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SPECIAL FEATURES ietiehA to The Silver-Tipped Mustang Orcland Farms 3 the Editati Karr 12 The Control of Parasites (Part II) 14 Dartmouth Horse Association Trail Ride 18 Second All-American Show 19 Miracle Drug Dear Sir: I wish to extend my hearty con- gratulations and appreciation for the REGULAR FEATURES article that appeared in the October Letters to the Editot 4 issue of the MORGAN HORSE Editor's Comments 5 Magazine by Dr. A. C. Todd entitled Names in Pedigrees 10 "Horse Parasites." He has managed Breeze from the Great Lakes 21 to bring home to every horse owner Once Upon a Horse 30 not only the possibility but the prob- Stable Hints 31 ability that their animals are playing hosts to parasites. I think the tendency is to look for such things in the other fellow's ani- mals and overlook it in our own fav- orites. I might add that it is no dis- Officers of the Morgan Horse Club grace to have them, but it is a disgrace President MERLE D. EVANS to keep them. Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio The list of difficulties which can Vice•President FREDERICK O. DAVIS occur to a horse through parasitism is Windsor, Vermont an awesome one indeed, and I do not Secretary FRANK B. HILLS feel that Dr. Todd exaggerated one 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. iota in mentioning these in his article. Treasurer WHITNEY STONE These difficulties hit all types of 90 Broad Sheet, New York 4, N. Y. horses and consequently all types of horsemen, the breeder, the trainer, the showman, the racing man and the just plain horse lover. No animal can The Morgan Horse Magazine be at his physical peak or give top performance if handicapped by par- Vol. XII November, 1952 No. 10 asitic infestation, A Monthly However, there is a happy side to The Official Publication of this picture and that is phenothiazine. THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated Dr. Todd removes the old horseman's 90 Broad St., New York 4. N. Y. curse on this wonder drug by explain- Publication Office: ing that its misuse was the seat of Leominster, Moss. early difficulty. The standardized sub- Publisher Otho F. F.usey therapeutic or "low-level" dosage of for The Morgan Horse Club. Inc. two grams a day is safely tolerated Editor Sumner Kean and efficacious in eliminating the par- CONTRiBUTTNG EDITORS asites or at least keeping them under C. Fred Austin Dana Wingate Kelley Mabel Owen control. Helen Brunk Greenwalt Dr. Russell E. Smith This article of Dr. Todd's was ex- SUBSCRIPTION RATES tremely interesting to me because One Year S3.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years S3.00 through the kindness of a friend my attention was drawn to an article on THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, ou,,lished monthly by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. phenothiazine in the August 8, 1952, Printed by The Eusey Press. Leominster, Mass. Entered as second. class issue of the CHRONICLE. Follow• matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. ing the reading of this article, I started our three-year-old stallion. Donnie Copyright 1952 by The Morgan Horse Magazine Mac, on the two grain a day regime His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, after first giving him a good laxative and his countenance enforces homage.
(Continued on next page) kiet9 ,41e4,14.“/ The Editor's Comments
There comes a time in the lives of men when a job is done and people relax with the certaintude that once again a magazine has gone to press—another issue, for better or for worse is on its way to our critical readers. At times like this, we on the staff of the magazine relax and frequently ronsider the whole broad picture of the Morgan breed—what have we done, what can we accomplish by the monthly chroniclings of the horses of the people we know and admire. Then we say, this is so and that is not; this is phony, that real; this we must strive for, that ignore in our endless and, off-times bootless search for what is real and earnest to the detriment of what is artificial. So we sit, in these post-publication bull sessions and attempt to assay. Often what we say, the conclusions we arrive at get no further than the smoke-thickened confines of our office. Too frequently we determine that this is better left unsaid. This will hurt; that will accomplish no good. And so For our cover this month, we go to the these sessions go, balm to the blistered soul that fails of fulfillment on paper, that far Northwest to bring Skagit Vashon, airs his venom and his suppressed conclusions only in those limited confines. owned by Louise D. Bates of Red But came a day recently that all this was changed; when all sat and calmly Top Farm, Arlington, Washington. admitted that whether we did good or not whether our word went out to listen- This handsome young stallion, foaled ing ears or withered in the desert air—that whether all this was worthwhile—this in 1947, is by Highwood L out of In- fact stood out alone and irrefutable: The breed Morgan was showing great dian Summer. Copper chestnut with improvement. a light mane and tail, white blaze and three white stockings, Skagit Vashon Pause then as you labor to contribute your bit: weigh your own small adds plenty of flash to his excellent effort and give consideration. conformation and substance. He is Have you in the past decade given thought to the quality of the Morgans shown with Lawrence Tupper up. you have seen whether it be in shows or in your own or neighbor's stable? LETTERS Compare the number of good stallions and mares which have come forth (Continued from page 4) since this day in 1942. The war only a year old was capturing every mind and relief from its deadly gnawing ache was but temporary. How many good ball. The difference in this colt is horses could you list? amazing. He is putting on flesh beau- As we write this, TV is blaring Invictus and its well-known " . . . the tifully whereas prior to this treatment menace of the years." In this instance the years have held a little less than menace. we were "stuffing" him and just about They have brought to the Morgan breed as a whole the solid knowledge that if holding our own. Morgan club members do thus and so; if they but gauge the results thus ob- I had had smears done and knew tained; if they play the Morgan game with all their soul and being they will the colt had strongyles, but I never continue to give impetus to these horses which have fared so well at the hands had a gram count done, so how in- of America in the past 10 years. tense the infestation was I'll never know. But suffice it to say the clinical We are getting there. We have not yet arrived but we are headed in the right direction and gaining momentum. improvement is remarkable even though I am unable to substantiate it We recently had recourse to an old sales folder. In it were pictured the with more scientific data leading New England dams and sires of that day half a century ago when the I feel that all readers of the maga- Morgan was at the height of his buggy hauling prowess. We scanned the zine owe the editor and Dr. Todd a likeness of these horses which were popular about the time when we first large debt of gratitude for this excel- saw the light of day. What did they have that made them famous? The lent article. I also suggest that they more we looked the less we knew. Then, for comparison's sake we stacked the keep this issue handy for constant ref- pictures against those of a recent issue of the Morgan Horse Magazine. Brother, erence. It should point out the fact they had nothing! In conformation, in the general characteristics that even that no stable, no matter how elabor- make a good horse—to say nothing of the breed—they were lacking, and badly. ate or how humble, is complete with- Endurance tests they may well have survived. But so have our present day out this drug handy. Morgans. And if the price they paid for this quality was the looks they per- Again, let me thank you for an ex- force endured we would say without hesitation that today's "Morgan dollar" cellent publication. It is devoured in has not shrunk so badly. our house from cover to cover and then saved. We have learned much (Continued on Page 22)
Sometimes 1 think if everyone could have the love of horses in their blood Mere would be more happiness in the world. I watch America roll on wheels and soar over on wings and everyone is in such a hurry, I doubt if they see or feel half of what's around them. 1 wonder how the people jammed into the big cities find any real happiness or solitude where they can't see a mountain, or hear a clear stream, or feel the comfort of a good saddle, and I suppose they think people like me are a little cracked. A man can acquire an education, or riches or social finesse as he ad- vances thru life, but God gave him a soul at birth, and he needs no more to feel the real joys of life. Somehow I feel that half the folks in the world yearn for horses. I wish they could all own one, feel its sleek hide, feed it and care for it, and sit on the corral rail to watch it and feel its moods. It needn't be a blue ribbon candidate. If it is yours you'll like it and to you it will be the best.
I guess I am just geared to horses — THE AUTHOR
The author and his famous mount, Buck. The Silver-tipped Mustang
By ERN PEDLER
Ahead, the pass framed the sky in I looked out across the country be- th-ouh the rocks and chaparral. sharp definition. Behind, the extra hind, seeing the valley with its few Somewhere between here and the horses labored up the steep grade, fol- scattered ranches, and beyond that the peninsula I would need to find water, lowing without a lead rope and packed unfolding hills reaching on into noth- 1- ut the desert floor showed no prom- with my tarp and my "gatherin's." ing, and ahead the desert, already ise of any, so I skirted the foot hills. Beneath me I watched the powerful turning brown, rimmed with cedar- My tongue was getting mighty sticky neck and shoulders of the big buckskin ! tudded hills that rose to meet the when I finally found a wet slab of pony and watched the trailside grass ragged, jumbled mountains. I put the rock in the bottom of a draw. Nearby sway from the force of his breathing. glasses to the distances, seeing the the ground was soggy, and after I dug Up here it was still early spring, and trembling heat waves that hung a hole a couple of feet deep it began the end of May still saw tiny aspen around the colored buttes, that jutted to fill with seepage, and in two hours leaves, and grass soft and lush, around up from the desert floor, and some the ponies and I had our fill. the edges of the great snow drifts and sixty miles away another point of low I rubbed the ponies down, found slides. mountains running like a peninsula some grazing for them in the damp The big horse reached the pass, and into a desert sea. earth, tying the Buckskin. Then I I stopped him for a breather and to Somewhere in that great range was sat against a rock, watching the wait for the other ponies to come up. a horse I sought, a wild stud, black, country through the glasses, remem- A sleepy breeze coasted over the with a silver tail. I had heard rumors bering landmarks and contours and mountain, clean and soft. of him over a hundred miles away, scanning the faint greens for move- I watched the other horses pull in, but rumors of wild horses were usually ment. I wondered if the ponies had sizing them up, measuring my chances dreamed up by some tenderfoot or already quit the flats for the summer of success. "Mex," a black gelding, maybe a deer hunter who sees a herd to range in the high altitudes. If so, was on the blocky side but limber of someone's branded horses and I was out of luck for a lone run. enough to be fast and hard to put off takes them to be mustangs. But when his feet; "Spider," tall and round the story came to me from men who The looks of the country said the bodied and short coupled was the fast- were real riders, and who had tried to peninsula was my best bet for a camp est horse for clear running that I ever run him, I tied on my packs and rode and a lookout point for this country owned. Under my saddle the Migi'ty for the desert. It was a big country and the land beyond. It was a central Buckskin, thirteen hundred pounds of for a band of horses to run in, big and hub for riding to pick up tracks or guts and fire and hell could master rough, and dry, with here and there sign of the silver-tipped stud, if he still any kind of rough country running a faint green where the grass had not ranged within seventy or eighty miles. and make his shoes hang where he put yet succumbed to the brassy sun. The years of riding behind me told them, whose only claim on beauty I moved the Buckskin out over the me to ride at -night to span the long was his coloring and the 'go-to-hell' !boulder of the pass, feeling the lim- miles from here to the spring, said to look he showed to the world. ber, sure ease of him going down be somewhere near that tip, and I wasn't ready to be seen by the mus- some green in the bottom of each the spring. I ranged slowly along the tangs until I had my run figured. I depression. Out of the night the lone- foothills, keeping to cover, cutting for put my hat over my face to discourage ly buttes reached up, pushing against a definite horse trail. In less than an the flies and gnats, and slept, not car- the quiet sky, and occasionally a dry hour I found it, following up into the ing much for time; I had plenty. wash out its crazy path along the mountain. It came in under a ledge In the deep night I talked quietly flats, looking deeper because of the overhang, and halfway down the ledge to the Buckskin, hearing him blow dark. The land itself was new to me, water sprang from a crack in the rock rollers through his nose, seeing the but its pattern was not, and I leaned to catch in a pocket below. I stayed outline of the hump in his back as I my hands against the saddle swells, on my horse, not wanting to leave the swung the saddle into place. He humming quietly and thinking a smell of my tracks around the water grunted as the latigo jerked snug and lone man's thoughts. There is little hole, and as the ponies cooled, I let pulled his belly up away from the rear value to a mustang and no money to them tank up, drank where the water cinch, and I let him stand while I be made in running them, but there spilled from the ledge, and filled my packed the other ponies. I swung is something that puts a call to a man, canteens. I sent the big buckskin on from the ground into the saddle in stronger than the curse of the heat and up the mountain, hearing the clack of one move, and when he tried to pitch, the dry, dry land. I thought of all steel shoe on rock, pushing through hauled his head up hard, cussing some the people in the country who knew the thick chaparral tangles, on near to for good measure. There is a time not the feel of a saddle, who had never the top, skirting the ridge northward and place for everything. I had no chased a mustang, nor felt the power nearly a mile. These mountains were yen to hang by the chin from some of a good pony pushing up the steep lower, and the grass was well up; cedar tree in the dark. grade of a mountain, into the thin, bunch grass, not too lush, dry enough I pointed him out across the desert clean blue, and my heart felt big that to be strong feed. floor, feeling the cool, sharp night, I was born among the things I wanted I sidelined and hobbled the buck- hearing the quiet sounds. The country to see and be. skin and turned the others loose, fig- ran from tall, dense sage to the Daylight was close when I reached broken, jagged rocks, to patches of the peninsula, and I pulled up into the grass, dried around the rim, but still trees to wait for full morning to find (Continued on page 27)
the mighty buckskin was after him now like a mad god after a sinner." Here Old And New Type Morgans Dwell In Harmony
By SUMNER KEAN
