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Table of Contents fettets t) 4: SPECIAL FEATURES Quality in the Morgan 6 Arrow Went to College 9 Oregon Morgan Horse Association e 10 th ECG Showing to Halter 10 Mistinguett 13 Short Course at U. of Conn. 15 Morgan Quiz 16 Dear Sir: Radio Station Morgan Farm 17 I have enjoyed my subscription to Linebreeding 25 University of New Hampshire Horse Show 27 the Morgan Horse Magazine very New England—Mid.AtIon tic Calendar of Events 32 much and I hope to renew it when the times comes. REGULAR FEATURES My family has purchased a three year a old Morgan mare. Her name is Linett. Letters to the Editor She is a dark red chestnut with a white Hints to Horsekeepers 8 Central States News 11 streak on her face. I hope to show Mid-America Morgan Club 12 Linett in some of the horse shows North Central News 13 with Morgan classes, where I will be Northwest News 14 looking forward to meeting some Mor- Tustin Morgan Association 15 Mid-Atlantic News 16 gan people. New England News 20 Sincerely, New York Stale News 25 Janie Dunn Rural Route I Broken Arrow, Okla. Officers of the Morgan Horse Club President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Dear Sir: Windsor, Vermont When I brought my Morgan filly Vice-President GERALD F. TAFT and old Army Morgan horse down to Northville, Michigan Pennsylvania I didn't expect people Treasurer WHITNEY STONE to give them a second glance for I was 90 Broad St., New York 9, N. Y. going into hunting country. Secretary FRANK B. HILLS I boarded my horses at a dairy farm 90 Broad St., New York 9, N. Y. and even though the pigs were their next door neighbors, the horses had a The Morgan Horse Magazine fan club that showed up every day just Vol. XVIII May 1958 to stand there and look at them. The No. 4 filly UVM Daloris, is their favorite A Monthly because she is more of a pet than the old horse. When I told her "Fans" The Official Publication of that she was a Morgan, they didn't THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB. Incorporated know what I was talking about. One 90 Broad St., New York 9, N. Y. of them had said he thought Morgans Please send oil correspondence regarding subscriptions and advertising were a draft horse. The others never to publication office: The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mass. had heard of Morgans. Publisher Otho F. Eusey I found several histories and some Circulation Manager articles on Morgans and gave them to Lorraine LaFond Daloris's "Fans" to read. The next CONTRIBUTING EDITORS day when they came for their visit all Mrs. David Naas Ern Pedler Jane Behling they talked about was how wonderful Rheda Kane Mabel Owen Ruth Rogers the Morgan is and that their next horse Sue Annis Mary Lou Morrell Eve Oakley had to be one. Mrs. Keith Morse Katharine Eskil Eleanor Brockman So UVM Daloris has been a good will The Editor and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan ambassador for the Morgans. She has Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements converted all she came in contact with expressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are to the Morgan horse. And why not necessarily the opinion of the editor and staff of this journal. shouldn't she? After all, she's a Mor- SUBSCRIPTION RATES gan, and aren't they the best? One Year $3.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years 59.00 Foreign Rate 544.00 Sincerely, per year Patti A. Reiss The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January Immaculata College by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New Immaculata, Penna. York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and advertising 1st of month preceding date of publication. (Continued on Page 26) Copyright 1956 by The Mogan Horse Magazine A Guest Editorial OUR COVER By MABEL OWEN Dear Mrs. Morrell: In the "Letters to the Editors" column in last month's magazine you asked a question, or rather, several. "Is the Morgan Horse going to the dogs? What was so wrong with old Justin anyway that every- one seems to be breeding for something else?" After a number of years unsuccessful tilting at the windmills of how modern Morgans are shown, I should have acquired enough bumps to have permanently callused even my volatile nature, but your letter seems to have proved otherwise. So now lets take your first question — "Is the Morgan Horse going to the dogs?" Answered in the light of number of foals registered, transfers, new owners in new areas and the great increase in general interest in the breed, there seems a reasonably well-justified belief that the Morgan is here to stay, and furthermore to flourish as We are indebted to Miss Sylvia the green bay tree. I rather suspect, however that this isn't exactly Kraus of 3817 West Walnut St., Mil- what you had in mind since you prefaced your question with a refer- waukee, Wis., for this exquisite cover ence to a recent magazine article querying the possible degeneration picture and the accompanying poem. of the purebred dog. Since that article provoked a sufficient flood of We know you will like both as well answers from those who took the contrary view, there seems small as we do and know this will be one point in referring to it farther. You have tied in with it however, of the most treasured issues of our the idea that the modern Morgan has degenerated when compared readers. with his forebear. Now are you quite certain that you know just what the original Morgan looked like? During the last twenty-five years there has been a great wave of feeling regarding the "old type" Morgan. Linsley has been quoted and Colonel Battell; and articles from the old "Albany Cultivator" have AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE been used to back one view, or another. Now anyone can quote. From REGISTER Linsley ... "the hair of both (mane and tail) was straight, and not inclined to curl ... (head) lean and bony .. ears small and very fine VOLUME VII . nostrils very large, the muzzle small . shoulder blades and hip- Price $20.00 bones being very long and oblique . (legs) short, thin but very The printing of this volume is now wide, hard and free from meat .. hair was short and at almost all complete and shipments can be made seasons soft and glossy . a little long hair about the fetlocks . the immediately. The volume contains rest of the limbs entirely free from it . proud, bold and fearless 5,500 registrations covering the period style of movement . vigorous, untiring action . spirited, nervous from 1947 through 1954, together with action . perfectly gentle and kind to handle." There is nothing in transfers of ownership recorded in the Linsley's description of Justin Morgan that would indicate he was same general period. About I00 illus- anything but a horse of the highest quality. A little, coarse, pony-gaited, trations of prominent Morgan horses small-size-draft-horse he was not, and this can be proved from sources of this period are included, also. other than Linsley as well as from that original scholar of the breed. I Moving on one generation, to Justin Morgan's sons, we find that To be certain to get your copy, the two that were the most popular, even over a century ago, were the ORDER AT ONCE, as only a few two "quality" sons, Sherman and Woodbury.