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50¢ JULY, 1964 175 lrnrs nf ilnrgnu lil tstnry qoelcome • • • We are proud to feature the unparalled Champion Morgan mare , Windcrest Donna Lee and he r first foal, a stud, by our many times champion Sealect of Windcrest . Donna Lee, owned by Mrs . Antoinette Kelley , Buttonwood Farm, Chester , Vermont is one of many well-known mares which have come to the court of the Voorhis Farm stallions : • PECOS 8969 • SEALECT OF WINDCREST 10427 • KINGSTON 11906 • TARRYTOWN 12118 We have several fine young Morgans in various stages of training for sale from our select band of over fifty horses . Our 1964 crop of 12 foals has arrived .. and they are dandies. Come see! Voorhis Farm HOM E O F APPLEVALE MORGANS Red Hoo k, Dutchess County , New York MR. and MRS. GORDON VOORHIS, owners FRED HERRICK, trainer P. S . Why not include a visit to the farm 011 your trip to the New York World' s Fair? It's Parkway all the tVay! BH D Jl D W 11 ! ! f JlH JJl I PARADE AND HIS SON BROADWALL DRUM MAJOR. (Bred and raised at Broadwall Farm} We have a couple of yearling colts by Parade and Broadwall Drum Major to sell and some weanlings to select from. Hurry, they are being spoken for. * Mr. and Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson SISSON ROAD, GREENE,RHODE ISLAND Express 7-3963 KEEPING GOOD COMP ANY? TUTOR 10198 Mentor x Kono U.V .M. JUSTIN 13590 U.V.M. JENNIFER 11867 Tutor x U.V .M. Donna Tutor x U.V.M. Deborah Foaled April 12, 1961 Foaled May 17, 1961 BOAR.DING - TRAINING - SALES INDOOR RING TRACK LONGE RING 24 BOX STALLS - NEW TACK SHOP - OWNERS - HARRY and VIRGINIA KINTZ TRA·fNER GILBERT CARR ASSISTANT TRAINER - BRYCE MARQUART VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME CENTAUR FARMS SCHOHARIE NEW YORK Phone: AX 5-8 l Ol or AX 5-7170 SPECIALFEATURES 1 Stand Ta Be Counted ..... .... .. ....... ...... ............. .... ..... .... ............ 7 The Early Years of the Morgan Horse Magazine ...................... 9 An All-Morgan Show of 55 Years Ago .... .................................... 10 Formation of the Morgan Horse Club ............... .. .... , .. , . 11 Favorable Response to New 1 964 Rules . ............ .. .... ... .. ... ... 11 Training the Family Pleasure Horse ..... .. .. .... ... .. .. .. .. ... .. ... .. .. .. 12 Arizona Horsemen 's Association Ride ...................... .... .......... 15 A Birthday Party for Orcland Vigildon .............. , .. , . .......... .. .. 17 Morgans As Cavalry Horses ................................. , ..... ,... .. .. ... ... .. 1 8 Special Events for This Year ' s National ... ........ ... ........ .... ....... ... 33 Seventy Years Ago ................ ............... ........ .. ......... ,............... 34 Morgans in San Francisco Chronicle .. .... .......... ... .. .. ... .... ... .. ... 43 Isn't Anyone Interested? REGULARFEATURES Dear Sir: I have noticed in the past, many Le11ers to the Editor ............... ........... ............ ....... ... ........ .... .... .... 5 The Presidenfs Corner ....... .... .................. ...... ........ ....... .......... .. 7 people do not realize where Justin Mor Horses, Horses, Horses .............. ....... .... ...... ............... ......... .. , . .. 1 3 gan was really born. Many people be Ask the Doctor .... ....... ... .. ... ...... ... .... .. .. .. .... ... .. ... ... .. .. 1 3 lieve it was in Randolph, Vermont, ac Morgans In Arizona ........... .... ........... .............. ... ........ ............. 15 tually he was born in West Springfield, New England News ...... ...... ................. ............. ............ .......... 1 9 Buckeye Breeze ................ ................ .............. , ..... , . 2 0 Massachusetts. Justin Morgan, the Mid -Atlantic News . .. .. ........... ... .... .... .. .. ............. .. .... ... .. ... .. ... 21 school teacher, a previous resident of North Central Association .... .. .................. ............... ......... ..... ... 23 West Springfield, came back here to New York News ....... .......... ........... ....... ......... .... ..... ................. .. 24 collect a debt which a farmer on Indiana Morgon Horse Club ................ ............. ....................... 25 Southeastern New s ............ •.... ................. ..... .................. ........ ... 25 Bernie Avenue owed. To Morgan's dis Morgon Horse Breeders and Exhibitors ..... ........ ... .... ... ... .......... 26 appointment the farmer could not pay Circle J News ...................... ..... ......... ............ ..................... ..... 27 money, but instead gave him two horses, Northern California News .... ................... ..... ...... ..... ........ ...... 2B one which became the famous Justin Penn-Oh io News ......... ............. ....................................... ........... 44 Pacific Northwest News ....................... ............. ... ..................... 