In a Massachusetts farmhouse which Mother of Ruth is Mrs. Brenton H. Lyman Orcutt shown with Ulysses just was standing on its hilltop overlook- Dickson of Weston, Mass. after he had won a Tustin Morgan per- formance class. ing the sea for four score years before Dr. Orcutt was a new type" Mor- Justin Morgan was foaled live two gan leader, who, perhaps more than ently hover over meetings of the old people whose background is steeped any other man is responsible for to- and the new, one would predict dis- in Morgan tradition. Just as there are day's high-stepping Morgan show- great families of Morgans so there are horse. Morgans for show and pleasure. Ruth great families of Morgan owners. Mrs. Dickson is a staunch believer Orcutt and a beginner shown on two of I refer to the Orcutts, Lyman and in the old type, prefers hacking and the Orotund Farm show horses, Orcland Ruth. trail riding to shows and scorns long Gleam and Vigileen. Mrs. ()mutt finds that no matter how spirited Morgans are Father of Lyman was Dr. Wallace toes, heavy shoeing and showy action. in the show ring, they are placid and safe Lyman Orcutt. In view of the storms which frequ- for pleasure. cord and wide differences in the life heart-warming, to say the least. medical with top honors soon settled of the Lyman Orcutts. This story should go back to the on West Newbury where he took up Nothing could be farther from the Orcutts of West Burke, Vt. On a hill a country practice extending over a truth. In complete harmony they farm in that section of the Green radius of 25 miles. The first horses he dwell in their 250-year-old house, Mountain state near the Canadian bought for the tough task of carrying share in the operation of the 350-acre line lived a farmer who long had him over this wide area were Mor- farm, the 50-odd head of Holsteins— bred and raised Morgans. So it was gans. Some of these were likely reg- and the rearing and showing of Mor- perfectly natural that his two sons, istered stock but they were purchased gans. Frank and Wallace, should carry on. only as drivers and little is known What are their Morgan objectives? Carry on they did. Frank remained about their background. A combination of the best in old and on the farm and raised old type horses. In 1922, his practice firmly estab- new. Wallace, who scratched hard for lean lished, he started breeding Morgans in "We are raising Morgans," says years finally won his MD, and with a day when driving horses were Ruth "which can be readied for the the first money earned jumped back menaced by the heavy inroads of the show ring one season and put in knee-deep into his first love—Morgans. automobile. From H. Fullerton Phil- grueling trail rides the next. Of Each of the brothers had a son. One lips in Windsor, Vt., he bought Allen- course you can't have any horse ready is Lyman. The other is the well- da and Vigilant. Allenda, who turned to do both the same day. It requires known horse show figure and out- out to be a great producer, was the dam different shoeing and training. But standing horseman and veterinarian, of Ulendon and was by Cap. Mor- we can show our horses this year and Dr. Bob Orcutt, now in the service. gan out of Ruby by Bob Morgan. next year use them in trail rides." Other horses acquired about this time She certainly can "show her horses And to make the knot tighter in were My Lady Woodbury, Melba and this year." There are 20 champion this skein of a family's experience a Darling mare. and reserve ribbons and more than wth the breed, Frank's son, Bob, as a 50 blues in the 1952 crop to date. kid in high school and later in college Shortly thereafter Dr. Orcutt de- That plus the fact that the get of became Dr. Wallace Orcutt's show cided to get into the show business as Ulendon, their I9-year-old stallion rider and carried the name to the top Morgans were passing from the util- cleaned up in Morgan National show in meets throughout the East. ity field. He raised a pair of geldings, breeding classes. Also, Frank Orcutt bred Artemesia which carried the non-prophetic names The Orcutts and their planned pro- which, sold to the U. S. Morgan horse of Joyless and Ulyswood. Both could grain are of great interest to this farm and bred to Bennington, pro- jump and ridden by E. 0. Wilson, magazine inasmuch as editorially it duced Mansfield, Ulysses and Can- who later won fame for ownership has always contended that old and field. Ulysses is the sire of Ulendon of well-known hunters and jumpers, new could get together in a joint and in fact stood at the Lyman Orcutt the pair cleaned up in the open jump- effort for the bettering of the breed. farm for his last years. ing field. They had size, stamina The fact that these enthusiastic young Dr. "Wallace" after he had earned and powerful quarters. They had people are so combining the best of his way through secondary schools been gelded because of type but they each to such outstanding success is and Yale and graduated from Yale (Continued on page 26)
The 250-year old farm house. the horse barn and the new concrete cow- barn on the 250 acre farm at the Orcutts at West Newbury, Mass. Star of the West
(Twenty-first in the Series - - Names in Pedigrees)
By MABEL OWEN
For those who find pleasure in such smaller opportunities, left their mark warded the following spring with the things, a collection of old books on in the pedigrees of Standardbreds, stud colt he named Flying Cloud. horses can be a fertile source of both show horses and Morgans. The line- Like both his sire and dam, Flying the amusing and thought-provok- bred Black Flying Cloud was a fabu- Cloud was a black, but unlike them, ing, even in this day of mechanical lous success in four states, but it was he had a white strip in his face and genius. Some years ago a very small for another Flying Cloud, also by two white socks, one in front and one volume was printed in Philadelphia Black Hawk 20, but foaled three years behind. Fully matured, he was an which contains much that is true and earlier, in 1848, to sire one of the hard- even 15.2 and weighed close to eleven much that is valuable even now. In est-hitting, toughest old campaigners hundred pounds. He was a most the section devoted to the mare and ever to be greeted by a fairgrounds handsome horse, as indeed, were al- foal, a series of maxims head the chap- crowd, the wonderful old black stal- most all of Black Hawk's get. His ter, among which are: "Pick out clean lion, Star of the West. action was higher than some, almost legs and a good temper, performance The original Black Hawk was a too much so, for it was an inclination as well as pedigree if you are buying most prolific horse, estimated to be to dwell rather than go on which de- a mare to breed." And "the way to lift the sire of some twelve hundred foals layed his trotting debut until it was the mortgage is to hitch two good to reach adult status, and of these, too late. Flying Cloud hadn't the breeding mares to it and bid them go" more than half have been traced. With weight and depth of some of the with the pithy adjunct following the the exception of the colts in his first Hawks, but was so flashy, with quality latter; "Keep the trotter notion out of few crops, very few were gelded as so evident, that he was considered all your head. Trotters make mortgages." only the best mares could be sent to the more handsome by many obser- During the horse's golden age, be- a stallion commanding a $200 stud fee vers. When he was two, Mr. Rob- tween 1860 and 1900, countless mort- over a hundred years ago. In addition eson, who owned him until the last gages were lifted through the efforts to Ethan Allen 50, Black Flying Cloud few years of his life, placed him in the of a good mare or a great stallion and 168, Sherman Black Hawk 51 and care of Timothy T. Jackson, in Jamaica, the steady insistent demand for stylish, Patrick Henry 196, all premier sires of Long Island, a most astute horseman handsome roadsters gave breeders a top road horses, there was Jackson's and an able trainer. Tim Jackson great opportunity for it was the per- Flying Cloud 95, which, although an worked with Flying Cloud, using fect outlet for all their horses which accident cut short a promising racing every bit of shoeing knowledge he did not quite reach the trotting peak career, was saved to become the next possessed, for he felt he had a poten- of speed. Many farms from New ranking sire of the Black Hawk line. tial champion. As a five-year-old the England to the west coast based their Only a comparatively small per- black horse seemed about to fulfill this entire breeding program on this ideal centage of the old-fashioned Morgan promise, for he trotted a private mile situation. The Allen Farm in Pitts- mares were bred to Black Hawk dur- on the famous Fashion Course on field, Mass., the famous Hermitage ing the latter part of his lifetime for Long Island in the better-than-good Stud in Nashville, Tennessee, Rock breeders had learned by then that the time of 2:37. Racing commitments River Stock Farm in Dixon, Illinois, heavily Thoroughbred-type mares were made for him, but they were Woodburn in Lexington and the fa- needed Morgan stamina and steadi- never filled, for a few weeks later bulous Santa Rosa in southern Cali- ness if they were ever to produce Flying Cloud apparently hit a soft fornia raised horses on the band either good road horses or good race- spot of a turn of the track, for he scale, exporting hundreds annually to horses. fractured a rear ankle, ending what- foreign countries, particularly Italy The dam of Jackson's Flying ever hopes of a record had been held and Russia, where interest in trotting Cloud was one of these. A black, she for him. The break healed, almost nearly matched rural America's love was bred in Newport, Rhode Island without a trace, for when Mr. Jackson for it. and was sired by Andrew Jackson, showed the stallion at the New York The most successful breeding good son of Young Bashaw, out of a State Fair late that Fall, he won first formula on the large farms was Mor- mare by imported *Messenger. She premium trotting stallion, defeating gan to Messenger, with broodmare was not a big mare, being moderately several other good sons of Black bands from the better Morgan lines light in bone and substance and hav- Hawk. Retired to the stud, he made and sires bred strongly to Black Hawk ing somewhat less inclination toward one season in Urbana, Ohio, a second or General Knox. Probably there will a fast trot than was then fashionable. on Long Island and then for six years never be another sire to equal Black Shipping a mare several hundred he stood at the farm of Nelson Haight Hawk, for he founded the two great- miles was not an easy chore in 1847, in Washington, New York. Follow- est single sire lines of the breed, and but her owner, Andrew Robeson of ing this, he returned to Ohio where even his lesser-known sons, given far Fall River, Mass., did so and was re- he died in 1875 at the age of twenty- 10 The MORGAN HORSE seven. His get were very uniform, crack race mares of that decade, Ethan the best of the early trotting sires. For mostly blacks and browns, with a Allen's little bay daughter Fanny Al- the sake of the record, it is to be pitied very few bays. They commanded ex- len, winner of eighteen races. Star of that the old horse was not retired cellent prices and during his late years the West raced his best in 1872, when then, but no, two years later, at the in Ohio he was the leading sire in a he was thirteen years old. He made unbelievable age of twenty-four, he county from which a great number of his first two starts at Minneapolis, was again sent on what must have good horses were sent East to the lead- where he was defeated twice by seemed an impossible task. Shipped to ing city markets. He was the sire of Skinkle's Hambletonian, although Star Lowell, Mass., he was ignonimously the full brothers Dan Underhill and was able to take one heat in each race. beaten by an obscure bay gelding Silver C:oud, the good mare Lady He then went to St. Paul only to lose named Milton, a horse which only Ella and the crack Leviathan, but he to James D. McMann, so his owners won two races in his entire career. will be remembered longest and best sent him back to Minneapolis and From racing for prizes of $500 and for his most popular son, Star of the Rochester where he raced a memora- $1000, the old black horse, game to West. ble series with North Star Mambrino, the end, had made his last start for a The dam of Star of the West was an angular, bay racing machine that purse of $75. Probably one of the a grey-roan mare called Gray Fanny, already owned a victory over Skinkle's toughest horses of all time, Star of the bred by David Graves and sired by Hambletonian. Although he was de- West had raced over a period of Eureka, son of Long Island Black feated in all four races by a horse twenty years, longer than that of any Hawk. She was out of a grey mare young enough to have been his son, other racehorse, including the in- of trotting stock, since her dam was Star of the West won the first heat of defatigable Goldsmith's Maid, who, sired by Vincent's Messenger, he by their first encounter in 2:26 1/2 which although a winner in her twenties, did Dover Messenger, one of Mambrino's was his fastest time and the record not race until she was nine. lesser-known grandsons. Gray Fanny which follows his name in the stud Star of the West lived to be thirty- was said to have been a plain mare, Look. Somewhat ironically, the same two years old. Somehow, in between not dappled or flea-bitten, but a dull, time was the fastest that North Star his sorties on the race course, he also iron-grey. Bred to Jackson's Flying Mambrino was ever able to make and became the leading stallion in Iowa, Cloud on the farmers' theorem of he was pushed to it in beating Star and up to the present time, still leads sending substance in the mare to of the West in the third of their four that state in reference to sires of trot- quality in the stallion, she foaled a meetings. People who saw the first ters, for he got twenty-five winners of black stud colt in the spring of 1859. of their races flocked to the track each nine-five races and was as well Star of the West was born on his time the two horses met, for there grandsire of the winners of nearly fifty breeder's farm in Sherman, Connec- was not a quitting hair on either more. Probably his best known son ticut, but was sold twice in quick suc- horse and they fought out each heat was Joe Young, 2:19 1/2, an exceeding- cession before becoming the property with a dogged determination that ly handsome black horse, one that was of John Bullen in Rochester, Minne- made them, almost equally, the known throughout the mid-west for sota, under whose colors he made his crowd's favorite. This year was the being a tiger on the track and so gen- first start as a four-year-old. This was apex of Star of the West's trotting tle at home a child could brush or at Polo, Minnesota, over a small track, career, but no means its end, for he handle him. This horse was later sold and Star of the West won over Stephen came back the next to win his first for a price reputed in excess of $10,000 A. Douglass in straight heats in the start over Columbus and Buffalo Bill to a Kansas breeder. Joe Young got moderate time of 2:43. He did not at Fairibault, Minnesota, then lost his a number of good racehorses, but is start again for two years when he met next two to Draco Prince, another known primarily for the good show Rocket and the very good Ned Forrest Morgan horse. At fifteen, Star of the stock he sired during his latter years in Milwaukee. Star of the West was West again won his first start over while at stud in Kentucky. poorly conditioned and badly driven, Billy Morgan and Dan Sutton in St. There is irony in Star of the West's with the result that he was distanced Paul, before losing again on the fair history. Racehorse, show horse, sire, in the first heat in the impossibly slow circuit in Iowa. In one of his races with all his Morgan character and time of 2:48%. Again he was put by that year his owners badly over- the greatest possible amount of Mor- for a year, which sporadic forays on matched the old horse in a big race in gan stamina, he is known today, not the track were to mark his entire Kansas City, which saw him beaten in Standardbred pedigrees, only rarely career, and made the first of his four conclusively by the iron horse Pilot in Morgan ones, but often in the starts in 1868 a winning one, taking Temple, the ultimate winner of nearly background of many of our greatest the feature race on July 4th at Roches- forty races. For two years, the black show horses. In addition to a few of ter in 2:36 1/4, distancing all the other horse was idle, but in 1877, when he the early Morgans bred in Iowa and starters in the first heat. Then fol- was eighteen, he made the circuit Minnesota, we find his name most lowed a good win and a loss at Min- again, winning once. Two years later prominently through the Saddlebred neapolis, from which he went to Ot- he started once, but was only able to blood seen in some of the present-day tumwa, Iowa, to lose to another of take one heat in four from Hamble- Morgans, King Peavine, foundation Black Hawk's grandsons, Grey Eagle. tonian Chief. In 1881, when he was sire at the Upwey Farms in South In 1869 he made seven starts, winning twenty-two years old, Star of the West Woodstock, Vermont, is the com- twice and losing five times. One of won his only two starts, defeating monest source of the blood of the old these losses was at Boston, Mass., Mambrino Eclipse and Almont Boy, black indomitable, Star of the West, where he was beaten by one of the the latter destined to become one of in today's Morgan horses. November, 1952 11 . . .K ARR
