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GAY DANCER
Sire: Dam:
HAVOLYN DANCER DEERFIELD LEADING LADY
GAY DANCER. 11012. C. Peter Nelson, owner and whip.
The Most Outstanding Young Morgan Stallion
His record:
1955 — 1st Two yr. old Harness N.M.H.S. Junior Harness Champion: Topsfield Show — Deerfield Fair
1956 — 1st Three yr. old Under Saddle N.M.H.S. 2nd Three yr. old in Harness N.M.H.S. 1st Three yr. old Under Saddle, Deerfield Fair
1957 — 1st Junior Saddle Stake N.M.H.S. 2nd Junior Harness Stake N.M.H.S. 2nd Combination Class N.M.H.S. 1st Junior Saddle Class Penn. Nat'l. Horse Show 1st Morgans in Harness, Ipswich Horse Show
(N.M.H.S.—National Morgan Horse Show)
Gay Dancer is a splendid combination of the performance, conformation and heredity potential of Ulendon, Havolyn Dancer and Orcland Leader.
TERMS: Private Treaty
Contact: C. P. NELSON DR. S. R. ORCUTT Boxford, Mass. Main Street, Rowley, Mass. Tucker 7-2804 Or Whitney 8-7713 "PARADE FILLIES (IN WINTER COATS) OUT OF THEIS MARES"
The good colts and fillies Parade and other stallions have produced out of the Theis Mares are not just luck.
These Theis Mares have a very high concentration of the good Morgan Stallion "Headlight Morgan" 4683 by (Peter's) Ethan Allen 2nd 406, appearing in their fourth and fifth generation. (See Mabel Owen's article, - Headlight Morgan," center column, page 42, January-February 1958 issue.)
Parade also has a high concentration of Ethan Allen 2nd 406, so is Parade's colts from these mares one gets the pedigrees most highly sought after. The mares carrying these pedigrees were selected, after severe culling, to carry on and produce animals that are useful, with great stamina, intelligence, and outstanding dispositions.
A few colts and fillies for sale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson
GREENE, RHODE ISLAND Table of Contents
fettets to SPECIAL FEATURES
Orcutt Fire 6 Diseases of the Extremities 8 the EMots Morgan Quiz 11 Beyond the Tall Mountain — Part II 12 Jeanne Mellin 16 Oregon Morgans 17 Dear Sir: You Wonder, You 20 Today, Feb. 8th, here in New Wood- Morgans in North Carolina 25 stock, N. Y. we are snow-bound and Mid•Amerieo Club News 26 Sixteenth National Morgan Horse Show 28 so thought it might be an appropriate time to scratch off a few words to you and our Morgan friends. In near-by REGULAR FEATURES Syracuse they report nearly 80 inches of snow already this winter, but in Letters to the Editors 4 New Woodstock, which is a snow-belt Hints to Horsekeepers 10 Central Stales News 13 section, I think we prefer to measure Ohio Morgan Association 14 the snow in feet. For days past the Southern California News 15 snow has been above the horses' bellies North Central News 15 and, following the present blizzard, New York State News 17 we'll doubtlessly chalk up another 12 New England News 18 Justin Morgan Association 24 inches to our quota. Ohio Morgan Association 27 In spite of the raging storm we did Maine Morgan News 29 manage to shovel a path through the drifts to the mail box and were hap- pily rewarded to note that the January- Officers of the Morgan Horse Club February Morgan Magazine had ar- rived. Believe me, it couldn't have President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS come at a more appropriate or accept- Windsor, Vermont able time and, of course, we were im- Vice-President GERALD F. TAFT mediately attracted to your beautiful Northville, Michigan cover picture of Big Bill B, and our Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. family group were spontaneous in their agreement that no more hand- Secretary FRANK B. HILLS 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. some picture could be made to grace the cover of any magazine. Big Bill reminds us of some of the pictures of The Morgan Horse Magazine horses of the ancient lancers and he Vol. XVIII March, 1958 No. 2 would doubtlessly have made an en- viable prize for any knight of King A Monthly Arthur's Court. The Official Publication of Perhaps some of our Morgan friends THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated will be interested to learn that our 90 Broad St., New York 4, New York own stallion, Don Hudson, has re- Please send all correspondence regarding subscriptions and advertising cently gone to Miss Olga Walter of to publication office: The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mass. Shamrock Farms, Honeoye Falls, N. Otho F. Eusey Y. Miss Walter owns and manages a Publisher Lorraine Larond large riding stable of over forty horses Circulation Manager and she is preparing a rather heavy CONTRIBUTING EDITORS breeding schedule for Don during the Mrs. David Naas Ern Pedlar Ruth Rogers coming season. Though we hated to Rhecla Kane Mabel Owen Charlotte McCartney part with Don we arc made to feel that Sue Annis Mary Lou Morrell Eve Oakley he has found a well deserved environ- Mrs. Keith Morse Katharine Eskil Eleanor Brackman ment, one where he is well appreciated The Editor and staff of Th e Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan and loved by his new owners, and also, Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements where he has an avowed promise of expressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are not necessarily the opinion of the editor and staff of this journal, spending his remaining years. Having also parted with Pandy's SUBSCRIPTION RATES Juanita, a three year old filly, and Bell- One Year 53.50 Two Years S6,50 Three Years S9.00 0-Mine, a two year old, to Curt Smith The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January of Penfield, N. Y., we are now down by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB. INC„ 90 Broad St., New York, New to just our brood mare, Hesper, and York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second two foals, namely, Woodstock Don- class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and advertising 1st of month preceding date of publication. (Colltintsed on Page 5) Copyright 1958 by The Morgan Horse Magazine. OUR FRONT COVER An Editorial
Nine years ago, give or take a few months, we published our first issue of the Morgan Horse Magazine, 24 pages of news and pictures which was mailed to 1200 subscribers. This was published 6 times a year. Only 3 contributing editors were listed and the yearly rate of $2.50 cost you 61.6 cents per issue.
In this issue, 12 contributing editors gave freely of their time to assemble news and pictures on 40 pages; and you are receiving this pictorial news digest each 4 weeks instead of 6 times per year. Our yearly rate of $3.50 means you pay only 27.5 cents per issue, a substantial reduction over the 61.6 cents per issue of 9 years ago. The per page cost is less than one- fourth your 1949 cost. Todays issue, read by several times as many readers, gives our advertisers excellent return per dollar invested, and the return to breeders and the Club in creating a market for our Mor- The photo shows Dyberry Buddy, gans and general publicity for the breed is an intangible which 8 year old stallion sired by Lippitt Billy it is impossible to evaluate. Ash and out of Lippitt Miss Nekomia, with his owner Warren E. Patriquin During this time our growth would have been impossible in the saddle. The scene is in the were it not for the far-sighted and progressive cooperation of lobby of Loew's State Theater in Bos- the Board of Directors, our secretary, Mr. Frank Hills; and our ton where Buddy is standing on a president Mr. Ted Davis. For many years Frank Hills alone slippery marble floor while Patriquin carried this responsibility. We believe his foresight has been gives out "Western" books to the kids. rewarded. Patriquin said that Buddy hadn't Neither would the magazine have enjoyed this healthy been ridden for five or six weeks be- and steady climb in size, popularity, and frequency of publica- fore he got this job to advertise a tion if it were not for the help of our advertisers. For years western movie. But because of the Mr. Robert Knight carried this responsibility almost single- good old-fashioned Morgan breeding handedly. Then a few years ago the J. Cecil Ferguson's stepped in this stallion, Patriquin claims he in. Without the help of these two, the magazine would not be could have ridden Buddy right into what it is today. We like to recall several conversations with the theater aisles and down into the Mr. Ferguson when he emphasized and re-emphasized, that he orchestra pit. Patriquin says that all too could not have achieved his enviable position in the Morgan you have to do is look at the width world, were it not for the help he has received from the Morgan between Buddy's eyes to know the Horse Magazine, through his regular advertising. We thank "savvy" that's in there. you "Fergie" for these kind words. There have been many others, too numerous to mention who have helped in this field. Morgan owners who have ad- vertised, when they had nothing to sell. We think also of those Letters who give a subscription with each Morgan sold, to others who have given many subscriptions to interested friends and few (Continued Iron] Page 4) who take 2 copies of each issue so they will be able to keep one copy after well-meaning friends have "borrowed - a copy. son (10 mo.) and Debbie -Bon-Gae (9 mo.). These colts are growing out In 1956, the magazine was self-supporting. In 1957 nicely and, to us, they show consider- while we did not achieve this goal, it was our second best year. able promise. 1958 can again see the Morgan Horse Magazine on the right side of the ledger with your help. We are also quite thrilled to note that the Colt Contest winners for this In recent months our local Morgan Clubs have been year's subscriptions race are some of of untold help in soliciting news. If each would be responsible our very own substantial N. Y. State for 1 page of advertising per issue, we could have the biggest Morgan friends. Congratulations! and best magazine in our field. I believe there are enough Hope you'll continue to run the con- breeders to make this possible. I believe each would feel amply test during 1958 as we would like rewarded with tangible as well as intangible results. to try and interest some of our local I believe there may be another J. Cecil Ferguson, or an- Girl Scouts to enter the race. other Robert Knight, who could also take a full page on a With very best wishes for 1958, regular contract. Sincerely, We want a better magazine. We want to give you more The Langleys and better pictures. We want increased circulation. You have New Woodstock, N. Y. made this magazine what it is today. With your help it will be (Earl D. Langley) what we would all like it to be tomorrow! (Continued on Page 32) FIRE DESTROYS ORCUTT MORGANS
