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■MIr AN, Vermont Morgans Per Year Sample Morgan Horse, monthly 3.50 .40 American Shetland Pony By the late DANIEL L. CADY of Burlington, Vt. Journal, mo. 3.00 .35 Arabian Horse News, 10 issues 3.00 .35 I notice in my car, when nearing She doesn't need a feed of clover Bit and Spur, mo. 3.00 .25 A road that tips up toward the sky, Each time she straightens out to The Chronicle, weekly 7.00 The chafleur opens up his gearing draw, Breeder Stockman (cattle), mo 2.00 25 And spurts like thunder on the high, Canadian Horse and Thorough- She always has some grit left over, bred, mo. 4.00 .50 It's quite a thrilling engine feature, 2.00 .25 She always saves some air to paw. Florida Cattleman, mo. Although I'm half disposed to swear Hoofs & Horns, mo. 2.00 .20 It's copied from that nervy creature, How well she wears a premium ticket! Horseman's Journal, mo. 3.00 .25 And up-and-coming Morgan mare. How well she stood the battle blare! Hoosier Equestrian, 10 issues 3.00 .35 The boys that stopped the charge of Horse Lover, bi-monthly 3.00 .35 Few petrol charioteers are giving Pickett Stable Door, mo. 3.00 .35 The "go-by" to the Morgan blood, Each took along a Morgan mare. Maryland Horses, mo. 2.00 .25 Nor is the yoke of oxen living Mississippi Stockman So here's to Phillips-bold and brainy, Farmer, mo. 1.00 .15 That's towed a Morgan through the National Horseman, mo. 6.00 mud; The Morgan king of Windsor street. Palomino Horses, mo. 3.00 .35 In summer's heat or winter's rigor He knows as well as George Delaney Quarter Horse Journal 3.00 .35 The Morgan "spurt" always there. The old time Morgan can't be beat. Pacific Coast Quarter Horse, is mo. 3 00 .35 No horseflesh cuts a finer figure, He's come from Dixie with his dollars To boost the breed that's getting Ranchman, mo. 2.00 By Crackle! than a Morgan mare. Saddle and Bridle, mo. 5.00 rare, Thoroughbred of Calif., mo. 3.00 .25 Most any man and every woman And when a real Vermonter "Hollers" Thoroughbred Record, weekly 7.50 .20 Will tell you 'bout a Morgan's eye; He hands him out a Morgan mare. Turf & Sport Digest, mo., racing It's so emit with life, so human, stories, tips, etc. 5.00 .50 The Morgan strain' should mount, A bit of fa•-old' Arab splendor mo. 1.00 .15 Still shown upon her dappled flanks; Western Horse News, mo. 3.00 .35 not die. Western Horseman, mo. 3.50 .35 Our folks should rise from lay to I'm pretty sure the witch of Endor Rush your order for subscriptions or Pownal, Bestrode a Morgan on her pranks, sample copies today. All orders handled From Burke to Bridport - every- But long upon our hillsides thriving, promptly, and acknowledged by return where - She's like the folks our hillsides mail. Remit in any manner convenient And take a hand, like Chauncey bear- to you. She's hard as nails for work or driving Send dime for list of many more horse Brownell magazines and horse books. (List is sent To save the Morgan horse and The proud, Green Mountain Mor- free with order.) mare. gan mare. MAGAZINE MART, Dept. M. H. P. 0. Box 1288 Plant City, Fla. * * * * * * * * * * For Sale

This stallion is an outstanding show horse with excellent Saracen No. 9615 action and a great model Morgan. Foaled May 12, 1945 His record speaks for itself. He is the present N. H. reserve state champion and over the past three years has won ever ninety per cent of his classes including many Sire: Upway King Benn No. 8246 championships. Dam: Arissa No. 04669 By Mansfield 7255 A change of occupation forces me to sacrifice this horse for $1000. Color: Red Chestnut Further information gladly furnished upon request.

CLYDE TAYLOR Franconia, N. H.

OCTOBER 1952 3 Table of Contents

SPECIAL FEATURES (atom to Vermont Trail Ride 6 Fosse Partout 10 The Control of Parasites in Horses 14 the editom Untamed Morgan 15 Illinois State Fair 19 Michigan State Fair . 18

Fan For Ernie Dear Sir: Regular Features 4 I should like to renew my subscrip- Letter to the Editor 5 tion to your fine magazine and par- Editor's Comments 12 ticularly look forward to more articles Pacific Northwest Association 13 by 'Doc' Ern Pedler of Utah. Names in Pedigrees 19 His stuff is right up my line and Minnesota Morgans 20 has helped to strengthen a long cher- Alegheny Notes New Englund News and Notes 21 ished desire to seek my career in the Once Upon a Horse 30 cattle country of North America and Hints 31 this is partly the purpose of my let- Stable ter. I should be very grateful if you would please be so kind as to let me know if you consider it at all possible Officers of the Morgan Horse Club for a South African to obtain work President MERLE D. EVANS of this kind in the states or in Canada. Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio I have been given to understand that FREDERICK 0. DAVIS it may be necessary to secure employ- Vice-President Windsor, Vermont ment of some kind before entrance Secretary FRANK B. HILLS into your country is permitted. 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. I am not afraid of hard work and Treasurer WHITNEY STONE feel that ranch life would suit me well. 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. I am keenly interested in working with animals and would like to live in a cattle country where the horse can never be altogether dispensed with. I The Morgan Horse Magazine should be quite willing to work for my keep until such time as I might be Vol. XII October, 1952 No. 9 considered capable,,,of better employ- ment. A Monthly Hoping for your kind consideration, The Official Publication of THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated I remain, 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. Yours faithfully, Publication Office: Hugh Dent Leominster, Mass. 71 Ridge Road Publisher Otho F. Eusey Scottsville, for The Morgan Horse Club, Inc. Piermaritzburg, Editor Sumner Kean Natal, S. Africa Good Sport CONTRIBUTING EDITORS C. Fred Austin Dana Wingate Kelley Mabel Owett Dear Sir: Helen Brunk Greenwalt Dr. Russell E. Smith Several months ago the "Editor's SUBSCRIPTION RATES Comments" column dealt with good One Year 53.50 Two Years 55.50 Three Years 59.00 sportsmanship. In the same column of the September issue, we have read THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly by THE with interest his acclimation of the MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. 1952 National Morgan Horse Show at Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster. Mass. Entered as second class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. its new location in Massachusetts. The whole column fairly breathes Copyright 1952 by The Morgan Horse Magazine the satisfaction of one who—like our- His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, selves—felt the show should have re- mained in Vermont. In our humble and his countenance enforces homage. (Continued on page 5) Kze, .Atemiu/2/ The Editor's Comments OUR COVER Years ago we read a book about the building of a barn. The author was Walter Edmunds, for whom we have great admiration, and the tale was an enthralling one embodying well-researched data of that long-gone clan—the professional barn-framer. As we recall the building was framed on the ground without recourse to blueprint. Its heavy oaken sills, plates and corner posts were hewn with broad- axe and adze so accurately that at the day of the raisin' the massive walls rose surely, impelled by strong arms and pike pole until they stood erect. Atop them sprang the rafters and webbing and when the final "green" nail of raw oak was driven into its crooked connecting hole in the ridgepole the designer climbed to the topmost peak and stood erect--on his head. Such was the story of a barn-building in the day of our forefathers—a day of mighty hewing, lifting and grunting accompanied by deep draughts of rum and a huge dinner. The barn was made big—it had to he to house 50 head of cattle, horses, young stock and Photo by Carleton W. Patriguin enough roughage to carry them through the winter. Our cover, this month, is in honor Such was not the case in the erection of our own modest stable but the of the annual 100-mile ride at Wood- :ffort, planning and grunting which accompanied its birth and growth had stock, Vermont. much in common with the herculean efforts of our ancestors. The group of three riders are left A year ago we bought a house we had tried to own for more than 20 years. to right: Mrs. Ruth Orcutt on A modest cottage on a hilltop, it differed little from many other old houses in Townshend Lady Sensation, Roy Hall this New England city save for one detail—its front door abutted on 20 miles on Windcrest's Delight and Jane Clark the of the finest bridle trails in the East. It was our house—it had to be from on a gelding by Ulendon. days when we first laid eyes on it. So, with such determination it followed that one day we owned it'—owned it in all its delapidated-pre-Revolutionary LETTERS glory. Come spring we had access to it and followed months of restoring, in- (Continued from preceding page) stallation of heating, plumbing, lights, insulation—an enthralling, wallet-wreck- ing time indeed. But at long last came the day of occupancy of relaxation from opinion this column is the epitome of the terrific drive of rebuilding. A moment only to catch our breath and then, good sportsmanship. In other words, looming large in our cosmos, came the realization of why we had ever bought we think our Editor is a "good sport." it—to enjoy better our hobby, horses. Sincerely, Heretofor we had owned "places" with barns designed for other purposes. Eleanor and Jay Kyle We had made them over, altered, added and repaired. But none had proven Boyertown, Pa. entirely satisfactory. One was too low. Another was too damp. A third gave out only onto a tarred road. This then was our opportunity to have a barn we Stallion Needed had always dreamed of. We had been victims for years of big barns—barns capable of housing eight Dear Sir: to ten horses. The result was we had owned enough to fill the building and, Could you please give me some in- as a result, had gone nearly broke. This barn was to be a modest affair, two formation on some of the Morgan stal- box stalls only with room enough for hay, bedding, feed and tack. lions in and around Houston? My A 20 by 30 structure, we tucked it into a nearby slope. When the area was two mares are ready to be bred and graded flat we had a trench-digger scoop out a ditch three feet deep and a couple I should line to breed them to Mor- wide. Into this. we dumped an un-needed stone wall and slopped in concrete gans. grout until it was flush with the surface. Atop this we erected a concrete block Sincerely, wall four feet high in the back and a foot and a half in front. At this writing Gary M. Reynolds we are framing the structure. There is an eight-inch plank bolted onto the wall. 156 Rockleigh Place Atop it is a two by four base strip and studs set every two feet to give slightly Houston, Texas more than eight feet of rear room in the stalls. The stalls are 10 by 10. The bedding bin is six by ten. The feed room Improving equipped with steel grain boxes and including a tack cabinet is the same Dear Sir: size. There is additional room on the first floor for cart and trailer and over- head room for hay. Bedding can be dumped in from a truck without shoveling. I certainly think a lot of your maga- received 11, The floors are clay atop crushed rock and stone and are drained with four-inch zine. The first few issues I pipe. The outside walls are matched vertical hoarding; the interior is the same weren't too good. But as I went on as are the ceilings. Stall windows are set high to keep drafts off sweating horses. they got better. In short it is compact, easy to maintain and gives maximum comfort to two I was disappointed in not winning animals. a- c.o!t in the colt contest, but my black It is a far cry from the Mohawk Valley barns Edmunds described. But it mare, Flicka, (which I am told is half- fits our times, our conception of what a horse requires, and our pocketbook. By Morgan) is going to have one some- providirig—free—the labor of one man and a boy the structure will cost less than time in May. My father seems to $750. That is our barn. The raisin' is a continuing affair—as is the solid think the stallion (which is black) is satisfaction derived. (Continued on page 15)

OCTOBER 1952 5 Vett/not/a 100-Mile Trail Ride

Modern Day Version of How The y carried the News from Ghent to Aix -- News of Mor gan Supremacy .

