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NOVEMBER, 1944 NO. 1

THE GRAY MOUNT AND THE GRAY LEADER THE BIG, LITTLE HORSE By GORDON W JONES By WALLACE SMITH In the Horse Lover In March-April. 1943, issue of The Western Horseman Date: October 14. 1870. Occasion: a funeral, the service No breed of horses is more intriguing than the Morgan be­ for which was read by one W N. Pendleton, formerly chief of cause no breed is so hard to define. Some months ago this writer artillery of the Confederate States Army, but then rector of the did some research work on the original Morgan and published college chapel at Washington and Lee. The bells had tolled his results under the title "The Family Tree of Justin Morgan." long and mournfully, for the most beloved man in the South After reading that article, a lady in Rhode Island wrote an article had died. The chapel was packed with sorrowing hero-worship­ to the editor of The Western Horseman in which she stated that ers, and the crowds outside were greater still. the conclusions in the article maintaining that Justin Morgan After the service all stood outside with heads uncovered while was really sired by Young Bulrock, a Dutch horse, met with her the flower-bedecked casket was borne to the hearse. A tall, approval. She had sponsored many fashionable horse shows in chunkily-built horse, so beloved of his late master, was hitched New England, had traveled in Europe, had collected pictures of to the hearse and was permitted thus to follow it to the grave­ Dutch horses, had observed old paintings of them in the yard. At the final resting place, when the pallbearers lifted out European art galleries, and believed that old Justin Morgan was the casket to carry it to the grave, someone released the great war- a Dutch horse. horse. At once Traveller walked over to the coffin, touched it Here are some more random thoughts on the origin of the first with his nose, and whinnied softly. Morgan horse and his forebears. This touching incident culminated what was quite probably The original horse in the Lowlands of Europe was the so- the closest friendship between a man and a horse in history. The called Ardennese horse. The typical modern representatives of sorrowing people attending knew that the horse had sensed his this breed (equus caballus belgtcus) are the modern Belgian draft own loss, and there was not a dry eye in the audience. horse, the Suffolk Punch farm horse, and the Morgan general Traveller was practically the only benefit Robert Edward Lee purpose horse. However, the difference between a 2,000 Belgian received from his unsuccessful and inglorious West Virginia cam­ and a 1,000 pound Morgan is too great unless one can produce paign. That affair, indeed, lowered his prestige for a time in some other strains. Here is a possible solution. military circles. While in the Kanawha Valley, Lee had been In 1942 Esther Forbes had published a masterly biography very much impressed by the handsome gray, black-maned, short- entitled Paul Revere: The World He Lived In. In dealing with backed, deep-chested mount of a young soldier from western Revere's famous ride she set out to determine what manner of Virginia. horse he rode. After running through hundreds of newspapers After declining to accept the animal as a gift, Lee finally of the period dealing with advertisements concerning stolen bought him for two hundred Confederate dollars. That was the horses, lost horses, horses for sale, and stallions for service, she beginning of an attachment which inspired many a Southern came to two conclusions: First, most of the horses were either legend. black or sorrel in color: second, the original stock was a long- Morgan Blood in Traveller backed, short-legged yellow or light sorrel horse known as the Not much specific is known of Traveller's earlier history. Suffolk Punch. Most of the Puritans came from the Fen coun­ There is some doubt as to his ancestry but apparently he was of try in England and it was there that the Suffolk Punch was Gray. Eagle stock, and thus a remote descendant of the great developed. The modern members of the breed are listed as large Diomed. However, he was not a thoroughbred since his dam farm horses or relatively small draft horses, but in colonial times boasted a mixture of bloods, not the least of which was a strong the Suffolk Punch was considerably smaller than now. This ties trace of that of the greatest sire ever produced on American soil: in with the article by Leon Van Meldert in The Western Horse­ the Justin Morgan. It is an interesting coincidence that the two man that the Belgian, the Suffolk Punch, and the Morgan are most famous horses of the Civil War, Lee's Traveller and Phil all members, judged by head shape, of the animal known as Sheridan's Rienzi, owed theirfire an d stamina to the great little equus caballus belgtcus. Morgan born the century before in Springfield, Mass. In order to give more fire to the relatively sluggish Suffolk Thus it seems certain that there were some Arab genes in Punch horses of the time, Miss Forbes found out that an Traveller. This statement is borne out not only by his Morgan Oriental stallion named Old Snip was imported from Tripoli by ancestry but also by his skeleton which is carefully preserved to a Yankee sea captain. This horse was possibly an Arab, prob­ this day in the museum of the Washington and Lee University. ably a Barb. Furthermore, the style of the horse, his fast, nervous, springy In 1765 a dapple-gray Arabian stallion, 15 hands high, walk, were typical of Arabian ancestry. His gait was such as to named Ranger, was imported from the desert of Arabia to Con­ make him a not too comfortable mount for any but the best of necticut. His sons and grandsons supplied the horses which horsemen. However, Lee's seat was unimpeachable, and he ever served as mounts for the Connecticut cavalry. The excellence of (Please turn to page 6) (Please turn to page 7) THE VT. HUNDRED-MILE RIDE BLACK HAWK As reported in The Maryland Horse by its Editor, one of the judges From The Cultivator, February, 1847 Vermont's 100-Mile Trail Ride, sponsored by the Green Messrs. Editors—I have read with interest several articles in Mountain Horse Association, and held for the ninth consecu­ your valuable journal relating to the Morgan horse Black Hawk, tive year on the wonderful mountain trails and dirt roads around owned by Mr. Hill, of Bridport, Vt. You will doubtless be Woodstock, was a great success, despite war and travel condi­ gratified to learn that Gen. Silas M. Burroughs, of Medina, in tions. this county, has recently procured from Vermont four colts got It was interesting to note the good horsemanship generally by Black Hawk. One, a year old last spring, bred by S. W shown at Woodstock. With very few exceptions riders took Jewett, Esq., of Weybridge, Vt., out of Lady Messenger a complete care of their own mounts, on and off the trail. There descendant of the imported horse Messenger, whose stock is so were special awards for horsemanship, both for adults and justly celebrated for many valuable qualities. Lady Messenger youngsters. These were based on horsemanship throughout the is a beautiful animal, possessing the peculiar qualities of the Mes­ entire ride, not alone on seat and hands, but on care in the stable senger blood in a very marked degree. I knew her when my as well. There were a number of horses on hand whose owners uncle used her in his carriage, and she was the best performer on had ridden them for many miles. the road I ever saw. Mr. Jewett showed me the likeness of this Some had been three days on the road. Freeman Galusha rode noble animal, and the colt now owned by General Burroughs. an eighteen-year-old Thoroughbred Sweet Lacruse, by Sweep. The likeness of the mare is remarkably faithful and correct. all the way from Albany, N. Y., the old horse, who was once The other three colts brought by General B. from Vermont are sold as a yearling at Saratoga, coming in well. last spring's colts, one of which took thefirst premiu m at the The riders varied in age from nine up to sixty, though the Addison County Fair in October last, and is the very best colt nine-year-old did not carry his weight as his mount would have I ever saw. He has the remarkable proportions of the sire Black had to pack a hundred pounds or so of lead to make the required Hawk, as described by Mr. Jewett in his letter published in the weight. Old and young, men, women, boys and girls seemed to Cultivator, Vol. XI (new series), p. 198. This colt, which has get a great kick out of the ride, though it was a strenuous under­ the most marked expression of intelligence imaginable, and taking. The heat of thefirst day , plus the fact that the trails were which cannot fail to impress every observer, was bred by Mr. exceptionally tough, searched the horses deeply, but only two D. E. Hill, of Bridport. were ruled out on time and two more were not in shape for the The other two colts show evident marks of the Morgan job the second day. blood, and are very beautiful and promising animals. General The Morgans were most numerous, as is to be expected in a B., I am informed, has sold the two last mentioned colts—one Morgan country, but in addition there were an Arab or two, to Mr. Andrew Ellicott, of Shelby, in this county, who is a some good half-bred, a saddle bred and a couple of Thorough­ skilful horseman, of considerable reputation. An infusion of the breds. In all nine states were represented in the ownership of the Morgan blood cannot fail to produce great improvement in our horses. Charlie O'Neill brought a couple of good Morgans up present stock. in a trailer from his Manteno, 111., farm. I will add that Mr. William V. Wilson, of Ridgeway, in this The winner of the lightweight division was Cy Newbegin's county, one of our most intelligent and enterprising farmers pur­ brown three-quarters Thoroughbred Betty Turkey Track, by chased at the State Fair at Utica in 1845, the Sir Henry, who O'Terra, a good playing polo pony which went well through­ took the second premium in the class of blood horses. This is a out the ride and came in in excellent shape under the ride of noble animal, combining rare qualities of strength, elegance of Miss Mary Kinsella. In the judges' opinion the medium sized, action, beauty, and the very purest blood. strong sort of horses of the polo-pony type, with good action The farmers of Orleans are beginning to realize the im­ and ability to trot and walk at a good pace, is the best for the portance of attending to the improvement of their stock of trail ride job. Too big horses seem at a disadvantage as a rule. horses, and will, in due season, reap a handsome profit for their The winner of the heavyweight division was a small purebred well directed enterprise. Morgan, which carried 260 pounds easily throughout the ride, Indeed, they are already beginning to command the attention the second award going to that good sportsman Dr. Richard of dealers in horses, and supply a very considerable number for Palmer of Marblehead, Mass., who trained, rode and groomed eastern markets. his own chestnut half-bred lightweight hunter, Cinabar. At the State Fair at Auburn, a premium was awarded to There is no finer place in the country for riding than Ver­ Messrs. Gould of Gaines, in this county, for the second best pair mont, with its hundreds of miles of dirt roads and marked of matched horses: and the Young Emperor bred by Mr. Wm. trails. It is the ideal place for anything like the Green Mountain Gilson, of Shelby, attracted deserved attention, receiving a dis­ Ride, the chief organizer of which is the indefatigable Dr. Earle cretionary premium of $10. E. Johnson, of Rutland, who is President of the Green Moun­ PETER SAXE. tain Horse Association. Nobody knows the tremendous amount Yates, N. Y., January. 1 847. of work the doctor and his family put in organizing the ride: certainly it is worth a lot to the State of Vermont in advertis­ ing, and of a certainty it isfine trainin g in horsemanship for the RED VERMONT WINS IN CALIF. riders, young and old. Enclosed is the check for the advertisements. The response from thefirst wa s more than satisfactory. Due to illness my August issue was not published. However I am doubling up MORGAN PONIES and will have a combination issue out in a few days—barring I have delayed replying to your letter of August 30 in the printer trouble. hope that I would have some pictures for you of the Morgan The Morgan stallions really turned out for their class at the cross ponies. San Fernando Valley Trotting Horse Association Show at In 1940 my house burned to the ground and all pictures were Strickland Park, Burbank, California. The only larger class destroyed. I have been unable to locate any others which in the breeding group was Saddle Breds. The class was won would prove suitable. by Jack Davis' Red Vermont. The judge—a Hitail man— I would suggest however that any small old style typical balked at judging the class and suggested calling an Arabian Morgan would illustrate perfectly the type of pony I believe horse judge. Merle Little, one of the contestants, reminded it would be desirable to develop. him of the Hitails Morgan ancestry. He tied the class fairly. RICHARD EAMES. C. P RANEY. 51 East 42nd Street, New York 17. N. Y. The Horsemen's Exchange. Long Beach 1, Calif.

