The Democratic advocate., 1904-10-22
THE MORGAN HOME.
Great Record of Celebrated Equine
Strain

f. e. Lawrence, Of Belyidere, H.. has
the following to say in regard to the famous
Morgan horse.
The original, or Justin Morgan. was
purchased by Justin Morgan in Spring
field Mas. in 1898, and was taken bv
him tn Randolph. Vermont. This colt was
then two years old He was sired by True
Brton True Briton was said to have
been sired by the imported horse Traveller
Of the iam Of Justin MORGAN there are
conflicting accounts. but all agree that she
mus, have been an animal Of good breed
10. l> there must have been good blood
ga both sides, or be could not have stamped
hi, remark able qualitie, on his descendants
down through 80 many generations, as be
certainly did lie was about 1t hands
high, weighed $50 pounds and was a dark
BAY
In hi, day trotging races were not 80
much in practice as ia later times, \
horse qualities were tested by running
short racc~ pulling matches and general
road performance
FuALEp SIX stREs-
Uf hi, get there are mentioned in his
tors but six Sires-the Hawkins horse,
iuale,i in 1906. the Fcuton horse, foaled
in lsnS. sherman, foaled In SOS. Bul-
rush, foaled 10 1872, Revenge, foaled in
lNl5s Woodbury.. sometimes called the
Burbank horse. foaled in lSl6-yet We
might mention scores Of celebrated horses
that trace directly back to him
well remember that my father owned
\ pair % Morg,ns away hack in the 30s.
he called them his ponies They weighed
900 pounds He used to team il over
the bill, ef Western New York from Roch-
ester Buffalo PiiJsford and other towns
on the canal Eight barrel. of salt was
h. loai, when be loaded with salt which
made abou, >, 300 pounds In his old
aye he would speak Of the ponie, As the
best team be had ever owned
Among the celebrated Morgan sires Is
Clifford iualed in 1924 owned by Zeba
Clifford of Tunbridge Vermont sired By
Woodbury., srandsire Justin Morgan. This
horse was sold when he was - years old
to a stock company Of Walpole, y H.
for 81. goo Black Hawk, foaled in S33,
the property of Winsate Twombly, Of
Greenland, y H. got by sherman His
dam WAS said to be half-blood English
mare raised in New Brunswick her color
was black lie was kept by Benjamin
Thurstun. Of Lowell, Mas for family
horse until 1874, when he was purchased
by David llin, Esq. of Bridgeport, Yer
mont Black Hawk Is probably the most
celebrated at this day Of all his descendants
of the original Morgan
LIVED To Az OLD AGE
These horses were possessed Of great
longevity. many Of them doing service AT
p and 30 years of age They were used
much harder than horses of our day. e,pe-
cially Justin Morgan and Sherman, who
were put to all kinds of work when very
Young, hauling heavy loads over the hills
of New England Besides, the owners of I
these two horses never heSitated to take
them out of the team and run them a race
Of quarter Of a mile or pull them their
best for a small wager, which they seldom
failed to win Justin Morgan lived until
he was - year, old and then died from an
accident sherman died at the age Of p. !
Black Hawk came in later day and /
received much better treatment His age
cannot now say, but he was living in /
1887 think he died between that time F.,
and 1860 He might have lived much /
longer. as he showed little Of the effects of (
age in 1857, but he tore his flesh on nail /
which was carelessly left protrudiug from
his stall Blood poisoning set in and /
caused MS death.
The admirers Of Morgan horses do not /
claim that they have made the best time |
on record, yet they were the best in their
day am speaking Of sires. There are
few of the fast horses Of today but have |
Morgan blood in them, which gives them /
their staying qualities. They get their .
length Of stride from other breeds. We /
do claim that for horses Of all work and /
general usefulness they have never been
excelled, and probably never will be. |
knew a Morgan mare owned in Winnebago /
county. Illinois, When last saw her she
was 40 years old, and was remarkably |
spry and actice animal then. She died
TWO years later.
Bulrush, son of Justin Morgan, died at
the age of SO.
FEAT BY MORGAN MARE.
Fanny jerks. a Morgan mare owned by
zen. \. T. Durham Of Troy, y. Y,
rotted | 0 miles at Centerville, Long Island,
n October. lS+4, before sulky carrying
Is pounds, in % minutes and 80 seconds,
,eating Neptune and Misfortune On the
lth day of May, 1915, in match against
ime for $500, to trot 100 miles in 10
lour> over the Bull 5 Head course, near
Albany, \. Y, she performed the distance
II hours - minutes 81 seconds. FIX
.usive of IS minutes - seconds stoppage
or relreshment, she performed the entire
distance in 9 hours ~ minutes and 80
econds OF this performance an article
n the Spirit of the Times, headed Fanny
Ienks against the World, says: with
ut stopping, she trotted once around the
rack in minutes and % seconds. On the
GLOWING day she was driven II miles to t
Albany and Troy, showing no signs of |