Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-01

has sprung family so marked and distinct,
that those who once learn their peculiar fea-
lures know them, wherever they may be
Seen Unlike their progenitor in color and
marks, as they are often found, yet they all
possess his peculiar build, his fiery, nervous
organism, pluck, game and courage, combined
with his gentle and tractabe disposition
when properly managed.
The shrewd, sharp-sighted, long-headed
people of Vermont were not long in finding
out that the small, gentle, short, quick.stop.
ping, sure-footed Morgans we're just the
horses to get over their bad roads, hills and
mountains, where large, loug-gaited horses
would have failed and thus it was that
Vermont enjoyed for a long time the reputa-
tion Of producing the finest road horses in
the country-and they were MOrgans. They
we're celebrated as saddle horses, and at the
trainings and musters they took the palm.
Their proud and lofty bearing, style and as
ton caused them to bo the principal attrac-
tion of the day. So great was the reputa.
tion Of Justin Morgan as being the most
snowy Of saddle horses, that he was sent for
from Montreal to Boston to be the saddle
horse of the commanding officer at the train
ing and muster.
The reputation of his son, Woodbury. Nor
gan, was equal in this respect to that Of his
sire. Lnsley says that
No horse ever had less fear Martial music
only reused him and the firing Of guns ip
no way disturbed him. Waving flags aud
gay uniforms seemed hardly able to attract
from him single glance; and he moved
about as il he was himself the cause OF all
the attending excitement and display, and
the principal object Of attraction.
Clifford, Woodburys son, was one Of the
finest of saddle.horses, and Gifford's son, old
Green Mountain, had more extended
reputation than either Of them, although he
was not SO fine saddle-horse, being larger
than the others. He was the saddle-horse
of Gen. Banks at one Of the musters in 1859,
and was shown at our county fair at Wood
stock, for the last time, in 1860, with a
dozen or more of his sons. Now they are
not seen, for the trotting course bas killed
them. They have not the speed and we do
not find any of old Green Mountains blood
in any of the fast ones excepting Bashaw,
Jr., and Kirkwood. But there must have
been trotting blood in the Morgan family,
especially in Sherman, Woodbury., and others
or there could not have been so many fast
ones descended from them. They are not
generally fast, but they all possessed the
great qualities Of game aud bottom, and
some of them are certainly fast. Wallace
admits this, but he is mistaken when he at
tempts to account for it. He says that the
blood of the dams of Justin Morgan's sons
is unknown, and that they were probably
French, as Vermont is on the borders o.
Canada, and the increase OF their names and
tails rather proves it. Hence their trotting
qualities come from the French. Now, no
person acquainted with the Morgans, the
difference between them and the Canadians
and with the history Of Vermont, would
make this statement Although it is true
that the blood Of the dams Of Sherman ant
Woodbury. is unknown, it is known that they
were not French, while the dam Of Bulrust
is known to be French, and in this latter
branch there are no trotters. So much fol
the argument.
1t is well.known fact that many pedl
, gree is "made up to suit the fancy Of th'
T owner, or the buyer and many horses tina
are of unknown blood have, upon gaining
distinction upon the turf, been suddenly dis
covered to be strong in the fashionable BLOOD
which Wallace says produces all the trot
tsrs that have a thoroughbred origin AM
fit was as much of an object to prov
= Ripton Morgan as it was Dutchman
| Messenger, it could be done. The fact tina
4 Ripton had the size, color, marks and actio
+; of the Morgan Emily, aud was taken frOr
I the Eastern States, would indicate his Nor
gan origin. He was champion of the trot
ting course for while, beating Lady Suffoll
: so often that her owner refused to mate
him even.
The Hawkins Horse, the fastest Of Justi
Morgau's sons, was taken to Canada an
it is fair to presume that many Of the fas
ones taken from Canada are indebted to hiI
l. for their speed. His dam was by thorough
O bred horse from Connecticut An
n Lire Stock Journal.