Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-04-20

short distance. Ihey cannot draw all
day with the large ones. No one would
think oil doing heavy team work with
small, light horses. 1t was their great
lack of size that cost or lost the Nor
gans their popularity. There were too
many small ones that were not more
than II hands and less than 900 pounds
III weight. Their founder, the Justin
Morgan, though a wonderful horse, was
a small pony-built horse, l33 hands
high, and in common driving flesh did
not weigh more than $50 pounds.
Three of his sons founded families
Woodbury., Bulrush, and sherman.
Woodbury. was the largest of the three,
was 143 hands high and weighed over
1000 pounds. He had much more style
aud nervous action than the other two,
was the greatest parade horse of his
day, and it came out in his descendants.
The Woodburys as parade horses stands
far ahead of any other class of horses.
1t has been claimed that they were more
liable to have ringbones and poor feet
1t depends on the amount of work a
horse does as to their keeping sound.
Let some of the other horses do the
work that the Woodburys did on the
parade ground with their feet and legs,
they would not stand it any better, and
it is doubtful if as we'll. Mr.. Linsley in
his list of Morgan horses has II of them
sired by Woodbury.. This includes the
Walker horse, or Morgan Tally-hO, that
belongs to the Bulrush family. Nor
gan Caesar, by Woodbury., was the sire
of Mac, 2 :2S; Pizarro, the Robert mare,
and others that trotted below 2:40.
Morgan Eagle, by Woodbury., was the
sire of Lady Sutton, 2 80. The Magma
Chartas descended from Morgan Eagle.
Weir's Clifford was the sire of Beppo,
record claimed to saddle, rs; and other
fast ones. Very many say and claim
that Ethan Allen and his descendants
sprung or descended from Clifford and
belong to the Woodbury. branch of the
Morgans. The Golddusts belong to the
Woodburys. 1t can be said of the
Woodbury. Morgans that they average
larger than those of the other two
families. have much more style and
nervous action, and they have much
more speed too
Bulrush was a remarkably tough, ell
during horse and it is so with his de-
scendamts. 1t Is claimed they are more
hardy. sound class of horses than those
of the other two families. In Mr.. Lin
sleys list ten are credited as sired by
Bulrush None of his sons or grand
sons are credited with string any of the
80 horses. The Morrils and the
Walker horses belong to the Bulrush
family. Sherman was some seven or
eight years Older than Woodbury., and
four or five older than Bulrush. He
was very much smaller and did not have
near the speed they did. 1t is doubtful
if he could have been made to have trot-
ted in four minutes. His stock average
much smaller than the stock of the other
two, yet the sherman branch of the Nor
gans has been claimed by many to stand
much higher than the other two branches
Set the Black Hawks aside, none of the
30 horses trace to Sherman Morgan.
Twenty-one in Mr.. Iinsley's list are
credited to Sherman Morgan and
it includes Black Hawk, the knights
horse and Green Mountain 1st. Quite
number of Shermans sons were
g lded when four or five on account of
their lack of size. Sherman was but
about l34 hands high and weighed in
common flesh from S25 to $50 pounds.
He was a remarkably muscular, stout
horse to pull, for so small Il one.
There are large mares that are little
awkward and lacking in nerve power
that will bring much better stock by
breeding to a horse OF the type of
Sherman or his sire than to large
horse. y small horse for a sire for the
large class of mares is now worthless,
as the small horses are not wanted they
will not pay for raising. Henry the
Eighth of England decrecd that no horse
under fifteen hands should be allowed
to run at large, and that all mares likely
to breed understood or illshaped produce
be destroyed. This shows that they con-
sdered size in a horse of some conse-
quence in England in Henry the
Eighth's reign, and every breeder
should.
A writer states that old sherman
Morgan's skin was not stuffed; that it
was prepared for the process, but never
mounted that it was hung over frame
and exhibited at the Mechanics fair at
Boston; that While it was on exhibition
it had to be closely watched to keep
them from clipping off locks from the
name and tail to keep as relies. 1t Is
stated. too, that the skin was placed in
trunk and it was burned in stable at
Lancaster, n. II. Mr.. Linsley In his