By RACHEL GARNER
My name is Rachel Garner, but stories to flood the post office, to cover Princesses, he would honor us with his everybody calls me Ray or Ronnie, your desk with so many tales that possi- show of horsemanship. One year he whichever strikes them easier. I live bly one of them might just be what thrilled us all with his stunt and tum- on a small Island about twenty min- you were looking for. Then summer bling act from the back of his black utes from the Frontliroy dock in Seat- came. My paper remained clean, per- gelding. The fair was simply not com- tle. I've been following your maga- fectly free of a single scribble. My pen plete until 'Ronald Svane had galloped zine, THE MORGAN HORSE for a languished in dust. Instead it was my through it. year now and have become thorough- pencil and ruler that I found myself If you were to ride by his ly loyal to the Morgan horse. I started employing, with strikes outlawed. pastures you would undoubtedly find the subscription because of a wish to During the school year I had changed them polkadotted with all sorts of know more about the breed. You see, my major, and necessity commanded horse flesh, not to mention a whole ever since I was a small child riding that my summer be spent in stiff prep- herd of goats. Why, I just guess he around on my imaginative horse Sil- aration and study, and even then there has had every color of horse you can ver, I had heard Dad talk about the was a question. think of roaming about his corrals, and Morgan and his great abilities. Wher- It is now the following summer, and just about every one of them was edu- ever I went I would proudly spread my I have again found my books urgently cated. Ron doesn't think a horse is never ending knowledge of the won- calling. But I have discovered a little worth his feed unless he can stand on derful horse; but way inside, even time of my own, and, although I can his head a few times, and walk a board then, I wished that I really did know no longer hope for the all-dreamed-of fence. Sometimes you'd find piles of what he was like. He grew up in me prize of a Morgan colt, I do want to youngsters dangling over his corral as a myth—a hero horse; but it, never- share my proud happiness that I have gate posts, strewn in rows along his rail theless, was my goal to actually see gained during this last year, and fences, and lounging about on the him someday . . . and just maybe .. . especially these last few months with turf watching him show his latest to ride him. those horse lovers who I know can horsy attraction. Often as I pushed I've collected a few years since that understand my feeling. and crowded my way to the fence to * * chi:dhood aspiration, but the goal, say hello, I would find myself won- though partially satisfied, is still before Ronald Svane is the best horseman dering why I hadn't been charged a me, and has, indeed, increased its con- en Vashon Island, and he is the best ticket for the entertainment. But Ron ditions. That was why I breathed rider for miles around. Every year loved it, and the kids loved it, and it sharply when I read of your exciting at the Island Festival he would ride in was quite a happy union depot at that. Morgan contest held last summer-- the parade, tall and impressive. Then Just the same he wasn't satisfied. Every why that seemed my great chance. I on reaching the fair grounds, after the now and then Ron would wistfully planned to write dozens and dozens of introduction of the Queen and her say, "I wish I could find a real horse,
At left: Judy Deron, black Shetland. Cute as a bug and just as tractable. Above: Tyne. He was untamed . . . untouched.
12 The MORGAN HORSE one that has a mind of his own, one last, let alone match Ron when he is favorite nieces. I was thrilled no end, that no one has ever touched." angry—and my assumption held true. and decided to hustle about and find a horse to entertain them so that they It wasn't odd that everybody knew The two fought like kings, suspicious- ly and powerfully; but as the old story would stay awhile. The pastures were about the arrival of Ronald's new stud. drying up, and keeping a horse was He was a full registered Morgan of tells, animal muscle must eventually succumb to human will and reason. difficult for those who had more than the General Gates and Headlight Mor- one, so it wasn't hard to find an excel- gan lines, and you can bet your new But let it not be said that Tyee was lent riding horse to board for the pair of Levis that school had no con- ever broken. The black was a beauti- month. He was perfectly suited—a trol over me that day. In fact I was ful stallion. One would see him gentle, old, white gelding. That took one of the first to witness the coming standing always alone. He would care of the older girl, but what about of Tyee. I remember the day was often wander up to the hill and gaze the younger? I thought and I thought, cloudy and the sky wasn't one bit supe:iorly down over the other horses. and the more I thought, the more I coy about showing rain, but no one He was the lord of the herd for no thought about Judy. Judy fit the bill. cared. I had felt expectation all tightly other horse dared provoke him. Many That little black rolly-poly was just bundled up inside me and tied with a smartish gelding or prankish colt the icter. We had plenty of pasture suspense. Not one ear missed that first who had cavorted up to the stud to since no horse had been on our pine whir of the trailer. There was no need seek a bit of gayety, quickly left him for a long time. Ron didn't have any. to watch to see if it were going to turn with a clear understanding that Tyee In fact he was advertising some of his up one of the several farm drive ways; was not to be played with. Still, if a stock for sale, something he seldom we all knew it was coming straight to sudden call from a blond young man needed to do. His palomino had gone. the barn where we were. The big came flinging over the fields, the aloof He had sold Camanche, his last filly auto drove up the road and stopped. black would dutifully turn his back on co!t and the white mare. The blue The trailer stopped, and supposedly all the scene and amble off to greet his roan stud was sold. Just perhaps he noise should have stopped, but it master. The stud was the talk of the would let me pasture Judy for him. didn't. Noises kept right on sound- town. There was the time when Tyee Miracles upon miracles, Ron was only ing. Great hollow bellows and suddenly decided to roam. He broke too glad to let me take Judy. The hideous screams jarred our ear drums. loose, and raged over half the Island girls fell in love with her immediately. The trailer reeled and careened as if leaving frightened and disheveled Stephanie rode her daily, combed and it were drunk. We slowly backed farmers and pedestrians in his wake. brushed her, braided her mane, and of away, and froze our awe struck eye That evening, as soon as Ron got course she was the constant subject for balls in the direction of the trailer drop home from work, he set out after Tyee, our cameras. gate. Was that thundering monster and found him, and the black fol- in there a horse? Ronald hopped out lowed him through the streets of As time wore on, prices went up, of the trailer, threw a couple of ropes, Vashon lacking halter and rope. and the government closed in. Ron unfastened here, and fastened there, When asked how he had done it, or had to sell every bit of his stock except and the gate suddenly burst open with why he hadn't used a halter, Ron just Judy and Tyee, and they were a big a crash. Out came a roaring demon, shrugged and said—"well,—I forgot worry on his mind. What would he with great rolling eyes and cavernous a rope to tie on the halter." do when the time came for him to nostrils that shivered and flared. There About this time old Tyee was to enlist. Who would, who could hand'e were screams from horse and from meet his match. Ronald got a craving Tyee? He was talking those things children. My nerve cords tightened for a new horse and went "a wan- over with me one long day, and we in pinched paralysis. The animal was derin'," and he came back with the were both very sad. I knew that rearing, throwing himself against his most elfin hit of energy. She was a Judy's price, the price of any well chain with horrid grunts. He lowered devilish little imp, crashing the scales trained Shetland, was far beyond my his ears. He beat his hoofs against the at a full three hundred pounds. She means, and of course Tyee was out of turf again and again. He was sweaty was jet black. Her ankles were like the question. I loved them both so black, with a tangled snarled mane those of a deer, and she was just as much; I couldn't think of anyone else that leapt about his head. His mouth cute as a little old bug in a rug. Old owning those two, especially Tyee. was wide open showing red and Tyee fell for her as if cupid himself Tyee was Ronald's horse and no one snapping white teeth. were 'riding on his back. And the lit- else's. Then Ron stopped pondering. No one seemed to want to see much tle butter-ball didn't give him any easy He turned to me with a happy smile of Tyee after that. If they did develop time of it. Oh, my no! He had to on his face. "You know, Ray," he sufficient courage to come near the work to win her affection, and how he said, "it wouldn't be so bad if I knew black stud, he would wrench back his did work. After a while, though, we at least one was well cared for. If ears and lunge at them with low- just figured he wasn't her type be- you promise you'll never sell her, or ered head and open mouth. Ronald cause they never seemed to decide to give her away to anyone but me, I'll spent every free moment he had with settle down and raise a family. I guess give Judy to you for keeps." Tyee. Harnesses were broken and she was too much of a busy-bee to ropes were ripped asunder; dust clouds want to stay at home. I was too surprised and delighted rose, and corral rails fell. But Mr. Finally summer got here, and I was to do any of the excited dancing that Ronald Svane has a temper. I did not, pushing my nose in a lot of books and do not believe that any animal, and didn't see much of either. Along whatever be it, could hope to out- came August though, and two of my (Continued on page 25) November, 1952 13 (Second lecture delivered at WSC Horse Judging School) HORSE PARASITES
By DR. A. C. TODD College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
The materials to be presented may worms in the small intestine being less culated by the heart to the lungs. Or- also be obtained in a series of publica- than a half inch in length. It appears dinarily the worm will not pass tions from the Department of Animal that one worm will live in a horse for through the very small blood vessels Pathology at The University of Ken- six months. in the lungs but will remain there for tucky in Lexington. The materials To undestand the control of horse some time. Finally it ruptures out of again represent the combined efforts ascaris, we must first understand its the little blood vessels and gets into the of breeders, veterinarians and research life cycle. You will recall from yester- cavity of the lung. Eventually th e lit- workers in Kentucky. The parasites day that knowledge of the life cycle tle worm is swept up or coughed up in this discussion create problems in of a parasite enables us to select the one out of the lungs and is re-swallowed. the field. I will again remind you that time when it is most susceptible to at- When the little worm reaches the small diseases occur only in the field and do tack. intestine for the second time, it stays not originate in laboratories. The mature female worms in the there and matures. Before I proceed I wish to announce - small intestines of horses 'produce Now the fact that the little worm that I have been able to obtain spe- characteristic eggs. No other parasite goes on this migration may be interest- cimens of the important parasites of produces an egg like that of the horse ing but does not give you an indica- horses. These specimens were kindly ascaris. The presence of ascaris eggs tion of its actual effect on the horse. furnished by Dr. Dunlap, the parasit- in manure passed by an individual Horses very rarely ingest only one in- ologist at the Washington State School horse is an absolute definitive diagnosis fective ascaris egg. Frequently thou- of Veterinary Medicine. of infection. Outside of the horse, the sands of little worms are undergoing The first exhibit is a specimen of a embryo inside the egg will develop and their migration at the same time in verminous aneurysm. Actually, Dr. the egg eventually will contain a small the same horse. Consider the amount Dunlap has preserved an anterior coiled worm. This little larva, or of inflammation in the small intestine mesenteric artery and some of its worm, inside the egg does not hatch as that organ responds to its injury. branches. As the specimen is prepared, from the egg but remains within the Consider the interruption of normal it is possible to see the altered internal shell. The time interval required for digestive processes. Consider that the structure of the artery. A large area the horse ascaris egg to develop to the wounds made in the mucosal lining of of scar tissue is apparent and you will infective stage is about two weeks. The the small intestine will permit the understand from this formation how larva develops to the infective stage entrance of secondary bacterial infec- bloodworms can impede circulation. inside the egg and the egg must be in- tions. Certainly you would expect that The second exhibit contains two very gested by a horse in order for infec- horses with large numbers of worms large specimens of horse ascaris. Cer- tion to occur. Once the egg of horse in their lungs would exhibit symptoms tainly you will be impressed by their ascaris reaches the infective stage, it is of colds and pneumonia. Migrating great size. Dr. Dunlap has also sup- extremely resistant to environmental ascaris larvae can precipitate an indi- plied us with a number of the giant conditions and will remain infective vidual horse into an attack of pneumo- tapeworm of horses. The fourth ex- for a long period of time. For ex- nia. The sudden development of hibit contains a portion of a horse's ample, the infective eggs survive win- coughs and colds in young horses is a stomach to which bots are attached. ter with surprising ease and do so cus- certain indication of recent exposure After you have seen the injury to the tomarily. There are records of ascaris to infective ascaris eggs. Moreover, stomach lining caused by these hots, eggs remaining infective for more,than in another forty days after the ap- I am certain that you will agree that five years. It is important that you re- pearance of coughs and colds, young the importance of bot infection in member this fact because the ability of horses will be passing ascaris eggs. horses has been greatly underestimated. ascaris eggs to survive outside horses About two months is required to com The first parasite to be discussed this influences methods of control. plete the ascaris cycle from the time afternoon is the horse