Years ago and far away Browning No, Browning, never having lived lovers organized the Green Mountain wrote the story of the first trail ride: in New England could not envisage Horse Association. The purpose of How They Carried the News from what trials New England could dream the new organization was to en- Ghent to Aix. up for horse and rider—testing jour- courage the raising and use of horses On that momentous journey, chron- neys on which it did no good merely in Vermont and to develop a system icling the middle ages Flemish victory, to lean forward and tell your Roland of bridle paths. which saved their country from the that he was a "horse without peer." It was really in 1919 that the state's invading Spaniards, three horses These modern day horses did not great riding possibilities first attracted started out. Of two of them little is gallop through the night. They attention, when the U. S. Remount written save that they passed out on travelled over trails where it would be Association sponsored a 300-mile en- the trip but of Roland, who made the suicide to venture after dark—almost durance ride, to find the type and trip there is much—much including suicide were they not rightly trained breed of horse best suited to army the fact that the beseiged city managed to travel in full daylight. use. Vermont was selected for the to gather from soupcons here and there No, the 100-mile Vermont trail ride first test. From then on, the state be- the last measure of wine and down has no counterpart in history. Sure, came known for its great riding ad- Roland's recumbent throat they poured there was the pony express with its vantages. These army endurance rides it. mad arrow-ridden relays. But horses were tried in other states; but the Browning was never an accurate poet then galloped only a short distance sponsors eventually returned to Ver- and we choose to overlook this poetic and then rested while iron-crotched mont because of the state's ideal rid- license—never having sat, booted and riders sped along on fresh mounts. ing conditions. The enthusiasm spurred with a horse's head in our The Vermont ride—the ride of the evoked by these rides marked the be- lap while we poured cooking sherry good Dr. Johnson—is something more. ginning of the Green Mountain Horse down his neck. Our sole experience Not only does it prove equine super- Association. in this respect was squatting on a iority but the measure of man's ability stepladder while we tried to get colic to get along with his horse. When The Association owes its existence remedy into their faces the while they the victors—man and mount—ride and growing success to the late Ethel belched it back at us. across the finish line the required Clement Field of Mendon, daughter of But that is neither here nor there. time; when the horse has been judged a former Vermont governor and an The fact that Browning muffed his sound and able despite the ordeal— enthusiastic horsewoman. She had reporting of the carrying of such mo- then indeed has the Vermont ride seen the old army endurance rides and mentous news a distance of some 30 proven the reason for its existence. had taken part in some. Her exper- miles is not going to lead us astray in ience in these rides convinced her that telling you of. how in this year of Gone are the days when horses there was no place like Vermont for 1952, a small Morgan horse carried the were ridden to death—when the ani- riding. Army riders agreed with her; good news of Morgan supremacy for mal was not only transportation but but horsemen on the whole knew little two 40-mile days and topped it with communication means itself. Gone about these roads. Ethel Field ob- 20 more on the third. are the years when a horse must be tained approval and cooperation of the We shall not bore you with items galloped into the ground to satisfy a State Road Commission; then started such as "I cast off each jackboot and city's yearning for news. Instead we an organization to back her idea. tore off each spur" in the cleanly-New have today the kindly, humane and Horsemen throughout the state joined England story of a tough little animal understanding methods of fitting man with her. She started with an ambiti- climbing up hills that would have and horse into combination of en- ous plan of a statewide system of bri- curled Roland's hair and sliding down durance and cooperation to prove the de trails. The Road Commission declines that would have left him merit of the one and the understand- helped her map out routes. She and her nothing to sit. on when he received ing of the other. friends marked the routes with arrows the accolade of the grateful citizenry Bridle paths had their start in Ver- and issued a guide book of directions, of Aix. mont in 1926, when a group of horse (Continued on page 8) 6 The MORGAN HORSE Max, Morgan gelding. sweepstake winner. Owner•trainer. Mrs. Katherine P. Colon, receives Morgan award from Frank B. Hills. Secretary of the Morgan Horse Club. (Continued from page 6) 90's, we salute all as winners who com- plete this gruelling test. These riders and their mounts occupy a unique which listed all stops for lunch and place in equine history of which they overnight. can well be proud. Dr. Earle Johnson of Rutland, one The Show stable of the Ted Davis' of Vermont's most enthusiastic horse- of Windcrest farm was well represent- men, has been president of the Asso- ed by Windcrest's Delight, a beautiful ciation for the past twenty years and four-year-old filly ridden by that vet- has been instrumental in the pro- eran trail rider, Roy Hall, who rode gressive growth of the organization. the first ride years ago, and has the distinction of riding a two-year-old For years we have heard of, and safely through on one ride. This was read of the Vermont 100-Mile Ride. a combination which had the respect We had admired the winners, of all. and noted with pride the records of those sturdy little Morgans. This year The Townshend Morgan Farms we answered some of the questions in were again back with a good mare, in our mind concerning this unusual Townshend Sealois ridden by Pat event, and enjoyed parts of it through Hallquist. The veteran Sadwin again the eyes of a newcomer and tenderfoot. made the 50 mile "B" or Pleasure ride with her young owner, Nancy Eh. Arriving in Woodstock in the holi- Orcland Farm was represented by day atmosphere is in itself an exper- their six-year-old mare, Townshend ience. This quaint old village, the Lady Sensation. All remember her site of so many early Morgan tales is rider-owner Ruth Orcutt, as the former indeed unique. Progress had quietly Ruth Dickson who rode Sadwin on passed it by, the railroad made its last her famous rides a few years back. run into town several years ago. No Again we have a Morgan-rider com- super-highway came to take its place. bination which was early recognized The town draws in the latchstrings at as a favorite, as evidenced by the way sundown. A peaceful quiet night is some of the inexperienced riders marred only by the "furriners" who watched the pace set by Ruth and talk horse until the wee hours of the Roy Hall. morning. Then the morning shift of Sandy Hunt, winner of the Junior Stable award, atop Archie's Nekomia. the only The .Morgans had the distinction of hardy riders take over as they begin stallion in the ride. to stir and care for their mounts long having the only stallion in the ride, Nekomia's Archie, a nice seven-year- before cockcrow. gans. Good dispositions and easy rid- old stallion owned by Peter Hunt of ing qualities made them favorites of Five a. m. finds these riders in the New Jersey, and ridden by his ex- the crowd. barn to feed and check their mounts, perienced 16-year-old daughter, Sandy. The race is not to the swift, nor (only the veterinary, and judges with Sandy had been riding at 5 a. m. each the battle to the strong ... but time officials have been allowed in since morning this summer getting ready and chance happeneth to the all." So nine the night before) then a for the ride. hasty breakfast followed by the weigh- said the prophet, and certainly there ing in of each rider with his equip- is an analogy here. In this instance Gene Timmons of Malone, N. Y. ment at 6 o'clock. time and chance is that complete had his nice gelding Babe's Delight harmony of horse and rider which is which combines the Lippitt with the No horse may leave his stall until to be found only with a well-bred government breeding. This 15-2 the officials make the call at 6:30. horse and the experienced rider who Morgan is truly a trail horse to satisfy Then each rider mounts and trots have become as one, through the daily the desire of any man who wants a off in front of the judges, who check training schedule maintained by the "big" Morgan. for lameness. There is no opportunity contestants. Timmons rode through the three- to "work out" any stiffness or lame- day event unaware that while in Ver- Motoring through those rugged ness and the judges' word is final. mont his barn and two other Morgans Vermont mountains, one watches Noticeable lameness means the end of were destroyed by fire. Because of that horse and rider's hopes for this horses scale mile-high cliffs which would cause even a mountain goat to his interest in the ride his wife re- year. frained from notifying him until after reconsider; continually going on and the ride was over. Morgans, Apaloosas, Thoroughbreds, on, up and down, with seldom a Quarter-horses, Walking Horses, and chance to walk. Here the rider does Last year's winner, Tarik's Golden Arabians, with the ever present grades not walk his horse down hill. No, Lass, that beautiful gold chestnut means more than 50 horse start the to compete the prescribed 40 miles mare, who has also done well in the first day. Everywhere the horsemen in seven hours, as they must do the show ring, was present with her and embryo horsemen commented on first two days, does not allow time for owner rider Phyllis Taylor of Bellows the quality and beauty of the Mor- this. With the temperature in the Palls, Vt. 8 The MORGAN HORSE The winner of the lightweight divi- daily ride throughout the winter but cess other than general riding, good sion who went on to win the sweep- come April he was put to harder condition—and a Morgan. "They stakes by taking over the heavyweight work. His six to nine miles a day are wonderful," she says. "I rode top horse, a grade Thoroughbred, was were doubled but his rations, six quarts Max a thousand miles since April and a registered Morgan gelding, Max, of crushed oats and two of bran, re- the trail ride was no strain for either son of Cotton Hill's Choice, the famed mained the same. of us. It was fun. I am very happy. Brunk breeding. Nine years old, Broken to western tack which is still "No. Max is not for sale." standing 15.1 and weighing and even used on him, Max had shown ground * • • 1000 pounds this fine animal came eating propensities at a jog. This gait Yes, we enjoyed the 1952 trail ride; through the tough three day test in was good for five to six miles an hour like its predecessors it was a success, perfect shape. and was easy on both horse and rider. not from the standpoint of proving His owner-rider, Mrs. Katherine P. On no day of his training did he do the superiority of any line of breeding, Colon of Athol, Mass., was particular- more than 25 miles and never that but of developing horsemen. Our ly elated at her horse's win, achieved distance in succession. congratulations to Dr. Johnson and in his third try at the title. Three "I didn't train for the hills as much his assistants as they continue to de- years ago, the year she acquired him, as I did other years," she explained. velop good clean Americans who be- he placed third and won the Morgan "Although I missed this special train- lieve in sportsmanship such as is found award, as of course he did this year. ing on some of the mountains his in so few countries today. Last year he placed eighth. His rela- general condition was so good that it tively poor showing, Mrs. Colon be- overcame any deficiencies on that lieves was due to a fall the pair suf- score. He has an easy-going disposi- fered a month previous. tion and other horses passing him do Complete Results Of Trail Ride This year she decided she would not bother him. That helped too." Will Be Found On Page 29 make the big try. Max got his regular Mrs. Colon has no recipe for suc- Gene Timmons. Mayor of Malone, N. Y., on Babe's Delight. Warren Patriquin, photographer, on Dyberry Buddy, Parade registered Morgan gelding who placed 9th in the Heavyweight Class winner at Green Mountain Morgan Horse Show. Division. "Passe partout. Know what it "I was only a youngster then. It place. Most of the latter were on means?" was my first big job .. . pasture, mares with their colts, young We were sprawled on the plank But here is his story: stock and retired veterans. bench in front of his big training sta- Only a youngster—but what a But on the second day of enforced ble, Peter Roche and I, that July day youngster, twenty, tough in mind and idleness he spotted a neat little horse when he interrupted me as I described muscle and the match of any horse in a distant pasture. For want of cardboard backing for some horse he'd met. Ambitious, eager, a hard- something better to do he caught up prints. worker, he was not at all surprised a saddle and bridle and, with a half Know what it means? when the Big Chance came as show bucket of oats, made his closer acqu- "Sure," I replied. "When you take rider and manager of a string of aintance. the picture, the frame and the mask- horses in a famous Canadian show Even as he caught and bridled him ing board and bind the whole thing stable. He'd packed his trunk and Roche saw that he was small—light of together with tape." grabbed a train. bone and only a little over 15 hands "Mebbe so," he grudgingly ad- A livery rig took him to the stable tall. But something about his bright mitted. "But there's another mean- but it was not until he had paid the eye and smoothly coordinated limbs ing—a better one." driver and seen him leave that he took his fancy. Mounted he found Passe partout means something that found he was alone. Gradually it the little gelding a decent hack. He passes, everywhere. Even the diction- dawned on him that the crew was galloped well and when the rider ary will tell you that. But I didn't away on the show circuit—the best shook him loose on a flat stretch he learn that from a dictionary. I learned horses, tack and equipment were showed an amazing turn of speed. it in Canada in the 90's. I learned it missing. It was four days before they He rode him again the next day from a horse and a man. The man's returned—four days of idleness which and during the course of the after- name doesn't matter. But the horse's drove him to inspect in minute detail noon headed him at a small fence. His name was Passe Partout." every stall, field and animal on the little mount took it easily. He wasn't

PASSE PARTOUT -- Passing All Others

By SUMNER KEAN

.... "be caught up a saddle and bridle and with some oats made his closer acquaintance." an experienced jumper but was even better—a natural. Roche took him over a few more jumps in the next two days. It was always the same— a quick run and a lift in stride—and over. Then the show crew returned and for the next few days Roche was the proverbial beaver as he worked out a large string of young horses. A week passed before he had occasion to talk to his boss about the little horse. "0, him," was the answer to his query. "Belongs to the station agent. He got him for a freight bill when they couldn't find the owner and the horse has been here ever since: about four months." A week later Roche drove to town on an errand and made a point of looking up the station agent. He in- troduced himself and mentioned the horse. The agent, a young man, brightened at Roche's compliments but admitted he didn't know what to do with the horse. "What's he good for?" he asked, but Roche couldn't tell him. Good little . . "always the same—a quick run and a lilt in stride—and over." hacks were a dime a dozen in western Canada. The horse wouldn't bring enough to square the railroad man for what he had in him. As a hunter he Cat-like he never seemed to get in gave the word. The horses, there was too small—too light. wrong. He raced at a hurdle and took were fifteen of them, started in a off without hesitation—a run and scramble, hurdled in a kaleidoscope of "Tell you what I'll do," he said. "In jump horse if ever there was one. color past the stands and poured, in a my spare time I'll gallop him a little variegated cloud over the first jump. and then get him used to some big Finally, after weeks of schooling Then, and only then, did they discern fences. He may have enough stuff Roche thought him ready and told their little horse half a length out of for hurdle racing. If he shows any- the agent. With the latter's consent the pack and heading strongly for the thing you can pay me for my time out he entered him in a steeplechase. As next barrier. In a hushed worry at of his winnings. Fair enough?" he neither he nor Roche had money left this slight advantage they saw Roche asked. for a rider after paying the entrance lean for the hurdle and saw their fee, the young horseman got his boss's Fair, indeed the agent thought it colors fly first over the brush. Their permission and listed himself for the and so it was agreed. horse landed with his usual cat-like mount. But Roche was no altruist. Good assurance and took a commanding horseman that he was he recognized Racing over hurdles in Canada lead. He never was headed. Jump Thoroughbred blood even when more than a half century ago was no after jump he took with unhurried diluted and the little horse's speed and pink tea. The favorite usually had a grace but undiminished pace. Foot handiness seemed solid insurance on rough time of it—a bump at a take- upon foot he piled his lead. When being paid for his time. off, a swerved cutoff on landing or a he rose over the last barrier it seemed ages before the second horse came up. Summer evenings he worked him. jockey unseated by the simple ex- He headed into the stretch running First it was long rides. Then long, pedient of "giving his stirrup a lift." easily and Roche eased him down to slow gallops. Then a fast mile or But Roche ha.l come up the hard way win by a dozen lengths. two—or three or four. The little fel- and because his horse was unknown low held up wonderfully. He was a figured he'd have little trouble. He was His young owners clung weakly to stayer—his short back attested to right. each other in speechless relief. Un- that—game as a rooster. Dressed in their best the station known to Roche they had pledged In between his hard miles he was agent and his wife watched Roche their meager household furnishings schooled in a chute over gradually saddle and ride to the starting line. for enough money to place a sizable heightened jumps. His gameness was Quivering with nervous hope they bet on their pride's nose. The realiza- never more manifest. "He'd tackle a made their way to the grandstand tion of what this wager—at long odds house if you aimed him at it," the where they clutched hands in a bitter stable help enthusiastically boasted. ecstasy of excitement until the starter (Continued on page 27) OCTOBER 1952 11 Northwest

MORGANS

By R. W. VAN PELT, JR.

From left to right: Star Gates. Miss Joann Erlingson up. and King of Bronze. Miss Gladys Koehne, owner of the pair up. Miss Koehne is also drill mistress of the Westernairs, first all•girl drill team in the state of Washington.