One of the finest collections of Morgans in the world
was destroyed by fire on Januar y 19 . . . Ruth and Lyman
Orcutt have since disposed of dairy herd . . . Will
take charge of Wenloch Farm Morgans
for Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Rickard
of Ann Arbor, Mich.
By SUE ANNIS
Under normal circumstances fire is were the real culprits. In view of the awarded. Then Jim and the children one of man's most useful friends. It sweeping loss, knowledge of the start cleaned all the stalls and replaced all warms our homes, drives our machin- is of comparatively little value unless the soiled bedding with the beautiful ery, and performs myriads of other it can be used to prevent similar trage- clean shavings which had been de- helpful and necessary tasks. But fire dies in other barns. livered the previous day. Still, there is also one of our most potent and was no hint of the terrible tiny ember terrifying enemies when it gets out which had been locked in the silo the of control. day before, nor any way for them to The fire at Orcland Farms in West We wish to take this oppor- know that they were removing enough Newbury, Massachusetts, on Sunday, tunity to thank our many friends shavings and allowing sufficient air January 19, was one of the most de- who have expressed their sympa- to get to the heat at the bottom of the structive in horse history, for it wiped thy at our recent loss. pile to start a holocaust. out, not just 16 Morgans, nor just the We regret that we cannot Finally all the stalls were clean and results of the breeding program of two answer each letter personally. It the tack put up in the new tack, room, of the oldest and most respected names is gratifying to know we have so and the whole barn was beautiful to in Morgan annals, nor even the dreams many staunch friends, standing see. Their reward for such industrious and hard work of the Orcutt-Dickson shou6der to shoulder with us work was to be a sleigh ride so they family combination. But it destroyed during these trying times. got out the sleigh and harness and 16 Morgans who were loved and appre- MR. N. MRS. LYMAN ORCUTT left all in readiness while they went ciated as friends by everyone who had into the house for a quick lunch. They had the privilege of admiring them. finished lunch in twenty minutes and They are counted as a personal loss Jim was putting his overshoes on in by each of the thousands who love the preparation for the sleigh ride when Morgan, and the hundreds of letters All was serene in the Orcland barn an approaching milk-route driver dis- which are pouring in arc but a small that Saturday. The silo full of shav- covered smoke pouring from the barn. token of the deep concern and sympa- ings was shut up tightly and everyone The driver spread the alarm, but be- thy which have been extended to Ruth retired with no idea of the dreadful fore Jim could reach the stable the silo and Lyman Orcutt and their two secret which had been locked into it. exploded with such force that it blew children, Louise and Wallace, for a Sunday morning was a gay and ex- the big barn door right off its track. tragedy which each of us feels is be- cited time for the two children and Ulendon and a mare named Anna yond our comprehension. Jim Anderson for they were busy Darling were in stalls which opened The fire started Saturday, when an cleaning all the tack and covering it outdoors, and at great personal risk. inside square silo was filled with with new plastic dust covers in pre- Jim went in through those doors and shavings by the time honored exped- paration for the return of Ruth and saved the lives of those two horses. ient of blowing them into the space. Lyman from New Orleans. Mr. and Even eight year old Louise followed Probably no one will ever know if a Mrs. Orcutt had journeyed there to his example and went into the flames cigarette, a spark from a stone or nail, accept that weekend the AHSA High in an effort to save her Wallinda. or a spontaneous combustion—either Score Award which their great ver- Twice Jim and a neighbor had to save from the dust or possibly dampness- satile stallion, Supersam, had been her, then Jim continued to crawl into 6 The MORGAN HORSE
