SUMMER 2005 Morgan Single-Footing News The Official Newsletter of the Morgan Single-Footing Horse Association

AMHA NEWS Ride 2005 Fort Robinson Nebraska Club News

Welcome 2005 Election Of MSFHA New Members Officers Ballots inside

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You might take the girl off the Arab, but maybe not totally take the Arab out of the girl. Here’s our Morgan convert, Lynne Barlow,PDF on the 2nd wonderful horseCreate! that stole her heart, MaryMels Indigo. 3 Read their Trial story inside.

Inside Lynne Loved , I loved Lynne, a touching memoir by Larry Barlow and family. Gone, but never forgotten, by any who were touched by her graciousness. Lynne is sorely missed by family and friends, and will be forever remembered for a multitude of talents and personal attributes. For Sale: Dia H Easter Rose, 6 year old gaited Morgan mare, liver chestnut,

Green broke, but doing well at Level 1 Parelli training, been ridden on trails a lot.

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She prefers to but it is very smooth. She is a great brood mare prospect, beautiful, per- sonable and veryPDF gentle. Create! 3 Trial

Located in Stehekin, WA Cliff & Kerry Courtney [email protected] Table of Contents Letter from the President Dear Members, MSFHA Description of Gaits………………………...….....3 Summer is hot and dry here in Colorado. In MSFHA Officers, Advertising Costs, Benefits……….…..6 the last newsletter I talked about the challenges we were facing with this election, due to some The Presidents Message…………………………………...3 confusion on terminology etc. I'm thankful that the nominating committee, Gary Ride flyer…………....……………….……………...……....7 Gray, Mel Frandsen and Martha Collection and the Gaited horse Lee Zeigler…..……..…21 Cather worked diligently to verify member- ship and commitment with those that were A Tribute to Lynne Barlow ... ………………….……8-11 nominated. In order to be an AMHA affiliated club, Officers must be AMHA members, so Election News……………………………………...………..17 they had to check on that . This has been a te- dious process since the records were not up to MSFHA Ballot Form……………………………..Loose Insert date and Beth had to work hard to get all in order. Sometimes it does feel that we Our Morgan Heritage: California Horse Gangs……....….16 are "herding cats". I realize most of you have heard about some of the recent legal action against AMHA; if you have questions I will try to answer them as best I can. Hope you all Please send your farm news, photos and are planning to join us at Ft. Robinson, this is interesting articles for publication to Vali a great place to ride!!! Please see the announce- Suddarth 4832 State Road BB, Montreal, ment in this newsletter. Mo. Club member participation is needed and very appreciated. We need your adver- Linnea tising support a s well, to keep publications possible. Our newsletter is one of the best ways for us to introduce prospective mem- This issue is dedicated in memory of bers and interested parties to our wonderful Lynne Barlow gaited Morgans and the people standing On the Cover: behind breeding for gait. Lynne Barlow on MaryMels Indigo Any typos or omissions PLEASE letwww.scansoft.com me know. Apology in advance.

PDF MSFHACreate! STANDARD GAIT DESCRIPTIONS 3 Trial Single-foot is a broad term used by old time horsemen to describe any gait other than a two beat gait. A single foot hits the ground at a time. MSFHA has adopted the term ‘Single-Foot” as an umbrella term to describe the continuum. It includes the following gaits: fox trot, running walk, rack and stepping pace.

Fox Trot: A four beat gait where the diagonal hooves move together with the front hoof hitting the ground slightly before the rear.

Running Walk: An even four beat cadence with each hoof hitting the ground singly, similar to a flat foot walk but with more speed.

Rack: A four beat cadence with each hoof hitting the ground singly but somewhat laterally in nature. The rack more closely resembles the running walk, but can develop more speed.

Stepping Pace: A four beat gait in which the lateral hooves move together with the hind hoof hitting the ground slightly before the front. This gait is sometimes called a broken pace. The Morgan Single-Footing Horse Association (MSFHA) is The Morgan Single-Footing Horse News a recognized service organization of the American Morgan is the official newsletter of the Morgan Single-Footing Horse Association (AMHA). The MSFHA takes the position Horse Association under the umbrella of the American of promoting all Morgan types and disciplines with particu- Association. Neither the Associations nor lar emphasis and promotion of the inherent four beat gaits the editors are responsible for opinions expressed in the found within the present registry of the Morgan breed. articles or letters submitted for publication. Articles, MSFHA is committed to research, education and promo- photos or other submissions must come with permission tion of these Morgan horses due to their outstanding ath- to publish and be free of copyright infringement and are letic abilities. guaranteed as such by anyone submitting items. Visit our web site at http://www.msfha.com

