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35( AUGUST, 1952 ARDENCAPLE ACRES (74e h-oote and Gtect Moila444 pAaac14 pize.sen1.. DENNIS K LIPPITT DUSKY KATE These outstanding Morgans are typical of the Morgan Stallions and blares at Arden- caple Acres which have been carefully selected with due regard for blood percentage, type and other fundamental prerequisites of the true Morgan horse. DENNIS K. 9561 Sire: Flyhawk Dam: Kathleen C LIPPITT DUSKY KATE, 05726 Sire: Lippitt Ethan Ash Dam: Lippitt Kate Moro The champion of champions who has won in both east and west, in model and performance classes in This beautiful mare together with her full sister, Lip- harness and under both English and Western tack. pitt Duplicate, are recent acquisitions from Mr. Rob- In 1949 and 1950 he won the Morgan Breed Cham- ert L. Knight. Lippitt Dusky Kate was Queen of all pionship at Waterloo, Iowa. A Championship at the Morgans at the Green Mountain Stock Farm, the 1951 All-American Morgan Show in Monee, Randolph, Vermont, and will continue her reign as Illinois, with additional wins at the 1951 National Queen of Ardencaple Acres. Morgan Show have established him as one of the "greats of all time" in the Morgan world. Standing at private treaty are Dennis K, Black Sambo, Ardencaple Ace and Royal Zephyr. visitors always welcon2e and in addition to seeing a fine stable of Morgans there is the Ardencaple Kennel with Champion Shetland Sheepdogs (Shelties) MR. & MRS. WILLARD K. DENTON Residence: Mt. Kisco 6-6989 Succabone Rd., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Stable & Kennel: Mt. Kisco 6-5150 +++++++++++++++++++++4 17101-Mk1!ITS of HORSES DOGS by ANNE FISHER TATLOCK 16 Ward Avenue Northampton, Mass. WIND-CREST flhe hame mo4Fakt 6 "The Home of Morgcm Champions" has once again proven its right to be called the Champions. Upwey Ben Don 8843—the only Morgan stallion ever to win both the Grand Champion Morgan Saddle Horse and the Grand Champion Model Stallion, at National Morgan Horse Shows. Then to show true caliber of a stallion, he sired the 1951 National Morgan Horse Show Junior Champion Mare "Wind- Crest Sentimental Lady" and the Junior Reserve Champion Stallion "Wind-Crest Donfield."• Truly a re- markable record for a stallion only eight years old. Morgan breeders are already booking their mares to him for next year. Make plans now to breed that favorite mare of yours to this champion. As out colts come along we find ourselves in a position to offer for sale a few animals each year. This fall we have available three yearling stud colts, two yearling fillies, two two-year-old fillies, two brood mares, and a four-year-old gelding. This gelding will make an excellent child's horse. Plan now to visit "Wind-Crest" and take home a future champion. Or if your prefer to own your own stud, where could you do better than to buy a son of this chum- pion. • We always have a few Morgans of all ages to sell. Come and ride them. See for yourself that we not only have show horses but also well-broken children's horses that can he used for trail or show. The welcome mat is always out at Wind-Crest. MR. and MRS. F. 0. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont Table of Contents &tem to Special Features the Editati And Long Remember • 7 Morgan History (part II) 10 National Morgan Show 18 Young Morgans Go to College .. • .......... 18 Helpful Report on Lockelyn • 19 Schedule of N. E. Shows and Trail Rides 20 Dear Sir: Outing 22 Enclosed please find a picture of Vermont Holiday 24 Archie E. My brother, Roderick Tietz, is mounted. Picture was taken last fall after I came overseas. Regular Features Letters to the Editor 4 Editor's Comments . 5 Cover Names in Pedigrees 12 The Vet Says 13 Breeze from the Great Lakes 14 New England News and Notes I5 Buffalo New York News 21 Once Upon a Horse 30 Stable Hints 31 Officers of the Morgan Horse Club President MERLE D. EVANS Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio Vice-President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Windscr, Vermont Secretary FRANK B. HILLS 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. The Morgan Horse Magazine I receive several magazines but not Vol. XII August, 1952 No. 7 one compares with the MORGAN A Monthly HORSE Magazine. I enjoy reading The Official Publication of the variety of articles, the many good THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated hints on how to care for a horse. In 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. fact, I believe that by reading this maga- Publication Office: zine anyone could care for a horse if Leominster, Mass. one has any knowledge of horses at Publisher Otho F. Eusey all. for The Morgan Horse Club. Inc. Sincerely yours, Editor Sumner Kean Donald 0. Tietz, PFC. