Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-28


Morgan Register has led to deplorable
results. 1t has caused honest and we'll
meaning men to issue and tack on their
barn doors stallion pedigrees, believed
by them to be accurate, and actually the
best they, with their lights, could pro-
cure, that were in reality grotesque in
their absurdity. The buyer comes for
Morgan stallion, of pure type and bred
from a long line of Morgan ancestors
on both sides. He finds colt of the
exact pattern but does not know whether
he is an accident or bred in such lines
that his produce will be like him. He
inquiries his pedigree and is told that
she is by the Johnson horse and out of
the old Croker mare
Here his information stops; or, at
best, all beyond it is mere guess work.
Now if this sire and dam were registered
in the Morgan Register, and he could by
reference to that work trace them back
to the fountain head, with size, color,
marks and characteristics given, and
every breeders address set down, he
could tell at once whether he had before
him Morgan, and whether he would
produce Morgan in his turn. And
after the Morgan Register is published.
if the purchaser does not find either the
animal or his ancestors there, it will be
good evidence that the colt is not Nor
gan, but an accident. The ideas of breed
ers about pedigrees are here, properly
here, and here to stay. You cannot sell
a horse or mare for breeding purposes
without an authentic pedigree and you
cannot have preserved authentic pedi-
grees without a register. Again, our
Legislature at its last session passed an
act requiring every owner or keeper of
a stallion used for service to record a
certificate of his pedigree in the county
clerks office, and making it a penal
offence to record false certificate.
Many other States have done the same
thing. These acts make it necessary to
have Morgan Register for those who
are breeding Morgan horses.
son for a Morgan Register is that THE
BREEDERS DEMAND IT. The au.
thor of the register could show Column
bus letters by the hundred, constantly
t coming from intelligent breeders all
over the country, commencing and urg-
| ing forward the enterprise, as well as
| encouraging it by their patronage. En-
tries are coming in so rapidly as to press
the limits of the first volume and make
it morally certain that the work must be
carried forward into series. | trust
these reasons, with those given before
will satisfy even columbus" that, il
the work is being done in worthy way
the compiler, who makes the venture en-
5 tirely at his own risk and expense, is
= entitled to commentator rather thar
= derraction.
Columbus says: "The principal rea
son thus far given is that Mr. Wallace
, will not receive the pedgrees of horse:
containing Morgan blood without goot
deal of kicking" a proposition which ht
4 proceeds to refute. IL is usually easy tt
overthrow what you say your adversary
: says, if he did not in fact, say it. Now
y | never gave any such reason nor mad,
e any such proposition, and could no
have done so. as know of scores O
t Morgan horses being there registered
t every year without the slightest trouble
. What did say was that shy errors
t wilful and otherwise, of the editor of thu
: American Trotting Register and the per
). iodical running Herewith, the Morgan
d family was being robbed of its just hon
: ors, unduly preiudiced in the minds o
; the inexperienced, and thereby unfairl,
t crippled in the contest for recognition.
G did give this as one reason for havin.
"A Morgan Register. And this PROPOSE
>. ton | am perfectly prepared to defend
e | can give hundred instances of slcI
/ errors with ease; and by way of illus
It tration | will cite three, that occur il
q important pedigrees, all of which hav
been brought to light by the researche
/ of the author of the Morgan Register
y Wallace in his publications, has Sc
i down the dam of the original Etha
e Allen, in many respects the creates
S horse in the Morgan family, as by Free
y man Messenger; she was by Red Robl
e and was an inbred Morgan on her dam
side. Wallace gives the dam of Hot
spur, the most famous trotter got b,
Ethan Allen. as by True John, son o
Harris Hambletonian; she was by Hale
5 Green Mountain Morgan. Wallace give
3 the dam of Royal Fearnaught, one o
: the greatest sires of his age now living
e as by Columbus; I'd dam by Harris
; liambletonian; the dam was by Draco
o son of young Morrill,, and the I'd dan
s was not related to Harris Hambleton
" ian. As have said, these instances cal
is be carried out indefinitely, were it nee