Member Benefits

2003-2004 Officers  Quarterly newsletter President Linnea Sidi, Meadowlark Morgans  Half Price discount web sites by Heidi Sutton Design 2640 SCR 3D Loveland, Colorado 80537  Free text ads on classifieds page of MSFHA web site 970-669-3822 [email protected] when submitted as you wish it to appear on the MSFHA site. We reserve the right to reject any sub- Vice President missions that are not properly composed or lack contact Ken Thomas, Thomas Morgans information!! 650 E. 1070 N Richfield, UT 84701  Free listing on member page if requested 435-896-684 [email protected] All PAID photo advertisements are posted on MSFHA Secretary/Treasurer Classifieds page as they appear in newsletter. Beth Binion 11025 Ridgeview Creek Advertising Rates: Newalla, OK 74857 Color ads: B&W ads: 405-386-2514 [email protected] Full Page: $60 Full Page: $30 1/2Page: $15 Publisher/ Editor Short classified ad- $10.00 Vali Suddarth Business card ad- $10.00 4832 State Road BB Montreal, MO 65591 PLEASE NOTE NEW DEADLINES!!! [email protected] 417-286-4720 Articles, ads and photos submission www.scansoft.comWinter Issue: January 1 Advisors: Spring Issue: April 1 Mel Frandsen Summer Issue: July 1 [email protected] Fall Issue: October 1 801-756-4655 Articles, ads, or photographs may be mailed via Gary Gray post office to Vali Suddarth 4832 State Road BB, [email protected] Create!Montreal, MO 655913 or emailedTrial to [email protected] E- Mailed documents should be submitted in Word (doc,& wpd) jpeg, pdf. Scan photos at or about 300 dpi for Heidi Sutton clearest picture. Please keep files under 400 kb where [email protected] possible for faster downloading.

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www.scansoft.com PDF Create! 3 Trial Call to see what’s new For 2005 www.scansoft.com PDF Create! 3 Trial The first time I noticed Lynne was when I was a senior in High School. She was at my house By Larry Barlow playing basketball with my younger brother and some of his friends. She asked my brother “who is your friend?” He answered, “he’s not my friend, he’s my brother.” When she left I asked my brother about her, and I made the comment…”I said…”it will be a lucky guy that marries that girl.” Lynne was probably 14 at the time.

About this time, a wealthy friend of Lynne’s family, knowing of her great love of horse, offered to give her a young quarter horse mare. The mare was on a ranch in Wyoming, all Lynne had to do was get it. Many times I observed her on this mare, riding the hills of Bountiful, Utah where she lived. I can’t remember if she had a bridle, but she didn’t have a saddle. With her dark hair, dark complexion, shorts and bare feet, she reminded me of a Comanche Indian! Also around this time, Lynne came up to our house and asked if she could clean our barn (for free). Not realizing at the time that this was because of her great love for horses, I couldn’t help but wonder “is this girl re- tarded?”

My dad really liked Lynne. When she was probably 15 years old, my dad asked me why don’t I take Lynne out. Although I liked Lynne, I declined because of our age difference. My dad sweetened the pot by offering the use of his new Buick. I still declined. Then he offered $5 cash in addition to the use of the Buick. ($5 in that day was probably around $50 in today’s dollar). I had a friend that worked in a movie theatre. If we double- dated, he could get us in for free. Popcorn was 10 cents. I thought, “how much popcorn can she eat?” I could make some money on this!

Two or three years later, my uncle Leon, who owned quite a few show quality Arabian horses, made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. He said that if I married Lynne, he would give us a horse. I though…’how can I www.scansoft.comlose? If Lynne doesn’t work out I’ve still got the horse!)

After we were married, the horse that we received from having my uncle’s best mare bred, was the start of Lynne’sPDF love af- Create! 3 Trialfair with the Arabian horse.

Lynne had many animal loves in her life. There was a long list of cats, dogs, and horses. A *WitezII grandson, by the name of Zhivago, was Lynne’s favorite horse. *Witez II was the polish stallion that General Pat- ton rescued from the Ger- mans near the end of Warld War II. Zhivago inherited the “Look of Eagles” from his Grandfather. He truly was a Black Beauty! Zhivago’s energy knew not limits. You could not get the horse tired. Actually he probably got tired, but he never quit. Lynne rode him native costume in many parades, including the 24th of July Parade in Salt Lake City. She told me after the parade what a great thrill it was to turn the corner on South Temple and Main Street in downtown Salt Lake and see a sea of people on both sides of the street as far as you could see. Plus feeling the power of a great horse underneath you made it an incredible ex- perience. Lynne also rode Zhivago in many competitive trail rides. He was such an ath- lete that he really was in a class all by him- self. She always felt that at the end of a long day’s ride, that although she was too tired to go any farther, Zhivago could easily do it again! The day that Zhivago died, Lynne took it so hard, that I ended up hav- ing to take her to the hospi- tal. She said later, “I can never let my- self get that close to a horse again.” And for many years she didn’t.