2 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 A PLEA TO THE MORGAN BREEDERS HORSEBACKING INTO FAME By R. E. SPENCE By HON HALL We have with us today two families of horses that are of In the Horse Lover particular interest to the man wishing a general utility horse— In the heart of every horse lover, whether he be a professional the Morgan and the Quarter Horse. I have owned several of rider or an amateur equestrian there lies a dream. As he runs his both and my own preference is the Morgan. Which spells noth­ fingers through his favorite animal's mane—rubs a curry-comb ing. Simply one man's preference. across the sleek coat—and fondly admires the horse's magnificent But the Quarter Horse is rapidly coming to the front. And if and noble stature, that dream becomes a reality. In fancy, he he outranks the Morgan in the near future it will not be because suddenly mounts the animal, gives it free rein and points it he is so much more horse—meaning nothing derogatory to the toward the distant horizon. The rushing winds bring tears to Quarter Horse, for he is tops. But because the Quarter Horse his eyes and nearly take his breath away but still they press on­ people live in the present and the Morgan people too much in the ward. Mile upon mile is covered . . . day after day passes . . . past. but still they continue their journey through the great open When we hear of a Quarter Horse, his track record is given. spaces. There is no set destination for the rider but only a desire Or he has won a cow horse contest. Or some calf roper has to get away from a busy, rumbling world with only his animal hung up a new record with him. But too often when we hear friend to keep him company. of a new Morgan his pedigree is given and we are regaled with Yes, indeed, every horseman in the world at one time or the illustrious deeds of some remote ancestor. another dreams of making a long ride—perhaps one that would Can't we breed as good or better Morgans today as were bred even take months to complete. Men and women share alike in 75 or 100 years ago? this desire and perhaps one of the most notable feats ever per­ J. B. Baird of Quitaque, Tex., tells us of his three-year-old formed by any feminine equestrian is the transcontinental trip Morgan stallion Charlie Chocolate 8528, who has a record of a made by Nan J. Aspinwall of San Francisco. According to a quarter of a mile in 23:2. Not bad. A couple of years ago I news item in the July 8, 1911 issue of the New York Sun, the understood the fastest horse for a quarter-mile in the State of story ran as follows: Nevada was a Morgan. "Miss Ann J. Aspinwall wound up her 3,000 mile horse­ I believe it was Clark Ringling of Elko, Nev., who was tell­ back journey from San Francisco at the City Hall steps yesterday ing of a Morgan mare from which were roped 100 wild horses noon. She carried a letter from Mayor McCarthy of that city to in a single season. I've seen enough of Nevada to know a man Mayor Gaynor. The plucky young woman left the west coast has to be a-horseback to do that. on Septemberfirst o f last year and met with many thrilling ad­ Several years ago a Morgan mare, Sprite, was winner of the ventures on her way east." Montana cow horse contest. She has been retired as a brood But a still greater news story was that run made by General mare. Why don't we hear something of her offspring? Loud in the nineteenth century which saved President Hayes But there must be many more such horses among the Mor­ from political defeat. In the presidential election of 1876 a mis­ gans of today. If these were just put before the public, would it take was discovered in the electoral tickets of Iberville and West not be far better advertising for the breed than so much of con­ Baton Rouge, La., parishes. It seems that the names of five quests so far in the past? electors were omitted and in an endeavour to correct this dis­ Dillon, Mont. astrous mistake, Gen. George B. Loud, a United States super­ visor, leaped on his favorite mare and made an astonishing "Paul Revere" journey. Starting out from Plaquemine he rode to Indian Village, Rosedale and Maringouin, thence to West LIVE STOCK Baton Rouge Court House and Brusle Landing, and then back to Plaquemine. Believe it or not, but he covered the entire dis­ Annual Exhibition of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society tance, sixty-six miles in a little less than seven hours! Unfor­ September 1847 tunately, two horses were killed in the excruciating ride and the Under this head the show of horses was decidedly best. There third died a few hours after returning. Loud himself was so ex­ was a large number of stallions, and they were generally superior, hausted that he had to be lifted from the saddle on arrival and but the mares, with few exceptions, were by no means of the for some time was unable to stand or converse. Authorities, best character. however, credit him with having saved the electoral vote of The Morgan horses from New Hampshire and Vermont, Louisiana, the loss of which would have meant the defeat of made a splendid display, and elicited much admiration. There President Hayes! was Mr. Wier's Gifford Morgan, twenty-one years old, with his noble family of stallions and mares, of various ages (six in all), Mr. Hill's Black Hawk and some others. The old Gifford pranced in the van of the cavalcade with all thefire, action, and MORGAN HORSE IS GENTLE AS A KITTEN gaiety of a horse of six, instead of twenty-one years. He ap­ I want to thank you for sending myfirst issu e of THE MOR­ peared conscious of his honorable position, and seemed to look GAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I am to get it for one year and I hope with the pride of a patriarch on the bold "Green Mountain Mor­ many years to come. Two years ago my daughter was given a gan" and other fine animals which sprung from his loins. We four-year-old Morgan gelding for her birthday. All the small understand that Mr. Wier refused an offer of two thousand dol­ children around us ride Captain Midnight, he is so gentle and lars for this horse, from some gentlemen in the western part of good-natured. A few weeks ago he took afirst prize in the three- the state. The horses of Mr. Hale of Massachusetts and Mr. gaited saddle class at a local fair. Blodgett of Vermont attracted much attention. Due to the death of my husband in the service I will have to Black Hawk was prevented from being shown in his accus­ sell him as I will have to move to the city. He is now six years old, carries his head and tail erect and is a high-stepping, beauti­ tomed plight on account of lameness caused by an accident which ful horse. I want to find a good home for him such as we have occurred a few days previous to the show, but which however, given him. I will include a nice, big Western saddle with him for did not prevent his winning a match in trotting, which took $225. He is a real pet and very gentle in his stall. I do hope place on the Saratoga course on the fourteenth. We believe those someone will buy him and give him a good home. I would who saw him were convinced that he is a horse of uncommon never sell him, but I am alone now and must. power and great value. PEGGY ADAMS. From The Cultivator, October, 1847. P. O. Box 32, Stockbridge, Mass.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 3 Young Morrill is also a large horse, very little resembling his sire, has little of the Dutch or of the English look. He inherited THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE considerable Morgan blood from his dam which no doubt tem­ Devoted to the Interests of the Morgan Horse pered his appearance a good deal. Still, he was no Morgan horse. As I remember him ten years ago he was a good sized, good look­ ing, strong made and powerful going horse without the marks VOL. IV NOVEMBER, 1944 NO. 1 of high blood of any kind. How much years of care and pain­ staking have refined him I know not. A Quarterly—Subscription, $1.00 a Year in Advance Jennison Colt, sometimes printed Jennison horse, is repre­ sented as having been a very large and beautiful three-year-old. Display Advertising Rates He was raised by Abijah Jennison of Walden and sold by him to One page, $20.00—11 page, $10.00— % page, $5.00 a man in New Hampshire and further trace of what became of him is unknown. Young Bulrush, alias Weston Horse, alias Classified Rates Randolph Horse, when I knew him twenty years ago, was a Cash in advance: One cent a word. No advertisement less than little old Morgan "Keen as a brier," knees a little sprung, and twenty-five cents the keeper said that the old horse had drawn two men in a chaise eighty miles in a day: and as for his sire, Bulrush, and his grand- EDITORIALS sire, Justin Morgan Horse, are their histories not written in the archives of the nation, and known and read of all men. I enclose an advertisement for the Morgan Horse Club in re­ Dam of Young Morrill was about a middling Morgan mare. gard to Volumes I, II and III of the Register. Volume III is Her dam, the Boardman mare, was better, but not extra. Goss now out of print. We still have a supply of Volumes I and II, horse was a large bay Morgan, very handsome. Heath mare was particularly Volume I, but they all have to be rebound before a superb English stamped animal. Farmington horse was very they are fit to sell. The demand for the Register is incteasing fine—English through and through. Steele mare, best of all, and we have sold about six sets to date this year and about very stylish—English—came from New Bedford, Mass. Dam twenty-two copies more of Volumes I, II, IV and V. of Jennison colt, very large, lazy, Dutch! Could be waked up F. B. HILLS, and go well. Secretary. This much for the Morrill side. Now then for the RasSon side, as I call it. Dam of Woodstock is a large, loose made, blood showing, long striding gray mare. Owned when Woodstock was foaled by Hiram King of West Topsham. Rev. Mr. Good­ A LETTER OF 1866 win a Methodist, got her and swapped her off in Canada where she now remains, eighteen years of age. She was foaled Daniel I have been detained from completing the documents pertain­ T Smith's of Washington, who sold her at four months old, a ing to Woodstock's Origin by ill health in the line of carbuncle, beautiful filly. Her sire, Black Prince, was a large jet black horse, which I can recommend as a decided improvement on the boils owned by Elihu Norton of Chelsea, a very bold and handsome of Job's time. One carbuncle being fully equal to all of Job's looking horse, was all courage. Would take two men in a wagon sore boils, the afflictions of his wife and three friends being twelve miles an hour. Never trained for trotting, but could added. I do not wish to be understood as underrating Job's strike a three-minute gait. Was a wonderfully fast walking sufferings. I highly appreciate them, and I calculate that doubl­ horse. I saw him in '44 and in '46. His appearance was ing his property was small pay for such endurance inflicted for striking, majestic and even formidable. In 1851 Mr. Norton the sole purpose of measuring the extent of human patience in sold him at the age of eleven years to a company in Pennsyl­ its best estate. Yea, I know, for I've been there that he deserved vania, Abbott, Bronson 7 others for $850. Black Prince died every one of the 14,000 sheep (no matter if they were equal to four or five years ago in Ohio. Cushings) all of the 6,000 camels, the 1,000 yoke of oxen, and The sire of Black Prince, The Old English Horse which stood the thousand she-asses, together with his seven manly sons and in Washington one year (1839) was a large chestnut, rangy three fairest daughters in all the land, and also the honor which horse, resembling the Hambletonians. Some one who had previ­ immortalizes him for the decorum and composure with which he ously known him in York State followed him up and bought recognized and bore his afflictions. I would not intimate that the and took him away. old Uzite's afflictions were at all greater than your humble Newman mare was large and black and noted for style and servant's, but his patience was: there's where he had me! I, of roadstership. Her sire, Emery Horse, was foaled Mr. Town- course, expect less pay. I would be satisfied with the sheep and send's of Williamstown—was black. His dam, a black mare of the oxen, not asking for a single camel or she-ass. But sir, I beg great excellence. The Emery Horse was long in Orange Co. your pardon for not answering, by amanuensis, yours from Got a great deal of stock which improved by age. And when he Nassau St., and I, no doubt, should have done so but for expect­ was old his colts had become so noted for value that a man was ing sooner to be able to do it with my own pen. sent up from Massachusetts with orders to buy him; and he was bought and thus left Vermont. The Taylor mare was twenty- Old Morrill one years old when she foaled the Newman mare and the Welch It seems that Old Morrill was mostly English. His appear­ mare was twenty-three years old when she foaled the Taylor ance was entirely that of English and Dutch. Mr. French Mor­ mare. We now come to the Rasson Horse, the sire of Emery rill, his owner, says he was only one-sixteenth Morgan which we horse. He was born in '99 in Putney, West Hill, of a large, see he possesses through the line of his sires. It would be quite brown, Dutch mare. She was very strong and swift. Thomas remarkable, however, prevalent as Morgan blood was, if Old Rasson, a young man, had moved from Putney to Topsham in Morrill was not damned with some of it, also. I knew him well, the year '9 3. He was a strong, fearless, good-hearted fellow with his coat was soft as silk. His mane and tail, like the English, a great love for powerful horses, and he greatly desired to get an not heavy haired. The angles and flexures from his withers to English blooded stallion of the Putney stock up into Topsham. his fore feet, and from his hips to his hind feet were those of the So, on a time, when on a visit to Putney, he bought of Daniel fast horse, and at the same time his quarters had the weight and Davis a three-year-old colt which became the Rasson horse. his legs the hairiness of the Flanders horse. In no other horse was And all the people old enough to remember the Rasson horse, ever seen such combined strength and speed. I have no doubt he speak in the highest terms of his characteristics, his powers are could have turned the Old Cambridge track in four minutes represented as being inexhaustible. He could travel from sunrise carrying a ton's weight. to sunset without stopping, was war-like; and in mare time