Received a very nice letter from of Wenatchee, Washington, held their Louise D. Bates of Arlington, Wash- second annual horse show. Listed atchee, Washington; 2. Beau Jcau- ington, telling me of the birth of very among the events for the second sea- Lex Dulling, Port Angeles, Washing- nice black filly with white markings son running was the Morgan per- ton; 3. Star Gates—Gladys Koehne, and sired by her wining stallion Skagit formance class ridden to western Bothell, Washington; 4. Montie De Vashon. It was his first registered equipment and boasting a field of Jarnette—B. F. Fluty, Tacoma, Wash- Morgan filly. some twelve registered Morgan mares ington; 5. Nella's Dobbin—Dr. C. * * * and stallions. The blue went to a Dietrich, Tacoma, Washington. * * * In the latter part of May, we re- newcomer in horse show circles, the ceived a pleasant surprise in the form liver chestnut stallion Sundust, owned THE WESTERNAIRS, INC. OPEN of a bay filly, our first Morgan foal by Ira Cochran of Walla Walla, Wash- HORSE SHOW sired by our young stallion Gayman ington, and ridden by his trainer Or- Morgan people secured a class in and out of the old grand champion mand Gage also of Walla Walla. Plac- the Westernairs first annual horse mare, General Ben's Joy. We now ings in the class are: show held July 26th and 27th at the have another foal by Gayman, this CLEARBROOK OPEN HORSE Silver Lade Horsemen's Center, Ever- time a chestnut stud colt out of my SHOW et, Washington. The Westernaires old show mare, Illawana Jo. With are the first all-girl drill team in the Seattle, for the first time in its horse these new handsome additions we are state and have as their drill mistress eargerly looking forward to next show history played host to a Morgan Miss Gladys Koehne of Bothell, owner class, June 6, 7, and 8 at Seattle's spring's surprises. of the prize winning Morgan mare • * * Clearbrook Stables. The class brought Star Gates. together the largest group of Morgans Just learned the other day of the The class was ridden to western ever to trod the tanbark in a Seattle sale of a four-year-old Morgan mare equipment and was topped by a show. Karin Braun's versatile little to a neighbor of mine, Gardner Smith, flashy young stallion named Skagit mare Red Bess walked off with the also of Kirkland, by Don Anderson Vashon who walked away with top hotly contested first place. This win- of Granite Falls, Washington. I do honors and likewise as well in a large ning combo has made Karin twice not as yet know the mare's name so field in the Western Pleasure Class. Washington state's Champion Junior am unable send it along as of now. Results of the Morgan class are: * * • Western Equitation rider. 1. Skagit Vashon—Louise D. Bates, During the course of Wenatchee's Results of the Clearbrook Open Arlington, Washington; 2. Star Gates famous Apple Blossom Festival, May Horse Show are: —Gladys Koehne, Bothell, Washing- 2nd and 3rd, the Appleatchee Riders L Red Bess—Karin Brauns, Wen- ton; 3. Gayman—R. W. Van Pelt, '12 The MORGAN HORSE Farmer's Beauty 566

(Twentieth in the Series - - Names in Pedigrees)

By MABEL OWEN

The Fate that controls an animal's known for miles around as "the best He was a smart-looking horse in har- being can be a tenuous thread; often road mare in Vermont" and for many ness and very popular throughout the such a little thing as a word spoken years had been the doctor's standby on years he was at stud in and around in jest can be the difference between his rounds. A temperate driver and Corinth, Newbury and Groton. a racehorse's great opportunity on the an easy keeper, she was the family In the early spring of 1837, the track or his comparative obscurity on favorite for her splendid disposition Tucker mare produced a bay colt for the farm or in the livery stable. and well-rounded good looks. In the Mr. Peck which, although not the same In 1920 there was a Thoroughbred meantime, another resident of Groton, color, was so like his sire that he was sale in Lexington, Kentucky, and J. J. Peck, had been trying without named Young Papineau. Peck's colt among the horses consigned was a success to buy a good Morgan stallion was a very handsome foal and matured group from a Missouri breeder. In to keep at stud there. Finally he suc- into a most promising two-year-old rather poor flesh and with considerably ceeded in leasing the one horse that with his dark dappled-bay coat and less than fashionable pedigrees and race could force the Doctor's Peg to ex- thick, glossy-black mane and tail. records, they sold poorly, some going tend herself, a largish chestnut mare Mr. Peck was justifiably proud of down into even cheaper sales, others sired by One-eyed Morgan, he by Sher- his colt and it was this pride in him destined for the packing plant. One man Morgan. This mare was known which prompted him to visit Dr. of the last animals to be sold was a as the Tucker mare, after her owner Heath and propose that the Doctor's 15-year-old mare called Rustle, an- Jonas Tucker of Newbury, Vermont. good mare Peg be bred to him. After nounced as in foal to the little-known At this time, the year being 1836, some conversation, the Doctor agreed, son of Blackstock, Mentor. Among only one Morgan stallion was available and in early 1840 his mare produced the spectators at the sale were in the Groton-Peacham section of Ver- the bay stud colt later to be known as Charles Berryman, who owned the mont, this being the grey horse Pap- Farmer's Beauty 566. Perhaps, in good sire Ballot, and a good friend of ineau 564, sired by the Hawkins the light of later happenings, it was a his, Thomas C. Bradley. When no Horse, one of Justin Morgan's least- good thing for the Morgan breed that one seemed inclined to bid on the known sons. Hawkins was a jet black Mr. Peck was so persuasive, for this mare, Mr. Berryman suddenly offered about fifteen hands high, appreciably was the only foal the Doctor's mare Mr. Bradley a free season to Ballot if taller than his sire and a little heavier. ever had, and in addition, Peck's he cared to buy her. Several moments He was undoubtedly the fastest of the Young Papineau 565, one of the most and $100 later, Mr. Bradley owned original sons of Justin Morgan, for he promising young stallions ever bred in Rustle. won a great number of what we now that section, died before the foal was The following Spring she foaled a call "short races," a half mile or less, born. He had been bred to but three slashing chestnut stud colt, later named after he went to Canada. Most of his mares and Farmer's Beauty is his only Wise Counsellor. One of the greatest colts were born there, all were fast, par- recorded foal. As in the case of Wise bargains in turf history, Wise Coun- ticularly at the gallop, althought they Counsellor, Dame Luck had given the sellor became a great racehorse, win- could trot well also. He hadn't quite scale the faintest possible nudge in his ning ten races, defeating the French as tractable a disposition as the rest favor, for in both cases, only a word champion *Epinard, in the Interna- of his family and as an old horse was provided for their very existence, much tional Special, and going on to become noticeably cross in the stable. His less the greatness both horses were one of our most successful sires, re- stock were fully as popular in Canada eventually to achieve. establishing the almost extinct male- as the Black Hawks became in New Dr. Heath had hoped for a successor line of *Glencoe in American Thor- England, and a tremendous number of to old Peg in her foal, but he realized oughbred history. A few words, a matched teams bred near Stanstead that Farmer's Beauty was much too spur-of-the-moment offer, were all were sold in the Montreal horse mar- fine a horse to geld, and, understand- that gave Wise Counsellor the small ket for fabulous prices. ing that he hadn't the time or facilities chance he needed to prove his worth. Papineau was a five-year-old when to stand him at stud, he sold the colt In 1839 another conversation, this he was brought from Canada, together as a two-year-old to a nephew, Alden time between two of the Morgan with another son of the Hawkins G. Heath, of nearby Topsham. Actu- breed's staunchest admirers, resulted Horse, a black. Nothing definite is ally, this may not have been a sale, but in the mating which produced Farmer's known of his dam, save that she must it may have been that the colt was Beauty, one of the finest of the old have been a grey to account for his merely sent there for training, for he Morgans and one of the most success- color. Papineau was a little over fif- went to Erastus Baldwin of Wells ful sires of all time. Dr. Horatio W. teen hands, in general being very Mor- River the following spring, who sold Heath of Groton, Vermont, owned a gan-like in type, with that certain him promptly, and, it was said, most very fine little bay mare called Peg. blocky, thick-set appearance that is so profitably, to David M. Taggart of Sired by Sherman Morgan, she was much their hallmark this century later. (Continued on page 28) OCTOBER 1952 13.. HORSE PARASITES (Lecture delivered at WSC Light Horse fudging School) By DR. A. C. TODD College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

These materials to be presented this an event is immediately noticed and a result of parasite control to produce afternoon can be found in a series of so is the presence of the aborted horses more capable of achieving the publications which can be obtained foetus. Suppose I illustrate effects of performance bred into them. These by writing to the Department of Ani- parasitism in this fashion. Let's as- statements have been proven by the mal Pathology at the University of sume a breeder has ten brood mares work done in Kentucky. from which he expects to obtain ten Kentucky in Lexington. The reports It is now time to define a parasite. represent the combined activities of foals each year. Very few breeders successfully produce ten foals from The parasites to be discussed this breeders, veterinarians and research afternoon are animal parasites. The workers. The problem which con- ten brood mares each year. Many breeders will expect to produce, on parasites which affect horse most se- fronted that group in Kentucky was verely are worm parasites. By defini- the same problem which confronts horsemen in Washington; namely, the tion, an animal parasite lives on or in another animal and secures its control of parasites in horses. The re- nourishment at the expense of this searches themselves, therefore, arose animal, called the host, and the person from problems in the field. Re- search should not originate in the who owns the animal. Three animals laboratory for the reason that diseases are involved in parasitism and are do not occur in laboratories. Diseases the parasite, the host animal whose occur only in the field. performance is affected, and the owner whose hopes and dreams also are af- I should say now that we found fected. nothing about parasites in horses in Kentucky which will not apply to Worm parasites are internal para- horses in the states of Washington, sites and the majority of them live in Oregon or Idaho. The same parasite the digestive tract almost entirely. problems occur wherever horses are Horses are affected by some 50 differ- raised, wherever they are trained, and ent kinds of worm parasites. These wherever they race. I would not want, parasitic worms may attain a length of course, for you to think that the of almost 12 inches, although the ma- horses studied in Kentucky were ab- jority of the species are about IA inch solutely worthless because we found long. The worms are soft-bodied and them to be universally affected by decompose very readily so that they parasites. These same horses have Dr. A. C. Todd are not ordinarily observed. Despite now gone to the tracks. average, seven foals a year. The situa- the fact that these worms are not or- tion appears perfectly normal. In a dinarily observed, every horse has The trouble with parasites is that given breeding season, a few mares them. Every horse you have ever they act like parasites. This is a very are not settled and remain barren. I seen has carried one or more of these profound statement. To illustrate, submit that parasites prevented the different kinds of worms. I mentioned let me say that parasites are not like production of at least 2 of the 3 miss- one worm which attains the size of property taxes nor vicious like income ing foals. 12 inches. This worm is the horse taxes. Such taxes cause direct hem- ascaris or whiteworm. It is predomi- orrhages and are apparent on the sur- Quite posibly you now have a ques- nantly a parasite of young horses. face. Effects produced by parasites are tion in your minds. The question is Every young horse in this area which identical with hidden taxes. You will this, "Do my own horses have para- has foaled more than six weeks ago agree, I am sure, that the greatest sites?" The answer is that indeed now is parasitized by this worm. In amount of our tax money is derived they do have parasites. Every horse four more weeks these worms will be from hidden taxes. By far the greatest here for this show is parasitized. Many more than 10 inches long and some damages caused by parasites are hid- of the horses here for this show have young horses will have more than a den and not apparent. had their potential performance ruined thousand of them in their small in- by parasites. There are, actually, few Parasites cause what are called normal horses here today. Very few testines. These statements can be chronic diseases. It is customary to proven by examination of the first of us have ever seen a horse capable young horse brought to hand. say that most bacterial and viral dis- of the maximum performance bred eases are acute. For example, the into it for the reason mentioned above The presence of parasites in horses virus which causes equine abortion —parasites have ruined its potentials. I is an indication of injuries sustained produces an acute disease and the re- am saying that the performance of a by the horses. Certain species of worms sults of such infection are obvious. given horse can be improved by para- actively consume the lining of the di- The condition of the mare in such site control and that it is possible as (Continued from page 22)

The MORGAN HORSE doing most anything for me, but he disliked anyone else to come near him. He still had not gotten over his Untamed Morgan craving for freedom, and one day when I came home from town I went out to the corral only to make a start- ling discovery. One part of the corral By JANE LARSON fence was broken and the corral was empty. I saddled Flash quickly and followed Wildfire's tracks. It soon became dark so I decided to conk As I sat on our porch waiting for puzzled me for he was not a mustang home. my father to return home after a day or a wild horse, but a purebred Mor- The next three days I rode all in town, I glanced at our fairly large gan, made for man to train and ride. • morning and afternoon looking for the ranch where I had lived since I can Never had he known the wild life of young Morgan, but I saw no sign of remember. Horses and dogs were my the range. him. Then on the fourth day I caught favorite passtime and never would a During the two and one half weeks a glimpse of him standing high up on day go by that I wouldn't take a ride I had him, I had been thinking of an a cliff, but by the time I got up there out on the range on my horse, Flash. appropriate name. Suddenly one came Wildfire was gone. to me that I knew suited him. That But Flash was getting old and since After a few more days of searching, I was fifteen years old I longed for was Wildfire. Although it was not I finally caught up with him. As I excitement. too uncommon it fitted him more than Dad seemed to sense this for when any other name I could think of. approached Wildfire he danced about he came home that evening, hitched By fall when he was ten months old and was undecided whether or not to on the car was a horse trailer. At first I could go into Wildfire's stall and in let me come near him. His good I thought he was just bringing home the corral without his showing a dis- breeding of Morgan blood from a long another horse for our ranch hands, but play of bad manners. strain of champions stood out all over as they opened the back of the trailer Winter passed quickly, and by him, but in his eyes there was the look I knew it was just the kind of excite- spring Wildfire was about the most of a wild horse. ment I longed for. A little chestnut beautiful piece of horseflesh on the I reached out and gently offered the colt with a white star on his forehead ranch. He was almost fully grown Morgan a piece of sugar. After a came leaping out. It was plain to see and had a long flowing mane and tail while he let me pet him, but I knew that he disliked the truck and didn't with hair that was like silk. I decided that it would never be the same if I care for the men around him. As it was near time for him to be taught took him back to the ranch. I gave Dad went up to him he reared and to be ridden. - Wildfire a last stroke on the neck with tried to get away. One of the ranch A week later I selected a light sad- my hand and quickly mounted Flash hands grabbed the little horse just in dle and bridle from the barn and and rode away. As I looked back time. With a great struggle they got brought it to the corral. Although through tears that blinded me, I could him in the barn and into a fairly large Wildfire sensed something was wrong see the "Untamed Morgan" standing box stall. Never before had I seen a he whinnied and came trotting over proudly, his mane and tail flowing in colt with so much spirit and desire for to me. I fastened him to the fence the breeze. Now he was happy and freedom. and tried lightly to lay the saddle content, for at last he had his free- Back at the house I learned that the blanket on him, but he kept bucking dom! colt, now five months old, was sent to it off. This could not go on forever Dad from my uncle who raises so I tried a new system. I slipped the LETTERS thoroughbred Morgans. With great bridle on his head and ran my hand persuasion I talked Dad into letting up and down his neck. With a little me have him for my very own. jump. I landed lightly on Wildfire's (Continued from page 5) The next morning and every morn- back and sat there wondering what a purebred Morgan. Flicka is not ing thereafter, I tried to make friends would happen next. If he started bred yet but she will be in a short with the little fellow but without much bucking I would not have stayed on time. success. long for I had no saddle beneath me, I especially like the breaking and He would lay back his ears and but instead he just stood there quiver- raising of a colt. I liked the story of come after me with bared teeth. I ing, waiting for me to make the next the new arrival and also the May cover assumed he did this because he re- move. I touched him slightly with very much. sented being shut up for he had been my heels talking softly to him all the What should be done if a horse does pastured out all his young life. With time. The colt went around the cor- wrong, whip him and make him be- some of the ranchmen's help we put ral a few times under my control and have or just talk to him? Is a nine- up a small corral with very high sides then I took the bridle off for this was year-old horse too old to be bred for to keep him from jumping out. This enough for the first day. the first time? helped a little and he began looking Every day after this I rode Wild- Yours, forward to my coming to the barn fire around the corral. Slowly I got Nancy Snodgrass every morning to let him out. him used to the saddle and he learned Mt. Morris, Illinois Sometimes the colt would stand for neck reining very quickly. hours looking out over the range. This By fall, I had the young Morgan (Continued on page 21) OCTOBER 1952 15 Top: Redman, outstanding she who has made history on the Top: Highview King, another top stallion from the W West Coast. Middle: Three full brothers. Ulysses. Canfield and M Bennington out of Artemecia. Bottom: Buddy. owned by Harvey Wingate of Upper Montclair, New Mersey, and handled and ridden by his daughter Virginia. Bottom: Dr, Parks on his famous little mare, Lippitt MI prom Other Years rhe autumn season to most horse lovers spells trail ride. On this page, •eaders will get a glimpse of the unadulterated pleasure to be obtained rom this unparalleled year-round sport which reaches its enitomy in the closing months of the year.