ascaris or white- When an infective ascaris egg is a young horse is exposed to ascaris eggs until the time that same horse worm, Parascaris equorum. This worm ingested by a horse in contaminated lives in the small intestine of horses, food or water, the larva hatches out begin! to pass eggs. and it may ,occur in considerable num- in the small intestine. But instead of What else does ascaris do to horses? ber. It is not at all unusual to find staying there, the little worm does a Now, I submit that far greater damage four hundred or five hundred speci- peculiar thing. It burrows directly is sustained by the horse as the result mens in a single horse. The worms are through the wall of the small intestine of the activity of the immature worms rather sizeable, some of them being and enters the blood stream. The lit- than by the mature worms in the small nearly a foot long. Horse ascaris oc- tle worm then passes through the liver intestine. On the other hand, and curs in all sizes, of course, very young and is carried to the heart; it is cir- despite the fact that I told you yesterday 14 The MORGAN HORSE that we do not determine the presence young horses is not in older horses The problem remaining after inci- of parasites from external appear- because older horses only rarely have dence and seasonal infection had been ances, large numbers of ascaris make ascaris infection. In our surveys of established was to treat the infection horses look wormy. Little horses with parasitized horses in Kentucky, we before the worm had matured sexually. ascaris infections will not appear did not find ascaris eggs in manure You will understand, I believe, that smooth and sleek. They will not shed passed by broodmares. The source of we had to attack the infections at a their first coat smoothly and will look infection for young horses is the total time when they were concentrated rough and discontented. Very fre- number of infective ascaris eggs on within the horses in order to prevent quently little horses with ascaris have paddocks and pastures and which the production of enormous numbers little round pot-bellies. They are rest- have accumulated through the num- of eggs to affect the succeeding or same less. When you see your young horses ber of years young horses have been generations of horses. in this condition and if you recall maintained on those paddocks and The drug which is used to remove coughs and colds in the same horses, pastures. ascaris from horses is carbon disulph- then you can be sure of the presence Will treatment of older horses pro- ide. Carbon disulphide is a liquid and of ascaris infections. tect young horses from ascaris infec- must be handled with great care. The The mature worms in the small in- tions? Of course not. In order to drug is not as satisfactory as it could testine are very active parasites. They protect young horses from ascaris in- be because it is highly volatile and ir- are not attached to the lining of the fections we must treat the preceding ritating to live tissue. It is adminis- small intestine and must maintain generations of young horses. It is as tered to horses in a capsule or as a their position by swimming actively. simple as that. drench by means of a stomach tube. The normal habitat for horse ascaris Our surveys in Kentucky established I would like to impress upon you now most properly admin- is about ten to fifteen feet into the the incidence and seasonal occurrence that the drug is small intestine from the stomach. of ascaris infection in young horses. istered by your veterinarian and not There appears to be considerable com- The work was conducted with Thor- by yourselves. As a matter of fact, the directions which I have given you petition among the worms for this oughbred foals. The majority of e control of worm preferential location. It is not unusual Thoroughbred foals are born from in regard to th parasites of horses should be followed for such large numbers of worms to mid-March through mid-May. At rep- accumulate in this position that the resentative farms we obtained manure only upon the advice and agreement passage of food materials is prevented. samples from certain foals each week of your veterinarian. In many in- stances, the use of certain drugs is On other occasions peristaltic move- from birth through to yearling sales absolutely contra-indicated by the pres- ment may be interrupted and then the following year. Because it is pos- resumed irregularly. Irregular move- sible to use ascaris eggs in manure as ent physical condition of horses. ment about a knot of worms can re- a definitive diagnosis of infection, we Carbon disulphide is not a drug sult in a twisted intestine. The fre- were able to determine the average quent result of twisted intestine in which can be used like phenothiazine. age of the foals at the time when their There is a minimum dose of carbon horses is death of a horse. The twist ascaris infections first reached ma- or knot can persist in such a manner disulphide and below this amount the turity. On average, the foals were drug is not effective. In the control that circulation to the afflicted area is slightly more than ten weeks old when prevented whereupon the tissues in work in Kentucky the minimum dose they first passed ascaris eggs in their of carbon disulphide used to remove that area die. Some attacks of colic, manure. While therefore, are derived from ascaris in- the average age var- ascaris from horses is three drams. A fection. ied, every foal in the survey eventually dram is not the same measurement as sustained exposure to, and infection a gram. A dram is a form of liquid I am now hopeful that you have by ascaris. It appeared that there measurement. There is a maximum begun to appreciate the grave dangers were some three generations of infec- dose of carbon disulphide which may be inherent in ascaris infection. I am tion in young horses during the first administered to horses. This amount hopeful, likewise, that a question has year of their lives. The first and larg- is six drams. Foals, that is sucklings, arisen in your mind. Do your horses est infection reached a peak in June may receive three drams of carbon have ascaris? They certainly do. and persisted until early August. The disulphide but do not receive six Every horse present for this show second infection apeared by mid- drams of carbon disulphide. A mature and judging school has, or has September and persisted until late horse, a thousand pound mare for had, an ascaris infection—older horses November. The third infection made example, may receive six drams of car- develop a resistance to infection. As its initial appearance in early winter. bon disulphide provided there are no I told you yesterday, however, every By this description, I do not mean contra-indications to such therapy. young horse in this area which was to say that the young horses sustained foaled more than six weeks ago now their entire exposure for a given in- A schedule of treatment to remove is parasitized by ascaris. fection in a restricted time interval. ascaris from sucklings and to prevent infection in future generations, is as We now have the essential facts on It appeared that exposure was fairly which to erect a system of control for continuous from birth and through- follows: All foals should receive three drams of carbon disulphide at eight ascaris infection. The source of as- out the first year of each foal's life. weeks of age. The same treatment cans infection for young horses is Records of the same foals as yearlings the contaminated paddocks and pas- indicated that they had developed an should be repeated at twelve weeks tures in which the horses are main- acquired immunity or age resistance tained. The source of infection for to further heavy infection. (Continued on page 22) November, 1952 15- „..tzar.
top: Mr. rra Left top: Helen HM, foaled May 19, 1950, by Springfield MHR out f CamT ,:. a. Middle Left bottom: Upwe? Benn's Beaumont, by Upwev King Benn out of Upwey Princess. Miss Gertrude Schley, Sharon, Conn.. Middle: Filly of High driving her five.year-old bay gelding. bottom: Champion Kt old orphan stud colt. Childs, Ringto•
Dartmouth Horse
Association Trail Ride * * *
Mabel Owen on Squire Burger.
Blessed with perfect riding weather ing twice. This was his final trail ride Morgans, all of which placed very well for the first time in its four year his- as his owners had previously an- up in the ribbons. Highest rated half- tory, the Dartmouth Horsemen's nounced his retirement from further Morgan was Theodore B. Wildes' Asssociation held its annual thirty-five competition. chestnut filly Bonnie B, by Squire mile competitive trail ride on Septem- In the heavyweight division, Luther Burger. ber 14 in Rochester, Mass. The trail Witham came down from Lynnfield Dr. Raymond Fessenden and Albert was perfectly marked and beautifully fresh from his good second in the Ver- Brouillet from Athol, together with planned, over dirt roads and cranberry mont 100 mile ride to win the division, Dr. E. Deane Freitas of North Dart- lanes, with by actual measure, not more men's horsemanship and the reserve mouth. were the judges, with their than one mile of macadam in the en- championship with his good Anglo- task made the more difficult by the tire thirty-five. The trail varied nicely, Arab Rusty Bradley. Mr. Witham has very large entry, many of which were with woods paths and hard gravel judged the ride in previous years, and painstakingly ridden and in good hard roads added to miles of deep sandy the tremendous amount of experience flesh. Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Brown, going, which, if it looked less difficult he has had in competitive riding pro- Jr., were hosts to the ride which started than Vermont's hills, taxed a horse's vided a splendid example for those and finished at their Weed Acres Farm condition very nearly as much if he not so fortunate. His advice to the in Rochester. Eight of the largest were to finish the ride in its allotted six junior riders of the last two years commercial cranberry companies in hours. played an important part in their plac- this area very kindly opened their land Fifty-five horses were entered in the ings this year. Second in the heavy- to the riders and since the date coin- ride from many nearby towns and all weight division and best western trail cided with the first berry picking, it finished. Winner of the lightweight horse was Harry A. Brown's good big was a most interesting adjunct to the division for the third consecutive year chestnut Spike, a winner last year, and ride. All of the workmen, truck drivers and champion of the ride was Mrs. ridden by Norris C. Tripp. Third was and pickers were in their turn much Ethelyn Drown's saddle mare Lady. another former winner, Alton E. interested in the riders and accorded Second and third in this division were Sowle's well-mannered pinto mare them every possible courtesy. two registered Morgans, Merrymist, a Gypsey while fourth went to Mrs. As in past years, a color movie of three-year-old bay filly, and the vet- Reba N. Reed of North Attleboro on the ride was made and will shortly be eran Squire Burger, both owned by her husband's Candy. available for loan through application Merrylegs Farm in South Dartmouth. In a very well-filled Junior division, to the Dartmouth Horsemen's Asso- Merrymist, also highest placed Mor- Donald Orton of Fall River was the ciation, Box 84, South Dartmouth, gan, is sired by Bright Star out of winner on Beauty over Ted Guerrette Mass. Since these rides have materially Conniedale by Lippit Croyden Ethan. on a very typey dark chestnut mare aided local interest in riding, the asso- Squire Burger, chestnut stallion by named Debby's Gal. Richard C. Tripp ciation has also prepared a booklet deal- Juzan out of Nella by Allen King, has was a very good third on his first trail ing with the organization in detail of ride over Richard W. Wildes on his been ridden in all of the country's ma- competitive trail rides of this sort jor trail rides, from the Ranceros Vista- pretty four-year-old Bonnie B. There dores ride in California to Vermont's were a number of well-bred and care- which is also available to other groups 100-mile ride and three of the Dart- fully conditioned horses on the ride, in the hope they might become as mouth rides, winning once and plac- including six registered and grade popular elsewhere as they have there. 18 The MORGAN HORSE SECOND ALL AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE SHOW HELD AT BARRINGTON, ILL. By MRS. CHESTER F. TREFTC.
Barbadon, owned by Marianne Blick, winner of English pleasure and trail horse classes. It was a great success, show-wise. really have some fun, instead of so Non-silver Parade—COMANCHE BRAVE, much "professionalism." Our Horse owned by M. R. Hoffman. Neck-reining- There were twenty-nine Morgans on BONNIE HAVEN, owned by George and exhibition. Nearly all the performance Show Committee was especially heart- Roger Burgess. Pleasure Harness—LIP- horses entered class after class, really ened to hear all the fine comments. PITT ROYAL MARGARITA, owned by proving to the spectators that the Mor- Now for the classes: Chester F. ,Treft. Western Working- gan is a "doing" horse. GRAND CHAMPION STALLION—FUDGE RONNIE HAVEN, owned by George and ROYAL, owned by Lawrence T. Olsen. Roger Burgess. Exhibition—shown with- Marguerite Henry, the author of GRAND CHAMPION MARE — JENNY out benefit of bridle—as a working stock JUSTIN MORGAN HAD A HORSE LAKE, owned by Mr. & Mrs. L. S. Green- horse. BONNIE HAVEN, owned by George was on hand and personally presented walt; Sire-and-get—FUDGE ROYAL, owned and Roger Burgess. her trophy and a copy of her famous by Lawrence T. Olsen; Mare-and-foal- Potato Race—FLYELLA, owned by Lazy- ILLAWANA PEGGY and colt, owned by B-Ranch. English Pleasure—BARBADON, book. Lawrence T. Olsen; Weanling fillies and owned by Marianne Blick. Amateur Driv- Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Parks of Hon- colts—Colt, owned by Lawrence T. Olsen. ing—JENNY LAKE, owned by Mr. and esdale, Penn., were in attendance. Mr. Yearling fillies and colts—Filly, owned by Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt. Three-gaited Stal- Chester F. Treftc presented Dr. Parks Robert Stahl. Two-year-old fillies and lions only—ALLEN DAIRE, owned by Har- colts — LIPPITT ROYAL MARGARITA, old F. Meyer. Western Pleasure—BONNIE with an engraved plaque in token of HAVEN, owned by George and Roger appreciation for the doctor's devotion Burgess. Roadster to Bike—JENNY LAKE, to the Morgan horse. owned by Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt. Trail Horse—Open—BARBADON, owned And engraved plaque was also pre- by Marianne Blick. Adult Equitation- sented to the Morgan stallion Devan TRIBELLA, owned by Patricia Hallquist. Hawk and his owner Miss Martha Package Race—FLYOLA, owned by Lazy- Moore of Prattville, Alabama, in ap- B-Ranch. Stallions In Harness—ALLEN DAIRE, owned by Harold F. Meyer. Cos- preciation of the Morgan traveling the tume Class—RUSTY MORO, owned by greatest distance to attend the show. Chester F. Treftc. The so-called "Fun Classes" really held the crowd. They break up the monotony for the spectators. The Potato Race was a mad thing, indeed. Flyella won it easily for the Lazy-B- * * * Ranch. The Package Race of course is always a crowd-pleaser. Flyola won Devon Hawk and owner, Martha Moore, 74 Moiq-ca4 that for the Lazy-B-Ranch also. The traveled farthest to attend show. Costume Class was very good and very colorful. Mr. Treftc won that one for c,i/co4e Moro Hill with his Indian Chief regalia. The announcer named him owned by Chester F. Treftc. Three-year "Chief Barelegs." Mr. Henry J. old mares—FILLAINE, owned by Robert Arrives 12 Times Each Year. Stahl. Three-year-old stallion — DEVAN Berenz, Sr., took second with his Bobo HAWK, owned by Martha Moore. Four- the Clown costume, sucker and all. year-old and over mares—JENNY LAKE, Your Friends Will Appreciate Many comments were heard from the owned by Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt. spectators about the fun all had and Four-year-old and over stallions—FUDGE ROYAL, owned by Lawrence T. Olsen. Your Thoughtfulness they expressed the wish that more Three-gaited mares and goldings—TRI- horse shows would follow suit and BELLA, owned by Patricia Hallquist.