I had started riding gaited Morgans and was thinking about getting another horse for myself. One day I stopped by Mel Frand- sen’s in American Fork, Utah. Tied in the breezeway of his barn was the best looking colt I had ever seen. It was love at first sight. I said to myself, “I’ve got to have that this colt!” I inquired at the house and Mary, Mels’s wife, said that Mel and Ern Pedler had ridden to the West to put some cows in. I drove that way, and before long, I spotted them coming. What a sight! Mel was riding the foals’ dam, Godiva, and Ern was on his big gaited Morgan gelding, Ug. They came down the side of the road in the gait, each trying to out do the other. The gravel was flying!

They stopped and we made small talk for a few minutes. I wanted to ask about the colt, but didn’t want to seem to eager. I finally mentioned, as casually as I could, that I was looking to buy a horse, and by the way, what about that colt tiedwww.scansoft.com in the breezeway/ Before Mel could answer, the normally very polite Ern Pedler spoke up and said, :That colt is spoken for, and that’s the end of it.” Mel seemed very embarrassed by Ern’s remarks, but said that Ern had asked to buy the colt if Mel ever decided to sell. Meld said he would like to keep the colt to replace his sire, Omar Sherif.The rest is a long story, but the colt was always in the back of my mind. Two years later, we were able to buy him from Mel. I hadPDF the horse of my dreams,Create! Mary Mels Indigo. 3 Trial Then, to my surprise, Lynne, my “died in the wool” Arab wife, began to fall in love with MY horse. I could see it was pointless to try to avoid the inevitable, so one day, I asked if she would like Indy as her horse.

Some people never have the horse of a lifetime. Lynne was blessed with two.

I have to admit, I’m a two gelding type of guy. But Indy just sucked us into the stallion business. We stood him at stud for 16 years. Some of our best friends today are a result of standing Indy. He liter- ally changed our lives for the better.

Seeing Lynne ride Indy is something you can’t forget In Memorial

Thanks Larry for your heart tugging story of love and life with Lynne and horses. That story, I know is very expandable with the many facets of Lynne and who else she was, besides a great horsewoman. Her life with horses is but a shadow to her life with people, for I know of her graciousness. Her fam- ily, close and caring, is a testimony to her encompassing love. Those fortunate to have made connec- tions with her, feel the loss, not only for her family, but for ourselves as well. I’m so glad we had just one day with Lynn. Vali and Jim Suddarth

And more from others……..

Dear Vali, Mel wanted me to send this to you. Mary

We first met Lynne Barlow 25 or 30 years or so ago. Her husband Larry had been down looking at our Morgans, and she had, I gathered, reluctantly come down to see them. They lived near Ern Pedler and had seen and ridden with him, and Larry had become interested in Morgans thru Ern.

Lynne let it be known from the first visit that she had Arabians and was not interested in Morgans. I never tried to persuade her and Ern told me he didn't either. Finally, one day she and Larry ap- proached me with what I know was a big concession on Lynne's part...would I sell them a Morgan?

Anyway, they ended up with a nice Morgan colt named "Mary Mel Indigo", out of "Godiva" and sired by "Omar Sheriff." He was a dark almost black chestnut. He turned out to be Lynne’s pride and joy. I never kidded her about her transition from Arabians to Morgans.

Lynne was really a good horsewoman. She really knew how to take control of an energetic stallion. She understood and analyzed horses like very few do and was more enamored than ever with "Indigo" when she started him and found that wonderful singlefoot gait.

Lynne was one of our foremost advocates of the gaited Morgan, and she was always willing to climb aboard and let "Indigo" show you what singlefooting was all about.

Lynn and Larry gathered up more Morganswww.scansoft.com and began raising a few foals, all of their Morgans were gaited. They have been great ambassadors for the breed and for the singlefooter, however, I must say more importantly, through the years, the Barlows have become very good friends, we have shared many things in common and had other mutual interests and friends.PDF We will miss Create! you Lynne. 3 Trial Mel and Mary Frandsen

Lynne on Silvershoe Colorado Moab A Tribute to Lynne Barlow By Gary Gray

Lynne Barlow, of Alpine, Utah passed away unexpectedly in April 2005. I first met Lynne close to 25 years ago. We needed some wall covering in our home, and she and Larry provided this ser- vice. I also knew that they owned a gaited Morgan stallion, and I had just started breeding Morgan horses for gait. It did not take long then that our conversations moved from wall covering to horses, and a long lasting friendship began with the Barlow’s. It was interesting watching Lynne and Larry work together. Lynne’s son Doug said it best at her funeral, and I quote, “it was a combi- nation of high octane (Lynne) and a low grade of fuel (Larry). Lynne often would joke that Larry would need to show up to a job at least two hours before her to be prepared once she arrived. They did very good work, and worked very well together.

