[[Hathitrust]] |access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref> |
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Due to Black Allan's influence and potency in passing his gait and conformation to his offspring, he was given registration number F-1 when the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association, the precursor to the |
Due to Black Allan's influence and potency in passing his gait and conformation to his offspring, he was given registration number F-1 when the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association, the precursor to the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association, was formed in 1935. Today, he is considered the foundation sire of the [[Tennessee Walking Horse]] breed, one of the few American breeds that names a single horse with this honor.<ref name=Patten /><ref name=Self>{{cite web | url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069793175;view=1up;seq=311 | title=The horseman's encyclopedia | last=Self | first=Margaret Cabell | publisher=[[Alfred Smith Barnes|A.S. Barnes and Company]] | year=1946 | access-date=February 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Gazette">{{cite news | url=http://www.t-g.com/story/1885824.html | title=Origins of the Tennessee walking horse | date=August 25, 2012 | newspaper=[[The Times-Gazette]] | location=Hillsboro, Ohio | publisher=[[Ohio Community Media]] | quote=...point to one sire and say, "This is where it all began." | access-date=March 17, 2016 | archive-date=March 29, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329081412/http://www.t-g.com/story/1885824.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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|+ style="padding-bottom:0.4em;"| Pedigree of Black Allan<ref name=Walkerswest /><ref name=pedigree>{{cite web | title=Black {{not a typo|Allen}} pedigree | url=http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/black+allen | publisher=All breed database | |
|+ style="padding-bottom:0.4em;"| Pedigree of Black Allan<ref name=Walkerswest /><ref name=pedigree>{{cite web | title=Black {{not a typo|Allen}} pedigree | url=http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/black+allen | publisher=All breed database | access-date=March 24, 2016}}</ref> |
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!rowspan="8"|Sire<br />Allendorf |
!rowspan="8"|Sire<br />Allendorf<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|rowspan="4"|Onward |
|rowspan="4"|Onward<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|rowspan="2"|George Wilkes |
|rowspan="2"|George Wilkes<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|[[Hambletonian 10]] |
|[[Hambletonian 10]]<br />[[Standardbred]] (founder) |
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|Dolly Spanker<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|rowspan="2"|Dolly |
|rowspan="2"|Dolly<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|Mambrino Chief |
|Mambrino Chief<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|Fanny |
|Fanny<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|rowspan="4"|Alma Mater |
|rowspan="4"|Alma Mater<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|rowspan="2"|Mambrino Patchen |
|rowspan="2"|Mambrino Patchen<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|Mambrino Chief |
|Mambrino Chief<br />[[Standardbred]] |
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|Rodes Mare |
|Rodes Mare<br />[[Thoroughbred|TB]] x [[Saddlebred]] |
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|rowspan="2"|Estella |
|rowspan="2"|Estella<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|Australian |
|Australian<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|Fanny G |
|Fanny G<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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!rowspan="8"|Dam<br />Maggie Marshall |
!rowspan="8"|Dam<br />Maggie Marshall<br />[[Morgan horse|Morgan]] x [[Thoroughbred|TB]] |
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|rowspan="4"|Bradford's Telegraph |
|rowspan="4"|Bradford's Telegraph<br />¾ [[Thoroughbred]], ¼ [[Morgan horse|Morgan]] |
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|rowspan="2"|Black Hawk |
|rowspan="2"|[[Black Hawk (horse)|Black Hawk I]]<br />[[Thoroughbred|TB]] x [[Morgan horse|Morgan]] |
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|Sherman Morgan |
|Sherman Morgan<br />[[Morgan horse|Morgan]] |
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|Queen of the Neck |
|Queen of the Neck<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|rowspan="2"|Nathan Hardy mare |
|rowspan="2"|Nathan Hardy mare<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|Sir Walter |
|Sir Walter<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|Bishops Hamiltonian mare<br />[[Thoroughbred]] |
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|rowspan="4"|Truman Pollock mare |
|rowspan="4"|Truman Pollock mare<br />[[Morgan horse|Morgan]] |
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== References == |
== References == |
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{{Reflist |
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== Bibliography == |
== Bibliography == |
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* The Tennessee Walking Horse, [[Western Horseman]], October 1994 |
* The Tennessee Walking Horse, [[Western Horseman]], October 1994 |
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| Black Allan | |
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 Black Allan at James Brantley's farm, c. 1905 | |
| Breed | Tennessee Walking Horse |
| Sire | Allandorf |
| Grandsire | Onward |
| Dam | Maggie Marshall |
| Maternal grandsire | Bradfords Telegraph |
| Foaled | 1886 |
| Country | United States of America |
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| Owner | James Brantley Albert Dement |
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| Posthumously given registration number F-1 by the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association | |
Black Allan or Allan F-1 (1886 – 1910) was the foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse. He was out of a Morgan and Thoroughbred cross mare named Maggie Marshall, a descendant of Figure and the Thoroughbred racing stallion Messenger; and sired by Allandorf, a Standardbred stallion descended from Hambletonian 10, also of the Messenger line.
