Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-16
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Morgan register and many breeders
have been carefully selecting sires and
dams of Morgan blood, so that it Is now
possible to purchase horses and mares
whose pedigrees run back on both sides
to old Justin Morgan and the breeding
to fixed type of handsome, kind and
enduring road horses, of the Morgan
stock, is a settled fact
1t is coincidence, If Justin Morgan
was descended from an English officers
horse, that no one breed of horses has
been so much in demand for the army
as the Morgan. In the Mexican war and
the war of the rebellion there was a
great search for this kind to be used as
saddlers by the officers.
As there is a revived interest in the
Morgan stock,i will be pleasant to know
that Terre Haute has received this week
from Vermont one of the choicest little
lots of inbred Morgan stock which ever
left Vermont and that to the well es-
tablished families of trctting and coach
horses in Vigo county will be added the
model roadster horse by the recent pur-
chases made by Mr.. w. r. McKeen and
Mr.. B. G. Cox. Messrs. b. G. Cox and
d. p. Cox have been making that
thorough ard exhaustive investigation
of Morgans, that is their manner of
doing things, and then dropped down on
Vermont to lead away from the Morgan
stock farms of Hon. Joseph Battell four
beautiful horses, or rather one twelve
year-old stallion, two geldings and one
filly, each four years old, which arrived
in Terre Haute last Wednesday, the
stallion Joe White going to Edgewood
farm. and the other three to Mr.. B. G.
CoX's stable to serve him as a double
team and single roadster.
AS there will certainly be much inter
est taken in Mr.. w. r. McKeen's hand
some Morgan stallion, Joe White, at the
risk of tediousness the Gazette will give
his pedigree pretty fully to show that he
is an inbred Morgan and as near the
parent stock as can be found.
He is dark chestnut with long flax
en- tail and name, and a white stripe
down his nose. His head is small with
fine tapering muzzle; neck fine and crest
arched; long bodied and graceful, legs
fine and clean, temper as gentle as a
kittens, stands about 10 hands and
carries head and tail well up.
| First few lines for Daniel Lambert,
sire of Joe White, to show where you are
when it is said colt is related to him.
Daniel Lambert was sired by Ethan
Allen (record with running mate 2:l5),
sire of Billy Barr, 2:23i, once owned by
Owen Tulor, and five other trotters, and
of 81 sires of II trotters and 16 dams of
Is trotters before 1892. Ethan Allen
was by Black Hawk, 3, by Sherman
Morgan, by Justin Morgan. The dam
of Daniel Lambert was by Abdallh l,
sire of Hambletonian 10. Daniel Lam
bert was the sire of 36 trotters and died
at 81, in 1889. He was noted for his
beauty of form, ease and elasticity of
action, and elegance and grandeur,
whether at rest or in motion.
Joe White, Mr.. McKeen's horse, is
said to be a faithful copy of his sire.
Daniel Lambert. His dam was by Draco,
2 :2S1, sire of 3 trotters and the dam of
Young Rolfe, sire of Nelson, 2lO,
Aubine, 2:l9!, etc.. and the dam of Roy
al Fearnaught, sire of ID trotters and
PAGER. Draco was by Young Morrill,, by
Morrill,, he by Randolph Morgan, son of
Bulrush Morgan, by Justin Morgan.
So Joe White is both Morgan and trot-
ting bred on both sides.
The pair bought by Mr.. Cox for
team are Ariel, 4, chestnut gelding, by
Joe White, son of Daniel Lambert, dam
Lurline, also by Daniel Lambert; and
Undine, 4, chestnut filly, by Joe White,
dam Sparkle, by Reindeer, by Vermont
Reindeer, by Old Morrill,, by son of
Justin Morgan. The team, which is
well matched, is light chestnut, with
long, full, fiaxen names and tails, and
while snowy, are as kind and gentle as
horses can be.
The single roadster is Bethel, 4, bay
gelding, by Joe White, dam Cleopatra,
by Gen. Putnam, by Rolla, son of Yer
mont Black Hawk, 8, by son of Justin
Morgan.
James Thomas, sometimes called
"Jimmy Splan," who worked for John
Splan and later took care of the Axtell
youngsters for Mr.. Doble, has moved
his kit to B. G. CoX's establishment and
will loook after his horses.