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:st Coast. Top: A group of mares with foals on the Roberts ranch in San Diego Count-r, California. rnsfield, by Bottom: A group of mares on the Horseshow Cattle Ranch in California.

Nekomia. Michigan Fair Results EASTERN STATES Riviera, owned by Nelson D. White of Winchendon Springs, was cham- The 1952 Michigan State Fair was FILLIES THREE YEARS OLD: pion of the Eastern States show of the held September 3, 1952. In addition Won by RUTHVEN'S MIRIAM Morgan Horse division for the second to an unusually fine turnout from ANN, David Staebler; second, HY- year in succession. Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio were CREST SUE, Mary Ellen Knepper. Spring Frolic, four-year-old stallion well represented. FILLIES TWO YEARS OLD: also owned by Mr. White, was first in Gerald F. Taft of Northville, Michi- Won by SPRINGBROOK ANNE, G. the Over 15, third in the Model and Reserve in gan, was the big winner with four F. Taft; second PIXIE'S PATRICIA, the Stake class. Summary: blues, and one championship. Mary Martha and James Morrison. MODEL MORGAN: First, Orcland and Douglas Arthurs, and Rex R. Leader; second, Riviera; third, Spring YEARLING FILLIES: Won by Frolic; fourth, Parade, owned by Mr. Maxson followed with two blues for HYCREST BARENESS, Mary and each of their stables. and Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson; fifth, Douglas Arthurs; second, KEN-NYS Lippitt Ethan, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Quizkid, from the stable of Mr. MAY COTTON, Don Davis; third, Taft, was judged champion stallion Willard K. Denton. LADY PATRICIA MAR-LO, Mr. UNDER 15: First, Riviera; second, and Shady Lawn's Spice, owned and and Mrs. Milo G. Dugan. shown by Barbara Groom, was cham- Orcland Leader; third, Lippitt Ethan; WEANLING FILLIES: Won by fourth, Townshend Sealois, owned by pion mare. SPRINGBROOK ROSEMARY, Mr. Don J. Kays of Columbus, Ohio, the Townshend Morgan Horse Farm. and Mrs. Milo G. Dugan; second, BY OVER 15: First, Spring Frolic; was judge. Complete results follow: KENNEY'S KING COTTON, Max- STALLIONS FOUR YEARS OLD second, Dennis K, owned by Mr. and ine and Joseph H. Symonds; third, Mrs. Denton; third, Upwey Ebony AND OVER: Won by QUIZ KID, HYCREST APRIL DAWN, Judy Princess, owned by R. C. Lasbury, Jr.; G. F. Taft; second, VERRAN'S LAD- Anne Turner; fourth, MAR-LO'S fourth, Orcland Vigileen, owned by DIE, Mr. and Mrs. Milo G. Dugan; COTTON BLOSSOM, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Orcutt, Jr.; fifth, third, JOHN GEDDES, Rheda and Milo G. Dugan. Deerfield Meadson, owned by Mr. and Walter Kane; fourth SQUIRE Mrs. Tompkins. SKIMP, Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Beh- BROODMARE AND NURSING COMBINATION: First, Riviera; ling. FOAL: Won by HYRAY and second, Dennis K; third, Orcland STUDS THREE YEARS OLD: MAX HYLO KID, Rex P. Maxson; Leader; fourth, Parade. Won by SPRINGBROOK JUST- second, WYNTOON and SPRING- CHAMPIONSHIP: First, Riviera; WIN, Mary and Douglas Arthurs; BROOK KATHLEEN, G. F. Taft; third, NYLON and FOAL, Don second, Spring Frolic; third, Orcland second, SHADY LAWN'S MISTER, Leader; fourth, Dennis K. Mrs. Vaughn R. Groom; third, HY- Davis; fourth, VERRAN'S LASSIE CREST TOMMY, Milo Measel. and MAR-LO'S COTTON BLOS- YEARLING STUDS: Won by SOM, Mr. and Mrs. Milo G. Dugan. BRUCE GEDDES, Dr. Alexander G. MARES WITH TWO OR MORE Ruthven; second, SPRINGBROOK OF PRODUCE: Won by WYN- JOE KELLY, G. F. Taft; third, TOON, G. F. Taft; second, PIXY DUKE OF MAR-LO, Mr. and Mrs. HAWK, Milo Measel; third, VER- Milo G. Dugan; fourth, MAR-LO'S RAN'S LASSIE, Mr. and Mrs. Milo COL. HAMTRAMCK, Mr. and Mrs. G. Dugan; fourth, DEANN, Amenda Milo G. Dugan. West and H. F. Howell. WEANLING STUDS: Won by CHAMPION STALLION: QUIZ- MAX' HYLO KID, Rex R. Maxson; KID, Gerald F. Taft. second, HYCREST LITTLE BUB, RES. CH . STALLION: VER- Milo Measel; third, HILL TOP'S RAN'S LADDIE, Milo G. Dugan. KING MIST, Amenda West and H. CHAMPION MARE: SHADY F. Howell; fourth, HILL TOP'S LAWN'S SPICE, Barbara Groom. KING DEE, Amenda West and H. F. RESERVE CHAMPION MARE: Howell. JOANNE, Mr. and Mrs. Milo G. STALLION WITH TWO OR MORE OF GET: Won by QUIZ Dugan. KID, G. F. Taft; second, PLAINS PERFORMANCE CLASS — UN- KING, Milo Measel; third, KEN- DER SADDLE: Won by JOHN NEY'S KING COTTON, James G. GEDDES, Rheda and Martha Ken ney. Kane; second, SCHOOLMASTER'S MARES FOUR YEARS OLD CHOICE, Maxine and Joseph H. Sy- AND OVER: Won by SHADY mons; third, RUTHVEN'S MIRIAM LAWN'S SPICE, Barbara Groom; ANN, David Staebler; fourth, second, JOANNE, Mr. and Mrs. Milo SPRINGBROOK GOLADDY, Floyd and Jack Appling; fifth, RUTH- Jack Appling on Springbrook Goladdy, G. Dugan; third, SPRINGBROOK winner of the challenge trophy donated by GOLADDY, Floyd and Jack Appling, VEN'S JANET ANN, St. Clair H. R. Houghton to members of the Great fourth, SPRINGBROOK PEGGY. Hamlin. Lakes Morgan Horse Association. 18 The MORGAN HORSE YEARLING COLT CLASS: Won by FOX FIRE, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Minnesota Morgans Rumbaugh, Polk, Ohio; second, PAT- TY'S SWEETHEART, Lewis H. By MARIANNE BLICK Pape, Pawnee, Ill; third, GRACE GRAHAM, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Rumbaugh, Polk, Ohio; fourth, ROSE On the evening of August thirtieth badon, owned by Marianne Blick; sec- BOWL, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Green- a group of twenty-four Morgan horse ond, Dakota Girl, owned by P. C. wait, Pawnee, Ill. owners, breeders and enthusiasts met Alfred Dorow; third, Lakota Girl, TWO-YEAR-OLD CLASS: Won and organized a Minnesota Morgan owned by P. C. Alfred Dorow; fourth, by THE AIRACOBRA, D. E. Sheffer, Horse Club. This meeting was ar- Gail Dean, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kirkwood, Mo.; second, FORT ranged by Mr. S. D. Sohlstrom of Robert Rathbun; fifth, Susette Jarnette, KNOX, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Green- Milaca. The aim of the club will be owned by Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Graves. walt, Pawtucket, Ill.; third, SIR PAT- to foster interest of the Morgan horse Three years old. First, Starlet De RICK, R. L. Brachear, Waggoner, in this locality. Temporary officers Jarnette, owned by Marilyn Dreher; Ill.; fourth, DANNY DEE, Thomas were elected as follows: Mr. S. D. second, Tillicum, owned by the Milaca T. Brunk, Springfield, Ill. Sohlstrom, president; Dr. R. B. Morgan Farm; third, Princess Jarnette, STALLION, THREE YEARS Graves, vice - president; Marianne owned by George A. Ellis; fourth, Jane OLD AND OVER: Won by LIP- Blick, secretary-treasurer. A com- S. Sentney, owned by Dr. and Mrs. PITT JEEP, Ora Jane O'Neill, Chi- mittee was appointed to draw up rules R. B. Graves; fifth, Betty Belle, owned cago, Ill.; second, TRINANGO, Roy and by-laws. Another meeting will by David Blunt. Brunk, Rochester, Ill.; third, DON be held later this Fall; members will Two years old. First, Ko-Ko Dean, HUDSON, R. L. Brachear, Wag- be notified as to the time and place of owned by Eloise Monarski. goner, Ill.; fourth, FUDGE ROYALE, meeting. Anyone interested in Mor- Lawrence T. Olsen, Knoxville, Ill.; gans is encouraged to join this organ- One year old. First, Miss Jarnette, fifth, CONGO'S PRIDE, Lewis H. ization and can contact the secretary, owned by Marianne Blick; second, Pape, Pawnee, Ill. Marianne Blick, Savage, Minnesota. Milaca Mae, owned by the Milaca STALLION, TWO YEARS OLD A nice group of thirty Morgans was Morgan Farm; third, Betty J. Sentney, AND UNDER THREE: Won by shown at the Minnesota State Fair on owned by Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Graves. THE AIRACOBRA, D. E. Sheffer, Sunday afternoon, August thirty-first. Filly foal. First, Entry, owned by Kirkwood, Mo.; second, HYTONE This was the second year for Morgan Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Graves; second, BOY, Wesley A. Dent, Caseyville, Ill; classes. There was an increase in the Entry, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Rob- third, FLYING FLAG, H. B. Gilman, number of entries over last year and ert Rathbun; third, Entry, owned by Decatur, Ill.; fourth, SIR PATRICK, also a few new exhibitors. P. C. Alfred Dorow. R. L. Brachear, Waggone, Ill.; fifth, The champion stallion was Milaca DANNY DEE, Thomas T. Brunk, Query, owned by the Milaca Morgan ILLINOIS FAIR Springfield, Ill. Farm. Reserve champion was Fire- STALLION, ONE YEAR OLD brand, owned and shown by Marilyn Following are the results for the AND UNDER: Won by FOX FIRE, Dreher of Excelsior. Illinois State Fair held on August 9, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Rumbaugh, Barbadon was the champion mare 1952. Polk, Ohio; second, RHYTHM'S and reserve champion was won by The Greenwalt Morgans again CHAMPION, Ora Jane O'Neill, Chi- Miss Jarnette. Both mares are owned played an important part. Their mare, cago, Ill.; third LARRULEY COLO- by Marianne Blick. Glorita, was made Champion Mare, NEL ROYALE, Laurence T. Olsen, Following are the placings: and the Champion Stallion was The Knoxville, Ill. STALLIONS: Airacobra, owned by D. E. Sheffer of STALLION, UNDER ONE Four years and over. First, Archie Kirkwood, Missouri. YEAR: Won by FANCY DAN, N., owned by Victor Soboleski. WEANLING MARE COLT Wesley A. Dent, Caseyville, Ill.; sec- Two years old. First, Milaca Query, CLASS: Won by BRIGHT STAR, R. ond, RHYTHM'S PETER "K", Ora owned by the Milaca Morgan Farm; L. Brachear, Waggoner, Illinois; sec- Jane O'Neill, Chicago, Ill.; third, HI- second, Milaca Major, owned by Dr. ond, FLYING BETTY, Mr. and Mrs. SHADOW, R. L. Brachear, Wag- and Mrs. R. B. Graves; third, Milaca L. S. Greenwalt, Pawnee, Ill.; third, goner, Ill.; fourth, CELEBRATION, Captain, owned by the Milaca Morgan RHYTHM'S TONGA, Ora Jane Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt, Paw- Farm; fourth, Headlight Glen, owned O'Neill, Chicago, Ill. nee, Ill. by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rathbun. WEANLING HORSE COLT MARE, FOUR YEARS OLD AND One year old. First, Firebrand, CLASS: Won by CELEBRATION, OVER WITH COLT AT SIDE: owned by Marilyn Dreher; second, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt, Paw- Won by JUBILEE JOY and CELE- Mor-ayr Victory Pop, owned by Dr. nee, Ill.; second, FANCY DAN, Wes- BRATION, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. and Mrs. R. B. Graves; third, Sun- ley A. Dent, Caseyville, Ill.; third, Greenwalt, Pawnee, Ill.; second, DEL- flower Pie, owned by Frank Gasner. HI-SHADOW, R. L. Brachear, Wag- LAMA, Wesley A. Dent, Caseyville, Stallion foal. First, King's Jester, goner, Ill.; fourth, RHYTHM'S PE- Ill; third, MARY R. M. and BRIGHT owned by Marianne Blick. TER "K", Ora Jane O'Neill, Chicago, STAR, R. L. Brachear, Waggoner, MARES: Ill.; fifth, RIC READE, Thomas T. Ill.; fourth, RHYTHM'S LOVELY Four years and over. First, Bar- Brunk, Springfield, Ill. (Continued on page 20) OCTOBER 1952 19 Over at Carrolltown, Pa., D. F. Switzler has a very choice group of Allegheny Notes Morgans from the fountainhead mare, Althea. He has a very beautiful young stallion, Trophy, which would First off, let's get folks up to date The Erie County Fair at Hamburg, do well at any of the shows, and on what has been happening in the N. Y., found a nice group of Morgans which has sired a typey and lovely show rings around the area. On June on hand for the breeding classes. Fol- filly from Althea this year. He re- 28 Morgans met at Harrisburg, Pa., in lowing are the results: cently sold a two-year-old mare by a combined Morgan-Arabian class that SENIOR STALLIONS: Gipsey Prince—Althea and a yearling brought out only one Arabian entry. 1. SHERMAN, owned by George Bunco. filly by Lippitt Mandate-Althea. Results were: Carts-Haven Farm's 2. BROWN PEPPER, owned by C. W. Rodeo. 3. JUSTINIAN, owned by Hortense ILLINOIS Lippitt Mandate, first; Stonaire Farm's Lynds. Rockie S., second; Betsy Hawkins' SENIOR MARES: (Continued from page 19) Lassie Knox third; Stonaire Farm's 1. MARGARET 0, owned by Howard LADY, Ora Jane O'Neill, Chicago, Flicka Hawk fourth. Dobler. 2. VIXEN, owned by Sherimill Stables. 3. TOWNSHEND'S LADY SEA- Ill.; fifth, BETSY HYTONE and On June 29, these same horses, less LECTAFIELD, owned by F. H. Eisenhard. RIC READS, Thomas T. Brunk, Lippitt Mandate who was playing MARES WITH FOALS: Springfield, Ill. 1. TIFRA, owned by Sherimill Stables. host, and plus horses from Philadel- MARE, THREE YEARS OLD phia and from Pennsylvania State Col- 2. JANEE, owned by P. A. Hess. 3. NANCY ANN, owned by Ayelien Richards. 4. AND UNDER FOUR: STARLET lege, met at Ringtown, Pa. Here the GOLDEN RIVER DONNA, owned by C. W. DE JARNETTE, Marilyn Dreher, ribbons were tied in this order: First, Rodee. Excelsior, Minn.; second, FILLAINE, Stonaire Farm's Ruby Hawk; second, 1952 FOALS: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stahl, Lowell, Stonaire Farm's Flicka Hawk; third, 1. SUNRISE SERENADE, owned by Sherimill Stables. 2. NANCY DATE, Ind.; third, RHYTHM'S LADY Sydney Stoner's Man O'Day; fourth, owned by Ayelien Richards. 3. STUD GAIL, Ora Jane O'Neill, Chicago, Ill. Penn State's Royalanne; fifth, Penn COLT, owned by P. A. Hess. State's Quaker Lady; and sixth, Betsy YEARLINGS: MARE, TWO YEARS OLD AND Hawkins' Lassie Knox. 1, DON WELTON PEPPER, owned by UNDER THREE: Won by GLOR- C. W. Rodee. 2. DON QUIXOTE PEP- ITA, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt, Last month's issue gave a report on PER, owned by C. W. Rodeo. 3. MAY Pawnee, Ill.; second, LURGAN, Mar- the National Morgan Show, which DATE, owned by Harry A. Davis. garet Schlipf, Springfield, Ill.; third, turned up quite a few winners from TWO-YEAR-OLDS: 1. LEDGEWOOD SEALECT, owned by BETSY ROSS, H. B. Gilman, Deca- this section of the country—Stonaire, P. A. Hess. 2. OATKA MY LASS, owned tur, Ill.; fourth, RHYTHM'S MONA Carts-Haven, C. W. Rodee, Betsy by F. H. Eisenhcad. 3. SUSIE, owned by LESA, Ora Jane O'Neill, Chicago, Ill. Hawkins, and of course the Denton's George Bunce. MARE, ONE YEAR OLD AND Ardencaple Acres, which are also part Mrs. Robert R. Stoner, Jr., of UNDER TWO: Won by GRACE of our area. Stonaire Farm reports the sale of the GRAHAM, Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. prize-winning mare, Ruby Hawk, to Morgans got a break at York, Pa., Rumbaugh, Polk, Ohio; second, PAT- Ben Smalley of West Acton, Mass., as on Aug. 16 when Arabians failed to TY'S SWEETHEART, Lewis H. a mount for Mrs. Smalley. Ruby is fill their class and the show committee Pape, Pawnee, Ill.; 3d, RHYTHM'S in foal to Lippitt Mandate and the offered a Morgan class instead right SUE TRAVELMORE, Ora Jane sale provided for possession of the in the middle of stake night. Five O'Neill, Chicago, Ill.; fourth, ROSE coming foal by Mrs. Stoner. horses answered the call, with the fol- * * * BOWL, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Green- lowing results: first, Lippitt Mandate; walt, Pawnee, Ill; fifth, KAMIAH, second, Flicka Hawk; third, Lassie Last arrival of the season came at Neal Werts, Humansville, Mo. Knox; fourth, Man O'Day; fifth, Carts-Haven Farm late in July when MARE, UNDER ONE YEAR Rockie S. Regularly scheduled Mor- Duchess Ann foaled a bay stud colt Won by BRIGHT STAR, R. L. gan classes are promised for next year by Miller's Pride. Stonaire Farm at Brachear, Waggoner, Ill.; second, at York, as well as at Philadelphia and time of writing was momentarily ex- RHYTHM'S TONGA. Ora Jane Quentin. pecting a foal from Reveille and sired O'Neill, Chicago, Ill.; third, FLYING Closing the tabulation of perform- by Rockie S. BETTY, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Green- ance Morgans for this month is Mil- * * * walt, Pawnee, Ill. ford, Pa., on Aug. 23. This brought Mrs. Ayelien Richards of Pine City. CHAMPION STALLION: THE out a new group of entries with the N. Y., is one of the most active mem- AIRACOBRA, D. E. Sheffer, Kirk- following results: First, Lippitt Man- bers of the Morgan fraternity in per- wood, Mo. date; second, E. V. Regalia's Regal formance classes. She competed suc- RESERVE CHAMPION STAL- Boy; third, Mr. Regalia's Jersey King; cessfully with her Morgans at such LION: LIPPITT JEEP, Ora Jane and fourth, W. R. Hopkins' Manito. good shows as Williamsport and El- O'Neill, Chicago, Ill. Manito, just three years, was later rid- mira in open classes, and recently at CHAMPION MARE: GLORITA, den by 10-year-old Ann Hopkins to Mansfield, N. Y., won the parade class Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt, Paw- with Nancy Ann. win the break and out contest. nee, Ill. RESERVE CHAMPION MARE: Notify Publisher Of Change Of Address BRIGHT STAR, R. L. Brachear, Waggoner, Ill.

