Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-10
action enough to sell them at rcmunera-


the reason that they possess, in an in
tensified degree, the qualities most de-
sired-qualltles that have been the in
heritance of every well bred Morgan
from Justin Morgan down to the present
time. 1t matters not whether they are
of Dutch origin, as is claimed by Mr..
Wallace, or descendants of imported
Traveller, as is generally believed. They
are the truest type, are the highest
finished, have the most natural style
and action, have the greatest endurance,
are the longest lived, are the purest
gated and the most tractable of any
thing known to the world of horsemen.
appeal to any old-time horseman at all
familiar with Morgans to call me to
order il it not fact that almost any
where, In any place where Morgans were
raised forty years ago, if there could not
have been put into the show ring Nor
gans that would have made the bang.
tailed, imported beasts of burden look
like cart horses. | can call to mind a
little Morgan stallion owned in the
town where | lived when | was boy.
The majority of mares owned in the
vicinity were also small, but Mr.. Page,
the owner of Old Morg, as lie was called,
had a sou in the livery business in
Chicago, and this son from time to time
would send out mares that were sored
up and otherwise unfit for use, some of
which were sixteen hands high. These
mares were bred to Old Morg and the
produce, almost invariably, although
they had the height,of their dams, had
the style and finish of Old Morg. 1t
was nothing unusual for him to sell
pair of horses thus bred at that time
for six hundred dollars. Now they
would be worth much more, and the
cobs that Morg sired, when bred to
small mares, would bring great prices
now as the demand for this kind. at the
present time, is greatly in excess of the
supply. Old Morg died before | came
away and his place was filled with
large bay horse of Messenger extraction.
After twenty years absence | revisited
the place and learned from one of Mr..
Pages sons that the big bay crossed
admirably on the Morgan mares, and
they sold many high-priced pairs of
actors bred in this way, while the
larger, cOarser mares, that had crossed
so we'll with Morg, would, from the bay
horse, produce nothing better than a
plain farm horse. At the time | saw
Mr.. Page they had stopped breeding, as
aft their Morgan blood was gone it did
not pay. He said he would gladly pay
81, 900 for a horse the equal of Morg, al
though he weighed but $50 pounds and
stood less than fifteen hands high.
Now the question arises have we any
thing left with strong enough Morgan
breeding to be the equal of those old
TIL e MorganS? | say we have better
Morgans than we had then. inasmuch
as the type is the same and each gener-
alton of horses shows an increase in the
speed of the family. And, although the
supply would hardly be extensive
enough to go around, sh uld breeders
generally realize. as did Mr.. Page, that
the reason they don't raise good ones is
because they have losr the blood royal,
still there are many good Morgans now,
two of which | will mention, because
they are bred as claim Morgan
should be that is expected to cross out
/ the defects of the various families on
which he is crossed The first horse
have never seen nor have | ever met
his owner. but | know from the horse Z.
| breeding what he is like and | was little
surprised when learned thar with very
| little work he had taken a mark of
2:2l and he has, at the age f II years.
sired the great show mare, Ruth, and
one other. whose name | do not recall
that has also been great winner in the
show ring. Besides this he has two bet
ter than ? 80 performers and one better
than , %. He was sired by Ethan AL
len Jr., full brother to Daniel Lambert
! His dam is by Daniel Lambert and his
second dam by Ethan Allen, 2:2ji
sire of Daniel Lambert. This is inbreed
/ ing with Il vengeance, but his sire, his
dams sire and the sire of his grandam
were all Morgans and good ones, and the
way he has started he will do credit to
his royal lineage.
The other was sired by Herod, ppm
at nineteen years of age, whose brilliant
campaign at this age, together with his
royal breeding. earned for him the title
of King of the Morgans. He was sired
by King lIerod, by Sherman Black
Hawk, by Black Hawk. by Sherman, by
Justin Morgan, out of daughter of
Revenge, son of Justin Morgan, Herods
dam by Green Mountain Boy, son of
Black Hawk and out of daughter of
Clifford Morgan. This young horses
/ first dam was Winnebago Chief, he by
Mountain Chief, by Morrill,, by Jenni.
son, by Young Bullrush, by Bullrush,
by Justin Morgan. Mountain Chiefs
dam by Champion, by Vermont Morgan
Champion, by Sherman, by Justin Nor
gan. Winnebago Chiefs dam by Green
Mountain Boy, by Hale's Green Noun.
tain, by Clifford, by Woodbury., by Justin
Morgan. Dam of Green Mountain Boy,
by Clifford, by Woodbury., by Justin
Morgan. Dam of IIale's Green Mountain
by Woodbury., by Justin Morgan.
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