4 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 could be handled by Tom Rasson only! Rasson led him 44 critically at the horse; read the history of his race and become miles, covering 22 mares in one day; and 20 of them had colts fully persuaded in his own mind. False pedigrees have been sure, and Rasson did not know but 21 of them did. Unlikely fabricated and printed in bills of John Morrill's dam without as it may seem, good men in Topsham believe the above story to the least inquiry. But why fear to look for the true causes of a u-nrUxi vC dlCd 3t the advanced a§eo f forty-two years at Sandy good thing? Thefiction o f no lying fool can make Woodstock Hill N. Y., or as some say, at Lockport, N. Y Truly great was shine like the ungarnished truth which attends his nature. It is the Rasson horse. In Danville I unexpectedly heard it doubted best for Woodstock that God be true and every man a liar. Is that Young Bulrush got Jennison Colt. The hotel keeper, not Woodstock mostly English in his characteristics? He has Aaron H. Stevens, himself a Morrill Horse man, took me to Mr. Morgan blood but it does not appear; yet it operates to taint his Gould, a blacksmith, who informed me that one day while Jen­ thoroughbred English look. He has a small quantity of Dutch nison Colt was still in his mother, he was shoeing her. and blood from each side, but that is certainly invisible. He is Eng­ noticed she was with foal, and asked by what horse? Mr. Jen­ lish on his Morrill side by way of the Burlington Horse and nison answered, The Dana Horse—that he did put the mare Steele mare, and on his mother's side by way of Rasson Horse, early to young Bulrush, but she did not stick and afterward, through Emery Horse and by. way of the English horse which late, he put her to Dana Horse and she was with colt by him. got Black Prince and also by way of Rasson Horse again who This was a new idea to me: Frank Morrill scouted it. The got the granddam of Woodstock's mother. I think of Wood­ Dana Horse was a fine, large English one. and the new story hit stock as Lowndes did of Webster—"He has no equal in the me as being rational—then the Old Morrill would be just as North and no superior in the South." And I attribute his he appeared—without Morgan blood. But when I came to see peculiar greatness to a lucky throw of nature of the eminent Mr. Jennison of Walden he declared that he put the mare to English strains, tempered by Dutch and Morgan, which meet in Young Bulrush and no other—that he never had seen the Dam him. Horse at any time. So I conclude not to disturb the foundations All of which is respectfully submitted by your most Obt. and of Old Morrill; and propose no "Constitutional Amendments." Humble Servant. Again respecting the Rasson Horse, Elihu Norton gives Wash­ MOSES E. CHENEY. ington's Charger as sire of Soldier, and Highlander, an imported Barnard, Vt., November 16, 1866. horse, as sire of Washington's Charger. And this part i.e., from P.S. The Dutch Dam matter had better be looked into. It is a fact that Soldier back to Highlander Norton gets from Wier's Stud Book. the Old Green Mountain Morgan's mo'bcr was a Dutch marc, from Nashua, But James C. Stevens of East Topsham, a Rasson Horse man, N. H. says Tom Rasson told him that the Rasson horse was got by M. E. C Soldier and Soldier by True Briton, an imported horse. No matter for the Stevens variation (this Stevens says he knows you and your horse—likes him better than ever, if he has Rasson MORGANS IN CULTIVATOR—1847 blood. Says he saw you at the White Mountains, talked with you of Woodstock. Perhaps vou recollect him. He is a fat man I recently acquired at an auction an old volume of the "Cul­ of immense size, I should say about as large as a smallish Cali- tivator" for the year 1847. This was evidently a monthly fornian beet). But I met at West Topsham, Jesse Dickey, a magazine which was bound in book form at the end of the year decent man, who told me that in 18 34 himself and his father and was printed in Albany. were journeying through Dummerston when they met a white Being a subscriber to your magazine and having a considerable horse (stallion) which they took to be the Old Rasson, sure; interest in Morgans, I took special interest in several articles and but. on inquiry, ascertained that the horse was an own brother stallion ads of well-known Morgan horses, namely Black Hawk, to the Rasson, two years younger, and thirty-three years old. owned by D. E. « N. H. Hill of Bridport, Vt., and dated April The man told them the sire of the two horses was Quicksilver, 6, 1847. The old "Morgan Gifford Horse" owned by Frederick which stood at Walpole, N. H. Mr. Dickey feels cock-sure from A. Wier, Walpole, N. H, and dated March 9, 1847 what he and his father learned at that time that the sire of Ras­ The genuine Morgan horse, General Gifford, owned by son Horse was Quicksilver. George A. Mason and D. A. Munro, dated March 15, 1847. Mr. Dickey also informed me that Marvin Rasson, a younger One especially interesting advertisement headed "Vermont brother of Thomas Rasson, now lives in Newbury. I found Against the World" the owners of Black Hawk challenged any Marvin Rasson (aged eighty-one) at Newbury, and he said that other stallion to show against him at the show at the New York Rasson Horse was got by Old Soldier of Westmoreland, N. H, State Agricultural Society at Saratoga Springs in September, owned by a Mr. Farr. Soldier was dapple gray, not an old horse 1847. There is also a picture of Black Hawk. Of great interest when his brother Thomas and himself seventy-three years ago is an article about Justin Morgan and his parents—among them left Putney. Thinks Daniel Davis wasfifty year s old when he named True Briton or Beautiful Bay. His mother (Justin Mor­ sold the colt to his brother. Davis had two sons, which might gan's) sired by Diamond, he by the Church Horse and he by the be living now in Putney. Dam of Rasson Horse was a brown imported Wild-air. Dutch mare. Low, thick-set and fast. Mr. Rasson said he used There's too much about the Morgans to write, but I would to live with Mr. Davis and had rode the mare many times. Old like to loan this book to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, Soldier was rather a heavier horse than the Rasson—taller, more as I believe you would also find much of interest to publish rangy, had a very bold look—was English, so says Marvin Ras­ in your next issue. You may keep it until you are through with son. Ifind Mr . Rasson's story corroborates Mr. Norton's pedi­ it, and then send it back as I would like to keep it. gree of Rasson Horse so far as to "Soldier's" inclusive, and I set ROBERT G. BEAN. the pedigree at this point accordingly, and I should not have Lone Oak Farm, Florence, Mass. mentioned Mr. Dickey's Quicksilver idea had I not chanced to review an elaborate article on "The Horses of New England" by C. C. Flint, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, in which I read, page 393 of Patent Office Report, 1861: "Quick­ BUDDY 7764 silver, sired by an Arabian, was kept in New Hampshire and I am enclosing check for one dollar for my subscription for sired the Carson Horse and some others that obtained notoriety." the MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE for this year. Also a picture The giving of the name Carson instead of the true name Rasson of Buddy taken at the end of the Trail Ride this year. I thought weighs nothing against the testimony, as it was spelled three you would like the picture as Buddy is the only stallion who has ways to me by different persons. ever placed in the ride. Thus, I have found it quite a labor to look into all the im­ GLENN E. ROWELL. portant ramifications of Woodstock's blood. Let everyone look Tunbridge, Vt.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 5 MORGAN STOCK THE GRAY MOUNT From The Cultivator* February. 1847 (Concluded from page 1) "The origin of the valuable stock of horses called 'Morgans' preferred to ride Traveller. Together, the two of them made a has been the subject of some controversy, and in the minds of fine picture: Lee "the handsomest man I ever saw," as most men some, the question may not yet perhaps, be fully settled. We exclaimed when they saw hisfine head , graceful carriage in the deem it not improper to say, however, that we think the fol­ saddle, and perfect composure; Traveller, a proud steed, obvi­ lowing facts have been ascertained: That the animal commonly ously mindful of the importance of his master. known as the Old Justin Morgan horse, was foaled at West Probably no other warhorse in the whole Civil War period Springfield (Mass.), or that neighborhood, in 1793; that his was better treated than this animal of Lee's. Unlike the restless; sire was a horse called True Briton, or Beautiful Bay, said to Stuart who wore out one gorgeous thoroughbred after another,, have been formerly owned by Gen. James De Lancy, of New Lee was very considerate of his mounts. He seldom rode Travel­ York (see Cultivator. Vol. IX, p. 110): that his dam was ler any faster than at a canter, he was ever certain, by personal owned by Justin Morgan; that she was got by a horse called attention, that the animal had proper food—in a time when Diamond; he by the Church horse, and he by the imported fodder was extremely hard to obtain. Lee often dismounted Wild-air. when the march was slow and led Traveller to rest him. He re­ "The last named horse was much celebrated as the sire of mained in the saddle as little as possible in camp or while con­ valuable stock. He was imported by Gen. De Lancy, in 1760 ferring with some other general in thefield s o that his mount's or 1761, and after having been used as a stallion in this country, back might be spared. All the horse furnishings underwent his was re-shipped to England in 1773. In the New York Sporting careful and frequent inspection. Magazine, Vol. I, p. 5, we find the following: Even with this good care, the animal showed amazing endur­ 'He (Wild-air) was the property (previous to his coming ance to have withstood the ravages of four years of vigorous to this country) of William Swinburn and Jennison Shafto, warfare, the heat and cold and often unavoidable thirst and Esquires; was foaled in 1753 by Old Cade, son of the Go- hunger of the prolonged campaigns and dreary winters. dolphin Arabian; his dam by Steady, a son of Flying Childers, Traveller carried Lee most of the time during the war. out of the famous Miss Belvoir; his granddam by Old Partner; It was only after Traveller's single episode of unruliness that great granddam by Greyhound-Makeless-Counsellor-Brimmer, any effort was made tofind another mount. It was during the out of a daughter of Mr. Place's White Turk!' " Second Bull Run fray that he became nervous and knocked the True Briton, or Beautiful Bay above mentioned,! was said dismounted Lee to the ground. Apparently Lee's hand was hurt to have been got by the immortal horse Traveller, or (as some­ at this time, and the general's son thought this accounted for the times called) Morton's Traveller. In the American Turf Regis­ rather awkward way in which his father held the reins, and for ter, Vol. VI, p. 423, his pedigree is given as follows: the frequent, and eventually characteristic, way he had of rest­ "Morton's Traveller (imported), was got by the celebrated ing his hands on the pommel whenever he halted to speak to O'Kelly's (or English) Eclipse, King Herod, Blank, Old Cade by someone. the godolphin Arabian. King Herod was by Tartar, his dam However, the one moment of fractiousness on the part of Cypron, by Blaze, a son of the great flying Childers. Blank was Traveller did not diminish in the least the Master's preference by the Godolphin Arabian." for him. There was no more familiar sight in the great Army of Thus it appears that the origin of the Justin Morgan horse Northern Virginia, which fought nearly half of the battles of was a mixture of the Wild-air and Traveller blood with "coun­ the Civil War, than these two. They were inseparable. The one try" mares, whose blood cannot be fully traced. was always associated with the other in th oughts of the The animals from which ourfigures wer e taken, are now the soldiers; each had met and won his better half in warfare. Not property of Gen. Silas M. Burroughs, of Medina, Orleans even Jackson and Old Sorrel were a more familiar couple. County, N. Y. Indeed, there is a parallel between the two cases. Each general would have no other horse, each horse reflected his master's per­ + A monthly journal, published by Luther Tucker, Albany. N. Y. sonality to more than an imaginary extent. Each animal lost his f This True Briton or Beautiful Bay is supposed not to be the horse reg­ istered under the name of True Briton, which was got by the imported head just once in battle, and each outlived his master. Further­ Othello, etc. The horse now under consideration was a racer of celebrity, more, the remains of both mounts are on proud exhibit in two and won a great match near Philadelphia in 1765, 1766. It is not probable Virginia museums. that he was the sire of the Old Morgan, because supposing him to have been Considering that a horse is necessarily a better target than a only five years old at the time of the race mentioned, he would have been thirty-two at the time the Old Morgan was begotten, in 1792. man, it is remarkable that Traveller survived all those years of harsh warfare, for Lee was never a general directing from the rear. He was always contemptuous of danger. During many a crucial andfierce battle , Lee sat on Traveller on an exposed FROM MICHIGAN: hill-top, either ignoring the remonstrances of his subordinates or remarking quietly, "It is my duty to be here." Thanks for your letter of the 22nd. And it was Traveller s duty, too, in most of Lee's great Kindly find enclosed my check for $2.00 for which I would battles: during thefirst demonstratio n of Lee's genius as a like my subscription renewed and also one year's subscription strategist in those grim days about Richmond, at brilliantly- for Harry L. Sanford, 45625 West Eight Mile Road, North­ fought Second Manasses, at Sharpsburg, in the drab butchery of ville, Michigan. Mr. Sanford is my farm manager and an Federals before Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg, and at Chan- enthusiastic Morgan horse man. cellorsville. The mare Wyntoon which I purchased from you in foal to Upwey King Ben has one of thefinest fillie colt s that I have seen in a long time. FROM THE BIT AND SPUR I wish you would give us advanced notice in the Magazine of the Morgan Horse Shows and trail rides, for as soon as Enclosed is $1.00 for renewal of the MORGAN HORSE MAG­ transportation is more available I for one would like to attend. AZINE. Wish also that you would advise whether or not you I would suggest publishing a calendar of events early in the receive The Bit and Spur publication. We are mailing one to year. Mr. Hills, the Morgan Horse Club, 90 Broad St., New York. I enjoy the magazine but it seems like a long time between Would like to have you on our mailing list if you are not issues. already receiving the magazine through the Association. G. F. TAFT. BILL HAGEN. 45518 W. Eight Mile Road, Northville, Mich. P.O. Box 1112, Billings, Mont.

6 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 always said that the original Morgan was a Barb; perhaps he had much of Barb blood in him.

[EDITOR'S COMMENT: The above by Mr. Wallace Smith is interesting, but does not agree with the writings of Joseph Battell or any other student of old Justin Morgan who claimed that he was sired by True Briton. From the fact that even to this day Morgans carry many characteristics of the Arab would indicate he was not of draft horse descent.]

LINDEN SONNFIELD Enclosed find check for one dollar for my renewal to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I have just purchased one of Mr. Hills' mares from Mr. Linn of Turlock—Linden Sonnfield—and if possible would like my registration papers as soon as possible. Note my change of address. Old address was Gustine, Calif. New address is—306 Poplar Street, Modesto, Calif. I. CLARK BROMILEY. 306 Poplar Street, Modesto, Calif.

CONTINUE QUARTERLY Enclosed find one dollar for one year's subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE sent to Dr. John Buchner, Stock­ ton, Kans. Doctor Buchner would like his subscription to begin with the August-September number. I see a lot of fellows are writing in about this and that, want­ ing this changed and that changed. As long as I am writing I will make a recommendation and that is—go ahead just as you are. You are doingfine, an d quarterly is often enough. The fellow that wrote in asking for more pictures may have some­ thing, especially pictures of good brood mares and colts taken in the pasture. A. M. GRIFFITH. 352 N. Clifton Ave.. Wichita, Kans.

THE BIG LITTLE HORSE (Concluded from page I) the mounts of this military unit so impressed General Washing­ ton that he sent "Light Horse" Harry Lee to learn what was the source of such superior horse flesh. Thefinal resul t of this investigation was the purchase of Ranger by Washington through the offices of a Captain Lindsay. The stallion was sent to Mt. Vernon and sired many famous horses thereafter. He was often referred to as the Lindsay Arabian. One of his sons car­ ried Washington during the war, another carried General Put­ nam down the steps in his head-long dash at Greenwich, and four others pulled the great coach which Lady Washington rode in at Philadelphia during the administration of her husband. Today most students of horse history agree on the following points: The original Morgan had, and many of his descendants have, heads similar in shape and form to that of the Belgian and Suf­ folk Punch. This is explained by the basic stock in New Eng­ land during colonial days. Justin Morgan's sire was Young Bulrock (and not Beautiful Bay or True Briton or any other Thoroughbred so-called). Young Bulrock was a bright bay Dutch horse. Dutch horses at that time carried much Barb blood introduced by the Spanish conquerors, especially during the time of the Duke of Alva. Young Bulrock was kept at stud in Hartford, Conn., ten years after Ranger had been taken to Mt. Vernon. He may have been a son or grandson of this Arabian and hence half Dutch Owned by Mrs. Lillian Van Y, 828 So. Oliver St., Wichita, and half Arabian. Then again, Justin Morgan's dam may have Kans. been of Old Snip or Ranger blood. Chestnut: Foaled, April 23, 1942. Justin Morgan was short-legged and chunky (a Suffolk Sire: Tehachapi Allen 7910 by Querido 7370 by Bennington Punch) ; a trotter (Dutch Frisian blood) ; a fast runner (Arab 5693. and Barb) ; with rolling action (Barb). Randolph Huntington Dam: Lisabelle 04627 by Linsley 7233 by General Gates 666.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 7 CHENEY IN 1866 IN WOODSTOCK Allow me to further say that Woodstock is accidentally the result of crosses of estimable breeds: which, if they had been designed by a scientific breeder for the purpose of producing a specimen whose entire structure should consist of the rarest virtues selected from the best horses known within the last half century, would have been hailed as a perfect success in the attain­ ment of the highest object upon which physiological science has ventured its skill in modern times. And sir, allow me to in­ timate that I have no doubt that his far-seeing owner, who has wealth, youth, mental calibre and ambitious generosity to be famously useful in his time, constituting him exactly the man, with his opportunity to create a better class of horses than has hitherto, or does now exist, will, after establishing his speed, stint him to Hambletonian & Messenger mares of size and beauty worthy to be coupled with such a stallion. As a Calvinist I strongly suspect that the accidents which have contributed to this unexpected and superlative result, not only those which appertain to the ancestry of the horse, but also those which led to the present ownership, were really predestined by Deity, therefore it is no wonder that I expect, and I make the quotation wholly on account of its literally truthful application and not at all by way of profane comparison, "That in Woodstock and in his seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." Sir, when I talked with you in the cars, off Moose-Hillock Mountain, I told you I thought I had a writing which the first seller of the colt gave Mr. Pitkin. On a little reflection I soon remembered that I failed to get such writing, as he did not hand­ ily find it. I had forgotten Mr. King's name. But, I think I told you that he lived in Topsham, near E. Orange. As I thought over the matter, I concluded the best, if not the only way, was for me to gofirst to Montpelier to see Gen. Pitkin by R.R. I did so; and the Gen. himself could not remember the name of the man he had the colt of. Mr. Towne of Barre, the principal owner of Young Morrill was dead. But Luke Trow,