20 The MORGAN HORSE sign of exhaustion and was willing to go on. This year in particular the second and third day out I definitely New England News and Notes had to hold him in so that we would not come in too far ahead. This fact was noted and commented on by the (By Dana Wingate Kelley) judges. I am enclosing a copy of a picture which was taken within two hours of the finish this year at the Fall has set in in the Vermont hills is put in the cart. She will be seen presentation of the winner with the and dales. During the October 12th in Connecticut, ridden by her new trophy. The rules and regulations of weekend, the New England Morgan owner in a couple of years. the ride are patterned after the Ver- Horse Association will hold its an- Richard Carliss of Manchester, N. mont Trail Ride. nual foliage ride and drive. Contact H., has purchased the five-year-old Rocket is a bright sorrel in color Mrs. Janet Dakin; President J. Cecil mare, Lippitt Lenora, a daughter of and has a wonderful disposition. He Ferguson in Greene, Rhode Island, or Lippitt Selassie and Lippitt Nora, was six years old this spring and me if you can come. I have a couple from Ed Havey and has her all dressed stands 14.2 hands and weighs now of extra nice Morgan mares well- up in western tack with plenty of sil- broken here in Vermont that I would ver. She will be used as a pleasure be glad to have used on the ride. Ver- mount and shown in local shows. mont is at its best in October. Don't * * * miss this ride! A few days from busi- While in Morrisville, Vermont, I ness will do you a world of good. stopped in to visit Mr. Miller at his * * * hotel and see his Morgans. He has a Following the foliage ride and dur- cute bay filly sired by his stallion Mil- ing the winter, news may be sent for ler's Pride and out of Betty Ross, a this column to me at 416 Cambridge daughter of Mansfield and Berry's Bil- street, Winchester, Mass. ly. In the pasture were a couple of * * * young stud colts by Upway Ben Don If I were to pick the Morgan of the and a gelding. Mr. Miller recently Year, I believe I would pin the blue on purchased a five-year-old Duke of Townshend Lady Sensation, a 4-year- Windsor daughter from Mr. and Mrs. Winners of 100-mile Endurance Ride Hugh Little of Rockland, Maine. old filly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ly- * * * about 950 pounds. The brother to man Orcutt of West Newbury, Mass. him that we have is 14.3 hands and This little mare did well at the Na- Down in New London, New Hamp- weighs about 1000 pounds and will tional Morgan show and defeated stal- shire, Dr. Oliver Hayward is raising a be five years old this month and is lions by winning the Justin Morgan few choice Morgan; and one filly that a chestnut in color. As far as I am class, and also placed well in the ten- I particularly like is a beautiful little concerned Rocket is the only horse. mile ride. In August, she came up to thing out of Ethan Eldon and Jemima. We have won numerous prizes with Vermont and was entered in the 100- She should go a long way. Her dam them at Gymkhanas throughout the mile trail ride where she was outstand- was again bred to Ethan with the state and also as parade horses. My ing. She then competed in the Green hope of another colt as good. dad and I are thoroughly sold on Mountain Morgan horse show. She is Morgans to do anything with. a daughter of the late Cornwallis, They were sired by the Morgan owned by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Ela, LETTERS stallion Hawthorne. and out of Ping Pon, a daughter of Both of our horses Rocket and old Nekomia and granddaughter of (Continued from page 15) Thunder are becoming known Ashbrook. To my way of thinking, Florida Trail Ride throughout the state as we take them she is truly as creditable a mare to the Dear Sir: everywhere where there are horses or breed as one can find, and she is not a This may be a little late but I horse activities. horse over 14.2. There is loads of thought you may be interested in Sincerely, quality in the small ones, and Sensa- what the Morgan is doing here in Edith Whiting tion is an example to prove it. Con- Florida. My father and I own two Holly Hill, Fla. gratulations to her and to her rider, half-Morgan and half-quarter horse South Dakota Results Ruth Dickson Orcutt. studs. They are full brothers. This * * * Morgans made an excellent show- past spring I entered my horse, ing at the South Dakota State Fair Miss Ann Thompson of Melrose, Rocket, in the 100-Mile Endurance held September 1-6. The Animal Conn•, is the proud owner of a lovely Ride held the middle of March in Husbandry Department of the State yearling chestnut filly purchased from Eustis, Fla. Again this year he placed College took the Stallion trophy with the Royalton Morgan Farm of Dana first in the ride. Sunflower Prince 9662 by College W. Kelley in Vermont. This filly has This ride was started last year as Bud 8787 out of Sunflower Girl 05183. already been trained to drive and goes an annual event and both occasions I They also took the Mare trophy with off like an old timer in a two wheeled have had the pleasure of riding him Maurcena L. 05354 by Ranger L. 7635 cart. Naturally at that age, no weight to win. Both times he showed no out of Twinkle L. 04517.

OCTOBER 1952 21 Why pay fancy prices physiological processes affected by forsaddlery? Write for FREE FR.EE Catalog that has parasites and resultant improper func- saved real money for tion have not been understood. I TO thoyands of horsemen. Describes over 400 have said that as a result of parasitic popular items ofEnglish Parasites HORSE and American "tack." infection, stallion fertility is not what I ship saddlery on ap- proval. Write today. it should be. The percentage of mares OWNERS "little joe" WIESENFELD settled is not what it should be. The Dept. 87 Baltimore 1, Md. (Continued from page 14) size of foals at birth and difficulty experienced by mares in delivery are gestive tract. Other species not only conditioned by parasites. In almost consume the lining of the digestive every instance, the ultimate perform. tract but extract blood directly from ance of a horse has been affected ad- vessels supplying the digestive system. versely before its birth. In almost Continual hemorrhage as a result of every instance the foal's performance parasitic attack invariably causes the is partially destroyed the first day it development of moderate to severe is alive because that is the day it suf anemias. Injury to the lining of the fers its first exposure to parasites. The digestive tract frequently permits sec- pleasure and enjoyment to be derived ondary bacterial invasion and result- from owning horses is minimized ant systematic infection. The horse because of parasitic infection in the ascaris may be present in such num- horses. Now all of these things are bers that the contents of the digestive part of what parasites do to horses and Have a Veteran's Problem? tract cannot pass a certain area; this I am entirely prepared to prove them to your complete satisfaction. I should Write DAV for free Harp would be an example of mechanical Boa 131, Cincinnati 6, Ohio obstruction. As a matter of fact, every say dissatisfaction. tissue in a horse's body can be af- fected by parasites. Suppose I say that What will happen if you control parasites adversely affect every physio- parasites in horses? I can tell you. logical function of a horse. It is true You will breed mares sucessfully. You If You Like Horses will have more and sounder foals. You Will Like that parasitic infections notably affect ingestion and digestion. Absorption The foals will be larger and grow THE BIT AND SPUR and assimilation are affected; respira- more smoothly. The foals will per- tion is affected. Respiration is the form better at the tracks or in the MAGAZINE process by which oxygen is ultimately ring. When these horses come home PUBLISHED MONTHLY drawn into the body to consume tis- from the track or the ring to enter 1 Year $3.00-2 Years $5.00 sues and release energy. It would the stud, they will be better animals. Sample Copy 25c appear that proper respiration is im- These things will occur when the portant if maximum performance is worm parasites of horses are con- to be obtained. trolled. You may be interested to Bill Hagen learn that a so-called parasite-free Editor and Publisher All of the other physiological proc- horse has not yet won the Kentucky Box 1458 Billings, Montana esses are affected by parasites; in short, Derby; the record now stands at one secretion, excretion, elimination and, second, two thirds and one fourth finally, reproduction. I am now afraid, place. This year's winner of the Preak- however, that the names of these ness had the advantage of having been