I had the pleasure of having Lynne work for me for several years after she was unable to hang wall covering. Lynne had developed some shoulder problems and the demands of hanging wallpaper were not feasible. Lynne was an excellent employee, always the first to arrive, and the last to leave. It did not matter what the conditions were, she showed up in blizzards, sickness, wind or rain, we could always count on Lynne.

Lynne and Larry have raised a great family, and that family included their fine Morgan horses. And in fact, her children would say that the horses generally took top priority. Lynne loved them both, took great pride in them, and made sure that they were all taken care of. Lynne enjoyed showing off her fine Morgan Stallion, Mary Mels Indigo. He was a very impressive stallion, a whole bunch of energy, and a real presence. It took a very experienced rider to ride this horse, and Lynne was one of a handful that could ride and control his energy. I remember riding with Lynne, and she was always waiting at the top of the mountain for the rest of us, and she would be sitting on the big stud with a grin on her face. She would never boast about her horse, that was not her style, but the two of them were something special on those long rugged rides. Indy died a short time ago, and part of Lynne went with him when he passed away.

I respected Lynne for her ability to judge horses. While at work, we would always find time to talk about our horses, our families, and of course our grandkids. It always went in that order, and al- ways circled back to the horses. I will remember Lynne for many things. We had a bunch of real good horse rides, and I have fond memorieswww.scansoft.com of dinner and movies with Lynne and Larry. But what everyone should remember about Lynne is that she was a true friend to everyone, would always put others before herself, and never had anything but kind words to say about others.

Lynne was a founding member of MSFHA and was one of the first to advertise a singlefooting Morgan stallion, Mary Mels Indigo. For those of us that believe in heaven, and you have to be- lieve that horsesPDF go there too, I’m sureCreate! Lynne has already had her hands3 onTrial Indy. I’m sure that he was one of the first things she looked for.

Lynne, you will be missed by us all.

Gary www.scansoft.com PDF Create! 3 Trial IN THE HEART OF THE MIDWEST NEAR BEAUTIFUL LAKE OF THE OZARKS

ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL OF SILVERSHOE COLORADO MOAB AN DAUGHTER, MISSOURIS SILVER LYNNE, TO MISSOURI MORGANS, WE ARE DELIGHTED TO PURCHASE THESE TWO. The filly may be considered for sale. MISSOURIS MELS BUD Yellowbird x MaryMels Rosebud Bud is a nice chestnut gelding with a star and one white foot. In training DIA H Dandy Walker under saddle he is gaiting strong. This 2003 gelding is $3500. 15. 2 Black Chestnut KTM Morgans owner Standing in Missouri for a limited time MISSOURIS BOOGIE GAITER JMF FULL TILT BOOGIE X MARYMELS MERRY WIDOW WEANLING STALLION $3500. GAITED

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JIM & VALI SUDDARTH 417-286-4720 4832 STATE ROAD BB WWW.MISSOURIMORGANS.COM MONTREAL MO 65591 Annual MSFHA Meeting Sept. 15-18 Fort Robinson Nebraska is the site for the 2005 annual meeting and trail ride. Fort Robinson is a beautiful Nebraska State Park facility, the largest in the state, steeped in American History. It was the site of the death of Sitting Bull, the Indian escape that set the state for Wounded Knee, and a pris- oner of war camp for WWII. There is a lot more to this facility than I can write on this page. You will find hot links to the facility on our website as well as an article Martha dug out of an old newsletter from the last ride the MSFHA had at Fort Robinson. Sounds like a great time...it’s fairly central...a great time of year to go. Take a break!! WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Election time is here and now. Vote your 2 votes!!!

Richard & Barbara Haines Cleveland, VOTES MUST BE POSTMARKED BY SEPTEMBER 5 GA Fill out your ballot, BE SURE TO SIGN YOUR NAME Marcus & Joan Barnes Rigby , Idaho ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE SOMEWHERE… Mike Tuttle Frisco ,TX (If you do not sign the envelope your vote will not be Laura Nuessle Lebannon, TN counted)..mail to Beth Binion. Each family unit is al- lowed 2 votes. If you send 2 votes in one envelope Mark and Ruth Udall Lindon, Utah you SHOULD sign 2 names on the envelope.

Editor’s Note

Greetings Fellow Members!! Welcome New Members!!