his partner, was living; and Gen. Pitkin, busy as he was in State \ x , — ~~~ j matters, kindly consented to take me in his own carriage to Barre bought Topsham in September, 193 6 from Mr. Spink who to get trace of the subject. Mr. Trow relieved our perplexity lived at Greenwich, Mass. Mr. Spink got him from Mr. by showing us in his Young Morrill Book of 1856 the follow­ Bertram E. Shaw of Belchertown, Mass. Mr. Shaw bought ing entry, Topsham in November, 1932 from Mr. N. D. Potter of Enfield, "1856 August 29, Hiram King of E. Orange, Dr. To use of Young Mass. Morrill Horse to one mare, which, we are to have one-third of the colt Mr. Potter bought Topsham, a full brother to Mansfield, when 4 months old: he is to take the colt here and we are to bid on him: July 19, 1927 from the Morgan Horse Farm at Middlebury, and if the mare don't prove with foal we are to have five dollars for the Vermont. He used Topsham as a model, for Mr. Potter was use of the horse. - 1857 November 12 Received $14.50." an artist. I'm quite sure he made a small statute of Topsham which is now in the possession of Dr. Austin, Vet. of Belcher­ Gen. P. says, and I had not forgotten that he told me the town, Mass. same seven years ago, that he fell in company with Mr. King I'm sure Topsham was not castrated because of any defects on the road from Orange to Barre and that he, Mr. Pitkin, liked and that he was used in the stud for he was not castrated until the young colt which followed Mr. King's mare, and proposed July 2, 1931. I think Dr. Austin could give you full informa­ to buy it. Mr. King stated the bargain concerning the horsing. tion on this for I think he has afilly or some offspring from The colt was thin and Mr. Pitkin said, if he bought him, the Topsham. sooner the better. They both went to Mr. Towne's, and they Topsham is now eighteen but acts like a colt. He was shown fixed the thing so that Mr. P. bought the colt and took him some during his younger days and has a few ribbons to his home; and as the entry shows, it was Nov. 12, 1857. Mr. P. credit. In fact, I think Dr. Austin was the one who showed says the colt was just three months old, the mare running 14 him. days over her time, which makes Woodstock just nine years In the magazine for May, under the article "Zilcaadi Golddust old the 12th day of last August. 4400" it says the Golddust family was absorbed in the Standard In your letter you say, "Inclose your bill and do not forget Bred family. I'm wondering if any mare could be descended to charge generously for your time and trouble." Now, I from this family. She is Kinlock 33561, Standard Bred, and suppose a light charge would be a generous one; but I prefer to understand you to mean a pretty heavy one to tax your gener­ was raised at Walnut Hall Farm, Donerail, Kentucky. Her osity. I have concluded to charge you, besides expenses, three dam was Gold Color and granddam Gold Silk. dollars per day for my labor; and one dollar andfifty cent s per Kinlock is broken to ride and drive and is a wonderful trotter. day for team. The cost of living for myself and horse was two She is a big horse, 16-2. Dr. Austin has a filly from my mare dollars and seventy-five cents per day at hotels. But as I that I have heard is beautiful, but as yet I haven't seen her. stopped at hotels only in Chelsea and Danville, and could not That was a very nice article about the Progeny of Bennington always make other friends take pay, I found on reaching home and Artemisia and I just had to send you the pictures of Top­ I had expended for keeping only between $15 and $16, and sham. I can assure you he is sound and hardy, the easiest 75 cents of that was paid for mending buggy. I have the keeper in the barn and a joy to ride. honor to say that such is the friendly relationship between Gen. MRS. FRANKLIN SNYDER. Pitkin and myself, that, I think it would have bordered on Amherst St., Granby, Mass.

8 THE MORGAN HORSNOVEMBER,E MAGAZIN 1944E WHERE IS TIFFANY 7517? I recently sent you a post card stating that I had not received my August issue of your good magazine. Please disregard this card because I received the August issue the next day. Enclosed please find a picture of my Morgan mare Tiffany's Queen, 05111. I have owned this mare for over a year now and I know I'll never be able to replace her. For me she leaves nothing to be desired. She knows how to take care of herself at all times, has a good walk, a fast, trappy trot that is a real delight, a good canter and a fast run. This mare had been carelessly handled before I got her and as a result developed a lot of bad habits which in turn caused her to be abused quite a bit. In spite of this her disposition has remained good. By quiet,firm handlin g she is now my ideal pleasure horse. I get a thrill out of just watching her. Her sire's name is Tiffany A.M.R. 7517, and I would like to hear from anybody that knows where he is located or if he is still living. I've an idea there was plenty of spirit in him. TOPSHAM 7514 He was by Mansfield A.M.R. 7255, out of Klyona A.M.R., Chestnut: F. June 7, 1926 03313. Sire: Bennington 5 69 3 In your good magazine I prefer the letters that deal with in­ Dam: Artemisia 02731 dividuals and how they perform. As long as a horse has the Morgan characteristics he is bound to be a most wonderful pleasure or general purpose horse, so why worry or be concerned about the uniformity of the breed? EXCELLENT MORGAN STALLIONS Enclosed alsofind a check for the next two years' subscription. You may use the photograph as you see fit. I am enclosing a picture of Silver Comet (Loren Belle) No. 8641. He is a two-year-old copper chestnut stallion, with three RUSSEL DICK. white feet and stripe, silver mane and tail. He now stands 14.2, 1210 Pocono St., Pittsburgh 18, Pa. and weighs 880 lbs. I purchased this colt from the Chillocco Indian School, a year ago, and he is now being shown in stock horse classes, and I rope off him nearly every Sunday, he can really get on a calf too. He has a true Morgan disposition; snappy without being silly. I've run him a quarter against some fast horses, but he is always out in front at thefinish. Afte r he is run he will walk right off with a loose rein, something no thoroughbred I ever saw would do. I had to turn away twenty-five mares this season as his book was full. I have been booking mares for the coming season since August, and am going to close his books soon, as he has more now than I like a young stallion to service. Comet is one of the late Elmer Brown products. His sire is Tehachapi Allen 7910 by Querido 7370 and his dam is Lisa- belle 04627 by Linsley 7233 by General Gates 666. We also have a beautiful Albino stallion, pink skin, and black eyes, that is out of a Morgan mare that was a Linsley product and an Albino was his sire. This stallion has true Morgan disposition and build. He stands 14.3 3,4' barefooted and weighs 1,080. He gets white colts from all colored mares. Both these stallions are ridden every day together, and with from five tofifty othe r horses, as husband and I are president and secretary of the newly formed Rope and Saddle Club, that already boosts seventy members. We have trail rides, calf rop­ ing, shows, and wiener roasts. We never have a moment's trouble with either of the stallions, regardless of what sex of horse they are with. MRS. LILLIAN M. VAN Y. Wichita, Kans.. 828 So. Oliver, Zone 9.

NED CHOCOLATE—HALF MORGAN CAVALRY, HORSE MOUNTED? Not registered. Half-breed from pure-bred Morgan stallion Enclosed please find one dollar for my subscription to THE and American saddle-bred mare. Six years old. MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. Can you tell me if there is any I showed him as a walk trot horse, then as a cow horse at Jim division of Cavalry, horse-mounted at this time, and if so, can Hamilton's Sale, Mexico, Mo., April 29, 1943, and he brought you give me the address of the Commanding Officer? $230. Went to Illinois to a Mr. Rush, Jr. RICHARD C. FOWLER. POP R. S. SENTNEY. 787 Harmon Avenue, Birmingham, Mich. Kansas Cow Boy. Table Top Stables, Hutchinson. Kans.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 9 WANTED: WELL TRAINED MORGAN that we could spare last year within a couple of weeks after we announced that we had them for sale. From letters received, The Morgan Horse Club gave me your name, along with I am sure that we have a veryfine lis t of satisfied purchasers who others, as a breeder of Morgan stock. I have visited a few other have requested an opportunity to return for a few more." members in this part of the country and find that while they have taken every care and precaution in breeding, they have not attempted to train or school any of them for saddle or driving WANTED—MORGAN PHOTO purposes. It seems to me that the ultimate in perfection is the purebred horse plus the expert training. Enclosed is my subscription fee for THE MORGAN HORSE All this comes about, for the reason that we were personally MAGAZINE. I believe I will enjoy it very much. looking for a real, good, tractable, gentle and well-trained saddle I would like to know if it is possible to obtain from you, or horse, for family use along with two ordinary horses which we if you could tell me of some source where I might be able to have. get a photograph of a Morgan horse suitable for framing as I Do you have or do you know of anyone who has what we have started a collection of different type horses. would like as mentioned above? Another thing I have noticed I would like one that is void of people in the picture; like that most breeders simply permit the herd to roam wild all the photo of Abbott 7704 which is in your booklet. I will summer in pasture, with no grain, and they get pot-bellied, pay for the picture and postage. scrubby, and out of condition, which again takes away from Miss INEZ NELSON. what I would think you people are trying to accomplish. Sup­ 1273 Giel Ave.. Lakewood. Ohio. posedly good Morgans I saw were 100 to 150 lbs., underweight and anything but handsome. This must not be representative, TRANSFER PAPERS WANTED so therefore a letter to you. R. E. POTTS. Could you advise me as to the procedure necessary to transfer Lake Shore Blvd., Mentar, Ohio. papers of registration on the mare I just sold. I am not familiar with these things as I have not done it before. I purchased thefilly fro m C. E. Allen, Baldwinsville, New WILLIAMS AGAIN HEADS CHAMBER York, two years ago and have just sold her to a man nearby AT MIDDLEBURY here, after having bought the two Morgan colts Casablanca and Ben Don from Upwey Farms, South Woodstock, Vermont. John O. Williams was elected president of the Middlebury They are doing fine. Please find enclosed $1.00 for which Chamber of Commerce for the fourth time at the annual meet­ send THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE to Miss Betty Jane ing held November 15 at the Middlebury Inn. This was a Bellinger, Vernon, N. Y., for one year beginning with the next joint meeting of the Rotary and Chamber with 109 members issue. I thank you. present. WESLEY H. NIEMAN. The speakers were James Taylor of Burlington, executive Box 550. Rome, N. Y. secretary of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, who spoke on town reports and how they might be dedicated the coming year WANTED: HORSE STORIES to servicemen, Harold P. Parker, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce at Montpelier, who spoke on general Enclosed is my check for $1.00 to renew our subscription to work of the Chamber and promoting business and recreation for THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. post-war work, and Cleon Perkins of Rutland, who spoke on We are having a great deal of fun training the young fillies post-war planning for civic communities. which we purchased from you last fall. One of them looks very Former Gov. John E. Weeks was toastmaster and introduced much like Mansfield. the speakers. I am very much interested in publishing anthology of horse stories and as we are particularly interested in Morgans I wonder if you would care to insert a request in your next issue for FROM BILL ELLIOTT Morgan horse stories to be sent me at the address below? I should like to divide the book into stories on breeding, train­ Kindly find enclosed the ad and picture which I would likein g and demonstrations of unusual intelligence. to run in your MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE in the November Your personal comments on the idea of this publication issue. The enclosed ad is exactly what I would like in the would be greatly appreciated. fourth-of-a-page ad. If it is not possible to make the Novem­ MYLREA K. MCCARTY, ber issue, kindly disregard this request. If we have sent it to you in time for the November issue, (Mrs. Clinton A. McCarty). kindly let me know at the above address the amount due, and I Murnahga Ridges, R.F.D. 3, Winsted. Conn. shall send you a check by return mail. I would appreciate your returning the two enclosures at your CROSSING DRAFT MARES convenience. BILL ELLIOTT. We have been doing a little work here at our station in cross 711 Equitable Building, Hollywood 28. Calif. breeding draft maresfirst t o a Morgan stallion, second, to an Arabian stallion, and third, to a Thoroughbred. We now have a few colts from the Morgan, a few from the Arabian and the INDIAN SCHOOL SELLS MORGANS mares are bred this season to a Thoroughbred. We do not have anything as yet to release for publication. I recently asked Mr. L. E. Correll, Superintendent of the I thank you for the invitation and we may wish to avail our­ Chilocco Indian Agricultural School of Chilocco, Okla., if they selves in a year or two of the opportunity to publish something had reached a point where they had surplus Morgans which they would sell to outside parties. He has replied "yes,"—that they in THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. have somefillies, youn g stallions and foals for sale this year, R. S. HUDSON. and they plan listing of those animals in the near future. He Professor of Horse Husbandry, Michigan State College, East Lansing. also writes: "We have had a wonderful crop of registered Morgans, and Wifey: The girls tell me that I ride so well I actually appear I am sure will have no trouble whatsoever in selling all that we to be part of the horse. list for sale right away here at the farm. We sold everything Hubby (casually) : Uh-huh! Which part?

10 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 CORNWALLIS SOLD CUYAMO 7974 Will you please send me a copy of this issue to Baldwinsville,I like the MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE very much. I am a N. Y. Since running the ad, Mountain Golden Sheik has been great admirer of Morgan horses, having purchased Cuyamo sold, Prince Charming and Cornwallis. Mrs. Anna Ela, Town­ 7974 from Roland Hill of Gustine, California, in May, 1942. shend, Vt., bought Cornwallis. I have some veryfine colts from him, my breed mares are grade I have one yearling stud colt, one sucking stud colt and three mares. I am planning on getting some Morgan mares as soon fillies left for sale. Haven't made any attempt to sell them as I as I can. thought I would get inquiries from the ad in your magazine. Cuyamo is admired by everyone here, being the only Morgan C. E. ALLEN. stallion in this vicinity. Indian Spring Stock Farm, Baldwinsville, N. Y. JESSE GARDNER. (Nevada Cowman) Ely, Nev.

. ,'jmm m aaBHa_aaaH| . - i^m MORGANS EASY TO HANDLE Enclosed please find check for $1.00 for renewal of THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE for one year which I enjoy reading very much. Please notice my change of address. I have purchased a smaller farm, having leased my farm at Alhambra, 111., so I shall have more time to devote to my Morgan horses as help is very hard to get here. There is one thing I like about Morgans—one doesn't need much help as they are very easy to break and handle. F K. DZENGOLEWSKI. R. 2, Lebanon. 111.