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22 The MORGAN HORSE foaled at a farm with a rigid system tack. The adult bloodworm is found of worm control. Now I have not most frequently in the caecum where said that parasite control will make it lives firmly attached to the lining of This follow Is going to flood Caron every foal into a stakes winner. The that organ and sucks blood. The adult For small outs. maim stretches: brittle hoofs. sore heed, Corona provides the Ideal ininoromoad. gall ed boot fact remains that a foal by Cold dressing. Welt In Wool Fat—antleeptie—so softening. females produce eggs which pass to soothinel Never be without ran of this favorite of home lovers elneo 1006. Many human IMP. tool 8-(1a. cap 1.00. Water out of Pitcher is most unlikely the outside of the horse in the manure. At dealer. or post Sold. TRIAL SAMPLE 100. to win the Derby. Parasitic infections These eggs are the source of infection Write today. "CORONA" BoxesmoKeoton, Chlo are not the entire reason why horses for the same or for other horses. The fail to win races or ribbons. This is number of eggs passed by a given merely a precaution on my part be. horse is dependent upon the number cause it is true that there were great of worm parasites present. Some Pt HODGES horses before adequate systems of parasitologists have estimated that cer- BAD GE CO. worm control were devised. I have tain horses have had more than a 185 SUMMER ST. been trying to say that many great million worms present in their diges- BOSTON MAASS. horses have been bred but the majority tive tracts. The fact remains that no of them were not able to give their one parasitologist has been able to #1ABFRQUEIIIIET best performance. count all of the worms present in a The purpose of these preliminary heavily parasitized horse. At Kentucky known. In any event, bloodworm lar- remarks has been to give you a basis we once made such an attempt. We vae in the blood stream are known on which to build an understanding began collecting and counting worms to enter the wall of the anterior mesen- of parasite control. If you will now from one horse in late fall of 1947 teric artery. This is an artery which use this background material, I shall and continued this counting and col- arises directly from the dorsal aorta proceed to discuss a particular group lecting until mid-spring of 1951. At and which in turn branches to supply of parasites. that time we estimated that we had the posterior part of the small intes- collected about 1/3 of the number of tine, the caecum and the anterior part Strongyles are a particular kind of worms present. To enable you to un- worm parasites. The word "strongyle" of the large intestine. The activities derstand the extreme size of the source of the bloodworm larvae in the lining is used as a common name for a group of strongyle infections at a given farm, of some 40 species of worms. The of the anterior mesenteric artery cause I ask you to consider these figures. At scar tissue to form. At the same time one most important worm parasite of many farms we found broodmares horses is a strongyle, Strongylus the blood vessel itself hemorrhages or which were passing 1,000 strongyle eggs bleeds. This results in the formation vulgaris. The common name for the per gram of manure. There are immature stage of Strongylus vulgaris of blood clots. Very frequently por- roughly 28 grams an ounce, and 16 tions of these blood clots break loose is "the blood worm." This worm kills ounces to a pound, and an individual horses. Actually, Strongylus vulgaris from their original location and are mare produces approximately 30 transported down the blood vessel is not exactly a typical strongyle. Most pounds of manure a day. Now assume of the strongyle species live entirely in and its branches until they come to that 100 broodmares are present at a lie against the wall of the digestive the digestive tract. The adult given farm. The total number of Strongylus vulgaris lives in the caecum tract. In this event circulation to that strongyle worms produced at this farm part of the digestive tract is impeded and anterior part of the colon proper. each day will be 1,344,000.000. The immature stages invariably are and those tissues receive no nourish- found in a particular blood vessel Each of these eggs which is fertile, ment and die. The result of such a which supplies the posterior part of and 90 per cent or more of them are, happening is a moderate to severe at- the small intestine and the anterior will contain an embryo which will tack of colic. A horse with a repeated part of the large intestine. This un- give rise to a little worm. This little history of colic is recognized as a horse usual location of the blood worm worm, which is microscopic, will hatch parasitized by bloodworms. larvae is not typical of strongyle par- from that egg and live free in the soil. The entry of bloodworm larvae into asites in general. This unusual loca- It will feed on bacteria and ultimately the anterior mesenteric artery allows tion, however, is responsible directly reach a size and form when it will secondary bacterial invasion and sub- or indirectly for the loss of some five be infective for horses. When such sequent production and storage of bac- hundred young horses each year. The an infective larva is ingested by a terial toxins. Continual arrival of situation can be eliminated by a rigid horse, the larva will mature in the bloodworm larvae followed repeated system of worm control. There must horse, completing the life cycle. This exposure of the horse to infection in- be no compromise with the blood- life cycle ii typical of all strongyles in terrupts the normal processes of re- worm. Either this worm is wiped out general. pair. The formation of new and larger or the profits and pleasures associated The infective larvae of the blood- blood clots and proliferation of more with horses will continue to be di- worm apparently may go directly to and more scar tissue result • in the minished. the caecum and mature. Other infec- weakening of the blood vessel itself. The enlarged and at the same time In order to control the bloodworm, tive bloodworm larvae apparently enter the digestive tract after ingestion by a weakened blood vessel is now known its life cycle must be clearly under- as an aneurysm. The normal anterior stood. By understanding the life cycle horse, but then migrate out of the mesenteric artery is somewhat less digestive tract and enter the blood of the bloodworm, we can hope to than an inch long and as wide as the find one link in the chain of its life stream. Actually the detailed move- cycle which is most susceptible to at : ments of blood worm larvae are not (Continued on page 24)

OCTOBER 1952 23 (Continued from page 23) was the concurrent infection in their dams. Which is to say, farms with average lead pencil. On the other mares passing few strongyle eggs had PRINTING AND hand, verminous aneurysms have been foals which sustained relatively little found which weighed more than three PUBLISHING bloodworm injury. It was also ob- pounds. Very frequently under the vious at farms where heavy strong- stresses of breaking and training this yle infections were found that no man- damaged blood vessel may rupture agement or hygienic methods were and allow blood to escape directly into sufficient in themselves to control para- the body cavity. Such an event almost sitic infections. It was apparent that always has a fatal termination. On Complete facilities for plan- a system of helminthic treatment had other occasions bacterial toxins may ning your advertising, printing to be devised to attack the source of escape from a pocket of infection in and publishing needs. infection at a time when it was con- the aneurysm so that the horse may die centrated within the broodmares and rapidly and without extensive hemor- Editorial and Art departments not dispersed over hundreds of acres rhage. There is no known treatment of pasture. available. or surgical remedy for verminous aneurysm. One drug, phenothiazine, is effective Possibly our plant in this When exposure to infection is in- against the majority of worm parasites "low overhead" area can give terrupted, verminous aneurysms may of horses. Certainly it is effective you more value per dollar. heal slowly. Under normal conditions against strongyl e parasites of horses. interruption to exposure does not oc- The problem in 1947 was to devise cur and the aneurysms remain. In a method by which phenothiazine some instances the entire colic artery could be used in a continuous attack may be involved so that aneurysms 3 against strongyle infections in brood- The EUSEY PRESS feet in length have been recovered. The mares. A continuous attack is neces- sary because broodmares are continu- Leominster, Mass. youngest horse dead from verminous aneurysms in my experience was a 6- ously susceptible to strongyle infection. week-old trotting horse foal. More Their infections, in turn, provide the than 400 bloodworms were recovered continual source of infection for their from its aneurysm. The oldest horse foals. The parasite problem in 1947 dead as a result of verminous aneu- was further complicated because of rysm in my experience was a 26-year- the fact that the drug phenothiazine Thoroughbred mare. The most valu- was in disrepute with the breeders. able Thoroughbred dead from vermin- The drug phenothiazine probably Opportunity! Opportunity! ous aneurysm in my experience was a is one of the nicest things that ever Thoroughbred stallion which had a happened to domestic animals. It is Derby winner in its first crop. Very effective against many of the most im- MAJOR CHIEF 10768 frequently the cause of death of such portant worm parasites of domestic valuable animals is diagnosed as "se- animals. Unfortunately, its introduc- vere intestinal upset." Severe intestinal tion into equine practice was not pre- Sire: Major R. M. 8011 upset is an euphemistic expression for ceded by adequate testing. You un- Dam: Chief's Bate x05402 clinical parasitism. derstand that in order for a drug to As we now proceed to methods of kill a worm the drug must be a poison. control for bloodworm infection, we When a drug is administered in too must recognize that greatest injury is great quantities both the parasites and caused by immature stages of the their host may be poisoned. And this parasites. In other words, greatest is what happened with phenothiazine A big rugged one-year-old host injury occurs in the interval after in horses. The first recommendations exposure and before maturity of the indicated that horses would tolerate stallion. He will sire the kind parasites. Absolute prevention of para- as much as half a pound and the drug of horses you are looking for sitic injury can be obtained by abso- itself was hailed as somewhat of a lute prevention of exposure. miracle. Administration of pheno- from average mares. In the years 1947-1951 a series of thiazine was abused and some horses, surveys of worm parasite infections in poor physical condition, were given were conducted with Thoroughbreds fantastic amounts of the drug. Some in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. horses were killed by over-doses of These surveys sought to determine the phenothiazine. Certainly you now can PLEASANT VIEW RANCH incidence of infection in all ages of understand that Thoroughbred breed- T. C. Jackson & Sons horses, the source of infection for all ers in Kentucky and elsewhere very Harrison, Montana ages of horses and the seasonal pro- rapidly developed a distrust for pheno- gression of the infection. It was thiazine. Through a period of years, quickly established that the ultimate however, a "standard" phenothiazine source of strongyle infection for foals treatment was developed for horses.

24 The MORGAN HORSE This treatment, one ounce of pheno- This system of low-level treatment thiazine in a capsule or drench is now is now employed in every important employed wherever horses are raised. horse breeding center in the world. One ounce of phenothiazine in a cap- Tests for cumulative adverse effects of MORGANS sule or a drench constitutes the full such therapy have been conducted therapeutic treatment for mature continuously with a group of foaling For Sale horses. Half of this amount, that is, mares since the spring of 1948. These one-half ounce in a capsule or drench, .horses are located at the Department Particulars upon request constitutes full therapeutic treatment of Animal Pathology at the University for young horses, sucklings, weanlings of Kentucky at Lexington. No un- and yearlings. By 1947 the classical favorable effects of this treatment have treatment for strongyle parasites in been discovered during the past four- THEIS COMPANY horses was the full therapeutic treat- year testing period. Dodge City, Kansas ment outlined above given twice a The adverse effect of parasites upon year. foals is expressed in two manners. The trouble with the classical system First, adverse effects consist of direct of control was that bloodworm mor- injury to the young horses. The sec- talities continued. You can see that ond, effects of parasitism certainly be - come evident in the performance of under conditions of continuous expos- O'NEILL HORSE ure twice a year treatment did not horses at tracks and in the show ring. recognize the fact that there remain Effects of parasites can also be de- TRAILERS 363 days in a year for horses to con- termined in another group of horses Cheaper — Last Longer tinue to sustain parasitic injury. The at a breeding farm. This group of Easy on Horse, Car and period of time required for most horses is comprised of individuals Owner. Result of 25 years strongyle parasites to mature in horses known as barren mares. These horses making trailers is about 30 days. Under the classical exist for the eventual purpose of pro- system of treatment, therefore, some ducing foais. In many instances fail- O'NEILL 10 generations of parasites, so to speak ure of barren mares to produce foals were allowed to pursue their life cycles is derived from their own heavy para- Horse Trailers each year and injure horses without sitic infections. I submit that removal Manteno, Illinois interruption. The classical system of of parasitic infections from these bar- phenothiazine treatment did not, and ren mares will enable them to be bred does not today, provide a continuous more successfully. Where barren and rigid system of control. mares are fed grain daily, they should receive the 2-gram daily phenothiazine Phenothiazine can be used in a treatment the first 21 days of each THOROUGHBRED MARES continuous attack on strongyle para- month. Under other situations where IN FOAL sites when administered in fractional barren mares are fed grain daily in Some with foals at side. Rebred to or subtherapeutic amounts. The basis preparation for breeding, they should good young studs such as Trip11• cate. Fighting Frank and Batt'giro for the control of strongyle parasites receive the same low-level treatment. in horses recently devised in Kentucky by Bull Lea. Send for list with In regard to one more group of horses, Prices and complete information. is a 2-gram amount of phenothiazine. the stallions, it is not true that they This present system requires that each suffer no exposure to strongyle para- Botten Bucket broodmare receive 2 grams of pheno- sites and strongyle injury. Stallions thiazine mixed in her grain ration the should receive the 2-gram daily treat- Stable first 21 days of each month. Under ment with phenothiazine. Hemlock Point Rd., systems where foaling mares are Chagrin Falls, Ohio brought up and fed each day the treat- (Continued on Page 26) ment continues through the 12 months of the year. Under the system where foaling mares are turned out after weaning and not again brought up "88"saues you dollars! regularly for feeding until preparations That's why horsemen all across the country send to are made for foaling and breeding, Miller's for quality merchandise. They trust us for the 2-gram daily treatment is initiated super-service and low prices! Now prove it— Send when the mare is brought up in prep- today for our FREE, 96•page illustrated CATALOG aration for foaling and breeding and 88 aid SEE the 1,000 items in English and West. ern Saddlery, Driving Equipment. Riding Clothes and continued until weaning. I am hope- Boots . . . ALL ful that you will have noticed that with our famous the source of strongyle infection for MONEY BACK foals, which is the infection in the GUARANTEE! mare, is under continuous attack all Everything 123 EAST 24TH ST., WV/ YORK 10 for Riding during the time the foals are running Dept. VM H at Savings with the mares.

OCTOBER 1952 25 (Continued on page 25) numerous individuals who raise Thor- N. W. NEWS oughbred horses. The above remarks (Continued from page 12) Now of course all of this effort in on the control of parasites of horses the control of strongyle parasites of apply to all show horses and working Kirkland, Washington; 4. Sunshine horses has been directed toward pre- horses of light breeds. It may well be Suzy — Grace Kirkwood, Tacoma, vention of exposure of the young that your horses are not brought up Washington; 5. Nimbo K — Grace horses at a given farm. Where foals and fed grain throughout the year. In Kirkwood, Tacoma, Washington. are with mares on the low-level this event the low-level system may * * * system, it appears unnecessary for the not apply to your particular situation. OLYMPIA RIDING CLUB HORSE foals to receive this treatment as suck- I can only say that you must make SHOW lings. At some farms where the consistent efforts to attack parasites The Capital city once again played suckling has his own feed box, the at every opportunity, and these efforts host to the annual horse show spon- sucklings are given one-gram daily should be consistent with the well- sored by the Olympia Riding Club of doses of phenothiazine in their grain. being of the horses. Because you now Olympia, Washington, August 2nd At other farms the mare is tied and are in possession of the essential facts and 3rd. This show incidently was the foal is allowed to feed first from necessary to control strongyle parasites the first in the northwest to offer the feed box containing the phenothia- of horses, I am certain that your exer- classes for Morgans under saddle and zine. As weanlings and yearlings all cise of "horse sense" will now enable now it has become a regular event, horses should receive the 2-gram daily you to devise a satisfactory control usually bringing out the largest num- doses of phenothiazine in the sched- system for your horses. You should, ber of Morgans in any show. The old ule of treatment where the drug however, devise a program jointly with campaigner Montie De Jarnette under is fed the first 21 days of each month. your veterinarian and rely upon his his new owner, B. F. Fluty, of Ta- This system of phenothiazine therapy advice and experience. Should you coma, topped the class for the second should be continued while the horses have further questions about the con- consecutive year. are broken and are in light training. trol of strongyle parasites in your 1. Montie De Jarnette—B. F. Fluty, All treatment should be discontinued horses, I shall be happy to receive them Tacoma, Washington; 2. Red Bess— when horses enter hard training and at the University of Wisconsin. Karin Brauns, Wenatchee, Washing- wing. After horses enter hard train- ton; 3. Shiek F's Ladybelle—Elsa ing and racing they should receive Brauns, Wenatchee, Washington; 4. regular worm treatment but the Star Gates—Gladys Koehne, Bothell, method of treatment will depend upon Send a Subscription To Washington; 5. Gayman—R. W. Van time intervals allotted for resting and Pelt, Kirkland, Washington. freshening. When horses are with- The Morgan Horse * * * drawn from hard training for ex- HAPPY VALLEY GRANGE tended periods, the schedule of low- for a Christmas Gift HORSE SHOW level (2-gram daily) phenothiazine After a start in Morgan classes on treatment should be resumed. an impromptu order in the Happy The audience here at Washington Valley Grange Horse Show last year, State apparently is not comprised of Morgans have now become a regular

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Several two and three year old mares, some broken to ride and drive, and from my top foundation Royal Stock.