the flames in a futile attempt to save some of the other horses. Smoke, which acts as an anesthetic, had felled them already, and he was driven back by the flames which leveled the barn in a short 45 minutes. Orcland Gaylass and the childrens pony were removed from the attached cowbarn, along with the herd of 40 Holstein-Fresian dairy cows, and that building was saved, although somewhat damaged. Perhaps the following list will help clarify the extent of the loss to the Morgan world: 1. Supersam, ch. s., 7 yrs., 15.1; by Lippitt Sam out of Paragraph. 1st AHSA High Score Award list, 1957. 2. Orcland Gayman, br. s., 3 yrs., 14.1; by Ulendon out of Orcland Gay- lass. Junior Champion Stallion at the 1957 National Morgan Show; Grand Champion Stallion, New York State Fair, 1957. 3. Orcland Gleam, br. m., 13 vrs., 14.3; by Ulendon out of Vigella. New England Champion Pleasure Horse, 1953 & 1954. (Continued on Page 22)
SUPERSAM with Ruth Orcutt up as they appeared during the 1957 show season.
ULENDON with Lyman Orcutt on the lead shank at his retirement ceremony in 1953. Diseases of the Extremities Associated With Winter and Early Spring Conditions
By R. W. VAN PELT, D.V.M.
This is the First in a series of articles their occurrence during the warmer of swelling, heat and tenderness in pertaining to afflictions of the limbs weather under unfavorable hygienic the hollow of the heel. In horses with in horses, arising during winter or situations. white socks or stockings, an angry red spring, either directly as in the case color will predominate. As the condi- Parr I of a horse subjected to the elements tion progresses, cracks in the skin will or indirectly as a result of confinement Cracked Heels appear and more often than not be- to the stall in view of the inclement Cracked heels also known as come infected. Serum and pus will weather. The purpose of these brief "scratches" or Dermatitis Eczematosa, exude, with a crust forming over the outlines is to bring the horse owner an acute inflammation of the skin, cracked areas if the lesions are allowed to a state of awareness regarding the found primarily on the posterior sur- freedom from moisture. In time the health of his animal. During the long face of the pastern. It occurs rather skin will become thickened due to months that intervene between late frequently in horses that are allowed successive layers of scar tissue. fall and the coming of summer, we to run in muddy barn lots or kept in A similar problem may appear be- find ourselves, more often than not, damp, unclean stalls, under continu- hind the knee or in front of the hock. unaware of the immediate needs of a ous exposure to conditions of filth Basically the animal is affected on horse during this time. With cold and and extreme moisture. The constant the inner surface of joints that flex. damp weather, many of us tend to contact with urine and manure and Many times the lesions of the fetlock get the chores done as soon as possible their emanations produces an irritant will coalesce with those of the knee and are rather inclined to overlook of an all but caustic nature. The very or hock to form an encrusted casing of that festering sore under a leg incased fact that many wintered horses are the affected limb. with mud, manure and winter hair. forced to stand for hours on end either Horses so affected must be moved Lameness at this time of year is often restricted in movement by stabling or immediately to clean dry quarters. attributed to a touch of "rheumatism." confined by inclement weather to the Animals on a heavy grain ration with little or no effort made to de- lee of a barn or shed, results in a cir- should have it cut back. For the in- termine the true cause. culartory stasis of the extremities and dividual horse that is upset over this By calling your attention to various subsequent stocking of pasterns and reduction, the void may be filled with afflictions, perhaps next time you fetlocks. Horses being the animal they bran mash, flaxseed or some good clean a stall or fill the hay rack in a are, depend on the pumping action of quality, low energy grain. On the feed lot, you will pay closer attention the "frog" and "bulb" of the heel that other hand, the debilitated patient to your charges and attend those that takes place in ambulation for normal must be built up on a higher plain of need it as the case may be. I have flow of blood and lymph. In order nutrition, if the desired results are to tried to bring out the more common for this pumping action to produce be obtained. To reduce the swellings, and apparent causes and symptoms the desired results, he must have ade- adequate exercise is imperative. This in an attempt to reduce confusion on quate exercise. The quantity required will vary, some individuals requiring the part of the readers. Treatments will vary from individual to indi- more than others. For the horse that such as outlined are designed primar- vidual. is stiff and reluctant to move, hand ily for relief of early cases and in all This stocking or dropsical condition