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS C. Fred Austin Dana Wingate Kelley Mabel Owen Jet Helen Brunk Greenwalt Dr. Russell E. Smith Dear Sir: SUBSCRIPTION RATES I own two horses, one unregistered Morgan and one Arab-Morgan. I One Year 53.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years S9.00 really believe there is no horse more beautiful than the Morgan. The THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. name of my Morgan is Jet, and he is Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass, Entered as second class every inch a Morgan. matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. My ambition is to own a registered black Morgan, and T plan to get him Copyright 1952 by The Morgan Horse Magazine from Vermont. His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, Yours truly, and his countenance enforces homage. Catherine Maynard Manville, Rhode Island ,41e,i/1 2/ The Editor's Comments OUR COVER "He smelleth the battle." So the Bible, in four words, describes the warhorse, the stallion. Maybe your horse and mine has never seen nor heard of battle and most probably never will. The days of cavalry and the four-horse artillery limber are no more ... gone with the muzzle-loaded piece, the trumpet's clarion call, the snapping troop banner bending the staff based in a hard-riding trooper's booted stirrup. No, he smelleth no battle. Not his the lot to tumble at breakneck speed into the sunken road which spelled Napoleon's doom at Waterloo. Nor shall his fate be like Comanche's fellows who fell beneath the fire of Indian guns at the Little Big Horn where Custer and his ill-led legion were victims of Indian wiles. Sd.d. A mare and her foal gone to the highest bidder walks away from He shall not know the blood-boiling battle call which sent the peerlessly the auction block to the stables at the mounted Macedonians into battle. He'll never know the Arab's wild thrill at Lippitt sale, June 21. This major the signal of shrill horns to desert warfare. event in Morgan history is the subject In short, he smelleth no battle. of our cover this issue. But who has ever seen his stallion in early morning light rise to the call of a brave new day and not hear that unheard battle call. Then it is that we instinctively react to Neitsche's philosophy that man is LETTERS the warrior. Middle-age, perhaps, too thick at the middle and too barren as to (Continued from page 4) back hair we nevertheless, for that breath-taking moment, live again with the warhorse—the warhorse that for that brief minute is our own. Our fancied mount for deeds of derring-do. Rive the foe saunder . .. forward the light Can Someone Help? brigade ... how they carried the good news from Aix ... Winchester 20 miles Dear Sir: away.. I am writing to you in hopes that you can help me find out more about Play-acting, imagination gone hog wild? Perhaps. But then again is there my horse. one of you who has not felt that instinctive reaction to a stallion, released from I bought her in 1947 from the F—F the confines of his night's stable turned loose in pasture, paddock or range? Stables here in Lake Geneva. I've been trying to get more information He flings through the gate, bucks, whirls and twists to a plunging stop. He on her since. I've written to Western throws up his head, his mane afurl and his tail at full staff. He stamps the Horsemen asking them if and where unresisting earth and gazes fiercely into the distance. Who knows what battle I could possibly trace a brand, as my he smelleth. Who knows what instinctive foe he sights. Who can tell what horse is branded. (I will show brand builds arrogance into that splendid body. What transforms him for the moment at end of letter) and they said they couldn't help me. Perhaps you can. into this wild fierce creature, the match of any. As much as I know about the horse, He snorts, deep, breathy snorts that sink and expand his flanks. Again he she is a sorrel mare about 12% or 13 stamps the earth. He flings his head higher for that distance—devouring glance hands high, and as close as I know that must see something beyond the limits of our poor visioni—a glance that she will be 10 years old this year. I have been told she is a Morgan and holds, tensing his body to the acme. Who knows what time and space is bridged that she has had a few colts.