First let me apologize for the tardiness of the spring, now summer issue. Many factors attribute to the production of the newsletter, and things just didn’t fall into place in good timing. So...that said...let me remind you all that the more you send information my way, the more I will have to print. We would all like to share photos, stories, and aren’t we all always shopping for another horse? I am new at this newslet- ter and could use your input. Thanks to Martha for her help on ad layout, and to Heidi for her prompt attention to website changes.

As you know...it’s election time. And while I don’t quite understand the bylaws...I think you need to be sure you sign the envelope (somehwere on the outside of the envelope) you mail the ballot in. Send 2 ballots if 2 of you are voting ( 2 votes per household) and sign that envelope with both names just to be sure. And mail thosewww.scansoft.com to Beth Binion. We should hear the results at the Fort Robinson Ride, and in the next “timely” newsletter which will be coming out before December 31st.

Fort Robinson ride. Folks, I have read a lot about this place. It looks like a very nice facility and it is a very historical site in American His- tory. Please visit the web site….if you just do a search for Fort Robinson State Park, it will lead you to many pages full of information. Even maps of the trail are available. This club has been there before. (photo on back) I hope especially this year that many of you turn out to at- tend, I’d like to meet morePDF of you, and strengthen theCreate! bonds we have as a group. Jim and I look3 forward Trial to having a good time. Give Linnea a call about reserving our food...we need to get those numbers in soon, and you can reserve your cabin on the internet, or call 308-665-2900 to reserve your cabin and stalls, or trailer hook up. The cabins appear to be in close proximity of the stables.

The Western Working Morgan horse club will join us there also. Their club will meet at the same time, (Linnea is their President also) so it’s just gonna be a bunch of Morgan lovers getting together to ride. If you’ve got horses to sell, it’s also a good opportunity to make connec- tions with prospective buyers. Be sure to let a 2WF ride one of your horses!!

We ride also in conjunction with the AMHA’s “Celebrate the Morgan” promotion, of which there should be much national and local promo- tion of many such gatherings this year.

Please...yall come...we’ve got trails to burn and friendships to forge. Even if for just a day or two.

Vali Suddarth, Editor AMHA returning to Calendar Year Memberships in 2005 Presently the AMHA allows membership on the basis of when you joined, but as human nature is to procrastinate, they are announcing their decision to return to a membership period from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1. They hope this will help members to renew in a more timely fashion. Morgan Exhibition Opens in Lexington, Ky. As of May 1st, in Lexington, Kentucky there is now a permanent Morgan Horse ex- hibit at the Kentucky Horse Park. In addition to many photos and extensive infor- mation about the Morgan, the exhibit also has two riding simulators built especially for the exhibit. One is a walk/trot ‘horse’ with western tack, the other canters with English attire. More than 4,100 people visited the park that day, which tradition- ally is one of the slowest days of the year at the park! My first horse ride for 2005 was on the simulators. Jim and I were there in January. Unfortunately, while the exhibit touts the versatility of the Morgan horse, there is no mention of such a creature as a gaited Morgan. We’ll have to fix that! Also in residence at the Ken- tucky Horse Park, we were privileged to spend time with the actor horse who played Seabiscut. January is actually a nice time to visit the park...no crowds. We had the museum and grounds to ourselves, but there was absolutely nothing going on. It was enjoyable nonetheless. Free Web Ads on AMHA website AMHA members can advertise their Morgans for sale for free on its website at www.morganhorse.com

AMHA ANNUAL CONVENTION

February 15-18, 2006

Hyatt Regency Lexington, Lexington, KY. For more information contact www.scansoft.com [email protected]

Sunday, August 28th, 2005 Morgan HorsePDF Field Day, Darlington,Create! WI 3 Trial August 28th, 2005 Township of Lamont outside of Darlington, WI

11:00AM 608-776-4636-Jerry

The WI Morgan Horse Club will turn back the hands of time by demonstrating the enormous role the horse played in the survival of agriculture. Attendees will be able to ob- serve horse shoeing, draft harnessing demo, hands on seed corn shelling and the Morgan horse teams harrowing, cultivating and seed planting demonstration. Admission and parking is free to the public. Fire Destroys Historic Landmark

The Joseph C. Brunk home, located at the Brunk Morgan Horse Museum, in Rochester, Illinois, was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of May 27, 2005. The home that had housed five generations of the Brunk family beginning in 1829 was gutted by fire in a little over an hour.

A passerby notified 911 of the fire at approximately 2:30 a.m. and firemen from the Pawnee and Chatham fire departments responded and were at the scene by 2:45 a.m. The fire is suspected to have started after 2 a.m. in the second floor of the southeast wing. Firemen and family on the scene by 2:45 could only watch and pre- vent spread of the fire to adjacent structures as the home was fully engulfed in flame. Firemen re- mained on the scene until approximately 8 a.m. The furnishings had been removed, but the house con- tained historical artifacts primarily from the home itself and a collection of Morgan Horse magazines.