rubbing will aid in carrying off the instances are not intended as a cure robs the hoof and fetlocks of their basic excess fluid. Mild astringents such as all. Some of you will find to your normal defenses. It is difficult enough extract of witch hazel may be applied chagrin that it was worse than you to fight the infection but when the to affected limbs and rubbed in until thought and in these cases, your vet- situation is compounded many times dry. Zinc oxide ointment will do very erinarian should be called in, if allevia- in the face of inadequate function, the nicely for the dry "chapped" appear- tion of the symptoms is to be expected. disease incurred can be overwhelming. ing portions. It must be borne in mind that with Stiffness and lameness will quickly Grease Heel the immense latitude in climatic con- bring the owners' attention to the site ditions throughout our country, what of inflamation. Often when examin- A chronic condition known as may hold true along the Atlantic sea- ing the fetlock during the process of "grease heel," sometimes called "can- board may very well differ in sunny cleaning or trimming the hooves, a ker" or to be more specific, Dermatitis California. Usually we see the various chapped appearance will present it- Verrucosa, may develop directly from diseases discussed during the long cold self on the back portions of the pas- cracked heels or causes of a similar and damp months of winter and early tern. However the first symptoms nature. Specifically this is an affec- spring, however this does not preclude usually noted by the owner are those tion of the heels or posterior portions 8 The MORGAN HORSE of the pasterns and fetlock. However, become aware of it and in many in- of the foot. This should however not it can spread to involve the knee or stances accurate determination of a discourage show horse owners, the hock. The disease differs from horse's difficulties can be made by this situation can be remedied easily. cracked heels in that a gray-white dis- alone. Visual examination is needed Many of these type horses will exhibit charge, associated with extreme infla- only to ascertain the extent of the contracted heels which in themselves mation and a fetid odor are the pre- compilcations. If allowed to continue are a predisposing cause. For the dominate symptoms. In severe, pro- in its present state or if improper treat- owner who has his horses shod accord- longed cases, formation of blood ment measures are instituted, the dis- ingly, he should insure adequate frog filled, grape-like growths will appear ease will progress to the point where pressure and cleanliness by having to lend an even more complex picture. the skin breaks and sores develop, his farrier place a packing of pine tar Basically the causes are the same as closely followed by numerous blood and oakum on the sole, followed by a those for cracked heels, the symptoms filled growths having the appearance leather pad and lastly holding this primarily are an extension of the pre- of a cluster of grapes. These blood structure in place with the shoe. This existing conditions. The direct cause engorged excrescences hemorrhage dressing should be changed at six however is not known at the present easily on handling and at this point weeks, along with the timely resetting time. are covered with the fetid decompos- of the shoe. Before continuing, some differentia- ing discharge. Extension to the frog The owner will become aware of tion must be made between grease heel may occur and likewise the sole of thrush when cleaning the sole of the and the following similated condi- the hoof will emit the characteristic foot or at times when he finds it ex- tions: (1) simple inflamation of the fetid oder. The affected portions of the pedient to remove pieces of gravel heel;(2) horse pox (Variola vaccinium horny wall of the hoof will become that have become lodged in the area. var. equina), where the exudate forms soft, fleshy and whitened in color An offensive odor will induce a closer a crust around the hair roots and at (associated complications with thrush examination, at which time a thin intervals, pits or pock marks are may set in at this time), with growths watery discharge is observed. This seen (this virus is the causitive agent above the level of the surrounding gradually changes to a thicker one of in cow pox also and the infection is horn and at intervals bulging much pus which if allowed to persist, will transferable to horses; some workers in appearance to the grape-like growths eat away the frog. The frog may even feel that it may be the exciting cause in of the pastern region, however with- become loosened from the underlying grease heel); (3) foot scabies (mange out the blood engorged features. sensitive structures and drop away. or acariasis, due to Chorioptes equi) Basically treatment in early stages Severe cases of prolonged duration re- where the mites are seen; (4) lymph- follows that instituted for cracked heels. sult in lameness of