October 1951 DON'T SEND M TO KILLER ROBERTS HORSE FARM Hi-Pass, San Diego County, California Buecie4 64i9itesi Mend BLACKMAN 8622 Senior Stallion in Service Mountcrest Joe Bailey 7119 Sellman 7289 Kitty E. 03308 Redman 8065 Pongee Morgan BLACKMAN 7427 Red Dot 04577 { 8622 Rodota 04185 Black Foaled 1942 Go Hawk 7457 Sunny Hawk 7456 Goiea 04610 Bombo 04379 Knox Reade 7089 { Jeanne 04140 1 Jean Arm 03250 Our fifty broodmares have been most carefully selected. We have at all times Morgans of all ages and both sexes for sale. MR. AND MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, OWNERS Address correspondence to: 236 West 15th St. Los Angeles, California Tel. Richmond 7-0658 COLT CONTEST Pkaie Be Pmt You young writers of Morgan Horse Magazine contest stories. BECAUSE: So many of you submitted entries that it was not humanly possible to read them all in time for announ- cement of the winners in this issue. Manuscripts by the hundreds have poured in consti- tuting a tremendous task for our judging board. But because we wish to judge each one on its merits and then weigh against the others competing in that dis- trict we must have more time. The entries have been placed in five catagories and given a first reading. Before the next issue of the ma- gazine—December—they will be read again and again and finally judged. Therefore, you, the Lucky Five in the entire United States should each receive your Morgan colt as a Christmas present. The magazine regrets that the deadline was so close to edition time for this issue but we know that you will understand the necessity for time in this national con- test. If you could see the bales of manuscripts you would be heartened—you Morgan lovers—to see the inter- est thus displayed in the grand old breed. The Morgan Horse Magazine Table of Contents • idiom to Special Articles Our Show of Shows 6 Don't Send Him to the Killers 15 Roland Hill—One of the Great Ones 16 theMilo-8 * Morgan Club Elects New Directors 18 American Morgan Horse Show 20 Need A Training Ring -1 22 23 Carolyn. We Love You Morgan Mare Wins Trophy in 100•1VIlle Trail Ride Pacific Northwest Assn. Starts Rolling 26 Dear Sir: Dartmouth Trail Ride—Hot 27 Just a few lines to let you know how New Enthusiasm for Morgans in Buffalo 31 much I've really enjoyed your Morgan Horse Magazin e. I t Regular Features was so wonderful when I read the Letters to Editor 4 August issue that I could hardly be- The Editor's Comments 5 lieve it could be true that so large a Names in Pedigrees 19 magazine could be published for so The Vet Says 24 Maine Morgan News 28 small a fee as you have been charging. Young Enthusiasts 30 It is actually out of this world! The Northern California Club 32 pictures and photos in themselves con- Stable Hints 39 ceal a wonderful story. Officers of the Morgan Horse Club President MERLE D. EVANS Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio Vice-President FREDERICK 0, DAVIS Windsor, 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 Carolyn R. Walton and father Vol. XI October, 1951 No. 5 When I showed my magazine to A Bi-monthly my friends and neighbors, they were The Official Publication of THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, incorporated utterly amazed to find such a maga- 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. zine being published. I hope that all your other readers Publication Office: Leominster, Mass. get as much knowledge and enjoyment out of this magazine as I do. Publisher The Eusey Press Wishing to congratulate you on for The Morgan Horse Club. Inc. Sumner Kean your fine work, I am Editor Sincerely yours, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Carolyn R. Walton C. Fred Austin Dana Wingate Kelley Patty Davis Speedy Helen Brunk Greenwalt Russell Smith Mrs. Larry Oakley Dear Sir: SUBSCRIPTION RATES I am writing for information having One Year 52.50 Two Years 54.00 sort of lost track of things in the last fifty years. When I was a young boy evetybody drove a horse and most The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published bi-monthly by THE everybody wanted to drive a fast one. MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second class Many the race I have seen out here in matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Michigan where there was no prize, only the satisfaction of winning. These Copyright 1951 by The Morgan Horse Magazine. horses were usually hitched to buggies that drifted from side to side when the road was crooked or the banks too His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, sloped. Some of these horses were and his countenance enforces homage. Morgans and some of them were trot- Kuuy .}/eif/lif ters. But they could all go like the devil. OUR COVER The Editor's Comments "But the pleasure found in these . ." So sang the poet a half century ago describing the satisfaction of an artist at seeing his painting hung in the royal academy. So might a Morgan owner have sung at the sight of his horse in the National show at Windsor. The analogy is perfect to our way of thinking. There was beauty such as only the canvas can reflect. There was grace of design poetry of motion and the third dimension of vibrant life transcending even the artist's dream. - And beyond it all—with painter and breeder alike was the soul-salving satisfaction of—"This is my own, this I have done with my hands, my skill, my knowledge." But the pleasure found in these, the showing of Morgans in the greatest congregation of the breed in the country, is often dimmed by the little words of jealousy. The little words uttered without Young Morgan mares peer intently tolerance or truth in the humiliation of defeat. The little words of over a pasture fence at the little man on criticism from those momentarily or otherwise moved to protest a the big gelding. And well they should decision which hurts, albeit justified, a ruling based on all the facts— for their future is wrapped up in him. plus a close look—instead of a railbird's snap judgment. For he is Larry, grandson of Roland We're not dwelling on Parnassus as we write this. We are Hill, famed west coast Morgan breeder trying to pry loose from our own cosmos the reasoning behind and some day the big band of Hill one of our shouted protests at the national show. We have Morgans may be his to control. At a case in point—a beautiful colt. He took our eye from the moment present he spends most of his time he entered the ring. He had Morgan characteristic by the wagon- riding over the huge Rocklin, Cal., load and the grace and fire to make a horse great. He was such ranch where he lives, pausing occasion- an eye-filler that words of angry disagreement with the judges ally to plot out his next venture. And welled up in our throat when he was not accorded the blue. Tni. so he was that day last summer "mad" lasted for some time and only after calm reason had returned plotting—when we snapped the cover did we get ourselves in hand for a turn at the stables and a closer picture. look to see what the judges had seen that had so upset us. He was Letters beautiful in the stall, stripped of his blanket and standing in all the pride of his youth and beauty. We went over him from tail tip to (Continued from Page 4) nostril—no, almost to nostril—for it was at his big and beautiful eye It's only recently that I've had the that we halted, and then we realized why he had been fatted— chance to get back to horses. I've lost the wet lower lid, the color that was not just right. We had been track of them for years. But my wrong—and the judges right, but that did not take back our roaring nephew subscribes to several horse criticism. magazines and I've seen lots of pictures It's so easy to condemn, to exclaim—"why are they so incon- of roadsters. But none of them seem sistent.,, to go very fast. Their action is high Well, how inconsistent are they? and they just seem to be out buggy- Type? riding. Roadsters should be today What is type? what they were back in the nineties A friend of ours, a top judge of Thoroughbreds once asked when they could really move along. me what all the shooting was auout in Morgan ranks. Said he, Nothing else would show young "unless they all look alike somebody yells 'it ain't a Morgan.' But America what its parents enjoyed as they all have Morgan characteristics. When I judge a Thorough- kids and that's speed. It took a good bred hunter class I pick the one I like, based on soundness, beauty horse to be a roadster, lot of speed and and the characteristics that make him a good horse in the field. But ability to keep pouring it on for a long in the lineup of horses qualified for the class there is often great distance.