45 Morgan. Mid -States News ................ ..... ......................................... ,....... 46 Today on this old farm land is a me. Society of Morgon Friends ....... .......... ....... ......... ......... .......... ...... 46 morial to Justin, it is so meek for such Justin Morgon Horse Association ........ ..... .... ... ....... ..................... 47 a famous horse. Although the birth News from Northern Idaho .......................... ................... ....... 47 and death dates may differ, this is the original inscription made by the Mor Officen of The Morgan Hone Club gan Association back in the 1920's. It Pre1ldent .......... , . • • . • • • • . • • • . • . • J. CECIL FERGUSON reads as follows: Grvene, Rhode I1lcmd "Here lived Justin Morgan, born in Emtem Reqtonal Vlce PNlaldent . • • . • • . • • • MRS. ROGER E. ELA West Springfield in 1747 died in Ran Wayland, Mau. dolph, Vermont in 1778,from this farm Mld·WHt Rec,lonal V1c:e-PNl1ldent ....•... MRS. WILLIAM W. BARTON came the stallion Justin Morgan pro Rockford, lll. genito1· of that use/ ul breed known as WHtem Regional Vlc:e PNlaldent •...•••••..••••• DR. HENRY P. BOYD the Morgan Horses." San Rafael, Calif. Treasurer .••...•.•....•...•••..•...•••.•..••• CHJlUNCY STUJ.IIA!f ( Continued on Page 29) 230 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y. Secretary ...•.•.•••.••.•••..••......•••......• SETH P. HOLCOMBE P. 0. Box 2157, West Hartford 17, Connecticut The Morgan Hone Magazine Vol. XXIV July, 1964 No . 6 A Monthly - The Offlclal Publlcatlon of THE MOIGAN HOISi CLUI, Incorporated OUR COVER Secretary's Office, P. 0 . Box 2157, W•t Hartford 17, Conn. PleaH Hnd all corrnpondence reganllng subscrlpllona and advertising to publlcatlon offlco1 The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mau. - Dlol KEystone 4-6506 . Publlaher . • • . • • . Otho F. Eusey Edltor . • • . Barbara Cole Spedal Feature, . • . • . • • . • . Em Pedler Clrc:ulatlon . ..... .. .. .. ... ...... ........ , . Mary Fo1ter CONTRIBUTINGEDITORS JudHn larwood Pal Harnllton R. Morgoreldge Pal Rooney Louise leckley Joyan Hiii, Claude J. Morrette Charlotte Schmidt Ronald Blackman Doris Hodgin Ruth Morrison EIIHn Sulllvan Gloria Joneo lorbara Niemi Dayton Sumner ~:::ra·c~~~'!n Dorothy Lockard Eve Oakley Harriet Ulery Pal Crookham Nancy Mota, Renee Page Mary Woolverton Ollie Dansby Ruth Vldoloff Sue Halliwell ~:T::n MM~L~':,"~d Ruth Rogers The Publisher and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and The Morgan Horse Club, Inc. are not r•ponslble for opinions and statements exp.....d In signed artlcl• or paid ad · This month honors General Gates vertlsoments . TheH opinions are not necessarlly the opinions of the staff of this foumal . 666, original sire at the U. S. Govern SlJBSCRJPTION RATES ment Farm, whose descendants today One Year $4.00 Two Yean S7.50 Three Yean Sl0.50 are found around the world. They are Canada $4.50 Forel911 Bate, SS.SO per year in every one of the fifty states, in The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, publl1hed monthly except January by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., Secretory'a Office, P. 0. lo,c 2157, W•t Hartford 17, Conn. Canada, and in China, Japan, Peru, Printed by The Eusey Preu, Leominster, Mau . Second clau po1tage paid at Leominster. San Salvador, Israel, Puerto Rico, Ma11. Closing date for copy and advertising ht of month preceding date af publication . Copyright 1964 by The Morgan Horse Club, Inc. France, and Spain. ( I -------__;_I To eieNN1"'GToN : ~ \ 'r---------\/ERf'\ON!----- S ,r .Jo 'f ~flltU. Of MIU'S TUfl"PIKE' MASSACHUSETTS ---- -••• -----------CONNECTIC.VT PETALBROOKAMYLECT 011255 HUDSON VALLEY- BERKSHIREBREEDERS Come visit the Farms and see in one day over l 00 of the finest MORGAN horses anywhere . BLUE SPRUCE FARM - Altamont, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs . Ralph Plauth GREEN MEADS FARM - Richmond, Mass. PETALBROOK FARM Mr. an d Mrs . Darw in Morse PETALBROOKFARM - Wappingers Falls, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jackson VOORHIS FARM - Red Hook, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Voorhis I Stand To Be Counted By J. CECIL FERGUSON By JANET W. DAKJ .' The Morgan Horse is gaining ground both in the I am about to speak rather strongly, and therefore I United States and Canada. California led in 1963 with introduce myself as one of the relatively older work-horses more than double the registrations of. any other state. in Morgans affairs. "Te.cl" Davis first introduced me to Registrations and transfers were up in 1963 and have the pleasures qf Morgan horse ownership and Morgan people made an equal gain in 1964. in 1949. I soon became involved in organizational aspects The Morgan Hor.se Magazine is now paying its way of the breed, serving as an officer in the New England and Mr. Otho Eusey and Mrs. Cole are doing an excellent Association from 1951-1957,and as a committee