the patient and the angitis involves the lymphatic sys- However the application of a 2 to 3% foot itself will be feverish. tem), here the entire limb is swollen; solution of creolin in the early phase Treatment consists of paring away (5) erysipelas, where there is an ele- has a beneficial effect. After the skin the diseased portions of the frog and vated body temperature, absence of a is thoroughly dry and is no longer moving the animal to clean dry quar- greasy exudate, a spongy or boggy exuding fluids, a 5 to 10% lotion of ters. For those horses with elongated feeling to the fetlocks and possibly a equal parts zinc sulfate and alum hooves, treatment followed by a cure history of contact with swine or close applied twice daily will reduce the and then the use of a pine tar and association with premises frequented swollen tissues still further. When oakum packing will suffice to keep by them. the disease has progressed to the point things in check. A solution of 10% In the acute stages of grease heel, where the excrescences and fetid dis- formalin or equal parts 2% tincture sudden swelling associated with heat charge are in evidence, then immediate of iodine and phenol may be obtained and pain are predominate symptoms. veterinary supervision is advocated to from your druggist. Either of these Following exercise, signs of swelling avoid further decomposition or delay in preparations may be poured over the and stiffness may disappear, only to healing. Some cases may even require frog and allowed to soak in for a few confront the owner the next morning. surgical removal of the infective tis- moments before returning the foot to The insidious form may take a week sues. its normal position. Repeat this daily or weeks before enough symptoma- THRUSH until the discharge subsides and the tology is present to make a positive Thrush is a filth disease in the cleft offensive odor is no longer apparent. diagnosis. In many cases the only of the frog and associated structures In cases where lameness and heat are observable indication of impending in the sole of the foot. Hind feet are present, extensive treatment by your complications will be a dampness and more frequently involved in the mare veterinarian should be instituted if re- matting of hair over the back of the owing largely to the fact that many lief is to be obtained. pastern. are kept in tie stalls and forced to Regardless of which course the dis- stand in their excrements due to poor ease takes, the affected leg or legs will stable management. Stallions and SAVE THIS DATE! be swollen to the knee or hock. With geldings when involved are prone progression from the stage of redness to infections of the fore feet. Horses Saturday, April 26. 1958 and swelling, the hair will begin to forced to stand in unclean paddocks MORGAN HORSE JUDGING thin and that which remains will stand and barn lots seem to have trouble. I on end. Closer examination wil re- have seen the disease among show SCHOOL and FIELD DAY veal the presence of a milky-gray, foul horses, due to the elongated hoof and smelling discharge. The odor of this lack of contact on the part of the frog Green Mountain Stock Farm is so distinctive that anyone stepping with the ground, an important feature Randolph, Vermont in the stable door will immediately in the normal physiological function MARCH, 1958 9 means of ending the play, but since. he always tires of it within the mile I HINTS TO HORSE KEEPERS am merely amused. Being able to end The Shying Horse it whenever you like makes this type of shying no real problem. You've By 1VIABEL OWEN only to prescribe more exercise, on the lunge line, in harness or in pasture, or cut down on the grain a trifle and your patient is cured. "When your horse shies at an object sight does so at rapid changes in light All of which brings us up to the he should be shown that there is noth- values rather than at some large, im- largest part of the problem, the part ing fearful in it, least of all to a posing vehicle. Quite often such a horse whose cure isn't nearly as simple. courageous horse like him. Compul- is completely quiet on the road, rely- That is, the horse that shies because sion and blows inspire only the more ing on his memory that cars and trucks he is afraid. Horses can fear an fear, for when horses arc at all hurt can safely be ignored. He will often amazing number of things. They can at such a time they think that what shy suddenly at the bright patch a sun- be afraid of the usual, such as fire they shied at is the cause of the hurt." beam makes on a woods path however, engines and bulldozers, and of a great No horseman will quarrel with that or sharp, dark shadows under his feet. number of less usual things, their quotation. Presumably few quarrelled They are much more concerned, under- rider's timidity, falling, being hurt, with it when Xenophon wrote it al- standably, with the ground itself and even of being alone. Many people most 2400 years ago. But I wonder very often confine their