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GLENDALE 7485 To date I have received the February and May issue of THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I own and stand the great breeding stallion Glendale, No. 7485, purchased from W W. Chatterton, Wapello, la., in 1943. Glendale carries the Herod, Lambert and De Jarnette blood­ lines and was bred by the late J. C. Brunk of Springfield, 111. HARLEY R. NIHART. SIR LINSLEY, NO. 7654 Middlebury, Ind. Stallion. Owner, R. S. Sentney. Foaled April 2, 1926. Chest­ nut, prolong star, snip, both hind feet white, behind right MORGANS—VT. TO CALIF. ankle white. Sold to: Pine Ridge Indian School, U. S. Government, Pine I have just returned from a two months trip to Pennsylvania Ridge, S. D. and the New England states including Vermont. I did not get Sire: Linsley 7233 by General Gates 666. to Middlebury but found some good Morgans just the same. Dam: Sparta 04123 by Sparhawk 6874. I will send you an article with snapshots soon. Please mail me six copies of THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, the issue in POP R. S. SENTNEY. which I have an article and which has a picture of General Gates Kansas Cow Boy, Table Top Stables, Hutchinson, Kan. on the back of magazine. Enclosed find $1.50 and thanks. JOHN HOFFMAN. WANTED—INFORMATION Verdugo, Calif. Enclosed is $1.00 for the renewal of my subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. Each of two screwball cavalry rookies was given a horse. Have purchased a Morgan mare, Copper Lady, that originally "How are we going to tell them apart?" asked one. came from the Darling Farm in Vermont. I would like to 'Til cut off my horse's mane," suggested the second. So they register her but only her sire, Genebob, is known. Is there trimmed one horse's mane but it soon grew out again. The first any way that I can find out who her dam is? Please let me screwball then cropped his horse's tail but it, too, soon grew out. know if and where I can get information concerning this. "Let's measure the horses," suggested thefirst screwb a 11. Sure Thank you. enough, it worked. The white horse was two inches taller than ELLEN BEEBE the black horse.—The Texas Outlook. North Ave., Weston. Mass.

THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 11 NOVEMBER, 1944 PREHISTORIC HORSE DISCOVERED INTACT for preserving the body of Lenin in Moscow can be obtained in order that the horse may be placed in the local museum for all A Great Scientific Find in Kansas to behold." By JOHN HERVEY As is and for centuries has been generally known, there were From The National Horseman of June 1941 no living horses found anywhere upon either the North or South American continents when they werefirst discovere d and From a reader of The Harness Horse in Wichita, Kan., comes explored by the old Spanish "Conquistadores" in the last years the most interesting piece of news that has reached me in many of thefifteenth an dfirst hal f of the sixteenth centuries. On that a long day—using that term as applied not to what might be account they had to bring in from Spain the stock of animals called "shop talk" about the affairs of the day which is the which were indispensable for their explorations and settlements, staple of our weekly bill of fare, but something of a different and together with the wars against the savages—without them they most unusual kind. could never have attained success. In this case it takes the shape of an article appearing in the Columbus saw their necessity at once and upon his second issue of the Wichita daily Eagle for April 1, and is as follows: voyage to the New World, in 149 3, he brought with him a ship­ "Workmen today used five tons of concrete to seal off a room ment which was intended solely for warlike purposes and was in a limestone cave on the John Protex farm in Harvey county landed in the West Indies—that is such as had survived the pas­ in an effort to preserve the frozen body of a prehistoric horse sage from Spain in small and clumsy "caravels" of that period. until the day when it can be transferred to the Wichita museum. The discoverers that followed in his footsteps also brought more, "The remains of the horse are enclosed in a huge chunk of ice but none of them got farther than the islands of the Caribbean whichfills th e greater part of the subterranean chamber. until in the spring of 1519 Cortez invaded Mexico and con­ "Existence of the cave has long been known and a number of quered it. With his little army he brought sixteen horses, which persons have entered it in the past years. Flow of water and were thefirst introduce d upon the mainland of either North or constant drip of moisture from the ceilings of the narrow pas­ South America. As all students of history are aware, without sages have discouraged extensive exploration. In some places, these horses he could not have conquered Mexico. Not only did the cave narrows until it is necessary to crawl on the hands and they strike terror into the hearts of the Aztecs, who atfirst sup ­ knees. This is a cold wet job. posed them supernatural beings, their possession and use in battle "Last week, a group of Newton youths carried flashlights into and upon the march saved the day for him again and again, the cave while in search of fossils and evidence of prehistoric otherwise he and his entire force would have perished. man. They crawled through a side passage and came upon the The same thing was true when Pizarro invaded and con­ room where the light from their torches struck the ice. It was a quered Peru in 1531—without his horses he could never have scene of dazzling beauty. succeeded. This the old Spanish chronicles frankly conceded, "Blinking at the scene, one of the young men then exclaimed saying "our horses were everything." aloud. Frozen solid in the ice was a creature no larger than a The animalsfirst introduce d into Mexico by Cortez and Peru dog. Examination showed it was not a dog but a horse, a per­ by Pizarro, together with those which were continuously fectly formed creature with a roman nose. Every hair was in brought in by the explorers that followed them, were the ances­ place. The animal had been frozen into the ice, instantly. tors of the immense bands of wild horses which later on spread "Knowing the important part the prehistoric horse plays in all over the Great Plains of North and the Pampas of South relation to Wichita, officials here were contacted. Geologists America. explained the presence of the horse in the ice. Until within a period which is well remembered by the older "Thousands of years ago, a sheet of ice covered the northern generation of living men, it was the supposition that prior to part of the nation. The ice sheet moved south as far as the days of Columbus, Cortez and Pizarro, the equine genus Lawrence. As the ice reached its southern limit, it met warmer had never existed in the New World. There was, therefore, air and lively melting took place. Great north and south rivers great scientific excitement when, in 1870, fossil remains dis­ rushed away from the glacier. Aided by this moisture, wonder­ covered by a U. S. Government Survey in the Rocky Mountain ful grass bedsflourished an d the territory just to the south of the region, between the Big Horn and Grey Bull Rivers, in the sheet teemed with prehistoric horses. As they died, their bones Wyoming "Bad Lands," were identified as those of the oldest fossilized and lay in ancient river beds. known ancestor of the modern horse. Previously the evolution "One such bed is now known as the equus beds and it is from of the species had been traced no farther back than to animals it that Wichitans get their water. whose fossil remains had been found in Europe and Asia. "Geologists have long known that volcanic eruptions from It was not, however, until some years later that further dis­ the Folsom cones in northeastern New Mexico hurled tons of coveries by fossil-hunters sent out by various institutions of lava and ash into Kansas. Many of the beds are worked com­ science and learning, by the Government, and through endow­ mercially. This leads to the explanation. A hapless prehis­ ment by private persons (including William C. Whitney, then toric horse was caught in a blizzard and frozen into a sheet of the most prominent owner and breeder of thoroughbreds in ice. Then came one of the periodical eruptions of the volcanoes America and the grandfather of the present John Hay and Cor­ and the icefield wa s covered with a deep protective covering of nelius Vanderbilt Whitney) , revealed the fact that in prehistoric ash. Time passed and the ash was solidified. Action of water ages vast herds of the earliest known types of horse had ranged later formed the cave and exposed the ice cake holding the horse. over practically the entire expanse of the continent of North Such ice caves are frequent in the southwest. Notable ones are America, as it then existed, and that the oldest of them was found south of Grants, N. M., and at Sunset Crater, Ariz. millions of years older than any others known to have flourished "Knowing that a fossil of a prehistoric horse had long been upon any other continent and whose fossils have been found. desired by the local museum, discoverers of an intact horse— Persistent digging, on a large scale, brought to light immense not fossilized but the actual thing in frozen flesh, blood, hair quantities of bones of these animals, which were scattered over and bone—could hardly believe their eyes. Argument broke a range of territory extending from Idaho and Wyoming in the forth on the best way to remove the animal intact. Fear is felt north to Arizona and New Mexico in the south, and from that once exposed to the air, the horse will quickly disintegrate. Kansas and Oklahoma to the vicinity of Los Angeles, east and "It was decided to seal the room with concrete and wait the west. There has been nothing else to equal this, taken en arrival of the formula for preserving the creature. It is possible masse, among the similar zoological discoveries of recent times. that the Smithsonian has the answer although frozen mam­ Patient work in sorting out and assembling these fossil re­ moths have never been successfully preserved. A number of mains brought wonderful results and made it possible to recon­ scientists will be contacted. It was said here today that diplo­ struct the entire structural evolution of the horse from the matic sources will be contacted to determine if the secret formula earliest known geological period to which he belongs.

12 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 While it is recognized that science cannot more than estimate and evolution have traced through the 55,000,000 years neces­ the length of time that the ages and periods of the prehistoric sary to result in the modern type. Originally, instead of a universe endured, according to its computations, thefirst horse solid hoof, both front and rear, his forefoot had four toes, each appeared upon earth during the Eocene Period of the Mesozoic separate and distinct; his hind one two, of which one was not as Age, or about 55,000,000 years ago, whereas man did not fully developed as the other. emerge until during the Pliocene Period of the same age, or It would be interesting to trace and tabulate the gradual about 7,000,000 years ago. The type of man which then change in form and appearance of the genus Equus down to appeared, however, was far removed from the genus Homo of the present time, but space forbids, also the repetition of scien­ today. This true ancestor is supposed not to have evolved tific terms that are confusing and unintelligible to the lay reader. more than 25,000 years ago. These findings are all based upon Returning to the new discovery in Kansas, where previously study of the geological strata that cover the exposed portions some of the most important ones have been made, it remains to of the earth and the manner in which they have been formed be said that this is thefirst an d only one on record of a com­ and moulded, chiefly by volcanic action upon the one band and plete "dawn horse" in which anything except the fossilized that of water, in either the liquid or the frozen state, upon the bones remained. As the news article states, and is familiar to other. many readers, the bodies of mammoths have been repeatedly That in prehistoric ages the surface of the globe bore little discovered in the far northern regions of the globe, in which the resemblance to its present expanse is generally understood. entire animal was intact, with the complete investiture of flesh, "Life," as we apply the term to either animal or vegetable skin, hair, tusks, etc., but upon exposure of the air after the ice forms, is held to have originally developed in the sea, about that had preserved them through the ages was removed, it was 1,600,000,000 years ago. Periods of "cosmic" time which found impossible to keep the flesh, skin and hair from dis­ are staggering to imagine had to elapse before the first living integrating, and that in an amazingly short length of time. organisms evolved into the original marine fauna (vegetable It is to be hoped that modern methods and experiments have forms) and shell-fish. Gradually, through ages each of millions developed some preservative which will enable our scientists to of years, these primitive forms developed into higher and more avert such a catastrophe in the present case and this wonderful complex ones of many different varieties, this development be­ prehistoric ancestor of the equine race, at least 250,000 years old ing immensely influenced by the changes, always going on, in and possibly ten times as much, can be saved intact for the the surface of the earth and its climate. These changes, as study and wonder of mankind.—The Harness Horse. animals, birds, fishes, etc., began to appear, led to immense migrations by the different species as food became scarce or the climate became now too hot and now too cold for them to FAVORS HALF-MORGAN REGISTRY exist where previously they had flourished. As I am a new subscriber I am not familiar with the recently The earliest known horse, the Eohippus of science, was one formed Half-Morgan register. I have a filly eligible for of the very first types or kinds of mammals (namely, animals registry and would like to have forms, etc. to send in. Perhaps whose young are suckled by their mothers) to appear upon the you could tell me the correct address to which to write. earth—as aforesaid, about 55,000,000 years ago. And this I have only read a few of the arguments for and against the appearance took place, also as aforesaid, in what is now the registry. My vote would be in favor of some sort of registry Great West of the U. S. A. There, for millions upon millions for it gives the buyer and seller of a half-bred some sort of of years prodigious and innumerable droves of them ranged guarantee. That is worth something for dealers are apt to call over the earth until changing climate and volcanic flood and ice most anything a Morgan these days. On the other hand there pressure forced them to migrate to other parts of the globe in is already a half-bred registry in Portland, Ore. Why didn't order to continue existence. This migration took place in the itfill the bill? Pleistocene Period, or more than 250,000 years ago. It is be­ CHARLES CHURCH, JR. lieved to have proceeded from the Great Western region of P. O. Box 284. East Douglas. Mass. America north and westward through what are now Canada and Alaska, into Northern Asia, which was then united to the North American continent by an isthmus hundreds of miles SNOW FROLIC wide. Then the Pleistocene horse found his way across Asia Black Hawk and Lady Suffolk and into Europe, and in these countries his later evolution took place which resulted in the modern types of today. From Fordacre Studios When the prehistoric horse migrated from western North Our lithograph portrays two historically famous horses frol­ America (in which he did notflourish as far south as Mexico), icking in a snowy pasture in the Green Mountains of Vermont. he disappeared wholly and altogether from that part of the Black Hawk, a grandson of Justin Morgan, the founder of earth." As man did not appear there until about 25,000 years the Morgan breed, was himself a famous sire and noted for his later, it is easily understood that it was impossible for the first beauty, action and speed. He produced the champion trotting men in the New World to have any knowledge whatever that stallion, Ethen Allen, 2:15, with running mate and for an such an animal ever existed there. So that when, in and after extended period was only second in fame, as a sire of speed in 1519 A.D., the Spanish explorers brought in the modern types, harness, to the great Hambletonian 10. His get were noted the natives were thunderstruck by them. . . It is, incidentally, for their beauty, docility and intelligence and his blood carries a fact that having captured one of the Spanish horses, the on down to this day through some of our handsomest saddle Aztecs placed him in a temple and worshipped him as divine, horses and fastest trotters. Black Hawk was foaled in 1833 but starved him to death, as they offered him nothing to eat and died in 1 856. except tropical fruits andflowers, suc h as they considered fitting Lady Suffolk, 2:26, was the most famous trotter of her time. for a god. After his death they stuffed his skin, placed it upon Her racing career lasted over a period of more thanfifteen year s a pedestal in their temple and continued to worship him in that and her triumphs on the turf extended from the eastern tracks form until years afterward when later bands of explorers found in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to Rochester, him there and the priests that accompanied them had the equine Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Mobile and New Orleans. The deity destroyed as a "heathen idol." "Old Gray Mare of Long Island" was foaled in 1832 and met The earliest prehistoric horse, the so-called Eohippus baeahs, all comers North, East, South and West until her retirement in or "dawn horse," was a small animal standing eleven inches 1856. A distinguished oil painting of that period shows her high at the withers and outwardly bore no resemblance to the in her old age in a pasture with Black Hawk to whom she was modern animal. It is only through his skeletonic structure, evidently bred but the writer has found no record of her ever when stripped of all flesh and other coverings, that his identity having had any offspring by this horse.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 13 PEOPLE WANT MARES Next to the saddle room stands a horseman's deri—beamed ceiling, long red leather divan seats, wide oak tables and mounted At present people want to buy mares. It is next to impossible heads of longhorn steers. The far end of the room is taken up to buy an Arabian mare now and if such a purchase were pos­ with trophies—blue prize ribbons—we counted 31 of them—• sible the price would probably be above value. The same con­ dozens of cups, statues, medals, and all the things that horse­ dition seems to exist among the Morgans. Neither of these breeds men love and are proud to possess. In fact, Elliott said at a figure in the show ring. The show managements have offered a recent horse show he declined to be judge, and went in for a few breeding classes, but these have usually been painfully try at prize winning. He came home with four blue ribbons, small.—From the Horseman's Exchange, November, 1944. two cups, a bronze horse statue and three other prizes. Intelligence THE BIG LITTLE HORSE THAT COULDN'T BE When the smoke got thick, we began by asking the question FORGOTTEN we had come to find out from this Missouri-born star of radio and screen: By ORRIS C. FOSTER and J. EARLE DAWLEY "Why did you choose Morgan horses for your motion picture In Equestrian—November, 1944 work?" Memories of great horsemen of the screen, such as Bronco "The answer to that question is 'intelligence'—I mean for the Billy, Bill Hart, Tom Mix, Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Buck horse," he smiled. "Morgans have intelligence, poise, pride and Jones, Bill Boyd and Gene Autry, came to our mind as we drove gentleness. They know what is going on and no foolishness. down Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley and I've done a great number of pictures with my Morgans— turned into a little side street that led to the home of "Wild" Bill Thunder and Hedlite's Sonny Boy. They have never failed me. Elliott, riding hero of the screen and idol of the airways in the You know, in making western 'horse operas' there is fast action person of Red Ryder. and quick get-aways. If you come rattling down a shingled Our car stopped before a wide, white gate. Looking up we roof, and have to make an eight foot leap from the roof to your caught sight of a lovely bank of flowers on the brow of the horse and into the saddle, that horse must be at the exact spot you hill, nestling beneath a charming white house that spelled home expect him to be, at the right second, and no matter how much and comfort in every line. What manner of person is this wild gunfire is going on around him. A Morgan horse does not lose riding, superb horseman of the motion picture world—hero of his head. Yes, I'd pick a Morgan every time for picture work." dozens of adventure tales that have quickened the pulse of mil­ If you have seen some of Mr. Elliott's recent pictures, namely lions? "The Marshall of Reno," "Great Stage Coach Robbery" or "Wild" Bill Elliott is a man's man from the ground up—tall, "Cheyenne Wild Cat," you would realize that the horse as well slim, muscular, with six feet, or more, of muscle and brawn as the rider must be perfection in precision and timing. packed in a light frame without an ounce of excess flesh any­ "Wild" Bill starts another picture for the Republic studio where. the middle of November. His handshake is firm, his eyes quick and quite gray, hair Our next question was in regard to cruelty to horses in pic­ dark, a strong, impressive face, and a voice that is direct, earnest tures: "How about these terrific falls of horses we see on the and sincere. That is "Wild" Bill. Just the kind of man the screen?" American boy would like for a dad, and the hero of his day "A trained horse is like a trained tumbler—he knows how to dreams. take care of himself. Besides, the law requires that the camera We stood in the stable yard discussing horse flesh with Mr. must continue to take pictures until it shows that the horse is on Elliott and Bill Jones. The latter has charge of all the live his feet and in good condition." stock for the Republic Studios, and perhaps knows horses better As to the best method of training a Morgan horse, Bill's than any man in the studio world. Outside on the roadway quick response came: stood a truck full of picture horses. "Kindness—it is the best whip a trainer can have. A horse "Now you take that little bay there, the one with lop ears respects a master, but he also appreciates that master's thought- and dreamy eyes," said Elliott; "that's old Major, and he is fulness for him. You can beat a horse into submission, but about the best trained picture horse in the country. Don't you won't have a horse—you will have a cringing slave." look like much but he is a dandy." This brought up the subject of fear as advanced by the au­ Just then a black nose reached over the side fence and nudged thority on wild animals, J. Melville. He claims there is a his master's shoulder. We looked up and there stood Andy definite fear-odor that is very irritating to animals. A dog will Pershing (8390) known the world over, on the air and in attack a frightened person quicker than one not afraid. In the pictures, as "Thunder," a magnificent coal black Morgan. case of wild animals, when mothers with young are attacked, "Thunder" stood there with ears cocked forward as if to say, the mother will abandon her young, knowing these animal "What's all the talk about?" but when he found out it was children do not have a sense of fear. So she will hide away so about stallions instead of about mares, he was evidently dis­ that the attacking animals will not trace the fear-odor in her. gusted, so turned and trotted off down the field. "May not the sensitive nostrils of a horse detect this odor of You could't help feeling, as you watched his superb carriage fear in a rider?" and movement, the art critic was right when he said, "The two "You are perfectly right," Elliott replied. "When a rider most beautiful sights in the world are a full rigged ship at sea, is afraid of a horse, change the rider, not the horse. I'm also and a blood horse in action." of the opinion that is true of temper in a horseman—it has the Bill Elliott has about as tidy a horse set-up as one would wish same effect. Let your horse get hot under the collar but never to see. There is a row of white horse stalls, each with its the trainer or rider, and a calm tone of voice is also a soothing green half-door, and sanded front yard—all as neat and clean narcotic to a horse." as a Dutch frau's front porch. Mr. Elliott's final statement is worth remembering: "If I Close by was his mating yard. Also—what a chariot for could only afford one horse, I would buy a Morgan—he is the horses' traveling jaunts!—a luxurious trailer with feed stalls one great, one-purpose horse in America, He is gentle with and padded white leather sides, "Royalty on the road" when children; you can drive him to church with pride. He will Bill's picture horses go out to location, tackle a plow, round up your cattle, win races, and make a grand The saddle room wasfilled wit h all sorts of tooled leather, showing at a fair. Yes, Morgans for mine every time," silver mounted saddles and hand-made silver bits, things to "So long, 'Wild' Bill Elliott; we'll be seeing you on the make a rider starry eyed, screen."

