Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-11

"Peters' Vermont sired horse that
has lately been called Ethan Allen, which
belonged to the late Joe Peters of Bed
ford. Vermont was sired by Clifford.
Vermont's dam was sired by old Wood
bury, and his grandam was sired by Tom
Morgan, son of True Britain. Yer
mont's grandam was called old Phebe.
Vermont was as fine specimen of Nor
gan horse as l ever saw, and his son that
was afterwards called Ethan Allen was
remarkably good specimen of the Nor
gan stock. Three of the sucking colts
bought to take to Tennessee were pur-
chased of Mr.. Peters, and were all by his
horse Ethan Allen. | am satisfied that
the trotting stallion Ethan Allen was
sired by Vermont Black Hawk; of course
l cannot give you dates and positive sta
tistics. As before remarked, have been
among and handled horses almost from a
child.
81 remember when was a small boy
my father used to send me into the coun-
try to carry people wherever they wished
to go, and no horse ever got away from
me from that day to this. 1t seems to
me that if horse had any notion of run
ming away, | knew it just as soon as the
thought entered his head. If you watch
a horses ear and he makes up his mind
to kick, you will know it as soon as he
forms the resolution. 1t is not Morgan
characteristic, however.
At the time the war broke out | was
running stage from Lynnfield, Mass,
to Lawrence. There was an officer in
Wilmington. r. l., Major Sargent, who
wanted good horse and requested me to
buy him one. Iagreed to do so if could
find good one. finally found one that
weighed 1000 or 1925 pounds, that had all
the Morgan characteristics standing right
out of him. | bought this horse for $50
and took him up to Major Sargent. He
asked my price. l told him what paid,
and he said, | am willing to give you
5000 for him.. He kept the horse and
rode him during his time of service and
l have seen the major once since then
and he said there was not another horse
in his regiment that was anywhere neal
his equal.
" once had little Morgan mare that
weighed about 900. | kept her on the
Mystic track when | was in Stoneham
In oil ha
thought she would win anything. ant
she won part of the purse in eleven ou
of thirteen races the first season, and one
was for 2 80 trotters. She could never
trot better than , 40, but was reliabl,
and would always do her best Breed Il
: thoroughbred of good form and action tC
a Morgan mare, and you cannot fail tC
get good results. The more Morgan the
safer the disposition. | always felt safe
behind Morgan horse. When you ge
: hold of some of these thoroughbreds
however, you don't know what is going
to happen. The bone of the thorough
bred is of very much finer texture thai
that of ordinary horses, more like ivory
know it to be a fact, because have eX
: amined it when sawed off. There was
thoroughbred mare which died at Bel
Mead. Gen. Jackson was telling me tina
the thoroughbred possessed very mucl
finer bone than other horses. To Sc,
whether this was so or not took one o
this mares legs and sawed it off. | wa
perfectly astonished to see the finenes
of it.
, "The cry has always been from my
boyhood that the Morgans were TO,
small Too small But have seen thes,
little Morgans running on stages, anC
| they could do more work than much lar
ger horses of other families. \ small
| Morgan horse, when placed beside ;
large animal of most other families
would do twO-thirds of the work and keel
in condition, while the other horse would
. be all run down. If | could get fou
Morgan horses on to a coach when stag
ing, l always felt equal to any task. The
Morgans have the power of stamping
their characteristics upon their off
spring to greater degree than any othe
family that have ever seen. 1t seems
as though that if you get any Morgan a
all in the sire and dam their produce ar,
nearly all Morgan"
The views of Mr.. Hubbard concerning
the origin of the founder of the Morgan
family are at variance with those pu
, forth by the writer who not long sine,
furnished Report to the Commission
er of Agriculture on the National Hors,
of America" The latter expressed him
self as satisfied that Justin Morgan was
/ Canadian. As these opinions are directly
opposite, it is but fair that the publ,
should know what opportunities the au
, thor of the able article on the " Nationa
} Horse of America has enjoyed fo
studying and comparing the characters
, tics of the MOrUans and Canadians,