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************************1 "Blue Ribbon" Gift Calendars 1953 Date Book for Engage- ments — 32 AHSA Show Horses in Action Only $1.50 Postpaid When the conven- Artistic Calendar for Your tion train of Gen- Desk Showing the 13 AHSA eral Eisenhower stopped in Montana, Winners a famous cowgirl Only $1.25, Postpaid and breeder of Mor gar' horses, Mrs. Each is packaged in two-piece Rose Liggett, of Gift Boxes Whitehall, was on hand, or rather On horseback, to extend greetings. She is CORNELIUS BAKER shown above shak- 1204 Girard Ave. ing with the Gen. era 1. Philadelphia 23, Pa. This is our third successful year.
Morgan Interest by States Sentana Goes to College Recent Morgan Sale in N.E The most recent figures on sub- Sentana is a seven-year-old, fine Two sales of consirable interest to scribers to the MORGAN HORSE type of a Morgan mare and on Sep- New England breeders were consum- Magazine show the New England tember 15, 1952 she started college. mated this Fall by Otho F. Eusey of states are maintaining their position as Sentana was generously donated to the Apple Valley Ranch. First of the greatest center of interest with these was the well-known mare, Varga Massachusetts having about one third the Animal Industries Department of Girl, Senior Champion Model mare more paid subscriptions as compared the University of Connecticut by Mr. and Saddle Class winner at national to the next state. J. Harry Wood of Petersham, Massa- shows. Varga, by Highview King out Of interest is the steady growth in chusetts, and St. Louis, Missouri. of Lucky, is now owned by E. Keene the Midwest with Michigan, Illinois Annis of Ashland, Mass., and was pur- This typey, chestnut mare was sired chased for him as a gift by his wife, and Ohio being among the first ten. by Flyhawk and out of Sentola, two California continues to lead the a daughter of Mrs. Powers, well- names of significance in the world of known in American Saddlebred show western states although Wishington has Morgan horses. She was originally made rapid strides and probaoly will classes. bred by Helen B. Greenwalt, and Sen- The other sale was that of a hand- he among the first ten in another year. tana enjoys a reputation in New Eng- The Northwest Morgan Club and the some chestnut weanling filly, Sterling land as one of the good mares of the Patricia by Meade out of Star Baby Light Horse Judging School at Pull- breed. man have done a great deal to build who went to Donald S. Harris of interest in Morgans in this area. The University of Connecticut will Smithfield, Rhode Island. Following are the first ten states use Sentana in their light breed- A show horse now at the Eusey sta- leading in paid subscriptions ex- ing and classwork program. It is ble is Sterling Velvet, three-year-old clusive of newsstand coverage: Massa- hoped that this mare, through her off- mare by Mentor out of Glady. Velvet chusetts, New York, California, Ver- spring, will be the foundation of one was selected as one of 32 famous show mont, Michigan, Connecticut, Illinois, of the good future families in the Mor- horses to appear in the 1953 "Date Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio. gan breed. Book" a calendar for coming events.
Another Morgan Breeder who has Coming Soon: carried on the Orcutt tradition.
20 The MORGAN HORSE
appointment, JOHN GEDDES—the only Morgan in this class of 15— received an award as well as the tre- A 1111 1111 1111 mendous applause of the audience, even though he was visibly affected by From the Great Lakes the severe cold he had throughout the Show. By C. Fred Austin The following Morgan owners— Martin Belser of Ann Arbor, David Morgan horses performed at their MORGAN UNDER ENGLISH TACK — Staebler of Ann Arbor and Barbara finest in the Second Annual Michigan (Stallions, mares and geldings. Shown Groom of Detroit—competed with 15 under English tack at walk, trot and can- International Horse Show, held in the ter.) I. SPRINGBROOK PEGGY, owned by others in the Show's Equitation, West- State Fair Coliseum, Detroit, October Gerald F. Taft, Northville. 2. QUIZ KID, ern seat, 13 to 18 years class. Martin 9-12. Some 300 horses trod on the owned by Gerald F. Taft, Northville. 3. Belser on his Morgan Ruthven's Peg- 600 tons of soil (8 inches deep) that RUTHVEN'S ROSALITA ANN, owned by gy Ann earned and received an award Amy Lou Belser, Ann Arbor. 4. SHADY was hauled in to cover the Coliseum's LAWN'S SPICE, owned by Barbara Groom, in this class. The horses were shown concrete floor. Detroit. 5. SPRINGBROOK GOLADDY, at walk, trot or jog, and lope. owned by Floyd and Jack Applinq, The object of this Show, sponsored Northville. The Western classes in this Show by the Michigan Horse Shows Associ- MORGAN COMBINATION — .(Stallions, were judged by Messrs. Christopher mare or geldings, any age, suitable for ation, Inc., is to bring before the pub- Wadsworth of Doylestown, Penn. and lic the pleasure horse in his most per- harness and saddle purposes. Horses to be first shown to appropriate vehicle, then Joseph Barly of Milwaukee, Wiscon- fect and finished state. The program to be unhitched in the ring and judged un- sin. carried the following with regard to der saddle at walk, trot and canter.) 1. There were horses in the Show SPRINGBROOK PEGGY, owned by Gerald the Morgan horse: from Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michi- "A Morgan is distinctive for its F. Taft, Northville. 2. QUIZ KID, owned by Gerald F. Taft, Northville. 3. HY- gan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsyl- stamina and vigor, for its size, per- CREST TOMMIE, owned by Milo Measel, vania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, sonality and eagerness and strong, Farmington. Canada and Venezuela. natural way of moving. The head 5200. MORGAN HORSE STAKE — (Stal- is made up of a straight or slightly lions. mares or geldings, any age. To be eligible, horses must have been entered LETTERS dished face; big, prominent eyes set and shown in at least one other class in wide apart; small ears set rather this division. Shown at walk, trot and Dear Sir: wide apart carried alertly; small canter. Ju-Irred cn performance, quality, The picture in the centerspread of muzzle with firm lips and large conformation and manners. 1. SPRING- BROOK PEGGY, owned by Gerald F. Taft, the October issue of "Buddy" 4 7764 is nostrils; prominent jaw. In body Northville. 2. QUIZ KID, owned by Gerald incorrectly labeled. He was owned by conformation the Morgan gives the F. Taft, Northville. 3. RUTHVEN'S ROSA- Harvey Wingate of Upper Montclair. LITA ANN, owned by Amy Lou Belser, appearance of a very strong, pow- N. J. but ridden by Glenn E. Rowell, erful horse with great shoulders, Ann Art-or. 4. SHADY LAWN'S SPICE, owned by Barbara Groom, Detroit. 5. Tunbridge, Vt. and the mare "Lady anugaltion and depth, short back, JOHN GEDDES. owned by Walter and Briar," Grade Morgan, was owned by broad loins, muscular and well de- Rhoda Kane, So. Lyon. 6. RUTHVEN'S Charles H. Titlar of Briarcliff Manor, MIRIAM ANN, owned by David Staebler, veloped croup, and with tail set in N. Y. and ridden by Miss Gail E. Row- high and carried gracefully. Head Ann Arbor. The winner of this Class—SPRING- ell, Tunbridge, Vt. is carried proudly and neck slightly BROOK PEGGY — considered as crested, meeting the head at a well You also have another cut of Gail the Champion Morgan Horse of the defined throttle. Legs are straight riding "Buddy" taken at the finish of Show: the second place winner—QUIZ and sound with short cannons, flat the Trail Ride 1944, that hasn't been KID—the Reserve Champion. bone, medium length pasterns and used in the magazine yet. In the Show's Western Pleasure an appearance of overall substance. Class—in which there were 27 entries In 1942 "Buddy" placed 2nd in the The Morgan ranges from 14.1 to of all types of Western horses—shown heavyweight class and "Lady Briar" 15.1 hands with occasional entries at a walk, trot and lope on a reason- was 2nd in the lightweight. Buddy was over or under." able rein without undue restraint; second best Morgan. Glenn won Following are the results of the judged on manners, performance and Morgan classes, as judged by Mr. Wal- Men's Horsemanship award and Gail substance, the Morgan stallion ter Graham of Malvern, Penn.: won the Junior Horsemanship. "Bud- JOHN GEDDES, owned by Walter MORGAN UNDER WESTERN TACK- dy" placed 2nd in the Lightweight in (Staiiions, mares and c-eldings. Shown un- and Rheda Kane of So. Lyon, captured '44. The Bulletin gave it as 5th, but der Western tack.) (Walk, trot and can- the coveted Blue. it was corrected later. He was the ter.) 1. JOHN GEDDES, owned by Walter Again in the $400 Champion first Morgan stallion to place in the and Rheda Kane, So. Lyon. 2. RUTH- VEN'S BECKY ANN, owned by Martin Bel- Stock Horse Stake, shown at a walk G.M.I-LA. Trail Rides and he was ser, Ann Arbor. 3. RUTHVEN'S ROSA- and gallop without restraint, lope a entered and placed in several later LITA ANN, owned by Amy Lou Belser, fignre 8, run at speed and stop, turn rides by George Tardiff of Montreal. Arm Arbor. 4. SHADY LAWN'S SPICE, easily, back, and pass a rope test on owned by Barbara Groom, Detroit. 5. Yours sincerely, RUTHVEN'S MIRIAM ANN. owned by which there was a time limit—judged Bernice M. Rowell )avid Staebler, Ann Arbor. on rein, conformation, manners and Tunbridge, Vt.