The home itself had been constructed of limestone from the family quarry that also provided the lime- stone for the base of the old state capitol building located on the square in neighboring Springfield. This is the time that Abraham Lincoln was practicing law in the Springfield area and family history indi- cates Lincoln to have been a family friend who visited and stayed in the home with friend George Brunk, Joseph?s father. Search is underway to document not only the visits, but legal documents that may have made a direct connection through the limestone quarry.

Walls of the limestone first floor were 18 inches thick providing it with a natural heating and cooling effect. A fireplace was located on the north and south ends of the structure. The second story of the west wing of the home was constructed of brick and was added to the top of the limestone. An east wing to the home was constructed of oak and walnut wood, all forested from the property. The entire structure was covered with a cement stucco resembling blocks. All of the woodwork, including door frames, window frames, and interior wall closets reaching from ceiling to floor were of walnut har- vested on the property. Recent archeological study has confirmed the above and other items associ- ated with the property.

The Brunk home had been constantly in use until 1983 when Roy Brunk, son of Joseph C. Brunk died. The area that is in the vicinity of proposed Hunter Lake, was sold to the city of Springfield by Clara Brunk Mayes, granddaughter of Joseph and daughter of Roy in 1994. Due to an outcry of interested persons, a museum board was formed with the goal of establishing a museum to the Morgan horse and to bring forward the historical value and importance of agriculture and livestock in the Illinois heart- land. The home, barn, and five acres were deeded to the Museum by the City of Springfield in 1995 when the museum was formed.

While renovation of the property has beenwww.scansoft.com constant since that time, the house itself had been boarded up to prevent further deterioration and outside maintenance had been done to preserve the two-story limestone, brick and frame home. Activity has continued in seeking assistance with the renovations of the home and barn both through Grants and private donations. Fortunately, the 1800s barn with its collection of harness and implements was left intact, as was the visitors center to the north of the home, which houses most of the Museums collection. The shell ofPDF the home remains historicallyCreate! important as even more of3 the architecturalTrial integrity has been exposed. Plans are underway to determine how this tragedy can be transformed to provide an even more exciting and moving experience for the public as the Museum Board continues their quest with the remaining remnants of the home, the intact 1800s barn with its artifacts, and the addition of exhibits and activities to bring the property to life as it was in the mid to late 1800s. Numerous ideas have already come to light, one of which is restoring only the limestone first floor of the structure. These ideas will be investigated fully and determinations made on how to progress with the reconstruc- tion, at future Board meetings.

The Museum remains open to the public.

The Brunk Farmstead was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1999 and is a tax exempt 501-C-3 Charity. Donations are welcome and may be sent to the Brunk Morgan Horse Museum, c/o Lois McDermand, Secretary, 7221 Lake Service Road, Rochester, Illinois 62563. www.scansoft.com PDF Create! 3 Trial Not your typical Morgan Heritage type story, nevertheless, it provides an additional insight to the role of the Morgan horse in the history of our nation. (that’s either a BIG horse or a little man) My uncle loaned me this book months ago...very thick and detailed, and had this photo earmarked for my reference. When I finally got back around to looking at it again...I have found the book to be hard to put down. These bad outlaws, the horse gangs, were ruthless robbers and murderers, taking advantage of the oppor- tunity to terrorize the growing population of the California Gold rush, and maintained their fearsome existence for many years afterwards. William Howard was one of the good guys trying to bring the criminals to justice, which eventually did happen. I found myself involved in some very interesting and detailed historical accounts of the settling of southern California. The book as titled above the photo, is written by Frank F. Latta.,who traveled extensively to research the material. www.scansoft.com PDF Create! 3 Trial HUNTER HILL MORGAN FARM Western Working bred Morgans with Smooth Gaits, excellent conformation

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PDFKelso Moon's Mica Create! (Kelso Red Boy X 3 Trial WAR Moon Dance Bird), foaled 5/19/03. Gaited & trots, Price $2000 Collection and the Gaited Horse © Lee Ziegler, 2003 originally published in the Gaited Horse Magazine We have all heard it, well-meaning advice when our gaited horses have trouble staying in gear, either on a down- hill incline, around a curve or even on a nice straight level path: “collect him up to get him to gait.” Not exactly sure what this means, many riders take stronger contact on their reins, and squeeze harder with their legs, or use spurs, trying to shove the horse together so that he will raise his head, lean on the bit with a vertical forehead, and take slower, often higher steps, all in hopes that he will stop beating them to death in a hard trot or pace. Some- times it even works! Is this really collection? Not exactly.