Dana Wingate Kelley ROYalton Morgan Horse Farm South Royalton; : Vermont

26: The MORGAN HORSE part of the program in the show held Morgan mares: Roche didn't but he wouldn't ad- at the Circle JM Ranch of Redmond, 1. Magic Miss-Fred Mangis, Wil- mit it-he prided himself on never Washington, August 10. The class bur, Washington; 2. Lady Glenda- forgetting a face-man or horse's. was tied as listed: Fred Mangis, Wilbur,' Washington; 3. "Sure, sure," he beamed. "How 1. Montie De Jarnette-B. F. Fluty, Dee-Fay Wilson; 4. Nespelem Snip- are you?" Tacoma, Washington; 2. Star Gates- py-Fred Mangis, Wilbur, Washing- But the barfly, down at heels and Gladys Koehne, Bothell, Washington; ton. apparently rumdumb, did not fall for 3. Gayman-R. W. Van Pelt, Kirk- Morgan Stallions: the forced geniality. He shook his land, Washington; 4. Illawana Joanne 1. Highland Glen-Fred Mangis, head. -R. W. Van Pelt, Kirkland, Wash- Wilbur, Washington. "You don't," he said. "But you ington. must remember the station agent-the * * * man you made into a race horse OLYMPIC SADDLE CLUB HORSE PASSE PARTOUT owner." SHOW This was a rough one. Roche shook Port Angeles, Washington (Continued from page 11) his head as a boxer does coming up Halter class, mixed mares and stal- from p hard blow. It couldn't be. He lions: -could mean was almost beyond com- recalled the affluence which racing- 1. Star Gates - Gladys Koehne, prehension. They hurried to greet and luck-had brought the station Bothell, Washington; 2. Beau Jeau- their trainer-rider as he rode back to agent. He recalled the quick pros- Lex Dilling, Port Angeles, Washing- the stables. perity of the agent and his wife, re- ton; 3. Gayman-R. W. Van Pelt, "Great little horse" was his only membered how they had looked when Kirkland, Washington; 4. Abbeliner- comment. They wordlessly agreed. he had last seen them on the railroad C. M. Van Pelt, Kirkland, Washing- "He could go a long way," Roche station platform as they departed to ton. said as he dropped to the ground and follow the flaming fortunes of their Saddle class, western equipment: pulled off the saddle. "He could horse. Their manner, their baggage, 1. Star Gates - Gladys Koehne, make you a lot of money," he added. their clothes-especially their clothes. This bum in baggy trousers, greasy Bothell, Washington; 2. Beau Jeau- Roche never again rode the horse in Lex Dilling, Port Angeles, Washing- coat and broken shoes ... this couldn't a race, but he continued to train him be. But it was. ton; 3. Gayman - R. W. Van Pelt, for the rest of the season. He always Roche broke the silence. Kirkland, Washington; 4. Abbeline- told the rider to "leave him alone. He C. M. Van Pelt, Kirkland, Washing- "How are things? How's the knows what he's doing." The advice missus?" ton. was good for the little horse went to "No need to ask how things are, * * * success after success. And so did his Mr. Roche. She's in that rooming owners. They bet him heavily BOOTS 'N SADDLE CLUB HORSE house across the street. That's where wherever he ran and "beginner's luck" SHOW we live now," and he pointed to a Okanogan Valley, Washington paid them handsome dividends. The dingy frame building. Morgan stallions (all ages) (halter) agent quit his job. They changed "How's the little horse? Whatever 1. Highland Glen-Fred Mangis, their way of life to fit their new cir- became of him?" Wilbur, Washington; 2. Nespelem cumstances. As their horse won and The sot's eye brightened. His back Jack - Clarence Fields, Chewsaw, won again they moved on to bigger straightened. Even his voice changed. Washington; 3. Kazan King Grey- fields, bigger prizes, bigger bets. "He's fine. Remember his name Harry E. Roath. Roche followed their successes for a -Passe Partout? Remember how my Morgan mares (all ages) (halter): while but gradually duties pressed and wife-she's French-named him that 1. Red Bess-Karin Brauns, Wenat- he lost track of them. first time he raced? Passe Partout, chee, Washington; 2. Magic Miss- Years later Roche, now living in that means passes, everywhere. That's Fred Mangis, Wilbur, Washington; "the states" where he owned and what he did from the start. While we 3. Sheik F's Ladybelle-Elsa Brauns, operated a big training stable, made had just him alone we were in the Wenatchee, Washington. * * * one of his annual pilgrimages to Can- money. We lived high. Then, as he ada in search of horses. The Thor- began to show signs of wear and age BOOTS AND SADDLE CLUB oughbred-Canadian cross was excellent we bought other horses. Wilbur, Washington hunter stock and he had bought and "But none of them were like Passe Morgan 1952 foals: sold a lot of them. Following one of Partout. We lost and lost and lost. 1. Black Ranger-Fred Mangis, his daily tours through the farms he Now this," and he indicated his Wilbur, Washington; 2. Tom-Fred returned to his hotel for the night and miserable clothes. stopped at the bar for a drink. A tee- Mangis, Wilbur, Washington; 3. "I suppose you wonder when I say Fox-Fred Mangis, Wilbur, Washing- totaller, he nevertheless preferred to that he is fine. But he is. When I drink his lemonade in the rough cama- ton. had money I resolved he'd never want raderie of the barroom and he enjoyed 1. Wilbur Silver-Fred Mangis, and I set up a fund to take care of the noisy scene as he sipped his drink. Wilbur, Washington; 2. Wilbur Nel- him as long as he lived. He has a He finished it and was about to leave lie-Fred Mangis, Wilbur, Washing- good big box stall, 'a • three-acre pad- when a hand touched his arm. ton; 3. Barnie-Fred Mangis, Wilbur, dock. I never touched that fund and Washington; 4. Queen-Fred Mangis, "You don't remember me, do you I never will." Wilbur, Washington. Mr. Roche?" a hoarse voice asked. Passe Partout-passes everywhere.

OCTOBER 1952 27 Pedigrees very clearly and his owner would per- official record, made some years after mit no handling which could in any his "official" time of 2:36, but it was (Continued from page 13) way impair him for this, his primary nonetheless an indication of his won- Goffstown, New Hampshire, whose duty. derful courage and undeniable natural pride and property he remained until It is unfortunate that the true value ability. his death at the age of twenty-one of a sire is seldom measured until after Taggart's Abdallah was never sold, years. his death, for it isn't the great number but remained the property of David Great-grandsire of Farmer's Beauty, of good colts a horse leaves that is Taggart for all of his nineteen years. the black Hawkins Horse was pur- the mark of greatness, but rather the His foals were almost all bays or chased as a three-year-old by Olney ones, if any, that are better horses, browns, uniformly excellent, and de- Hawkins for use as a parade horse. with better records, than their sire. spite his location in an area of com- Hawkins was captain of a troop and In the final reckoning, Farmer's Beau- paratively few top quality mares, he for the six years he remained in St. ty had to qualify among the top sires got the winners of 52 races from rela- Johnsbury, the black stallion was a of the breed, for he was the sire of tively few foals. One of his best race- fixture on muster days. He had the Taggart's Abdallah 567, one of the horses was Ned Wallace, who won action, the fire and the looks to com- best horses ever foaled in New Hamp- fourteen races and defeated some of mand the awe and attention of every shire, indeed, probably second only to the best trotters of his day, including passer-by and his great-grandson, Black Hawk himself as the best "na- Tom Moore, Ben Morrill, Honest Farmer's Beauty, was his direct coun- tive son." Harry and Belle Dean. Another fine terpart in all save color. He was trained Whatever pride and satisfaction Mr. racer sired by him was Ned Hastings, to march to music and with his hooves Taggart felt in the ownership of Farm- who won thirteen races, as well as polished, his mane and tail flying, he er's Beauty, it was more than doubled Dauntless and Fleetwing, who raced made. a picture that remained in the by his feeling for his bright, copper- mostly in New England but won four- memory of all who were privileged to bay son Abdallah. Bred similarly to teen races between them. see him. Mr. Taggart was primarily Daniel Lambert and a host of great Several Canadian breeders became a farmer and horse breeder and could horses, he was by a strictly Morgan deeply interested in the descendant of never be persuaded to sell the horse sire out of a quality mare carrying the Papineau and tried for some years to for use only as a muster mount, but best possible breeding. Mambrino's• buy him. Failing in this, they pro- he very generously did loan him, and first son, Messenger, was the tail-male cured Paragon and All Right, both up until the year he died Beauty led sire of many great trotters, was indeed bred from good Morgan mares, and every parade in Goffstown and in the founder of the Standardbred horse, took them to Canada, the former to many nearby villages. but his second son, Abdallah, was a Quebec, the latter to Nova Scotia. He was a versatile horse, for not broodmare sire of the first magnitude. Both became immediate successes for only was he a show in itself under Two of his daughters, Lady Mac and All Right was the sire of the famous saddle, but in harness he was the gen- Fanny Cook, perhaps not great mares Blackbird, whose best race and claim tleman's roadster par excellence and in their own right, produced, when to glory was her defeat of the fabulous could trot an easy mile in three min- bred to Morgan stallions, Taggart's Lady Thorn and Grey Eagle on a utes or less. He was an even fifteen Abdallah and Daniel Albert, Titans Montreal race course. hands tall and weighed 1050 pounds. of the breed. Although both Daniel Lambert and Dark, dapple-bay and without white If Taggart's Abdallah lacked a little Taggart's Abdallah made an immediate on face or feet, he was a beautifully of Daniel Lambert's striking beauty, success of their years in the stud, it is balanced horse. Many of the early he had an equally fine disposition and the quirk of Fate that one name should in-bred Morgan sires were a little was, in the opinion of those who knew appear in the pedigrees of at least heavy, some with very hairy legs and him, the best possible example of Mor- half of our present day Morgans while jaws, but Beauty, with two close gan type tempered with what was the other appears with the greatest crosses to Sherman Morgan and later to be so highly desirable in Mor- rarity, and even then never on the another to the Hawkins Horse, was gan quality. He gave the appearance male line descent. very clean-legged and fine-coated, per- of good breeding in every line of his Perhaps there may be even more of haps due to the fact that Sherman head and neck, in every move he a comparison, as noted earlier, with showed the most quality of all of made. When he was eleven years old the case of Wise Counsellor. Unfash- Justin's foals, with Hawkins and he was exhibited at the New England ionably bred, that horse did yeoman Woodbury close behind. He was Fair in Manchester, New Hampshire. duty in the stud, sending out stake naturally high-headed, one of the Already a successful sire of top racing winners year after year. The line to earliest sires to have this characteristic trotters, his owner was persuaded to Justin Morgan through the Hawkins noted of them, with a neat head and send him on an exhibition mile, com- Horse was a great one, perhaps one of a kind disposition. He was very intel- pletely without preparation. The mile the greatest, yet today it is a rarity for ligent, easily taught, and required no originated purely as a sporting gesture it to show even down on the bottom- constant practice for parades or other and a tribute to a great horse, but most corner of a pedigree. work. He was one of the first of the when his time of 2:28 was announced, We select a sire perhaps for type, early Morgans which did not have to Taggart's Abdallah received a tremen- maybe for stamina, possibly for cour- do his share of farm work as well as dous ovation from every horseman age, yet it is no one of these, but the almost any other job to which a horse present, an ovation they doubled when one small spark we cannot • see, that could possibly be hitched, but his value he repeated a half in the really excel- marks one line for survival, the other as a breeding horse was recognized lent time of 1:121/2 . This was an un- for extinction. '28 The MORGAN HORSE (Continued from page 9) LIGHTWEIGHT DIVISION (Carrying 155-179 Pounds) Weight Horse Age Sex Hgt. Carried Riders Owners 1. Max 9 Gelding 15-11/2 167 Mrs. Katherine P. Colon Mrs. Colon Reg. Morgan, 08010 Athol, Mass. 2. Townshend Gladalect 11 Mare 14-3 157 Patricia Hallquist Mrs. Anna D. Ela Reg. Morgan, 05624 Hillsboro, Mo. Townshend, Vt. 3. Townshend Lady Sensation 6 Mare 14-0% 174 Mrs. W. L. Orcutt Mrs. Orcutt Reg. Morgan, 06937 Orcland Farm, W. Newbury, Mass. 4. Duke 9 Gelding 15-21/2 170 Mrs. James Clark Mrs. Clark 7/8 Thoroughbred Elliott City, Md. 5. Tarik's Golden Lass 8 Mare 15-1 156 Phyllis Taylor Phyllis Taylor Reg. Morgan, 06272 Bellows Falls, Vt. 6. Buyer Seahams Topper 10 Gelding 14-2 157 Eleanor Mahoney Camp Jo-Al-Co Hackney Milton, Mass. Strafford, N. H. 7. Princess 8 Mare 14-334 156 Mrs. Cora P. Snow Camp Jo-Al-Co Breeding Unknown Milton, Mass. Strafford, N. H. 8. Cocoa 8 Mare 15-1 158 Joan Evans Camp Jo-Al-Co Breeding Unknown Hanover, Mass. Strafford, N. H. 9. Captain 7 Gelding 15-2 157 Mrs. B. Howe Gay Winds Grade Morgan Barnard, Vt. Barnard, Vt. 10. Casia 5 More 15-1 156 Janice Smith David Lavi( to Anglo-Arab, AA-224 Middlebury, Vt. Waterbury, '.:onn. HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION (Carrying 180 or More Pounds)