November, 1952 21 LETTERS I think the Morgan Horse Club and the MORGAN HORSE Magazine, let Parasites (Continued from page 5) alone the Morgan himself, are wonder- and have derived great enjoyment ful institutions. It certainly was a (continued from page 15) from the articles, stories, letters and wonderful thing when Justin Morgan was foaled. pictures. and at sixteen weeks. I realize that Congratulations also are due to the Sincerely, this number of treatments has not powers behind the throne at the Na- Betsy Davis been customary in the past. I will re- tional Morgan Show in Northampum. Greenland, N. H. mind you, however, of our objectives My wife and I brought Donnie Mac and the time when young horses re- (Ed. note—Twilight Dandy is featured in ceive exposure to ascaris infections. and came home with two ribbons. pictorial section.) There may have been three happier We are now attempting to wipe out mid prouder individuals but I don't Turnabout ascaris infection at a given farm or know where. ranch. We intend that the treatment Dear Sir: remove the worms just before their It was a magnificent show, run to sexual maturity in an effort to stop perfection, and even we neophytes The following story is a true story continuous contamination of paddocks were made to feel perfectly at home. of a Morgan horse in New Hampshire. and pastures of ascaris eggs. Remem- ber that the average suckling in our May I, in closing, request informa- When Mary first walked through Kentucky survey had mature ascaris tion on the possibility of renting or the barn she noticed a small black infection, judged from passage of as- borrowing the motion pictures of the Morgan colt with four white stockings caris eggs in its manure, by the time Show. We are extremely anxious to and a white blaze. She noticed the it was slightly more than ten weeks see them and show them to our own horse was very thin but realized that old. The three treatments I have out- riding club as we were the only mem- with a little care since it was so young, lined should destroy the first seasonal bers of the club attending the Show. he could gain weight very fast. She infection which occurs in sucklings. If these are available I would cer- inquired about the little horse, and as You will notice, further, that the first tainly appreciate it if you would ad- it turned out, the owner said he did three treatments with carbon disulph- ise me as to how to go about obtain not want the horse and if Mary could ide have been given to the foals before ing them. fatten him up by the end of the season they are weaned. Three treatments appear necessary because the foals are Sincerely, he would let her have it. Mary asked sustaining continuous exposure to in- Dr. john P. Corley her parents if she could have it and fection. For example, the fact that we Burlington, Vermont they agreed. Appreciation Expressed remove all of the ascaris from a foal During the following summer, when it is twelve weeks of age does Dear Sir: Mary worked very hard with the horse. not mean that it will not sustain fur- This is to thank the Morgan Horse She at first could not decide on a name ther infection. At the same time, car- Club for a wonderful magazine. that suited him but she soon named bon disulphide will remove ascaris My father bought me my first horse, him "Fat an' Sleek." from the small intestine, but it will which was half-Morgan and half-Sad- not affect the younger worms which dlebred, and since then, I have bought During those months, Mary took are still in the process of migration. two more with money I earned myself. that horse everywhere she went, and I liked the Morgan so well that I sold every day she took him swimming A question frequently presented for my half-Morgan and bought a regis- with her. This did him a lot of good consideration deals with the method tered stud colt from the University of because his white stockings and blaze of handling horses before carbon di- New Hampshire. I gelded the latter were as white as snow and his jet black sulphide treatment. The action of and use him for a pleasure horse. He coat glistened. carbon disulphide upon ascaris is in- is three-years-old now and was ridden terfered with by the presence of food forty miles a day last summer on a By the end of the summer when she material in the intestine. It has been trail ride. A week ago I bought a was to return home in New Jersey, customary, therefore, in the past, to e to twenty- weanling stud colt, Twilight Dandy, she went to the owner of "Fat an' starve horses for twelv four hours before treatment. I will from Mrs. Margaret Rice in Meredith, Sleek" and told him she was boarding say that the tendency in Kentucky N. H., and I wouldn't part with either him on the train that afternoon. He now is to treat horses on full feed and of them for any amount of money. told her that after thinking it over he had decided to keep him for his son. not to starv e them before treatment. As soon as the transfer of my first It is true that such management will Morgan was recorded, the Morgan That same day, Mary returned home reduce the efficiency of carbon di- Horse Club sent me notices of their broken hearted because that man had sulphide treatment, but on the other meetings, etc., for which I am deeply not kept his promise. hand, this present schedule uses much grateful. The only reason I haven't more frequent treatment. joined is that my two horses keep me Yours truly, busy supporting them. I am still in As weanlings, horses in Kentucky high school and money doesn't grow Carol Danford receive further carbon disulphide treat- on trees. Metuchen, New Jersey ment in mid-October. The fall ascaris 22 The MORGAN HORSE
infection is not so massive as the There are a number of species of bot- On arrival in the horse's stomach, spring infection in horses. The fourth flies which affect horses in this coun- the hot attaches to the stomach lining treatment with carbon disulphide try. It appears that you have one and remains there. The adult botflies would appear as necessary in other species of botfly in this region which are active in summer time. The bots areas as it is in Kentucky. The dosage does not occur in Kentucky and that in the stomach remain in that organ used for weanlings varies from three the Kentuckians are blessed by one until the next summer. The adults to five drams dependent upon size species which does not occur in this die at the end of summer time so that and condition of the individual horse. region. no eggs are deposited on horses in fall, Further carbon disulphide treatment The presence of adult botflies is dis- winter and spring. Bots spend the should be given to young horses be- turbing to horses. The situation is winter in the stomach of horses. The tween mid-December and mid-January not quite so bad, however, as the re- results of their presence are evident in in order to attack the third series of action of cattle to warble flies. Botflies the exhibit here today. In late spring ascaris infections. At a breeding farm make horses run just the same and the bot larva e in horse stomachs re- final carbon disulphid e treatment is keep them restless and discontented. lease their hold upon that organ and administered to young horses in late Horses try to avoid having the bot- pass to the ouside of the horse in spring of their yearling year. The flies deposit eggs upon them. The manure. They then transform into dosages for these last two scheduled female botfly deposits her eggs singly adult flies in the ground. treatments will rang e from three to upon a horse hair. Occasionally, more (Cnntinued on next page) six drams, again dependent upon the than one egg is deposited upon the individual physical condition of the same hair. The different species of ************************,- horse. botflies prefer different regions of the 4( We should now talk very briefly horse's body to deposit their eggs. All -k FOR SALE about hots. Bots are not worms; they of you are familiar with the appear- Four stud colts with Plains are flies. As adults the flies are not ance of hot eggs on horse hairs. -0( King, Flyhawk, Congo and parasitic. The bot you think of when The hot egg embryonates very rap- lubilee King breeding. I say hot is an immature stage of a idly and shortly after it is deposited fly which is parasitic and lives attached contains a fully developed infective One bred mare, five years old to the stomach lining of horses. I larva. When the horse licks the egg, in foal to Plains King. discuss hots because of the fact that the bot larva gets into the horse's One three-year-old stallion 4( the drug used to treat bot infections mouth. Not all bot larvae are then by Patrick Geddes out of Lippitt is the same as the drug used to treat swallowed directly. It appears that Polly Moro, broke to fine har- ascaris infections. In the control of the majority of them attempt to reach ness. Red chestnut, light mane parasites it is well to extend the action the musclature at the base of the and tail, both hind stockings 4( of the drug wherever possible. Carbon horse's tongue. On arrival at this lo- white. disulphide is effective against both cation, the little hots rapidly burrow ascaris and hots. M. F. MEASEL into the tissues of that region and then Adult botflies do not feed and exist P. 0. Box 615, slowly work their way down the only for the purpose of reproducing Farmington, Mich. horse's throat until they reach the -k their own kind. The adult female flies * deposit their eggs directly on horses. horse's stomach the hard way. law OUR STALLION OF THE FUTURE .. . bpild/ 624,e First place weanling stallion, 1952 National Morgan Show
FOR SALE: We offer a choice from our band of three mares, two geldings, and three fillies. All aged horses have been broken to ride by chil- dren, for children, and all have been shown suc- cessfully. The fillies are now being broke to drive and ride by children. Visit us or write us your needs. Stonaire Farm Lewisberry, Pa. (10 miles southwest of Harrisburg) Contact: MRS. ROBERT R. STONER, Jr., owner Sire: Lippitt Ethan Ash Dam: Lippitt Sally Moro 2929 Rathton Rd., Camp Hill, Pa.
November, 1952 23 Parasites though prevention of infection is abso- lutely dependent upon proper treat- (Continued from preceding page) ment. I am sure that you have noticed Bots occur in young and old horses. a complete omission of reference to The place to attack bots is when they Opportunity! Opportunity! hygiene and sanitation. The reason are inside horses. The drug used to for this omission is that hygienic and remove bot infections is carbon di- management methods in themselves MAJOR CHIEF 10768 sulphide. If you follow the system of are insufficient to control parasitic in- treatment outlined for the control of fections. I am not saying that hygiene ascaris in young horses, you will con- and sanitation are not important. Sire: Major R. M. 8011 trol bots in young horses. You re- Hygiene and sanitation are logical member, of course, that I did not give parts of parasite control. Dam: Chiefs Kate x05402 you a system of carbon disulphide therapy for mature horses. Carbon- di- The control schedules I have pre- sulphide is effective against ascaris and sented are linked to the life cycle of * bots. This drug is given to adult parasites, to the seasonal incidence of horses, however, to control hots but infections, and to the sources of in- not to control ascaris because mature fection. You must now select from the A big rugged one-year-old horses very rarely carry ascaris. materials presented those methods stallion. He will sire the kind The control of bots in mature horses which are most suitable to your par- ticular undertaking with horses. In of horses you are looking for is based upon two factors which are the life cycle of the parasite and its final analysis absolute parasite control from average mares. seasonal occurrence in horses. Classic- rests with the individual owner. ally, mature horses are drenched with You must also work with another carbon disulphide immediately after individual who is the one person most the first hard frost in the fall. The qualified to help you control diseases thought here is that the hard frost will and produce and own the best horses. PLEASANT VIEW RANCH kill the adult botflies, no more eggs I refer to your local veterinarian. A J. C. Jackson & Sons will be deposited on horses, and all of number of you have indicated that Harrison, Montana the larvae in the stomach can be re- you are not able to secure veterinary moved by a single treatment. There service for your horses. I can only are two things wrong with this classical say that a shortage of graduate veteri- system. The first thing wrong with narians exists in the entire country. this system is that the first hard frost The primary concern of veterinarians in the fall does not kill all of the adult must be with food-producing animals. botflies. The second thing is that some I suggest that you make veterinarians bot larvae are inside horses but have part of your activities with horses by PRINTING AND not yet reached the location in the bringing them to meetings such as this, stomach where carbon disulphide will to your shows and by making them PUBLISHING attack them. part of your organizations. I suggest As a result, the single treatment for further, that you have not given ade- botflies does not control the infection. quate recognition to the very fine Under the classical system approx- School of Veterinary Medicine located imately half the total population of at Washington State College and to bots escapes scot-free. It is evident its facilities which exist to serve you. Complete facilities for plan- that two drenches with carbon I suggest that parasite control in this ning your advertising, printing disulphide are necessary in order to region will gain immeasurably by a and publishing needs. control hots in mature horses. I main- greater association on your part with tain that mature horses should receive Dr. Jack Dunlap, Professor of Veter- Editorial and Art departments treatment about two weeks after the inary Parasitology at the Washington available. first hard frost, and should receive a State College School of Veterinary second treatment one month later in Medicine. Possibly our plant in this order to remove the hots which were With your kind permission I now "low overhead" area can give still migrating to the stomach at the intend to sell you a book which right- you more value per dollar. time of the first treatment. fully belongs in the library of every It appears that I have now covered horseman. The author of this book is the material relating to the control of Dr. William R. McGee who is in the three most important groups of equine practice in Lexington, Ken- parasites of horses. I should say that tucky. Dr. McGee is a graduate of The EUSEY PRESS the first key to the control of parasitic Washington State College, Class of Leominster, Mass. infections is recognition of their uni- 1940. He is, in my opinion, the finest versal occurrence. Prevention of in- equine specialist in the world. In the fection is of far greater importance past year, Dr. McGee has written a than treatment of infection even series of articles entitled, "Veterinary
24 The MORGAN HORSE Notebook." These articles have ap- would be seen stepping gingerly to the Why pay fancy prices peared from time to time in The front and impudently pushing the for saddlery? Write for Blood Horse Magazine, which is pub- FREE FREE Catalog that has brute aside. If he declined her slight- saved real money for lished in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. est request, he was gracefully carried TO thousands of horsemen. Describes over 400 McGee's articles are devoted to the away on a horse stretcher. popular items ofEnglish HORSE and American "tack." entire group of veterinary activities I ship saddlery on ap- connected with breeding and raising Then school came, and the girls went proval. Write today. back to their home in California, and OWNERS "little joe" WIESENFELD better horses. The articles were written Dept. 87 Baltimore 1, Md. for horsemen just like yourselves. The I took old Silver back to his owner, articles are not concerned with what and things got pretty quiet. The occurred one hundred years ago. They winter was mild, and the hay that Dad are concerned with the best and most and I had hauled was quite sufficient. DO YOU SNOW THERE IS A efficient methods in the present day Dad had put up a "quick like" barn HALF-MORGAN REGISTRY satisfactorily serving horse owners field. While these articles were pre- over the hay, and I had chopped some since 1939? If you have a Half- pared for Thoroughbred breeders, any maples and had made a circular corral Morgan of merit write for free in horseman will find them extremely directly to the west of it-so there formation, entry blanks, etc. HALF. valuable. The unfortunate part of wasn't much to think about, and the MORGAN HORSE REGISTER. 2073 months went by with only the usual S. W. Park Ave., Suite 107, the book, however, is that it has not PORTLAND 1. OREGON yet been published as a book. It ap- "stinker" tests, and other such com- pears that some exertion on our part mon troubles of school to mark the will result in the appearance of the days. book at an earlier date. Won't you It was in the spring that I looked write to Mr. Alex Bower, Managing up from my chemistry book with Horse Magazines Editor, The Blood Horse Magazine, alarm. It was Judy Deron. When I Lexington, Kentucky, to ask that a came home on the week ends I would Per Year Sample copy of Dr. McGee's book be reserved find her fine muzzle pointing earth- Morgan Horse, monthly 3.50 .40 for your future purchase? I will say ward in a sorrowful sag. Her big American Shetland Pony that this is the finest book of its nature brown eyes constantly entertained the Journal, mo. 3.00 .35 I have seen. comfortable thought of sleep, and her Arabian Horse News, 10 issues 3.00 .35 Bit and Spur, mo. 3.00 .25 In conclusion, permit me to say feet seemed to be dragging the Rock Breeder Stockman (cattle), ma 2 00 25 that the opportunity to be present at of Gibraltar. What was wrong with Canadian Horse and Thorough- Hill-Top Stables and to observe the my little elf. This couldn't be Judy, bred, mo. 9.00 .50 splendid results of your cooperation she didn't even care to chase the dog The Chrcnicle, weekly 7.00 Florida Cattleman, mc. with Professor M. E. Ensminger has anymore. She had no temperature, 2.00 .25 she had no nasal discharge, and she Hoofs & Hems, mo. 2.00 .20 been extremely interesting. I extend Hoosier Equestrian, 10 issues 3.00 .35 my congratulations to you breeders and ate well. Yet every week end that I Horse Lover, Ed-monthly 3.00 .35 owners in this area and to Professor spent with her, I found her getting Horseman's Journal, mo. 3.00 .25 Ensminger and his students. worse. Her breathing became irregu- Maryland Horses, mo. 2.00 .25 lar and difficult, and one night as I Mississippi Stockman Thank you very much. Farmer, mo. 1.00 .15 held her close, I felt a quick, rolling National Horseman, mo. 6.00 thump in her stomach, and her sides Palomino Horses, mo. 3.00 .35 KARR began to move as if a hysterical Pacific Coast Quarter Horse, chicken were inside her-I sat down mo. 300 .35 Quarter Horse Journal 3.00 .35 quickly-inside her! Was it possible? Ranchrnan, mo. 2.00 (Continued from page 13) Not Judy, the little busy-body who Saddle and Bridle, mo. 5.00 .. never wanted to settle down. She just Stable Door, mo. 3.00 .35 I felt going on in my stomach. Judy wasn't the type. I ran to the house, Thoroughbred of Calif., mo. 3.00 .25 was mine. She was safe. I would bolted in the door and croaked, Thoroughbred_ Record, weekly 7.50 .20 mo. 1.00 .15 call her Judy Deron for that in Span- "MOM what does it feel like to be Turf & Sport Digest, mo., racing ish means, Judy from Ron. pregnant? It's hard to breathe isn't it? stories, tips, etc. 5.00 .50 And so Judy Deron came to live You get logy don't you? And what Western Horse News, mo. 3.00 .35 with us. She was more fun than a about those kicks in the side?" You Western Horseman, mo. 3.50 .35 house full of squirrels. You could lift see Judy was naturally so fat winter Rush your order for subscriptions or her up by her front feet and dance and summer that I happened to think sample copies today. All orders handled with her as if she were a dog. She she could be "expecting" all that time promptly, and acknowledged by return was so cute and lovable that she just and no one would know the differ- mail. Remit in any manner convenient to you. rolled us into curls of laughter without ence. Then I chucked myself under even trying. But little old Judy made the chin to rationalize the whole Send dime for list of many more horse known that she had