he ULY 9 8 MORGAN HORSE NATIONAL MORGAN HORSE SHOW JULY ?6, 27 THE MORGAN HORSE Oldest and Most Highly Esteemed of American Horses MORGAN HORSES are owned the nation over and used in every kind of service where good saddle horses are a must. Each year finds many new owners of Morgans — each owner a great booster who won- ders why he didn't get wise to the best all-purpose saddle horse sooner. Keystone, the champion Morgan stallion owned by the Keystone Ranch, Entiat, Washington, was winner of the stock horse class at Wash- ington State Horse Show. Mabel Owen of Merrylegs Farm wanted to breed and raise hunters and jumpers. She planned on thoroughbreds until she discovered the Morgan could do everything the thoroughbred could do and the Morgan is calmer and more manageable. So the Morgan is her choice. The excellent Morgan stallion, Mickey Finn, owned by the Mar-La •antt Farms, Northville, Michigan, is another consistent winner in Western LITTLE FLY classes. A Morgan Horse on Western Range. Spring Hope, the young Morgan mare owned by Caven-Glo Farm Westmont, Illinois, competed and won many western classes throughout the middle-west shows the past couple of years, leaving the popular Quar- ter horse behind in many instances. The several Morgan horses owned by Frances and Wilma Reichow of Lenore, Idaho, usually win the western classes wherever they show. J. C. Jackson & Sons operate Pleasant View Ranch, Harrison, Mon- tana. Their Morgan stallion, Fleetfield, is a many-times champion in western stock horse classes. They raise and sell many fine Morgan horses each year. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jeser run the Twin View Ranch, Twin Falls, Idaho. They raise Morgan horses and Hereford cattle and find this a perfect A Morgan Horse as a Hunter. combination. The saddle horse that excells at rounding up the mustangs on Utah- Nevada ranges, where the going is really tough, is the Morgan stallion, Little Fly, owned by Ern Pedler, Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Here is a horse that can run like the wind in the roughest going and hold any- thing you can get a rope on. Escalanta, the outstanding Morgan stallion owned in St. George, Utah, is a useful stock horse. A horse that can really travel, smooth in his gaits, smart and alert; a horse that can go into the herd and bring out a cow and put it where you want it without fuss or loss of time. As a sire he is excellent and his breeding is the very best. This is the horse . you need to breed to that your saddle stock may be improved as you 4 would like it. MORGANS have been America's most useful breed of horse for over 150 years. The choice of the particular horseman. TIME TO BUY A MORGAN. ESCALANTA — Morgan Stallion. Write for list of Morgan breeders. JOSEPH E. OLSEN Sunswept Acres RESIDENTIAL . SUBDIVISIONS • INVESTMENTS ST. GEORGE, UTAH H E R A V E 0 I 0 V E We take pleasure in showing the Morgans bred and raised at Broadwall Farm. The Broadwall Morgans are making a fine showing in both pleasure and per- formance classes. PARADE — Winner of Model, over 15 hands, and the Grand Champion Morgan, Windsor, Vermont, June 21-22, 1958. Select your 1958 Parade foal now or wait 'til 1960 — (Parade is being shown this year) ...81111n1AU I I I' 11 Mr. and Mrs. J. CECIL FERGUSON Greene, R. I. Table of Contents SPECIAL FEATURES fettets to Summer Sores 6 Frank King Said 7 Reply to Guest Editorial 8 New England Association Annual Meeting 14 the EMots Essex County Fair Horse Show 26 Morgan Playday A Success 27 Spring Children's Show 28 Mid-Atlantic Shows 29 Children's Service Horse Show 29 Dear Sir: California's W. L. Linn Passes On 30 The March issue of the Morgan Milwaukee Spring Charity Horse Show 30 Magazine arrived this noon. REGULAR FEATURES I was delighted to see someone has • Letters to the Editor 4 finally taken an interest in heavy har- Editorial 5 ness work. There are so many ways Hints to Harsekeepers 9 one can enjoy driving, single, double, Central States News 10 tandem and four-in-hand which makes Justin Morgan Association 11 North Central News 12 it a most delightful sport. I think it Mid-America Morgan News 13 will prove to he a colorful class for Fargo-Moorhead Area News 14 spectators and much more fun for the Ohio Morgan Association 15 owners at the shows and at home. With Pacific Northwest News 16 the proper vehicle, harness and horse, New England News 20 New York State News 25 much pleasure can be had. It has been Maine Morgan News 28 my opinion the driving classes with our modern show buggies have left much to be desired. The Morgan horse Officers of the Morgan Horse Club owners have the best breed of horse in the world for this sport, their size, President FREDERICK O. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont disposition and classy way of going make them more than ideal for heavy Vice•President GERALD F. TAFT Northville, Michigan harness work. There are very few vehicles that arc not suited to the Mor- Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. gans size and those that are not, are so scarce and impractical as to eliminate Secretary FRANK B. HILLS them. I would like to point out the 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y importance of simplicity in the ap- pointments of harness and vehicle, es- The Morgan Horse Magazine pecially the colors used on the latter. Vol. XVIII July, 1958 No. 6 There are a number of good books on the subject that can be purchased A Monthly from Mr. Sidney R. Smith, Sporting Books, Canaan, N. Y. They are as The Official Publication of THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated follows: 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. "Driving for Pleasure," by Francis Please send all correspondence regarding subscriptions and advertising T. Underhill. to publication office; The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mass. "Driving", by Francis Ware. Publisher Otho F. Eusey "Driving As I Have Found It," by Circulation Manager Lorraine LaFond Frank Swales. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS "Hints on Driving," by Captain C. Morley Knight. Mrs. David Naas Ern Pedler Jane Behling Rhoda Kane Mabel Owen Ruth Rogers "Badminton Driving," by The Duke Sue Annis Mary Lou Morrell Eve Oakley of Beaufort. Mrs. Keith Morse Katharine Eskil Mrs. Henry L. Nelsen The Editor and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan In closing I would like to wish the Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements Morgan Horse Magazine and The expressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are not necessarily the opinion of the editor and staff of this Journal. Sixteenth National Morgan Horse Show the best of luck and success. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $3.50 Two Years $6.50 Three Years $9.00 Keep up the good work. Foreign Rate $4.00 per year Sincerely yours, The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC.. 90 Broad St., New York, New Hilton A. Tallman York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second Loudonville, N. Y. class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and advertising 1st of month preceding date of publication. (Continued on Next Page) Copyright 1958 by The Mogan Horse Magazine Editorial OUR COVER By MABEL ChVEN Since I am greatly indebted to your editor for the use of this space to express my public thanks to all those who wrote or talked to me about the editorial which appeared in the May issue of this magazine, I would like to thank Mr. Eusey first, both for the space and his interest. Or perhaps I should begin by thanking Mrs. Morrell for the use of her letter as a "stalking horse." Or maybe there never is a proper beginning, I don't know. But several facts seem to have emerged from it and I would like to share them with you. Agreement was almost unanimous which proves me no seer, but only a spokesman for what has been ob- vious for some years now, that within the slightly narrower framework of New England — Springtime — Mor- personal preference, people do know what they want in Morgans, be gans. A sight to quicken the pulse they spectators, breeders, show people, trainers or just doting owners. of any. These Morgan mares and The standard for Morgans, as it is now written, fits an increasing num their foals on the rolling New England ber of horses. That can be no accident, but is instead due to the conscious meadow bring back nostalgic memo- use of that standard as a mental blueprint by an increasing number of ries of other years — years before the breeders. It is not such ancient history when the top horses from the dis- hustle and bustle of this mechanized persal sale of a noted "old type" breeder went into equally well-known age allowed more time for enjoyment show stables. Consult your records and see how well they and their des- of: New England, Springtime and cendents have done there. Nor is it any longer a surprise to me when Morgans. Morgan owners who do show a great deal express their preference for those very horses of my own that a preceding visitor has extolled for their "old type." People do know Morgan type. It is incontrovertible. No one of us needs the sight of a ringful of senior stallions or mares, representative of almost all the major Morgan families yet showing a truly Letters remarkable over-all evenness of type, to know that.