Black Allan was registered as No. 7623 by the American Trotting Registry. Although Black Allan was supposed to be a trotter, he preferred to pace, and so never raced. Besides the pace, he performed a lateral ambling gait now known as the running walk.
He was a black stallion standing 15 hands (60 inches, 152 cm), 5 feet high. He was given the designation Allan F-1 when the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association, precursor to the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association, was formed in 1935. He had multiple owners throughout his life, but his last owners, James Brantley and Albert Dement, were the only ones to recognize Black Allan's use as a breeding stallion.
Black Allan sired 111 known foals in his lifetime, among them Roan Allen, registration number F-38, Hunters Allen F-10, and Merry Legs F-4. Black Allan died September 17, 1910, at the age of 29.
Life
[edit]Black Allan[a][1] was foaled on a limestone pasture in the middle of Tennessee in 1886. He was out of a 17-year-old black Morgan and Thoroughbred cross mare named Maggie Marshall (b. 1869), bred by Truman Pollock of Augusta, Kentucky,[2] by Allandorf (b. 1882), a 4-year-old gray[3] Standardbred stallion.
From 1877 to 1888, Maggie Marshall had been annually bred to produce foals. She was first bred by a Billy Marshall to Mambrino Patchen (b. 1862), a black Standardbred stallion, which produced a black colt in 1877; and from 1879 to 1885, Maggie Marshall would be alternatively bred back to Mambrino Patchen and his half-brother, the Standardbred stallion Mambrino King. Both stallions also had mixed Thoroughbred and Saddlebred ancestry, with both being of the Messenger line. Mambrino King was linebred to the American Thoroughbred racing sire Sir Archy (b. 1805), as well as the Thoroughbred stallion Duroc (b. 1806), a son of Diomed.
During this time, Maggie Marshall most oftentimes threw black trotter foals, passing her coloring to her offspring. This also was true of Black Allan, who was her first and only foal by Allandorf. Black Allan would be the mare's last foal, with her final breeding to the Standardbred stallion Red Wilkes (b. 1874) - a grandson of Hambletonian 10, largely Thoroughbred, with ample Morgan-cross blood - resulting in stillborn bay filly in 1888.[4]
Black Allan was a black stallion standing 15 hands (60 inches, 152 cm), with a sock on his left hind foot, coronet on his right hind foot, and a blaze on his face.[5] He was registered with the American Trotting Registry, and given registration number 7623.[6]
He was sold many times throughout his life, the first time at the side of his dam. He was bought by George H. Ely of Elyria, Ohio, who already owned an 1882 chestnut colt out of Maggie Marshall by Mambrino King, Elyria, whose record for trotting the mile was 2:25. Ely hoped Black Allan would compare to the older colt, but sold him in 1891 when he discovered that Black Allan was a pacer. It is now known that Black Allan also performed the lateral ambling gait known as the running walk.[7] He was lightly raced, but was unable to produce a burst of speed toward the end of his races, and generally finished last. Nonetheless, due to his looks, early speed, and long stride, he was put to stud.[8]
Black Allan was bought by John P. Mankin of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for $335, only to be sold again a few years later. One owner, J.A. McCulloch, used Black Allan as a "teaser" to see if mares were in estrus before they were bred to jack donkeys to produce mules. Another owner traded him for a black filly, a milk cow and $20. When Black Allan was sold to his most famous owner, James Brantley, in 1903, his purchase price was $110.[9] He was sold without papers, but Brantley eventually recovered his registration certificate.[10] Brantley rode Black Allan himself, and his son French Brantley sometimes rode the horse to school.[9]
At the end of Black Allan's life, he was sold by James Brantley to Albert Dement of Wartrace, Tennessee, one of the earliest Tennessee Walking Horse breeders. The horse's price was $140, and he was sold with the guarantee that he would live through the breeding season.[9] Dement stood Allan at stud for only a few months before Allan's death, during which the stallion was bred to 111 mares.[11] He died at Dement's farm on September 16, 1910, at the age of 29.[5]
Bloodlines and offspring
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Black Allan's pedigree traced back to Justin Morgan (Figure), the foundation sire of the Morgan breed, on his dam's side; and to Hambletonian 10, the foundation sire of the Standardbred, on his sire's side.[12] Through Figure, his dam could also trace her sire line back to the Byerly Turk, and her dam line back to the Godolphin Arabian, two of the foundational stallions of the Thoroughbred breed, as well as lesser-known Arabian and Barb foundational bloodstock.