WHAT IS COLLECTION: The concept of collection in horses is very old, dating back to well before Xeno- phon. Following the classical definition of the term, true, complete collection is the condition of a horse, either in motion or stationary, in which his weight is shifted toward the hindquarters, through a sustained lowering of the haunches (pelvis) at the lumbo-sacral junction, increased flexion of all the joints of the hind legs, a raised or bas- culed back, and finally, an elevated head and neck with increased flexion at the poll at the highest point of the neck. The motion of a horse’s legs when he works in collection is generally more of a spring upwards from the ground than a push forward from it, often leading to shorter, higher steps. Horses working in true collection will carry more of their weight, for a longer period during each stride, on their hind legs than they do in an uncollected state. For an example of a horse working in perfect collection and lightness, see the picture of Spartacus accompa- nying this article. This is the ideal, the end goal of training for collection, that is the mark of classical .

WHAT IS NOT COLLECTION: Because the term has been used in connection with horsemanship for so long, most people who ride have an vague idea of what collection is, consider it one of those “good things” we all need to strive for in our horses, and tend to use the term loosely to describe everything from strong tension on the reins to slow speed. However, if you apply the classical definition of collection, it is clear that many horses (whether trotting or not) that people call “collected” are anything but. A horse may have a vertical forehead, reach under the body with his hind legs, take short and slow steps, and have high action with his front legs without working in true collection. Horses without lowered hindquarters and basculed (raised, rounded, stretched) back and neck may be shortened through the body and may have high action or short steps, but their motion is not collected. They generally continue to carry sig- nificantly more weight on their forelegs than their hind, and to keep the front hooves in contact with the ground longer than the hind during each stride.

THE COLLECTION CONTINUUM: The perfect collection of the classical dressage horse is at one end of the scale of body positions or frames possible for horses. At the other end of this scale is the “hollow” position, in which the back curves downward, the cervicalwww.scansoft.com ligaments are slack, the abdominal muscles are slack, the hind legs trail behind the movement, and there is no downward flexion at the lumbo-sacral junction and there is no lowering of the hindquarters. At liberty, most horses carry themselves in what could be called a neutral frame, right in the middle of the contin- uum, with occasional moments of collection (think of a stallion showing off for a mare) or “anti-collection” (think of a horse taking off when startled by a deer jumping out behind him in the woods.) During training a trotting horse gradually changesPDF from the hollow Create! frame that is the inevitable result 3 of carrying Trial the weight of a rider on an unconditioned back, toward a more collected position. This happens in small, visible increments, as the horse’s body and his gaits are changed and refined in each new phase of balance. The horse shifts his weight and balance to his hindquarters, lifts his back, and stretches his topline through conditioning and exercise, until he reaches first neutral, then semi-collection, then moderate collection, and then, if he is very well trained and built to sustain the position, complete collection. Obviously, not all trotting horses make it as far along the scale as Spartacus (pictured here), but most at least make it to a neutral frame, and many attain semi-collection as a way to stay balanced under the weight of a rider on their backs. Spartacus exhibits the ideal of classical collection. (with permission of Michel and Catherine Henriquet)

THE GAITED HORSE AND CLASSICAL COLLECTION: Sustained collection in the classical sense was perfected for non-gaited horses in European riding academies during the 17th and 18th cen- turies at a time when gaited horses were rapidly disappearing from the European landscape. Virtually no training with collection as a goal was applied to gaited horses as the concept was being devel- oped. Perhaps this occurred because an interesting thing happens when a gaited horse begins to change his body frame from hollow to truly collected in the classical sense. As he gets much past a neutral frame, his easy gait disappears and he will start to trot! This phenomenon of gait changing as the body frame does has long been noted by dressage riders who may ride a non-gaited bred horse that shows a tendency to “amble” or do a stepping pace. They have discovered that if they round up the horse, help his back rise and hindquarters lower, his will evaporate as his body changes and he will start to trot. The dressage world has also noticed that when a normally trotting-bred horse, through poor training, is put into a shortened but hollow frame, he will begin to amble.

THE CONTINUUM FOR GAITED HORSES: So, what are our gaited horses doing when we think they are collected? What is happening in a horses body as he does a fino fino or running walk or even a fox trot? Through close observation of the body positions of many gaited horses in all of the easy gaits, you can see how these gaits fit into some of the slots along their own particular collection con- tinuum, which stops about the place a trottingwww.scansoft.com horse begins to become classically collected. PDF Create! 3 Trial From right to left: hollow gaits, neutral gaits, semi-collected gaits. Drawings with permission of Lynn Marie Kara. At one end of the scale are horses that travel completely hollow in the pure pace. In that gait, horses are never show a hint of collection. Think concave backs and necks, and trailing hindquarters! Close to pure pacers, but slightly less hollow in their back and neck position are those that move in a stepping or broken pace. Next come horses performing the rack family of gaits - the corto, largo, true tolt, stepped or true rack, and even the fino. They exhibit a certain “essential tension” in the cervical ligaments at the base of their necks, hold their heads relatively high with more or less strongly braced muscles under their necks, maintain a somewhat hollow back (but less so than many horses in the pace or stepping pace) bob upward and downward from their lumbo- sacral junctions, but do not maintain a consistent lowered position of the hindquarters. Their steps may be very shortened for some of the gaits in this group, especially the and paso corto, but although they may have a raised head and neck, flexion at the poll, and more or less vertical carriage of their foreheads, they do not have the raised, “basculed” backs, sustained lowering of the hindquarters and increased flexion of all the joints of the hindlegs that mark true collection. They carry themselves to the hollow side of the neutral position on the contin- uum.