shying to such seem to believe that the cause is some if there aren't almost as many people things as bright places, dark areas or kind of innate super-sensitivity, an concerned with the problem of shying odd light reflections. This must not excessive degree of nervousness in cer- now as there were then. Xenophon, be taken to mean that every horse that tain highly strung animals. Cavalry as the first chronicler of horsemanship, shies at such things should have its men have always disputed this, saying wrote from the mounted-military point eyesight checked. Probably less than that the inveterate shyzr occurred of view. Few people rode for pleasure 1 % of the horses that do shy actually among the cold-blooded horses with in 440 B.C., probably only kings and fall into this category. It is a rather about the same frequency as he did princes, but shying apparently was a meaningless type of shy, one that has among the cleanbred mounts. When problem that had to be coped with no particular pattern to it. When it the complete history of such horses somehow then, just as it is now. It is makes its appearance in the behavior of is known, it is usually possible to pin- most interesting to note how very little a horse that has always been steady, point the beginning of the habit at our treatment of it has changed. perhaps it would bear looking into, but some place during his early training. Horses shy for a reason that is as on the whole it is considerbly less It is true of course that some horses old in time as they are. Horses are not common than the other two varieties. are more sensitive than others, but fighters in the wild sense but, if you it is most certainly not true that they The horse that shies because he is must inevitably become shyers. will flighters. That is, whether at- feeling so full of oats and ego that he tacked in reality or in fancy a horse simply has to liven up the day some- Very few horses are raised in the will run from his tormentor if there how is common enough to be recog- cosmopolitan areas many of them fre- is any room for him to run in. His nized from a very considerable dis- quent in later life. However, very best defense against all his enemies is tance. His ears are always up, his few are born today where there are his speed. Of course there are a few eyes are bright and mischievous be- no cars or tractors, which in no small exceptions of record, but almost al- cause the whole business is more of a way accounts for their shying at such ways a horse's first thought is to put game with him than anything else. things less than grandfather's buggy wide spaces between himself and dan- He shies at everything that moves, horse did. Horses have a very well ger if he can. With some it may be developed facility for understanding , and at everything that is standing still. `run first and think later," but it is When there's nothing to serve as an what will and will not hurt them, as nevertheless the real reason a horse excuse he will happily invent one and well as an excellent memory. The time shies. His rider may well be respon- be completely convinced that the devil spent in showing young horses all sible for some of the embellishments himself is lurking under that oak leaf manners of strange items is always he puts on a shy however, just as a in the path ahead. Depending on more than repaid. Yearlings can be good rider may be equally responsible your mood and your horsemanship, led into almost any kind of building or for his ability to curb the impulse. shying of this sort can be fun, or vehicle imaginable. They will stand The habit, if habit it can be called, something very dire indeed. When the on newspapers, allow umbrellas to be arises from three sources: one, some air is brisk and his exercise has been held over their heads, straw-stuffed irregularity in vision; two, because he weather-shortened our old stallion in- grain sacks to be hung on them they is feeling too good not to shy; and dulges himself in this sort of game will even wear costumes for a gymk- three, from fear of a real or fancied when he's being ridden. For perhaps hana class. The number of things they unknown. The first two are relatively a mile he sees spooks in every mail will more-or-less happily endure is unimportant. A horse whose sight is box and gremlins behind every bush. fantastic. So why snouid that same impaired is a most unsafe conveyance. The shies are exceedingly innocuous, colt grow up to shy at rural route mail- Thankfully, most such unsoundnesses be plays the game in a staid, gentle- boxes? For the first time, because he'd are very readily recognized. Ordinarily manly manner. Since he hates to be never seen one before, but from the the horse that shies because of faulty laughed at for it, I have the ready second time on, because it is associated 10 The MORGAN HORSE in his mind with some fearful exper- him that you expect the shy. He will scenery you have time to contemplate ience his rider has subjected him to. interpret your