14 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 HOWARD WRITES OF "BILLY MASON" a pleasant hour in the saddle together that first summer and Due to my mail having to be forwarded to me, I have just many of them on these two horses. received my August-September magazine and I want to say I Later I acquired a Saddle Bred stallion and built up a band of really enjoy it. ten mares so I could turn him in the pasture, which was the I left school in 1910 and my firstjo b was with a cow outfit, Colorado stallion law at that time, and because of the stallion riding horses I would be afraid to hold by the bridle reins now! not allowing geldings with his band, I very foolishly traded Down through all those years I have been associated with horses, Big Boy off for a black part Thoroughbred mare and regretted and looking back now over the probable thousand head I have it many a long day. When the brown horse was a five-year-old raised, owned, sold, broke and ridden of my own and of other he weighed eleven sixty and stood close to sixteen hands. outfits, about a half dozen stand out far and above all the rest. The last time I saw the mare—sold her also after we left the When a cowpuncher worked for $25 and $30 a month, half Forest Service—she had raised four colts and looked like she was of his recompense was the horses he had to work with. In those still growing. She must have weighed eleven hundred and days most outfits didn't know the breeding of their horses. They would have stood about fifteen hands and looked the typical were just horses or they "came from some Quarter Horse that Standard Bred harness mare only for her keen eye. came up the trail from Texas" or some such a background as Some day I am going to own another pair of horses just for that. the pleasure of owning and riding something to be proud of, After I graduated from punching cows at $50 a month to and when I do they will be part Morgan, or if I can afford it, Forest Ranger at $101, I thought nothing of paying a whole perhaps a pure Morgan mare and stallion. month's wages for a horse that suited me—which was a luxury If this letter is worth printing in the praise of that wonderful I never could afford as a cow hand. breed "The Morgan," I'll be happy, and if you would care for Also, about that time I began taking on weight and a Forest the stories of the other four outstanding horses I mentioned at Ranger couldn't change horses twice or three times a day like a the start I will give them to you also, and maybe I can dig up cow hand, so I began to appreciate larger horses. About that some pictures. time two sisters rode up to my Station on the Medicine Bow and Also this letter might catch the eye of some old Wyoming wanted to sell me the two horses they were riding. The filly the cowpuncher who would tell us something of that great old sire younger girl was riding was about the prettiest thing I had seen of "Cow Horses"—Billy Mason. Hope I have not bored you since leaving home, but she wouldn't have weighed 900 pounds. too much with this long-winded, longhand letter, but I do love The gelding the older sister was riding was right down my alley a good horse and I like to tell about them. for style, size, etc. Seal brown and not a white hair or a blemish I have been hearing of Morgans, Steel Dusts, Copperbottoms, on him and weighed about 1,050 pounds. I mouthed them and Peter McCues, Freds, and all the rest, and I was greatly pleased they were both fours and never been hurt, but I couldn't see the when I read the article on page 73 where R. E. Spence says Steel filly for the horse; finallyth e younger girl, fearing I wasn't going Dust and Copperbottom and Peter McCue carried Morgan blood. to buy her filly, said "She's got Billy Mason blood." Then I I have a picture of Golden Chief said to be the last living direct began to pick up my ears. Billy Mason was the grandest horse descendant of Old Copperbottom, and he looks more typically Morgan than Quarter Horse although he is registered in the that ever went into the State of Wyoming, and if I have the RIDING CLUB AT BATH correct information, was never behind the money in over twelve Quarter Horse registry. ^r „ „, TT years racing. Isn'tv it time for& your' magazine again?GEORG It sureE W. isHOWAR an awfulD When she got done telling me the filly'sfamil y I knew I was lonHeberg tim, eAriz betwee. n issues. I, like many other readers, would like going to own that mare but I didn't tell her so. Then the other to see more pictures of present-day Morgans in your paper. sister recited her horse's pedigree. He was out of a Billy Mason I am enclosing a snap of my two-year-old, but do not think mare and a Morgan stud. The filly was out of the same Morgan it is clear enough for a very good print. I believe he is going to stud and a granddaughter of Billy Mason—there being a cross develop into a true type Morgan of the old school. I have shown of fast Standard Bred trotting blood between the Morgan and him as a yearling and a two-year-old stallion, and as yet he is Billy Mason. Before the girls left I bought the gelding for 100 undefeated. There being no other Morgans in this section he has smackers, and the fillyfo r sixty which was all the girl asked for to show in what is called the Standard bred class but includes all her. I didn't imagine then I would ever ride the mare, but I saddle or harness horses of any light breed, and it is very easy for thought she would be nice to have around just for the ladies to Morgan conformation and style to place in this type class. admire and ride if they cared to. We have a large Saddle Club in Bath of which I am secretary, I soon met the girl I afterwards led to the altar. I gave her and the members own every breed of saddle horses. We are fea­ the little bay mare outright and bought me a black horse that turing movies as entertainment during the winter months. It had been caught out of a wild bunch over in the Haystock is also a very good way for breeds to show off and advertise their Mountains. He had been a stud until he was five years old and horses. Could you tell me where we could obtain any pictures therefore was a good one—but he is a different story and I'll of Morgans in movie form? As yet I own the only Morgan but stick to the two Morgans. he is good enough to create an interest in the breed and I would I rode the big brown horse while courting my wife and she like to see more Morgans brought into this section. lived in Encampment, twenty-seven miles from my Ranger This Club has not yet been organized two years and we have Station. I used to ride Big Boy as I called him over to see her a membership of nearly 100 members—all owning one or more on Saturday night when I got off duty at fiveo'clock . It took horses. We have put on three very successful shows both from me exactly two hours and forty-five minutes to get there, and he the entertainment viewpoint and financially. I think there is a was never too warm to water. Sometime late Sunday evening I great future for the saddle horse in this section and hope this is rode him back over the same rough, rocky twenty-seven miles an example of the entire United States, for in my opinion there but not so fast, sometimes arriving just in time to eat breakfast is nothing more beautiful than a good horse and the more the and go to work at eight o'clock. general public learn about them the more they want to know. Later in the spring we were married and did a lot of riding. Please print more magazines and more pictures. Other pub­ Crossed the Medicine Bow Range twice on these horses, then the lications are managing to keep them coming so I sure hope this NOVEMBERContinental, Divid1944e and the state line down into NortherTHE MORGAn ColoN­ HORSonEe MAGAZINcan, E .. ,. T 15 rado. MRS. MARY L. ARNOLD Because of the cross of harness blood, trotting was Bessie Box 3 7, Arnona Farm, Kanona, N. Y. tBelletrottino whis pnaturag hilonmg l dow aftegaitnr, Biintangod Bo carryina ruyn wa beforgs minye a shwife' hige brokehs lopeweigh. .W tIe nsh spen facte wat, sIman stilhayl d DESIRES THE LARGER TYPE ALBINO HORSE CLUB QUESTIONS PEDIGREES We have your letter of October 31st in reference to the The other day I came home from White Horse Ranch where MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE and also the copy of your pub­ the American Albino Horse Club office is located and where I lication which I was very much interested to see. had been working since February and found two of your maga­ While my own saddle horses have been mainly purebred zines awaiting me and my subscription expired. The enclosed Thoroughbreds, I have always had a good deal of interest in dollar should take care of next year's issues and if you have an Morgan horses, since my days as an undergraduate taking extra copy of the November issue, start from there. I have been animal husbandry under Professor Harry Garrigus at Connecti­ letting my magazines drop because I am trying to collect money cut State College (now the University of Connecticut) 1912- to purchase a horse, but I guess one dollar will not break me. 1916. From observation there and experience with a few I couldn't let this pass by without a comment, because some­ Morgans that they had at Cornell while I was teaching there one is wrong somewhere. In the May issue (1944) page 60, in the early 1920's, I have always had a good deal of admiration of the MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE there appears a letter from for the Morgan horse and I was especially interested in the dis­ Mr. Syd Houston, Secretary of the Tennessee Walking Horse cussion of the matter of type and size of the Morgan in this Association. It concerns the pedigree of Allen F-l, and it current issue of your publication. My only objection to the states that Mambrino Chief's dam is Lady Thorn. Now, Morgans of some years ago was that they ran rather small and according to information written in the 1890's which I have, I personally like a large horse with a long stride though I know Lady Thorn was an own brother to Mambrino Patchen, both that many of these smaller horses have shown remarkable being sired by Mambrino Chief. Mambrino Chief was foaled stamina. in 1844 and died in 1862—he was sired by Mambrino Pay­ I have hoped to get over to Woodstock for the one hundred master by Mambrino by Messenger. His dam was called the mile trail ride and but for the war probably would have done Elbridge mare and she is described as a large, coarse mare from so before now. I expect that the collection of horses there for the West and had no known pedigree. Her son was also a large the trail ride would give a particularly fine opportunity to see horse on the coarse order but possessed natural trotting action a considerable number of Morgans of the larger type which is and good speed. He became the founder of a family second apparently now being more commonly bred. only in the influence it has exerted in the formation of the In reference to advertising we have done very little horse feed trotting breed, to that of Hambletonian. advertising and, of course, under present conditions we can not Now, there is certainly a mistake somewhere. All the rest even supply the demand from our old customers. In our coincides with my information. I have a grand collection of streamlined production for the wartime period we have reduced fine etchings of famous horses including George Wilkes, Mam­ our horse feeds from three to one and it hasn't been our inten­ brino Patchen and Alma Mater along with a descriptive story tion to do very much special horse feed advertising until we get about each. I had a girl pen pal send me these beautiful pic­ back into normal production with a greater variety of horse tures from North Dakota and I do not know where she got feeds for different purposes and with production increased to them. They were published in some old racing magazines I the point where we can take care of additional business. In believe, and I have used thefigures fo r embroidery work as spite of the fact that we had justfinished a five yea r expansion they are of nice size. program when the war broke out we were within a matter of I have done considerable pedigree work, not only for the two or three months just barely able to keep up with orders A. A. H. C, but on my own as well. and ever since then have been a considerable distance behind. It may interest horse lovers to know that a snow white pink We are just now completing a large addition to our mill under skinned filly has been produced whose parents, four grand­ priorities granted by the WPB but even that will not be suffi­ parents and eight great grandparents also are snow white with cient if demand continues as it has. While many feed manu­ pink skin. Thefilly, Silve r Dawn, No. 661, is coming three facturers apparently now have no difficulty in meeting demands and is owned by Cinnabar Ranch, Peekskill, New York. Her and even have a surplus, the pent up demand for Beacon Feeds entire snow white family were raised by White Horse Ranch. which has existed all through the war-time period has rapidly There are also two registered Albino foals with one colored absorbed the tonnage released by customers who are reducing mare in the great grandparents, and two more with only two herds andflocks this year. colored mares among the great grandparents. Before making any definite decision in regard to advertising Color breeding pedigrees are very interesting. A pedigree in the MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE we would appreciate a break­ I'd like to see is the one of Snow White, a mare on the race down of your circulation by states. Our distribution is con­ tracks several years ago who caused a lot of comment among fined to parts of twelve northeastern states plus Bermuda, Puerto harness racing men, because she was foaled snow white with Rico, the Virgin Islands, and a few shipments to other countries pink skin. bordering on the Caribbean. Milling-in-transit freight rates Will be waiting for the MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. make it impossible for us to ship west. Arbitrary freight rates Miss C. THOMPSON also make it impossible for us to reach south of Virginia. We 1208 So. Cecelia St.. Sioux City 20. la. cannot, in fact, reach all of Virginia. C. E. LEE WANTED—PAIR MORGANS Beacon Milling Co., Cayuga, N. Y. Enclosed is $1.00 for a subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I am interested in buying a team of Morgans PINTO TYPE about 1200 lbs., each that can do light farm work and that can be ridden as well as driven by my children—ages 16 and 14 By GEORGE M. GLENDENNING years. I would prefer mares as I should like to raise a few In the Horseman's Exchange, November, 1944 colts. I am also interested in buying a well-mannered horse Among breeds contributing to the general desirable Western for my 9 year old daughter. Any information you might give Saddle Horse qualifications are the Arab, American Saddle Horse, me along these lines I would appreciate. Morgan and Thoroughbred. The paramount object in breeding The team I want should be priced low and the extra horse or choosing a saddle horse is to get the most strength, stamina, for my daughter should be a pensioner or a very reasonable intelligence, maneuverability and beauty in the neatest, most re­ priced younger horse. fined, specified size horse to do a given job—which in this case is Kindly send the magazine to the address below until June a Western Saddle Horse. The above named breeds are rich con­ 1st. After June 1st send it to me at my farm at Bradford, Vt. tributors of these features. SAMUEL F. GORMAN 1 7 Sargeant St., Chicopec Falls, Mass.