Horse traveling hollow or ventroflexed in a rack. Horse traveling in a neutral position in a fox trot.

At neutral to very slightly hollow on the gait continuum are horses performing the true (not necessarily the show version) running walk and the paso llano. Their backs are level, not raised, but certainly not visibly hollow. They do not exhibit the “essential tension” at the base of the neck that is seen in horses performing the rack family of gaits, but instead have some stretching along the entire length of their cervical ligaments, not as much as in a truly collected horse, but certainly more than in horses that are pacing or stepping pacing. They may take long steps with their hind legs, overstepping the track of the front but they do so without sustained lowering of their hind- quarters from the lumbo sacral junction, and without increased flexion of all the joints of the hind legs as they move.

Finally, at neutral to semi-collected on the scale, are horses working in the fox trot, brokk tolt, or trocha/pasitrote gait. Their backs are usually slightly more raised than horses in the running walk or paso llano, their hindquarters are often more lowered than those of horses in the other easy gaits, even though they may not step as far under their bodies as horses in a running walk or pasowww.scansoft.com llano, and there is definite stretch in the entire length of the liga- ments supporting the neck. If horses in this gait are taken one step farther, and asked to truly collect (assuming their conformation allows it) by raising their backs that extra bit, bringing their hindquarters under them by tilting their pelvises downward, and rounding more in the topline, the fox trot/trocha, will disappear, and they will sim- ply hard trot. TheyPDF will have been “collected” Create! right out of the easy gaited world!3 Trial

Paso Fino in containment. Picture courtesy Darlene Wohlart. COLLECTION OR CONTAINMENT?: In a way, that well-meaning advice to “collect him up” is correct. Even slight changes in the amount of slack in a horse’s ligament system or in his back muscles will change his frame enough to help him stop pacing and start doing at one of the easy gaits. As he does this, the horse does somewhat “collect” himself, since a neutral position is certainly more rounded than a completely hollow one. However, it is not really accurate to call what he is doing “collection” when his overall frame never gets beyond what would be considered neutral in a trotting horse. A bet- ter word for the process of shortening a horse’s body while maintaining his easy gait might be “containment,” especially for horses doing one of the rack family of gaits. The energy developed in the hind quarters of such horses does not just “flow forward” while their bodies string out, but is ar- rested and channeled by the rider’s leg, seat and hand aids into both upward action in the front legs and increased hock action in the hind. This happens without any bascule in the back or sustained down- ward tilt of the pelvis, so it does not fit the ideal of collection, but something that feels like collection is happening with these horses. They are “contained” by the aids, even if they are not truly collected by them.

www.scansoft.com Comparing a horse in classical collection to one working in tight containment.

HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? Assuming you are working to truly collect your gaited horse in the clas- sical sense, how far can you go before you lose the gait? With a horse doing one of the racking gaits, not very far. Even the slightest rounding up of a horse in those gaits will produce a running walk or fox trot, althoughPDF they can be “contained” Create! to the shortest step of any of3 the easyTrial gaits. For a horse do- ing a running walk, however, you can go a bit farther in asking for a raised the back. Horses are able to do a running walk in variety of body positions, ranging from slightly hollow to slightly to the rounded side of neutral. With more then slight collection, however, the running walk either turns into a flat walk or a fox trot. If you are dealing with a horse that fox trots by preference, you can go even farther in raising the back and rounding the frame of the horse. While horses can certainly fox trot in very hollow positions, they can also maintain the gait in some semi-collection, with raised backs and some- what lowered hindquarters. Perhaps it is the diagonal nature of this easy gait that allows it to be done in a more rounded position than the others. It is not a bad thing that gaited horses don’t really collect very much in the classical sense; it is simply one more interesting facet of these sometimes-complicated creatures we ride. It is also something to keep in mind the next time someone tells you to “collect him up” to get him to gait. © Lee Ziegler, 2003 Best's Devanaire (x Scepters Victoria) Best's WilPower (x B Bar P Rani Dae)

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