1. Black Corner 9 Gelding 16-1 210 D. W. Patterson, Sr. Mrs. James Clark Half-bred The Plains, Va. Elliott City, Md. 2 . Rusty Bradley 8 Gelding 15.0 % 197 Luther Witham Luther Witham Anglo-Arab Peabody, Mass. 3. Best Bets 10 Gelding 15-2 209 Dr. Wilson Haubrich Ted Augustinowicz Breeding Unknown Claremont, N. H. Putney, Vt. 4. Sad Sak Louie 8 Gelding 16-1 184 Capt. A. G. Wilder. V, C. Ferguson's Stab'es Appaloosa Ft. Devens, Mass. Woodstock. Vt. 5. Cassablanca 9 Gelding 16-11/2 190 Leo Dore I.eo Dore T.B.-Albino Montreal, P. Q. 6. Apache 7 Gelding 14-3 185 Kenneth Fossa Kenneth Fos:a Quarter Horse Danvers, Mass. 7. Dark Age 11 Gelding 15-1 192 Charles Wheeler Charles WI eeler 3/4 T.B.-1/2 Q.H. Loudonville, N. Y. 8. Tafik's Golden Yankee 7 Gelding 15 187 Helen Young jean B. Chase Grade Morgan Roanoke, Va. Putney, Vt. 9. Babe's Delight 8 Gelding 14-3 227 Gene Timmons Gene Timmons Reg. Morgan, 9044 Malone, N. Y. JUNIOR DIVISION

1. Tamer 7 Gelding 15-2 1/2 D. W. Patterson, Jr. D. W. Patterson, Jr. Half-bred The Plains, Va. 2. Stardust 12 Gelding 15 Betty Jo Cloud Betty Jo Cloud Breeding Unknown Lebanon, N. H. 3. Bobby 6 Gelding 15.2 Barbara Gramstorff Camp Jo-Al-Co Breeding Unknown Randolph, Mass. Strafford, N. H. 4. Chico 9 Gelding 15.334 Priscilla Perras Camp Jo-Al-Co Breeding Unknown New Bedford, Mass. Strafford, N. H. 5. Copper Dust 10 Gelding 16 Josh Edgerly Josh Edgerly Grade T.B. Windsor, Vt. SWEEPSTAKE WINNER HORSEMANSHIP AWARDS Horse: Max. Owner and Rider: Mrs. Katherine P. Colon, Ladies' Horsemanship: Mrs. Alvah D. Snow, Camp Jo-AL-Co Athol, Mass. Strafford, N. H. BREED PRIZES FOR REGISTERED STOCK (Donated by H. J. Kroto) MORGAN Men's Horsemanship: Ted Augustinowicz, Putney, Vt. (Donated by H. J. Kroto) (Donated by the Morgan Horse Club) Junior Horsemanship: Jane Clark, Amesbury, Mass. Horse: Max, 08010. Owner and Rider: Mrs. Katherine P. (Fessenden Challenge Trophy) Colon, Athol, Mass HALF-BRED SPORTSMANSHIP AWARDS Horse: Black Corner. Owner: Mrs. James Clark, Elliott City, Ladies' Sportsmanship: Mary Meyer, Noroton, Conn. Md. Rider: D. W. Patterson, Sr., The Plains, Va. Men's Sportsmanship: Luther Witham, Peabody, Mass. BEST TRAIL HORSE Junior Sportsmanship: Michal Rihl, Lebanon, N. H. First Horse: Apache. Owner and Rider: Kenneth Fossa OTHER AWARDS Danvers, Mass. Stable Awards: For the best decorated and kept stall. Second Horse: Townshend Lady Sensation: Owner and Ri- Senior: Leo Dore, Montreal, P. Q. der: Mrs. W. L. Orcutt, W. Newbury, Mass. Junior: Sandy Hunt, New Brunswick, N. J. Rookie of the Year: Senior: Charles Wheeler, Loudonville, N. Y. Junior: Barbara DeMar, Reading, Mass. ONCE UPON A HORSE

Regularity, Repetition and Restraint

By OLD TIMER

Once upon a time when we were felt shafts. He wouldn't drink. He the free end of a war bridle. Then, very young we bought a horse. We wouldn't eat. A problem child. when we had hitched and drawn up bought him for a board bill—$77.50 if Trying to induce him to suck up the cart and he made a bolt, the sash we remember correctly. a bit of water or mouth a bit of food line cut deep into his atlas bone and He was young enough—less than was useless. He was ready to die he quit. Day after day we repeated before he would do either. We re- 10—and sound as a nut. We were this until he would stand quietly member the hours spent on an taken with him from the start—most- while we harnessed and hitched. Soon ly Morgan and with a black coat shot upended bucket as we tried to solve he would do it while we climbed into with white, a true blue roan. His the problem. Finally it simmered mane and tail were nearly pure white. down to this—if we could make him the cart. recognize us as an authority under They led him out from his stall that By this time he was literally skin and day long ago and we discounted the the saddle or in harness he might condescend to live a normal life. bones. He still refused to eat and fact that he danced nervously on the drink. He was weak and tired by the tie ropes. So we bought him and Once decided on this course all that ordeal of complying with man's de- paid the price. Then we contracted remained was to teach him to act like mands—demands that had never to get him home and a van was finally a normal horse. We saddled and earned him more than punishment. obtained—a big roomy truck. bridled him, took him to the middle But one day I saddled and rode him. We led our new purchase out of the of the exercise ring and started to Then I harnessed and drove him. stable and the moment he saw the mount. Useless—he was gone as soon dried him off, combed, brushed and truck he snorted—no comforting snort as we set foot in stirrup, despite short petted him and turned him into his of a horse loving the weather or the rein and double bridle. Once again box stall. Waiting him was a hot mere fact of living—but a determined, we gathered the reins, tucked our left bran mash larded with cut up carrots. hating snort of pure terror. It took hand low on his neck to hold him He took a long look at me over the us three hours to load him in those and this time we merely pulled the boxstall door, heaved a more or less early days when he knew so much— leather. He started to bolt but we contended sigh and dug into it. When less than now—and when we finally checked him. Time and again we he had finished he had a long drink got him in the truck he promptly sat pulled on the stirrup and as quickly of water and then tore into his hay. down. We stood beside him all the hauled him back on his haunches until From that time on we had no trouble long road home and he sat on his he gave up and consented to stand. with him but must admit that we al- tail all the way—the skinned segment Then we put a foot in the iron and ways handled him quietly and gave of it that it took weeks to cure was put some pressure on it. Off he him no cause for alarm. mute evidence of the ride. started but we were ready for him and Such was the blue—the most ner- checked him sharply the while we What we tried to prove in the fore- vous animal we have ever encountered. hopped—one foot up and one on the going story is that a horse is a creature He was afraid of his own shadow— ground. It seemed to be hours so un- of habits—in this case he had no good and like Minner Cheevie—he had comfortably bent until he agreed to ones and had to be taught. Frequent- reason. A hard horse to load and stand. Then we vaulted up, and down ly if you come in contact with a rebel, unload he had once been shipped in and up and down until he agreed that one of those guys who will die rather a dump truck and unloaded by the it was the best policy to stand still. than comply, simple lessons of deport- simple expedient of merely hoisting Day after day we repeated the process ment will often regulate him to stay the body until he had slid out. He until we could mount him with the on the normal road. There is nothing trusted no man. reins dangling—and he stood motion- like regular and easy lessons to give a We tried to mount him and he was less. Then we rode him. horse confidence both in his owner gone like quick silver. We tried to Driving was much the same. We and himself. It all depends on regu- harness him and he bolted when he tied a couple of hitching weights to larity. repetition—and restraint. 30 The MORGAN HORSE Hackamore—Nowhere in the world runners scared at something and away are there more hackamores than in went our trio. The other threesome the west. There, in the land of the quickly joined in and the six raced neck-reined mount this mouth-saving a mile before we had those horses device is the favorite of many, especial- under control, and could give a ly the working cowboy. In the West thought to the girl. She was not in the hackamare is often nothing more sight so we turned and rode back. than a canvass of hard manilla, the We met her hacking quietly along. noseband especially heavy. At its low- "What did he do?" we wanted to ask. est point is affixed a rope rein and the the track with mouths like iron that "Oh, she replied. "He wanted to chase noseband itself, where it crosses the it was not possible to ride safely for those other horses but he stopped as jawbones is frequently covered with lack of control. But put a hackamore soon as I pulled the reins." sandpaper. This is done during train- on them and they behave. There is From that day on we have become ing and rubs raw the skin over the no bit in the mouth to lug on. The firm believers in the hackamore. sharp bones. Far from being an in- gently strap pressure under chin and It is also an excellent rig for the human gadget it causes little pain but over the nose pulls in the extended animal who is annoyed by a bit—who does make a horse react quickly to a head, collects the legs and co-ordinates chafes, snatches and throws his head. touch of the reins. It is nothing short a "loose" animal. Truthfully, we have He'll forget all that with a hackamore. of amazing the speed with which a never seen one of these animals run A neighbor of ours has a rather cowboy can train a horse with a sand- away when fitted with a hackamore. headstrong pony who "broke jail" and papered hackamore. An example of this comes to mind. was found by his young son cropping But in the East you seldom see this Nearly 20 years ago a big Irish hunter our lawn a half mile from the stable. rigging—the hackamore, that is. Yet landed in a stable near our place. He The boy had no bridle, the pony had it is the answer to more bitting prob- was a fine big horse sound and clean no halter and he was a puller especially lems than we have here room to re- despite his age which was 15. But when headed for home. We cut about late. In the first place, a hackamore he had established a reputation as a six feet of clothesline, put the mid- of a certain type may be obtained puller. dle of the rope across his head right from any saddlery which is so fitted A short time after that we were back of the ears, brought the two ends with chin and nose straps and bars transporting a bunch of young runners down his cheeks and crossed them resembling a curb bit that it is not to a track 15 miles away. Two of us through his mouth. We handed them necessary to neckrein a horse. He can each rode a horse and led two more. to the boy after giving him a leg up be ridden as usual with one or both The hunter was also due to make the and that pony stepped down the road hands. And if he is a puller or one of trip and the only rider was an in- as sweet as a spring song. That, how- those go-away-quick guys his antics are experienced girl. We fitted the hunter ever is a powerful and punishing rig over. with a hackamore and started. All if used roughly and not to be corn- We have seen runners, fresh from went well enough until one of the pared with the hackamore.

REGISTERED MORGAN COLTS. Fillies FOR SALE: Morgan-Arabian gelding. for sale. Lippitt and Archie 0 bloodlines— Five years old. Bright red chestnut. Star Mid State Morgan Horse Farm, DeMott CLASSIFIED and Strip. 750 pounds. Very well broken to ride. Will drive and do a few tricks. Road. Middlebush N. J., phone East 5 cents per word Millstone 8-2846. Must have a good home. Kind and a pet. 31.00 minimum Price $175. MRS. LENARD LONGS, Enos- COWBOY BOOTS — Fancy Higharade. burg Center, Vermont. Hand-made to your measure. For men, Women and Children. "That Good Feeling FOR SALE: Two registered Morgan FOR SALE: Registered Morgan stallion, on your Feet." Write for Catalogue. Also mares, bay and a chestnut with white Scott's Hero, by Golf ield, out of Ben's Girl Boot Shoes. Crichet Boot Co.. El Paso 8, markings, both suitable for women or by Bennington. Beautiful chestnut with Texas. children to ride. Also two weanling colts. flaxen mane and tail. Sire of some good bay filly and chestnut stud, both with colts and a sure breeder. Eleven years white markings.. R. W. VAN PELT. Route old. Broken. Also, weanling bay stud PHOTOGRAPHY by Barbara Stone. 4, Box 146, Kirkland, Washington. Tele- colt by Black Sambo out of Vega by Sir 41 Franklin Avenue, West Medford. Mass. phone Kirkland 22-3720. Ethan Allen. A good colt whose sire Show pictures and action shots. For ap- and dam are excellent harness horses. pointment and price call Mystic 8.9810. FOR SALE: Mistmaiden 05920. Double KEYNITH KNAPP, Arlington, Vermont. granddaughter of Mansfield 7255. Sound, FOR SALE: Purest Morgan Blood Lines. ten-year-old. Suitable as broodmare. Bred FOR SALE: Indian Boy, registered Mor- Handsome two-year bay stallion and to Lippitt Sam Twilight 8085. Would trade gan stallion 7866, sired by Winterset 7403. three-year chestnut gelding, out of Ash- for registered young stock. JAMES Dam—Cola 04447. Chestnut with star. brook daughter. Well broken, excellent DOUGLASS, East Dixtield, Maine. left front pastern white; broke to drive and prospects. Moderate price. WESTFALL ride under English tack; height 14:3. FARM, RD. Port Jervis, N. Y. FOR SALE: Gipsey-Jo, half-Morgan filly weight 1050. CARL A. SCHEPPERT. Box by Gipsey Allen, out of a very typey 443, Route 2, Temperance, Mich. mare. Delivered in reasonable radius for FOR SALE: Knickerbob 10610, foaled $150. Also, purebred Shetland weanling FOR SALE: Nipagon, two-year-old beau- June 1. 1951. By Sonny Bob 7693 out filly, chestnut or bay with a cream mane tiful Red Chestnut filly, full sister to of Ember X-072425. Fine old-type Morgan, and tail. Contact MRS. AYELIEN W. Comanche Brave. Sire Lamont. Dam. Rose chestnut with tiny star. MR. & MRS. MEL- RICHARDS, Richard Ranch, Pine City, 0. Day. M. R. HOFFMANN. 401 East VIN H. MANDIGO. Glover, Vermont. New York. Michigan Street, Indianapolis. Indicma. OCTOBER 1952 31 Just

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I'm a'layin' on the prarie In the lost an' final round up And I'm thinkin' of my home, When the Big Boss ropes us in, An' the folks I left behin' me, I been wonderin' just what sort of When I started out to roam. A corral I'm uonna win. But I'm not the least bit lonely Will I be selected carerlly? On this mighty desert sea, An' put in a hay filled barn? 'Cause I know that if I left it, Or just left fer common herdin' It'd soon be callin' me. 'Cause I'm hardly worth a darn? Seems there's somethin' in the desert Think I'll start to livin' better Makes you want to be alone. So's to join them grainfed stem-rc, An' you ride it ;n the daytime 'Cause I'll have to meet my maker now Knowin' well it's all your own, In just a few short years. An' at night when your a'layin' But my thoughts is gettin' fuzzy An' a gazin' at the moon, An' I'll soon be slcepin' on. Then you're thin kin' of the roundup 'Cause I got to hit the saddle, That is comin' puny soon. With the early crack o' chum.