1 6 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 MR. POTTS ENDORSES TRAINING by Humphrey Finney of Baltimore, Md., who has helped in the The Morgan Horse Club gave me your name, along with sale of more than 20,000 riding animals in 1944. Demand for others, as a breeder of Morgan stock. I have visited a few other riding horses is strong all over the United States and prices are members in this part of the country and find that while they stronger on good using horses than for many years past. have taken every care and precaution in breeding, they have not Artificial insemination of mares, long sought with but slight attempted to train or school any of them for saddle or driving success, has finally been accomplished on a practical working purposes. It seems to me that the ultimate in perfection is the basis by the Mississippi Experiment Station. Dr. V R. Berliner pure bred horse plus the expert training. of that station told how the problem had been solved. Stallion semen is now carried with complete certainty for ten or twelve All this comes about, for the reason that we were personally hours, and there are several cases of conception after the semen looking for a real, good, tractable, gentle and well trained saddle had been held under controlled conditions for twenty-four hours. horse, for family use along with two ordinary horses which we have. The procedure has long been very successful with cattle, but horses and jacks had less resistant sperm, which required an en­ Do you have or do you know of anyone who has what we tirely different dilutor and buffer solution to survive. A com­ would like as mentioned above? Another thing I have noticed plete report of the insemination procedure will soon be published that most breeders simply permit the herd to roam wild all by the Horse and Mule Association of America, Inc., for its summer in pasture, with no grain, and they get pot-bellied, members. scrubby, and out of condition, which again takes away from Aggressive work to make known the manifold advantages of what I would think you people are trying to accomplish. Sup­ horses and mules for work and pleasure will be continued on a posedly good Morgans I saw were 100 to 150 lbs. underweight national scale, to aid and encourage the breeding, raising and use and anything but handsome. This must not be representative, of horses and mules. so therefore a letter to you. The complete annual report will be sent to members as soon Thanks for any help you can give. „ ,_ „ as it can be printed. Several of the addresses will be published R. E. POTTS separately for general distribution. Lake Shore Blvd.. Mentor, Ohio. Retiring directors Robert Falconer, Chicago, 111.; Raymond Laub, Buffalo, N. Y.; Chas. F. Mains, Greenfield, Ohio; A. M. THE QUARTER HORSE Paterson, Kansas City, Mo.: and George E. Scholz, Chattanooga, By DAN CASEMENT Tenn., were re-elected. Louis E. Stoddard of New York City was re-elected president. Chas. J. Lynn of Indianapolis, Ind., Manhattan. Kan. was re-elected first vice-president; Ira Drymon of Lexington, The origin of this truly American horse is undoubtedly almost Ky., second vice-president and F M. Holmes of New Britain, as remote as that of the Mustang. He evolved rather out of the Conn., treasurer. Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago, who has been recreational inclinations than from the economic necessities of his secretary since the Horse and Mule Association of America was creators, the early cavalier colonists of the Atlantic seaboard. established in January, 1920 continues as executive secretary. Unlike their Puritan neighbors to the north who required a —From the Horse and Mule Association of America, Inc., multi-purpose horse that could make shift at plow, road-cart or Wayne Dinsmore, secretary, 407 S. Dearborn St., Chicago 5, 111. under saddle, practical Southern gentlemen tilled with their long-eared mules but rode, if possible, runners. The famed Jus­ tin Morgan was the product of Puritanism.—From The Cattle­ FROM TEXAS: man, September, 1940. I enjoy THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE very much, and look forward to receiving each copy. When the war is over I HORSE AND MULE MEN MEET hope you seefit t o change the publication to at least a monthly. Members of the Horse and Mule Association of America, Inc. met Wednesday, December 6, 1944 at the Palmer House, Chi­ cago, 111., in their 25th Annual Meeting. The sum and sub­ stance of expressions by those present was to the effect that while horses are down somewhat in numbers and price, due to shortage of labor on farms, they are far from being down and out, as there are 9,330,000 horses and 3,559,000 mules still on farms. Use of work stock has been slightly less: breeding of mares to work stock stallions is estimated to have been 25 percent less in 1944 than in 1943, but there has been no decline in breeding mares to jacks for the production of mules, which are still sell­ ing at from $350 to $600 a span, depending upon their size and degree of excellence. Roy Curtis of Princeton, la., and Lambert Van Wyk of New Sharon, la., each of whom farms in excess of 300 acres with animal power only, outlined how they did it and their reasons for holding fast to horses for all farm work. In substance their position was thatfield wor k could be done nearly as rapidly with horses as with alleged substitutes, that field work on crops was less than half a livestock farmer's activities, and that on all other work about the farm the horses were not only much cheaper, but more effective—and that young men starting to farm could TEJAS INA MALEETA get a good start with horses and horse drawn equipment on a mere fraction of the cost required with mechanization. Enclosed please find pictures of two colts that I bought from The rapid rise of the travelling blacksmith shop and the op­ Mr. Thornhill of Bentonville, Ark. (formerly of Miami, Tex.) portunity it offers men to get into a profitable independent busi­ These colts have been in my possession over a year, and are both ness, was discussed by H. D. Houser of Columbus, Ohio, who well trained for their ages. Tejas is above average for calf rop­ makes over $5,000 a year in such work. The increasing demand ing horse and both are broke to drive single. for pleasure horses, especially good riding animals, was reviewed Quitaque, Tex. J. B. BAIRD

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 17 Horse Magazines HORSES PER YR. COPY Morgan Horse, Q. $1.00 $ .25 Bit & Spur, M. (horsey) 1.5 0 .15 National Horse Roster, (Don Henderson's digest of horse news) M. 1.00 .10 National (Saddle) Horseman, M. 5.00 .50 The Horse, bi-monthly (includes mem­ bership, renewals $3.) 5.00 .50 Thoroughbred (Horse) Record, W 4.00 .10 Rider & Driver, M., horse—sport—pleasure 4.00 .3 5 American Albino, Q. 1.00 .25 Spokesman & Harness World, M. 1.00 .10 The Cavalry Journal, military 3.00 .75 Horsemen's News, M. (Horsemen's Ben. & Prot. Assn.) . 1.00 .10 Western Horseman, B-M 1.5 0 .3 5 Hoofs & Horns, M., rodeos 1.5 0 .15 NRA Roundup Up, (rodeos), M. .50 .10 TOWNSHEND JOHN, 8700 The Ranchman, M. (horses and cattle) 1.00 .15 Eastern Breeder, M. (horses and cattle) 2.00 .25 Foaled: July 13, 1938. The Equestrian, M. (Calif.) (for rider, Sire: John A. Darling 7470. breeder, exhibitor, enthusiast) 1.00 .10 Dam: Bunting 04985 by Allen King 7090. The Chronicle, weekly . 5.00 Owned by: Mrs. Mary L. Arnold, Arnona Farm, Kanona, N Y. Rush your subscriptions today. Remit in any manner Color: Brown—black points. A beautiful mahogany bay convenient to you. in summer. Send for Free Catalog

MAGAZINE MART FOURTH ANNUAL CONCORD-MT. DIABLO P. O. Box 1288 Dept. MH Plant City, Fla. TRAIL RIDE Notable development of the fourth annual Concord-Mt. Diablo Trail Ride was the marked improvement in the types of horses entered. Each year has seen a better quality of entries but 1944 was outstanding. Thirty-five horses crossed the finish line The Record of by 4:30 p.m. Sunday, September 3, at Pacheco Adobe, Old Bay Point Road, north of Concord. Half-Morgan Horses There was a wide diversity of breeding in the horses entered. Three were registered mounts. El Farkad, and eight-year-old Arabian gelding, owned and ridden by George Halter of Rich­ 155 East 44th Street, New York 17, N. Y. mond: Fawnette, a seven-year-old Morgan mare, owned and ridden by Mrs. Dorothy Callsen of Ripon: and Rawhide, a four- year-old Thoroughbred, owned and ridden by Miss Jean Olsson, REGISTRATION OF THE of Concord. Entries included Thoroughbred-Morgan, Thoroughbred- HALF-MORGAN MARE GELDING Standardbred, Thoroughbred Arabian, Thoroughbred plus un­ No stallion will be accepted for registry known blood, Morgan-Arabian, Morgan-Filipino, Morgan- Standardbred, Standard-American Saddlebred, Standard-Welsh pony and Arabian-Standardbred. Palomino, Pinto, Quarter- One parent must be registered in the American horse, Steeldust and Mustang mounts were among the entries Morgan Horse F.egister and the other parent must and some horses, whose owners claimed no particular blood, be of light-horse type. Registration of the other nevertheless performed gallantly and with good hearts.—From parent in any other light-horse registry is no bar Horse Lover, November, 1944. to registry here. This application for registration in THE FROM WASHINGTON: RECORD OF HALF-MORGAN HORSES, Am I correct in presuming that you like to be informed to 155 East 44th Street, New York 17, N. Y., has any address changes of registered Morgan horse owners? If so, I would like to say that due to unforsecn circumstances we have no association or connection with the Morgan had to move again. Our former address was Route 1, Box 235, Horse Register of the Morgan Horse Cluh, Olympia, Wash., and it is now Route 2, Box 143-M, Elma, 90 Broad Street, New York City. Wash. Be sure to enclose fee of $2.00 for each application and I own the registered mare, Iva Field Reg. 05846, and I think for each transfer. Make check or money order pay­ she is the best little mare in the State. able to "Record of Half-Morgan Horses." Thanking you very much for your attention. Miss T. SAVONEN R. 2. Box 143-M, Elma. Wash.

THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 URGES MORE SHOWS I am enclosing a dollar to renew my subscription. Please see that I do not miss a copy. I look forward to its coming. Have read with interest comments by the various breeders and feel that I am becoming acquainted with the breed and the men and women who are backing it. I was glad to see atticles that censored any derogatory remarks about other breeds, but I feel that the Morgan folks must organize to keep the breed before the public. My suggestion would be that the Morgan Club give encouragement to shows in areas where there are enough of the breed, similar to the one held annually in Vermont. List classes that show the versatility of the breed both in harness and under saddle. At all state shows, when these are opened again, see that there are Morgan classes with trophies offered by the Club. I did well with a weanling colt in our local show, placing first in a class of 14—mostly pure bred American Saddle. The colt, a blackfilly, is by Illawana Don, 8381 out of Rayrette by Jubilee King. ADELAIDE NICHOLS Editor, Vindicator K Republican, Esthcrvillc, la. BROWN'S PINK 05756

FROM CONNECTICUT: Foaled May 1941, bay, with star and stripe, four white fetlocks Bred by Elmer Brown, Halstead, Kansas I have not received my May copy of THE MORGAN HORSE Sire: Royce 7748, by Winterset 7403 MAGAZINE. Will you please send it? After the war, will the Dam: Delight L. 04786, by Linsley 7233 by General Gates 666 magazine again be a bi-monthly, with photographs? I hope so. Thisfilly i s in foal to Tehachapi Allan 7910, by Querido 7370, by I am going to buy a young filly—in fact I wrote to the College Bennington 5693 yesterday asking whatfillies they had. Please rush my copy. Miss NANCY WOOD Owner and rider — Talia House Zuhars Fairchance Farm. Danielson. Conn HAROLD E. ZUHARS Early in the year I sent one dollar to the Morgan Horse Club, 602 Burton Wichita 12, Kansas Inc., 90 Broad Street, New York City, for one year's subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I received the February issue, but none in May. I am very much interested in the Mor­ gan (the best horse that ever lived) . I owned one for ten years —she was of the Lambert strain. Morgan Stallion for Sale Will you please send me the May issue for I hate to miss out on it? MRS. JOSEPH WATSON Yalesville, Conn.

FROM MASSACHUSETTS: HEDLITE'S Enclosed is $1.00 for which please extend my subscription for SONNY BOY one year. I have two registered Morgan colts. They sure are 8197 a great breed. I like your paper very much, but wish it would Black Morgan come more often. Stallion WALTER W. LYON Foaled Ware, Mass. June 8, 1939 <^5fe,*:*~ FROM MISSOURI:

I am enclosing $1.00 to renew my subscription. I wouldn't f Redwood Morgan 7217 by Head- be without the magazine. Could you tell me of anyone around I Blackhaux 7973 j light Morgan 4683 Hedlite 7977 [ Joeh 04212 by Joe Bailey 7119 St. Louis who has Morgan horses? I would be pleased with | Jocbo Brownie \ Pat Allen 7344 by Allen King 7090 04365 the information. ( Joeb 04212 by Joe Bailey 7119 Hedlite's Sonny Boy 8197 PETE KESINGER Joe Bailey 7119 by Headlight 1947 Burd Ave., St. Louis, Mo. f Mountcrest Morgan 4683 Piedmont Rose- ! Sellman 7289 1 Kit.ty E- 03308 hV The Admiral marie 04855 [Rose Bud Rose,-.48'1.. ,,,„ , „ . „„. n4r7n J Querido 7370 by Bennington 5693 FROM GEORGIA: ,( Hemala 0418S by Headlight Please find enclosed one dollar for one year's subscription to Morgan 4S83 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I am not now a Morgan owner but hope to be soon. At the present time I am contacting a few Morgan owners and before I make a purchase—how is the best way to check up on the seller's integrity? I do not like, to BILL ELLIOTT doubt anyone's word, but I do want to be sure of my purchase. 4715 Louise Ave., Encino, Calif. y G. H. BUPP Decator, Ga.. Route 2. THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 19 NOVEMBER, 1944 FROM NEW YORK: Thanks for billing me as I had lost track of when I subscribed. Your magazine is certainly fine reading. I hope you can have more pictures in it in the future. Would like it monthly and WANTED would be glad to pay more for it. Enclosed is a dollar for renewal. ALICE HASTINGS American Morgan Horse Alexander. N. Y. Register Enclosed please find $2.00 for which please insert an ad in your next issue of THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. Upwey Farms. We were much impressed with their farm and Volumes I, II and III We were in Vermont late in July and spent an afternoon at stock. We were shown around by Mr. Mounce ana as a result of our visit purchased the yearling stud Ben Don whom we shall Price will depend on condition and necessity use for limited service late next year. He is the best yearling I for rebinding before resale. have ever seen. Also purchased Casablanca, a yearling filly out of Casandra who has always shared Ben Don's quarters. Mr. Mounce said they attracted a lot of attention from visitors and be seemed rather reluctant in parting with them. Expect to take * delivery in early September. We also saw King Ben in action on the road; very good and so well-mannered in the stable. WESLEY H. NIEMAN Write to: Rome State School. Box 550. Rcmc. N. Y. Enclosed find one dollar for a year's subscription to your out­ The Morgan Horse Club standing magazine. I am finally sold on the Morgan horse. As Incorporated soon as the war is over I am buying a registered stallion. If pos­ sible I would like you to start my subscription with the August, 90 Broad Street New York 4, N. Y. 1944 number. J. W. MOUNTFORD. 552 82 St., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 0 N. Y. 1 I would like my next issues of THE MORGAN HORSE MAGA­ ZINE sent to: William R. Jeffrey, Hoskins, Ore., instead of to Ord. Sch. Bn., Aberdeen Prov. Grd., Maryland. Enjoy the magazine very much. Plan to get a Morgan of my own after my army life is over and I can get back on the farm. At Stud • . . WM. R. JEFFREY. Registered Morgan Stallion Co. K., I 235 SCSO 2 SUC Postal Unit. Fordham Univ., New York 58. N. Y. r Please renew my subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE Sunshine-R MAGAZINE. I have wondered if the August issue has been sent No. 8315 out. Would like one please. I now own Prince Charming 8550, raised by C. E. Allen, WEIGHT 1100 Baldwinsville, N. Y., which I am quite proud of. KENNETH H. BIRD. HEIGHT 15.2 R. 3, Geneva. N. Y. FOALED April 18, 1940 1 Enclosed you will find a check for $1.00 for the year's sub­ scription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. It certainly is Chestnut color, star and narrow strip in face. a fine magazine and I would dislike to miss any of the issues. Light flaxen mane and tail. Beautiful saddle horse (MISS) ALICE HASTINGS. conformation. He has beauty, intelligence, action, Alexander, N. Y. strength and a wonderful disposition. True Morgan type. Finest blood lines. FROM KANSAS: Inspection Invited. I am enclosing $1.00 for THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. SID HAYES For some time I have been an admirer of Morgans and after see­ ing the two beautiful stallions—Brownie A and Sheik Star Rt. 8 Box 702 owned by Mr. A. E. Swartz of Independence, Mo., I am con­ TACOMA, WASH. vinced I'll have a Morgan some day. PHONE — Garland 4761 If possible, start by subscription with the last issue published, please. MRS. R. M. WITHAM 2809 Parkwood Blvd., Kansas City 2, Kan. 20 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 FROM ILLINOIS: Enclosed is $1.00 for my renewal to the magazine. I believe I missed the winter issue (December-March) Could you send To it to me ? I am happy to state we now have a Morgan standing in this vicinity. He is Illawana Dan, 8674, sired by Dan Dee, 8151. "PIANKESHAW" He comes from the Taylor Farm at Hanna City, 111., and is owned by Howard Raubb of Ottawa, 111. Though only a two- Dell's Valley Jubilee 8582 year-old, his good looks and splendid pedigec are an indication of the good colts he should sire. My mare will be bred to him Sire: Plainsman 8268, Plain's King 7684, by Romanesque 7297, this season. Sentola 04555. C. F. SPANGLER Dam: Jusista 04837, by Jubilee King 7570, Senorita 02304, by Grand Ridge, 111. Charles Reade 3953.

This splendid young stallion brings to Piankeshaw a com­ Enclosed please find $2.00 for my renewal of the magazine. bination of the best mid-west Morgan breeding blended I didn't know just when it did expire, but will try and keep it with the General Gates family as represented by his sons, paid ahead from now on. Linsley and Red Oak. Here we have emphasized the wide­ I purchased a filly and also a stallion and can you let me know what the transfer fees are? I will mail you a check and the spread foundation stock of Brunk's Cotton Hill Stock Farm papers to be transfered when I hear from you. with the great sire Jubilee King and his full sister, Sentola. JOHN KEVERN The blood lines represented were selected as a complement to Box 197D. R. 3. Elgin. 111. our Zana 05780 and Abby Gail 05928.

Dell's Valley Jubilee was purchased from Mrs. Walter T. Enclosed herewith is $1.00 for which you are requested to Risser, Danvers, Illinois, and bred by her father, the eminent renew subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. Have stockman, Senator Simon E. Lantz, Congerville, Illinois. found this Journal most interesting and informative and shall expect to remain a subscriber. CHARLES A. PERKINS MAj. N. C. MACDONALD. 1110 Pleasant St.. Oak Park, 111. "Piankeshaw Place" HOOPESTON, ILLINOIS

Thanks for the reminder. Do not want to miss an issue. Here's to the day when enough interest will have been created to warrant an issue monthly. How about a special stud issue next spring—should help? ELMER E. BRYCE. R. 1., Roselle, 111. (Home of Sir Orion 8500.) UPWEY FARMS FROM OREGON: I have just received and read my second copy of your very SOUTH WOODSTOCK, VT. interesting and educational magazine. Being a Morgan horse admirer I enjoy every bit of it. Your magazine will certainly help to stimulate the interest of other horse lovers in Morgans. Has a few choice I live in Wallow County, northeastern Oregon, where they will always need the sturdy "tock type" horses and the Morgans fill the bill. At present the breed isn't very well represented here. MORGANS Or since the time of Jack Johnson as is mentioned by Ed. Mason in the last copy. There is one registered stallion in this county and plenty of demand for more. It is interesting to note that the government Remount Service is becoming more interested in FOR SALE Morgans and I should like to know just where and how to apply for a stallion. Also — Suffolk-Punch Horses FRANK HENDRICKS Enterprise, Ore. imported from England

Also — High Production Jersey Cattle FROM MAINE: THANK YOU! Find enclosed one dollar to renew my subscription to the magazine we all enjoy so much. The whole family reads it * * from cover to cover. I would like to add my bit to the "shouting" and say that THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE does not come as often as I'd like it to. Write us your needs With best of luck for a swell magazine. Miss CLAIRE NUTE Berwick, Me.

NOVEMBER, 1944 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE 21 FROM PENNSYLVANIA: Just dropping you a line to let you know that THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE is one horse magazine I hardly could be with­ out. Its news and information regarding horses is outstanding. Please keep up the good work. Enclosed is my dollar to renew my subscription. Thanks for sending me a reminder. Keep Posted on JULES J. PRINCE 1310 Cherry, St., Pottstown. Pa. i

Am sending a dollar to renew my subscription to THE MOR­ GAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I still enjoy it very much. Morgans My horse, Roubidoux has sired five very fine colts from draft mares, besides others from Morgan and other light blooded mares. The half-Morgan draft colts are very smooth and well put up. It looks like the Morgan was coming back in this part America's General Purpose Horse of the state. for ISO years EARL WILLAMAN. Transfer, Pa. 1 Please find enclosed two dollars for two years' subscription to your magazine which expired with the May issue. Was look­ ing for the August number and then remembered I hadn't re­ newed. My Morgan filly, Quaker Maid, which I purchased from Mr. Willaman of Transfer, Pa., one year ago when she was a yearl­ ing is doing nicely. FLOYD MCDANIEL. Long Famous for their Cochranton, Pa. Stamina and Long Life FROM MICHIGAN: Docile Disposition and Soundness Enclosed please find money order for one dollar for a sub­ Versatility and Easy Adaptability scription to your very informative magazine. I enjoyed a one- year subscription and carelessly let it lapse. Now Ifind I miss it very much. Some of these days I, too, hope to own Morgans. ALAN V. STRONG 547 N. Harvey, Wayne, Mich.

FROM CALIFORNIA: Would you kindly renew my subscription for THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE? I have enjoyed it very much this past year, and now wouldn't be without it. As trail horses, cow horses, on the farm, under Lois FORSLUND 3539 S. Carolina St., San Pedro. Calif. saddle, to the wagon Morgans are not surpassed Enclosed please find one dollar for THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. I've been raising registered Morgans for ten years, getting my start from Roland Hill, Duval Williams and later, new blood from Clark Ringling. I will have a string of Mor­ gans at the Fairs when the war is over, and I think they will hold their own. Thank you. L. W. RUTLEDGE 8 1 2 First St., Sanger, Calif.

FROM ITALY SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR THE Please send me a year's subscription to THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE. Enclosed please find one dollar to cover the cost. 1 am not certain of the cost so if a dollar is insufficient, kindly Morgan Horse Magazine inform me and I will promptly send you the difference. My last subscription terminated shortly after my induction A Quarterly - - - $1.00 Per Year and this camp being myfirst permanen t station, is also my first chance to renew it. The Morgan has always been my favorite breed, and now with so many of these crippled Italian nags about me, I long to Woodstock Vermont see a picture of a good, sound well-made Morgan—my "pin up" horse. SGT. TOM OVERHOLSER, 33806673. 37th Air Service Gp., Oxygen deth. APO 520, c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y. 22 THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1944 Re-Conditioned REGISTER Manpower.... HALF-MORGANS A WARTIME NEED

In order to keep alive the name Morgan in Half-Morgan stock, and thereby promote interest in pure bred Morgans a Record Book has been established for For Winter Vacations the To maintain top mental and physical vigor for intensified war effort there is no Registration of Half-Morgan better plan than to use your "time out" for a complete change of activity and Mares and Geldings environment ... to re-visit Vermont when the Green Mountains are white! the sire, or dam, a full, pure bred Skiing and snowtime activities, the restful comforts of hotels, inns, guest homes, and registered Morgan, and the other the easy accessibility of it all are an invita­ tion to a let-down with a better-than-ever parent a light horse type. build-up ... to return you relaxed and refitted for the job ahead.

Illustrated Winter Folder Upon Request. ft ft VERMONT PUBLICITY SERVICE State House, Montpelier, Vermont COME TO Send for application blank THE RECORD OF HALF-MORGAN HORSES 155 East 44th Street TO RELAX NEW YORK 17, NEW YORK AND REFIT

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TIFFANY'S QUEEN A.M.R. 05111 By Tiffany, No. 7517—he by Mans• field, No. 7255. Dam: Helen B., 04860 by Penrod, 6140. Chestnut. 3 Height, 15.3 4 . Weight approx. 1100 lbs. Owner: Russel Dick, 1210 Pocono St., Pittsburgh 18, Pa. This picture was taken during the win­ ter of 1943.