It is also through Figure that Black Allan's dam, Maggie Marshall, could trace her lineage back to the "Samuel Burt mare", recorded as a Thoroughbred and Narragansett Pacer cross by the Thoroughbred stallion "McCurdy's Young Wildair" (b. 1771), in turn by Wildair, a bay English Thoroughbred stallion (b. 1753) of the Godolphin Arabian line. Wildair was purchased by James De Lancey, a New York Loyalist, and imported from England to the American colonies in 1765; after 8 years standing at stud, Wildair was later resold to Edward Leedes of Yorkshire, England, in 1773.
The De Lanceys bred Wildair to the "Peter De Lancey mare" - owned by James De Lancey's father - who, in turn, was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion True Briton out of a mare by the Thoroughbred stallion Telemachus (grandson of Flying Childers, by the Darley Arabian). The resulting foal was "McCurdy's Young Wildair", a colt who was sold to Scots-Irish judge and Patriot sympathizer[13] George Grant McCurdy of Old Lyme, Connecticut,[14] who bred the colt to his own Narragansett Pacer mare to produce the "Samuel Burt mare".
Black Allan sired an estimated 111 foals.[5] Three of his offspring, Roan Allen F-38, Merry Legs F-4, and Hunters Allen F-10, were given special registration numbers beginning in the designation F, which mark them as foundation bloodstock. Most of Black Allan's best offspring, including Roan Allen and Merry Legs, were produced from crosses on American Saddlebred mares, especially those from Denmark bloodlines.[1]
Due to Black Allan's influence and potency in passing his gait and conformation to his offspring, he was given registration number F-1 when the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' Association, the precursor to the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association, was formed in 1935. Today, he is considered the foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed, one of the few American breeds that names a single horse with this honor.[1][15][16]
Pedigree
[edit]| Sire Allendorf Standardbred |
Onward Standardbred |
George Wilkes Standardbred |
Hambletonian 10 Standardbred (founder) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolly Spanker Standardbred | |||
| Dolly Standardbred |
Mambrino Chief Standardbred | ||
| Fanny Thoroughbred | |||
| Alma Mater Standardbred |
Mambrino Patchen Standardbred |
Mambrino Chief Standardbred | |
| Rodes Mare TB x Saddlebred | |||
| Estella Thoroughbred |
Australian Thoroughbred | ||
| Fanny G Thoroughbred | |||
| Dam Maggie Marshall Morgan x TB |
Bradford's Telegraph ¾ Thoroughbred, ¼ Morgan |
Black Hawk I TB x Morgan |
Sherman Morgan Morgan |
| Queen of the Neck Thoroughbred | |||
| Nathan Hardy mare Thoroughbred |
Sir Walter Thoroughbred | ||
| Bishops Hamiltonian mare Thoroughbred | |||
| Truman Pollock mare Morgan |
unknown | unknown | |
| unknown | |||
| unknown | unknown | ||
| unknown |
Notes
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- ^ Although Black Allan's name is sometimes incorrectly spelled "Allen" – he was registered as "Black Allan" – the misspelling probably arose from a scrivener's error by the registrar, so in his descendants the name is spelled "Allen".
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Patten, John W. (1960). The light horse breeds: their origin, characteristics, and principal uses. A. S. Barnes. p. 145. Retrieved March 24, 2016 – via Hathitrust.
- ^ Battell, Joseph (October 27, 2022). American Morgan Horse Register, Volume 2. Legare Street Press. p. 506. ISBN 978-1017398809.
- ^ "Reference: Allan F-1 aka Black Allan". Westwood Farms. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ^ Wallace, John Hankins (October 17, 2015). United States Trotting Association Register, Volume 8. Arkose Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-1344774321.
- ^ a b c d "In Memory of Allan F1". Walkers West.
- ^ Hendricks, Bonnie L. (2007). International encyclopedia of horse breeds (Pbk.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-8061-3884-8.
- ^ Coleman, Lori (January 1, 2006). The Tennessee Walking Horse. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 0-7368-5461-4. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
- ^ Moody, Ralph (2004). American horses (Bison books ed.). University of Nebraska Press. pp. 137–141. ISBN 978-0-8032-3248-8. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Reference: Allan F-1 aka "Black Allan"". Westwood Farms. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ McCarr, Ken (February 2015). The Kentucky Harness Horse. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-8131-5969-0. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
- ^ "Allan F1". TWHBEA.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Black Allen pedigree". All breed database. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
- ^ "John McCurdy House". Connecticut Irish-American Heritage Trail. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ^ "McCulloch Farm - Farm History". McCulloch Farm. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ^ Self, Margaret Cabell (1946). "The horseman's encyclopedia". A.S. Barnes and Company. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ "Origins of the Tennessee walking horse". The Times-Gazette. Hillsboro, Ohio: Ohio Community Media. August 25, 2012. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
...point to one sire and say, "This is where it all began."
Bibliography
[edit]- The Tennessee Walking Horse, Western Horseman, October 1994