a will of her own magazines and horse books. (List is sent thing-better not build such a dream, free with order.) too. If she decided she was getting better treat her 'as if she were sick, peppered too freely, her little hind end better call Ron. MAGAZINE MART, Dept. M. H . came into play. This wasn't often with It was Saturday morning, April P. 0 Box 1288 Plant City, Fla. children, but come another horse on twenty-seventh, about seven o'clock, the place and my oh! Judy Deron (Continued on next page) November, 1952 25 (Continued from preceding page) This bothered the doctor not one The Orcutt Family whit. He clung to his show horses, when I was rattled out of my cot by his rider and his post at the head of the dorm buzzer announcing a tele- (Continued from page 9) tl c. club until 1946. He died in 1950 phone call. I fell sleepily the rest of a the age of 67. the way off the covers and staggered Perhaps he never knew the lasting down the long hall to the telephone ing despite the lack of Morgan classes, booth. When I lifted the receiver I stamp he had put on the breed. Per- competing against American saddle- haps he didn't care for he clung to heard Ron's voice and three words. breds and standardbreds in open "SHE'S HAD IT!" he yelled. "Judy's his principles. But it's a lead pipe classes. Perhaps the crown of his cinch he never thought that the two gone and had a stud colt," his voice long show career was Wonderman. cracked, and I sank to the floor with camps would dwell together happily This stylish stepper, by Bennington a queer expression on my face. "She's under one roof at the home of his son out of Juno, he obtained from the had it?" And then I screamed, "YOU and daughter-in-law. government farm, and proceeded to MEAN SHE'S HAD IT!" Galloping clean up show after show. In 1939 down the corridor, I soon had the At their Orcland barn the daugh- the brilliant performer, ridden by whole second floor awake and scram- ters of his favorite stallion, Vigilant, young Bob won in open saddle com- bling about congratulating me on a great sire of dams, mate with the sons petition in Madison Square garden in new boy colt. of Ulysses to produce the horses which a big "uncut tail" class. Humane give present day Orcutts pride. Oh, but he was a peach! A real societies were driving against the honest to goodness beauty—perfect in cut-set tail and sponsored the event On the distaff side of the present every way he tipped the scales at which attracted a great field. Orcutt family, the former Ruth Dick- twenty pounds. Not one flick of son can lay claim to perhaps a longer white could I find on him. He was all Wonderman, a trophy set up in his and more concentrated devotion to over a soft, hazy, smoke color. I sat honor, is still living in Maine. Morgans than can her husband. For all day, and the next day in the box while Lyman's first love was, and still stall, and I named him Karr. It was only natural when the Mor- gan Horse club, assaying the present is, cows, Ruth, since a child has So now I've caught up with time. and striving to peek into the future, owned and loved a Morgan. Born in You are up to date on the story. Karr determined that shows must be held a family where Morgans were the is the proud little king of the place, to revive the breed, selected Dr. Orcutt favored utility and fun horse she was and does he know it. He's up there as its president. The club needed the early given one, Don Darling. Life in the pasture now, racing over the guidance of a man with show experi- for her was highlighted by the sum- hill side after Langue, my German ence and he certainly had it. So in mers in Vermont which date back to Shepherd. Of course he's the smartest 1939 came the first national at Wood- the purchase of the original Towns- colt around. He had to nozzle the stock after several years' hiatus from hend Morgan farm in 1928. There, wire fence only once to know what it the last one held at White River Junc- with her sister, the present Mrs. Anna was all about. Even in a full power tion. It was a success as were the Ela and other youngsters of their age dive toward it, he calmly banks away shows the next three years at the they spent glorious summers on the without even thinking. He's like his same place. The war intervened and picturesque trails of that state. dad—with his rolling eyes, he lowers then, when showing was again taken his head and charges the dog. They up in Windsor the influence of this Ruth started showing as a child and make a fine pair; they make a riot, too, has been more or less in the show ring chasing each other all over the field. man on the national Morgan breeding program was apparent. ever since. Although Lyman rides I sent out announcements, and Ron has with her in pair classes and handles told almost everybody on the Island Although this was obvious it was the entry in Justin Morgan perform- about Karr, and we have frequent not met with wild cheers from all. ance classes, she is the familiar figure visitors who come to admire and ex- Many objected to the saddle strain to show railbirds. They competed as claim over the offspring of Tyee, the infusion which the doctor had relied children and she confesses today that aloof black Morgan and Judy Deron, on to "pep" up his Morgans when they he and Bob were "the pair they always the impish little black Shetland. He were in competition with all-comers. tried to beat because they always won." looks as if he might be a dark chest- Few stopped to consider it was a mat- nut, but you've got me really, because ter of expedience when Morgan shows With a grin she admits that is I guess he could turn out to be any- had seemingly passed out of the likely the reasons she married him in thing. picture. The high-stepping, high- 1946. She couldn't beat the Orcutts The great idea is I've reached part tailed, flashy animals under the expert so she joined them. Today although of my goal, by the help of God and a direction of the young professional, they share in their enthusiasm for the very dear friend. Karr won't be big Bob Orcutt, cleaned up wherever they breed, she does most of the showing. enough to ride like a regular horse showed. Resentment built up to a But just as they joined forces when even when he's full grown, since he'll certain extent and the line of demarca- they married so have they merged probably be the size of a Welsh pony; tion between old and new became their ideas of what a Morgan should but he is half Morgan, and loads of more marked with adherents of one be fun, and I'm so proud of him I can't side or the other clustering tightly to- keep quiet. I've got a Morgan! gether in their respective camps. "The best of both." 26 The MORGAN HORSE in my blanket in the brush, I waited Mustang a long, sleepy hour, then the sound of climbing ponies came through the MORGAN S (Continued from Page 7) night, and I sat still, glad that I had kept the buckskin north of the water coming in. For Sale uring they would stay close 'till they The next day I stayed near camp, Particulars upon request were thirsty, fixed myself a cold bait checked my ponies' shoes for tight and and dropped off to sleep. kept them on the best feed I could find. I watched the east desert on In mid-afternoon, I stuffed my and off all day, and at times could THEIS COMPANY mouth and my shirt pocket with see the faint dots that made up the chipped beef, and taking the glasses, bunch I was after. They were within Dodge City, Kansas climbed to the skyline. Westward the a mile or so of the place they had country looked like a full brother to grazed the day before, so I reckoned that just behind me, big and rough and maybe that would be the pattern and lonely, with far away more mountains made my plans to fit. Just before sun- reaching up into a sawtooth skyline. down I saddled the buckskin, tying The glasses cut the country down to an extra lariat and a heavy, rough O'NEILL HORSE one eighth its size, throwing a sharp horse hackamore to the saddle. I put outline to things far away, and I spent a lead rope on each of the other TRAILERS an hour watching both sides and off ponies, put on my shaps and leather the end of the peninsula. I saw no Cheaper — Last Longer jacket, took a little grub with me and Easy on Horse, Car and less than five bunches of ponies. I rode on down to the water hole. The don't know how, but a man can tell Owner. Result of 25 years ponies tanked up good, and I did the making trailers a horse from a critter as far as he can same staying on my horse and drink- see him. Other bunches might be in ing from the crack in the rock. It was O'NEILL the dips and shallows or under the blue dusk when we reached the desert quiet, still cloud shadows that lay floor. Moving again in the depressions Horse Trailers gently here and there, but five bunches and along the bottoms of the washes, I Manteno, Illinois I was sure of. stopped at the first small butte, scarce- ly larger than a house, but rimmed The next day I rode, following the with a few scrub cedars. Tying the lowest of the land, riding the bottom ponies short I leaned back against a of dry washes, now and then lying rock, resting but keeping awake for on some knoll to watch the country. sounds. Nothing passed near and By evening, I had identified the colors when I judged it was mid-night, I of two bands of ponies, but no silver- got up and tied the buckskin to the tipped black was there. I rode again outer edge of the cedars by the bridle the following morning, working east reins. of the peninsula. I cut a wide arc around a bunch, taking endless time "Son," I said, "You better be here to stay low and hidden, and late in the when I come by." I slapped him on FREE BOOKLET afternoon was no more than a mile the shoulder, and he blew the old Showing our complete line of feed. and a half from them. It was the ing and watering equipment. Write right bunch, blues, blacks and dark (Continued on next page) for your copy today. greys, and one pony had a silver tail. BOTTEN BUCKET COMPANY CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO I stayed there until dark, studying the layout of the country, stamping each butte, each wash into my memory. I watched the roughness of the differ- ent stretches and the smoothness of "1113"saues you dollars! others and guessed the distance from point to point. After dark I made my That's why horsemen all across the country send to Miller's for quality merchandise. They trust us for wide arc back to the peninsula, hold- super-service and low prices! 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November, 1952 27 (Continued from preceding page) so, they ran together like a bunch of sweat. Sweat started from under my quail and started to quit the country. hat band and down the middle of my rollers through his nose as I moved Mex was not a spectacular pony, but back from the hurt in my knee. I away. he was a mustang himself and he hung tight to the Spider's mane. I My "Spider" horse gave me a sus- knew what was wanted, and as he leaned low over his neck, trying to picious look when I shinnied onto him stretched out to run, he was all busi- drive the blur from my eyes and the bareback. I didn't like it any better ness. I stayed a little to the south of nausea from the pit of my stomach. than he did, but changing a saddle in them trying to angle them north near When 1 saw a little better, the ponies the middle of a run takes time, also, where Spider was tied. The running had gained some, looking to come the less weight, the more speed. I rode was fairly smooth at first, and the hoof- across the front of me and into the the same arc as a couple of days be- beats drummed a steady rhythm. The mountain. I picked the Spider up on fore, and at the halway point I stopped action settled my excitement some, a spur, my other leg still hurting too at a clump of cedars I had noted be- and I began to ride, drawing from the much to use. He held his own and fore, proud of myself for coming onto experience of many other runs. Across was still striding long when we them in the dark. I tied the Spider a bare stretch the dust came at me in reached the butte where the buckskin short with the lead rope he had been a cloud, putting grit on my teeth and was tied. wearing around his jaw, Indian alkali in my nose. The mustangs I jerked Buck loose from his tie up, fashion, for a bridle, made the same were pulling away from me, and as grabbed the horn, and raised to the bridle for Mex with his lead rope; the land broke up into roughness, they stirrup as he started. As I swung and as I slid up on his bare back, I gained a little more; but the "Mex" across him he buried his head and reminded me of a kid going out to was still breathing easy, and they were started to pitch before I found the pasture for the milk cows. By the headed about right, so I didn't worry. other stirrup, and the cantle hit me time I reached the end of my arc I After maybe four miles they began to twice, hard. I was mad, and I swore could have used a fire, but I wouldn't lean more to the south, moving away loud and sincerely as I hauled his head take the chance even in the bottom of from where my relay was tied, and I up. I called to his attention some of a wash. The smoke or glow would was too far back to swing them. I the less lovable aspects of his person- give me away. I hunkered to the got a little bit mean with the spurs ality. I reminded him that the fur bank of the wash and waited out the then, pushing my pony all the way breeders' associations constantly ad- long, cold hour or so till morning. I out, but his best was not enough, and vertised for useless horses, and let the early sun pat me gently on the I headed him straight for the relays punctuated my remarks with the star back while I ate my cold grub, and hoping to close the gap some on rowels on my spurs, but inside me I the old tension took hold of me and Spider. The spring had gone from knew there would never be a better excitement rode high, drying my Mex's neck and he was dead on the pony for the job at hand. Buck didn't throat, tightening my stomach. rope hit when I slid from him, and have the light stride of the "Spider" The glasses showed me my bunch you could have heard him suck for horse. He was like riding an ex. strung out on a trot, probably just wind for a quarter of a mile. I slipped plosion, and all country was the same getting back from water. I wondered the loop in Spider's mouth and swung as level to him. We closed down if I were making a mistake by not on him with a mane hold wondering if hard on the mustangs, and for hitting them as they left the water I were really getting old or if the heavy the first time I was close enough to see hole, tanked up, but figured my shaps made me that slow. He sprang was chasing more than odd color. The chances were good this way. They out, scoring the ground with his shoes silvertipped stud was a handsome would still be full, and my ponies had and hardly touching his front feet for horse, maybe a thousand pounds, short been off the water for twelve cool the first three jumps. He had the coupled, medium long legs and loose, hours. speed I needed now, and I pointed him free action, a head that told of blood I led the "Mex" along the wash to the peninsula—maybe I could keep back along the line somewhere, and which angled generally toward the between them and the cedars and trailing along on the wind the thick wild ones. A coyote came around a mountain's. The Spider was plenty long, silver tail. kink in the wash, meeting us face to fast. The flats rolled by under him The buckskin was moving up stead- face, and as he streaked away, I hoped in a blur. The wind pinned the brim ily, and the stud looking back over his he wouldn't skyline himself for the of my Stetson to my head and held it shoulder was in trouble and knew it. mustangs to wonder why he was so there. Washes he should have angled He forgot about hurrying the mares, scared. A look over the side soon through, he jumped square, landing but moved on through them laying showed the ponies scattered and graz- light and sure on the other side. Ap- down tracks fast and far apart. But ing on a faint green patch not over a proaching the foothills I cut through the mighty buckskin was after him half mile away. Thirteen head I some scattered scrub, and a cedar hit now like a mad god after a sinner. counted, with a couple of spring colts. my knee, making me grit my teeth. His black feet flashed out in a great My conscience talked to me a little for turning me sick inside. I swung stride, the caulked shoes striking fire running a bunch with new colts and south along the foothills, almost from the rocks. The mares and colts heavy mares. I slipped up onto the parallel to the ponies out on the flat. scattered, letting us through, and we "little greaser's" slick black back, my The grey sage came at us tall and gained steadily on the stud. He looked shaps feeling heavy somehow, without dense, and the Spider lunged high back again, sizing us up, and headed stirrups. I started out on a trot, hop- and long, still traveling hard, but into the rough country, but he made ing to limber up my pony before they starting to pull deep for wind and a large mistake there, for the buckskin saw me, but after a hundred yards or soaking the seat of my levis with had probably stomped on more had 28 The MORGAN HORSE land than that mustang had ever seen, saddle with the other hardtwist in my and if you could ride him, he'd never hand. The stud went out and over check his stride. He lunged up over like the lash on a whip bouncing HODGES t'ae rocks at the tip of the peninsula, when he hit the ground, but he came BAD GE CO. crashing the brush snags and blocking up fast, striking at the rope. He IBS SUMMER ST. out the small cedars. Brush whipped rushed, but the buckskin moved over, BOSTON I0,MASS. against my chaps, slappei my leather letting him by, whirling to face the Wit/ FREE jacket, ani I rode, ducking and dodg- rope and setting hard again. The ,1--i:r•" REc Us ST ing to save my face. The buckskin breath sawed in and out of the stud worked for higher elevation, trying to as he fought like a trout on the end of keep above the stud and force him a line, and as I moved in toward him, down onto the flats again. Going I hoped that the hemp was worth the down the other side at a full run, he money I paid for it. He came at me, dropped from ledges that some ponies tall and mean, striking with both would refuse and many another pick front feet, but the buckskin was back- their way around, and I wondered, as ing and holding a tight line. I moved so many times before, how he stayed in again holding a small loop, and as up, and what would happen if he he struck I made my try, snaring the didn't. I wondered what got into feet and jerking the rope tight. I a man to run good saddle horses into pulled away at right angles to the the ground chasing mustangs. Some- buckskin, and the stud went down, time when I'm old and mumbling in but he came up again like a cat. He my beard, I'll try to figure that one worked to get his feet under him, out. Right now I had riding to do. thrashing hard, the rope scorched Have a Veteran's Problem? Twice, the high foot action of the through my gloves, making the Write DAV For Free Help buckskin clacked against the bottom burned leather smell like branding Boo 131, Cincinnoli 6, Ohio of my stirrups, but he was winning time. Old Buck kept dragging him the point and the stud was dropping back, choking him down; he was back down to the flats. The land pulling in no air now. I watched his gradual), smoothed out and my horse eye, seeing it glaze over; I came back H You Like Horses put rhythm to his run closing up the hard on my rope, and he went down, You Will Like gap without mercy. I took down my and I jumped to him, working fast extra lariat and hung it over the horn. against time. The sweat was in my THE BIT AND SPUR I undid the other one, leaving the end eyes and the dust. I tied all four feet tied hard and fast, and as I shook out together like shoeing a rough one. I MAGAZINE a four-foot loop, I wished again that called the buckskin up for slack and PUBLISHED MONTHLY I was a better rope hand. I trailed pulled that slack through the hondo, 1 Year $3.00-2 Years $5.00 directly behind the stud hearing the and the air sucked into the stud in Sample Copy 25c explosive breath of my horse but feel- great gasps bringing the light back to ing the power still in him. I gauged his eyes, and the trembling in his Bill Hagen the distance, swung the rope three shoulder was echoed by the exhausted Editor and Publisher times, and threw. trembling in me. Box 1458, Billings, Montana It was a good clean throw, and the buckskin was sliding with his hind The silver-tipped stud was down feet up by his shoulders as I quit the and tied to stay.
