Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-08
THE MORGAN AS A BREED.

THE MORGAN AS A BREED.
below is given the second of the
Rider and Divers articles on the Nor
gan. Like the first, it is handsomely
illustrated with portraits of living hors-
es.
a. My Morgan mares, recently pur-
chased, Chestnut in color, are full sisters,
four and five years old. They stand l54
hands and weigh Il thousand pounds
each. Their sire was the inbred Nor
gan stallion Allen, 1924, lately owned
by Hon. Herbert Brainerd of st. Adams.
Their dam | understand to be by Pea
cock. son of Black Hawk. | purpose
to prove or disprove this by further in
qury. In int lligence, temper, style of
movement, nerve, speed and endurance
think these mares are good representa-
tives of their family. | cannot better
illustrate this statement than TO say that
i drive them-more correctly | held a
taut line over them-while they trotted
without word or whip over the west
ridge of the Green Mountains. eleven
miles, in one hour and five minutes.
Except Tor the restraint of compelling
rein they would have covered the dis
lance easily within the hour. In this
adults seated therein. Their vim and
dash at the end was undated. a few
days previously had bought them out
of hay field where, in the moving
machine and hay cart, they had done
the farmers work with dOcility. They
have fine Trotting action and can trot
together ON the road mile in three
minutes, although their life has passed
in the routine work of the farmer who
bred and broke them"
These illustrative bits of testimony
could he made three score, but enough
has been given to serve the purpose of
this article.
If the preceding premises have been
established-if Morgan horses are extern
slvely related and inter-related by naliv-
ity-lf they do transmit physical and
mentai quaites-those of them which
deserve consideration, from generation
to generation-if these qualities are dis
tinctive, in the sense that they distlng-
uish these horses wherever found. are we
not justified in speaking of the Morgan
breed: If Morgan horses, through these
transmitted qualities, challenged atten-
ton a century ago, have rolled up favor
able tradition through each decade since,
are today the chosen messengers of labor
and pleasure on highways where hills
have weeded out the weak, have they
not first claim to intelligent and interest
ed consideration from those whose
scheme of breeding is generous to tested
merits: This support is coming to them
Joined to an enthusiasiasm quite surpris-
ing. Old friends and new rallied at the
first assurance of an honest register.
They are aroused to the demand of the
time for new incarn1tiOn of that beau
ty. speed, courage. strength and endur-
aDce which is potentially at hand in the
best of this family, and ready for indeti-
mite multiplication. They purpose to
perpetuate these things They propose
to bring their stock together under its
family name, the Morgan Horse, AT rep
resentative horse fairs, to show what
they are and to distinguish those animals
which approach their ideal of the great
road horse by prizes awarded under most
rigorous standards of merit. among
which is to be actual road achievement |
They except to preserve these picked !
animals to be the dams and sires of the /
next generation; they recognize that to
III lrk out a future IA brilliant "a the past
comparatively, obey must take their ideal
complete to the last muscle, select and |
breed with it in view; they intend that
the just praise of olden time shall still /
not be over praise when it was written
most happily:
The Morgan Is the very embodiment /
of every quality and characteristic cal /
led for in roadster. In him the poetry
of equine motion and nature is expressed /
lie makes an heroic appearance. His |
hoOfs beat melody from the path. In |
him is dash and shine and rvthm. He |
strikes the road with the nervous stroke |
with which the pigeon in full career
strikes the air, and like that tense-wing-
ed courier of the sky he laughs at hills |
and mounts them with "A burst of spirited |
flight
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