The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-10-02
TRUE TYPE OF
MORGAN HORSE
Many Characteristic Ami.
mails on Exhibition.
GOVERNMENT SHOWING
A Feature Of the Equine Department
Beautiful Trotting Bred Stock from
Connecticut River Stock Farm-Big
Show Of Ponies,

Hunters after the true type OF the Yer
mont Morgan horse found their goal at
barn b, which was nearly filled with
| beautiful specimens of this variety. The
| Morgans Were the biggest feature of the
horse show, and those from the govern.
ment breeding farm at Weybridge were
the chief attraction OF the Morgan divis-
ion. There was also a fine display OF
trotting- bred stock including the sleek
string from the Connecticut River Stock
farm of Hatfield, Mass. This lot was un.
usually interesting this year because it
contained two purple-bred stations never
before seen here, The pony exhibit was
larger than ever before.
Aside from their individual beauty the
Morgans from the United States breeding
farm in Weybridge were of interest to
horsemen for the reason that they are
among the animals which have been Sc
lected for the government by experts for
the purpose of perpctuating the true
Morgan ENTHUSIASTICALLY coloring,
conformation, action, speed and stamina.
1t was largely through the efforts of the
late Senator Redfeld Proctor that the
government took to breeding this essen
tally Vermont type of equine and its
string is supposed to include only animals
whose qualities are of the highest. At
the head of the government string was
the great stallion. General Gates, shown
here in 1905 by his breeder, Col. Joseph
Battell of Middlebury. General Gates,
now II years old, is a jet black animal OF
the Vermont Black Hawk strain, a son of
Denning Allen and full brother to the
famous Lord Clinton with race record
of 20S 81. There were six other animals |
from the government farm, all of them
mares. -Four of this six were daughters |
of General Gates and teeming with the |
splendid characteristics of their sire. |
There was also a young mare by Bob |
Morgan and another by Rocky Mountain.
The government Morgans were entered
for exhibition only but that does not
mean that they could not have held their
own in the competitive classes.
f. d. Kinds & Son of Fowler, Vt,
whose Morgan horses have attracted
much interest at the fair for the past
several years, exhibited u animals whose
,hief characteristics We're their uniform
tyle, spirit and action. Mr.. Kinds is
particularly fortunate in the great mum
,er of richly bred stations which he
WINS, showing no less than seven-Lam-
,ert Boy, 2.22 IA, by Daniel Lambert,
Iinds Ethan Allen, by Ashley's Ethan
; ; Gate Lambert BY Lambert B.,
colbert Allen by Frank Allen, Milton {
lambert by Kinds Ethan Allen and {
Inds Black Hawk by Frank Allen. The
rood mare Carrie NJ, by George Lam
ert, with flly by Lambert b., and mare
fora with FLY by Kinds Ethan Allen
ompleted the string.
A typical example of the French coach
.allion breed whose fxity of type has
cen developed under the exclusive guild
nee of the French government, was the
allion Elegant owned and shown by the
peedwel farm of Lyndon. This stylish
nimal was bred in Ilionis and in 1904
, two-year-old won first prize at the
/. Louis exposition The Speedwell
rm also showed herd of nine Welsh
,nies-the trim little stallion Llewelyn. +,
direct Importation, and four brood d
ares and four colts. Il
Looking as fit as he did years ago when " "
!, made his debut at the Valley fair, the :
teran stallion Electmont, sire of of :,
ady Sealskn, 2.O6 -, served as fitting !,
ader to the string of standard-breds ex- r.
bited by the Connecticut River Stock y,
rm of Hatfield. Mass. Electmont is ~
20 the sire of Dodie K, whose half in i,
q minute and quarter of a second en- ~ II,
les her to the title Of the worlds ~;
eatest matinee mare. This year, how p =,