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November. 1952 29 ONCE UPON A HORSE
The End of Fear
By OLD TIMER
Once upon a time—it seems a mil- meant loss of all her faculties of move- for the bogged doe. The dogs halted lion years ago we owned a Morgan ment. This went on for months— in their lethal circling and eyed us. mare that was lacking in courage. She through an entire winter to be exact Then with one accord and with the was afraid of her own shadow. until a day late in the March of a long big shepherd in the van they headed winter. On that day we went for a toward us. We had bought her cheap—all our ride. horses came that way in those days— That was one of the few times in with the idea that we could straighten The hack road we followed had my life when I knew fear, spine-tin- her out—teach her the assurance that been plowed clean but bordering, it the gling fear. But the mare never faltered. is native to all horses. We had snow lay three feet deep topped by a Toward them she drove with great noticed the scar tissue on a hind ankle heavy crust resulting from successive desperate bounds and her courage when we bought her but only after thaws and freezes, plus an unseason- brought me realization—realization months of fruitless labor, when every- able early spring rain. The smell of that I couldn't let her down. Her de- thing else had failed and we started to early spring was in the air. The tingle vouring bounds and the speed of the snoop did we learn the reason for her of it envigorated the little Morgan and dogs on the crust brought us close to- fear. She had been hit by a car, she stepped out briskly along the gcther in a flash and only then—only badly injured and so lived in fear. Rid- woodland road. We were well into as the big shepherd settled his ing her on the highway was a night- the deep country before we heard the haunches for a leap at the mare's mare; she shivered, shook and bolted dogs. throat—only then did awareness of at the approach of every car. No mat- danger take physical shape. Quickly I News of them had been published ter how we held her, how we sat ready unsnapped a stirrup from its patented periodically in the local papers, of their with poised bat—no matter what we hook and hefted the heavy iron at the depridations, their forays into poultry did she went through the same rou- end of its two feet of leather. Then, just yards, against ill-protected sheep and tine, the shiver, shake and then the as the dog leaped we swung. The swine. The harking came closer as bolt, always sideways and over what steel,. whipped by the impact of the we rode along and the mare echoed our ever happened to be alongside, wall, arc and all my strength behind it stirrings of uneasiness. Then, as we lawn or fence. caught him- on the jaw and I felt— emerged from the woods into a large and heard—it snap like a splinter. These experiences were so terrifying clearing we saw them. There were a that a ride was not worth the price and half dozen of them, big lean powerful He quit with a howl and raced off. we were on the verge of selling her animals, a renegade collie, a German The rest of the pack hung on momen- when we came to the conclusion to let shepherd gone wrong, a big mongrel tarily and then they took, turned tail her have her way. So the next time and an airdale cross. They were in and raced off after the stricken leader. we met a car we sat quietly and threw a field near the road circling a deer. the reins on her neck—no gesture ever She had broken through the crust and Reaction set in like full dark after took more courage. She shivered as stood belly deep and helpless in the a brilliant sunset. Exhausted, deer, usual, shook—but stood. That was snow. The dogs, fast and sure on the mare and I held the field. In that one then and there adopted as standard hard crust which supported their brief strength-bereft moment we were procedure and it never failed. weight were circling her for the kill. one. Another thing she hated was deep I yelled at them and at the same The the skein snapped. The deer snow. She would paw nervously at time drove my heels into the mare. bounded of and the mare and I were the drifted white, wallow if forced Frightened, snorting and already alone, deep ,in the snow and the into it and invariably get cast and have breaking into a sweat she hesitated gathering twilight. Too beat up to to be hauled out. No amount of lead- only a moment and then plunged into act, I sat numbly on her as with calm ing, handling or teasing could rid her the hide-tearing, crusted snow. In assurance she turned and made her of this foolish phobia—that snow great bounds, hard to sit to, she drove way back to the road. 30 The MORGAN HORSE In many ways the world is showing cision and through the two openings signs of achieving maturity. Nowhere had threaded a string, then a cord is this more evident than in man's and finally the one-inch rope. The attitude toward dumb creatures. Cruel- Stable skin knitted tightly about the hemp ty to animals, save in isolated sadistic and seemed to cause no discomfort cases, is rare. Better food and shelter, to the animal. However, if the horse less use, greater medical attention is ,1-1i/n,t4 showed signs of being "puny," the the rule today. So it is today that man rope was jerked back and forth a few treats his horses, cattle and pets with times until blood started to flow. a greater measure of affection and When it stopped, usually "when it kindness and sees in them a semblance He was a man of many theories. felt like it" and with no assistance of companionship. With a yardstick he would measure, from Mr. Conk the "punyness" ap- But in the days of 50 years ago by a system of triangulation, the parently had been removed. We kept much of this was lacking. We can length, bend and set of a hind leg a close eye on the animal for a num- recall horses overworked, underfed which he claimed was unfailing proof ber of years but we are sorry to report and severely punished and otherwise of a horse's speed. We cannot say that his general state through all that maltreated. It is with the last item authoritatively just what the system period was "puny." that we are concerned in this column. was nor do we know whether it This is no argument pro or con for Because the horse was such a util- proved accurate. But it was one of blood-letting. We are merely trying itarian animal, upon which civiliza- Mr. Cook's beliefs. to point out that detrimental or tion depended to so great an extent Another was blood-letting. beneficial it would not be tolerated to- much thinking and experiment was day. No animal can long be the butt devoted to perfecting him. In this His driving horse was a low-slung, of some crackpot's weird theories. field there was good, honest endeavor. ratty little number with no claim to About the time that the practice gets It was also liberally sprinkled with distinction save the piece of one-inch noised about the SPCA or a local cranks. rope growing out of either side of his humane officer is onto it and court belly. We can recall vividly the first action follows. One of these comes to mind out of day we spotted it. "Why" we imme- the fuzzy past. His name was Cook diately wanted to know and thus we Mr. Cook's horse never attained the and he lisped. A little wizened man fell into his trap for the question gave epitome of equine health through he was over-conscious of his speech him an excellent opportunity to ex- barbarous methods. Your present day affliction and consequently had a pand his theory. owners scorns to attempt them. In the healthy inferiority complex. When he first place he values the animal, has walked he slunk. When he spoke he He explained that when he first sense enough to know it must be cared hid his mouth with his hand. He was acquired the horse he was "sort of for expertly to have it at its best. the Mr. Milquetoast of 1900—that is puny" so he had made a small incision in all things save horses. On them he near the bottom of the barrel just back In the second place he thinks too was a fancied authority and he spoke of the girth. At a point some six much of his horse to hurt it willingly A.: with conviction. inches away he had made another in- for a purpose of which he is not sure.
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FOR SALE: Purest Morgan Blood Lines. FOR SALE: Bar-T Twinkle, six months Handsome two-year bay stallion and FOR SALE: Katie Twilight 08228 bay filly coming two. Trained to drive. Well- old. Chestnut filly by Orcicmd Leader and three-year chestnut gelding, out of Ash- out of Lady Field. A real show prospect. brook daughter. Well broken, excellent mannered and gentle for anyone to han- dle. Excellent trail and pleasure horse STEPHEN P. TOMPKINS. Bar-T Farms, prospects. Moderate price. WESTFALL Rowley, Mass. FARM, RD, Port Jervis, N. Y. prospect. Will be large and suitable for a man to ride. Reasonably priced. MAR- FOR SALE: Registered Morgan stallion GARET VAN D. RICE, Rockbottom Lodge. FOR SALE: Reg. half-Morgan gelding by Ambition, sire Scott's Hero. Bay, con- Meredith, N. H. COPPERFIELD. Gentle, being ridden. Now nected star and wide strip with both hind 2 14 yrs. old. Should mature about 15.1. fetlocks white. Foaled April 30, 1950. Ex- FOR SALE: Registered Morgan mare, $200. Also: LITTLE JAMBE M.H.R. 10727. cellent conformation. Showy, clever and five years old. bay. 15.1 hands. Perfectly Red bay yearling stud, four white ankles. very fast. TIM MACKUBBIN, Red Moun- broke to ride and also drives. Safe for star. Gentle, excellent type S400. Both tain Road. Arlington. Vermont. lady or child. Ribbon winner at last Na- sired by JAMBOREE 10093. Gelding out tional show. Priced reasonably. MARILYN of SEALECT mare, stud out of ARCHIE 0 PHOTOGRAPHY by Barbara Stone. CHILDS, Rinatown, Pa. mare. MARTHA MOORE, PRATTVILLE, 41 Franklin Avenue. West Medford. Mass. ALABAMA. Tel. 4232. Show pictures and action shots. For ap- FOR SALE: Two registered Morgan pointment and price call Mystic 8.9810. mares, bay and a chestnut with white markings, both suitable for women or FOR SALE: Black Ink 10072. four-year- REGISTERED MORGAN COLTS. Fillies children to ride. Also two weanling colts. old black Morgan stallion. Gentle, western for sale, Lippitt and Archie 0 bloodlines— bay filly and chestnut stud, both with broke, wall-reined. Mansfield, General Mid Elate Morgan Horse Farm, DeMott white markings.. R. W. VAN PELT. Route Gates breeding. By Squire Gates out of Road. Middlebush N. J., phone East 4. Box 146, Kirkland. Washington. Tele- Linsley's Lynella. $350. PAT JENSEN, Millstone 8-2646. phone Kirkland 22.3720. Route 2. Box 312, Elgin, Illinois. November. 1952 31 * * * * * * * * *
G.M.H.A. Fall Foliage Drive With Two Morgan Stallions in The Foreground piw,,J. pa ,ii, N.E. Morgan Horse Association Fall Meeting