rigidity as your fear while your "country boy" gawks at of the object ahead of him and after everything in sight, from a crow on Young horses at home on the farm all, if it scares you, it must surely a fence post to a herd of cows at least Tardy shy. Everything around them scare him too. I once knew a Thor- four fields away from him. is familiar. What isn't can always be oughbred mare that had raced several investigated at their leisure. Everyone seasons with some success. When she remembers the story of Black Beauty became a hunter, automobiles fright- and how he was sent as a young horse ened her exceedingly. After some to stay in a pasture near a railway Morgan Quiz time she no longer shied at them when line so he could get used to the size being ridden by one particular person. Achievements and Records and sound of trains. The point of that When asked the secret of her success chapter in his life was not that he was in having the mare go so serenely for Score yourself 10 points for the cor- held up close to the train somehow her, she answered, "Oh, when I see a rect answer to each of the following and forced to stand for its noise, but car or truck coining I look away and ten questions. 90 or better is Excellent; that he was allowed time to know pretend it isn't there and she believes 80, Very Good; 70, Good; 60, Fair; that trains would not harm him. Much me." It was obvious that the mare and 50, Passing. can be learned from that. There is a did just that. Probably a large part 1. A registered Morgan stallion, ex school of thought that dictates you to of her secret lay in the trust the horse ported to England in 1864, sired two force your horse up close to whatever had in her but nevertheless she had stallions accepted for registry in the he shies at, by whatever means at your learned one of the first premises in English Hackney Stud Book. Name command, and he will thence shy at it coping with a shy, which was never that stallion. no more. Well, he may not shy at to signal her horse in any way that it 2. The foundation sire of the Ten- that thing in that particular place was expected. nessee Walking Horse breed, Allen again, but he is by no means cured of Patience and passive resistance to shying. The rider has exerted his F-1, was the grandson of a registered the horse's inclination to leave the Morgan stallion. Name him. mastery but has not gained the horse's immediate vicinity of the "thing" post- trust about odd objects in general nor haste is always the best answer to the 3. What was the first stallion of any really convinced him that there was problem. Making a great issue of it breed to trot a mile in less than 2:30? nothing fearful in it. Indeed, if the never is. Just sit there and let him look This registered Morgan made this force necessary to make him approach at it. Don't insist that he touch it record, 2:25'4, in 1861. it included the heavy use of whip and with his nose or even approach it spur, he will probably shy at it a good 4. A Morgan stallion of the last closely. With an older horse, concen- deal harder the next time he meets it. century probably holds the record for trate on keeping him as straight as The psychology involved was one of the breed in show ring winnings — possible when he goes on by. Try not association, the direct connection be- 123 first out of 124 shows. What was to let him get into the habit of facing tween the thing he shied at and the his name? it and then sidling on by with his pain of the whip. quarters out in the middle of traffic. 5. What Morgan of recent years was The shying horse should never be Use your outside leg hard, wearing a many-times winner in open three- gaited competition, including a blue ridden by anyone whose patience is blunt spurs if your horse's sides aren't at Madison Square Garden (this in not of the order of Job's. Ride him sensitive to your leg. Blunt spurs help always when you have all the time many shying horses amazingly in this 1938)? in the world, with no imperative ap- way, especially if a previous rider has 6. Name the first registered Morgan pointments an hour away. It is very used a whip. Whips take his mind off to place in the scorings of the old rare that you will not understand the problem at hand and often turn Army-sponsored 300-mile endurance what he is shying at. His ears will a minor disagreement into a major rides. This Morgan won 6th place tell you at once. If he wants to stop, war. With a very young horse, per- in 1920. let him. There is no hurry, remember? haps one out on the road for the first 7. To date, only one stallion (of any Don't let him turn around. If he time, there should be no objection to breed) has ever won a division of the does get around on yo u because you quietly crossing the road if that will Green Mountain Horse Association were day-dreaming or something, insure his going on past whatever has 100-mile trail ride. This stallion is a never turn him back in a complete upset him. There should be no scene, registered Morgan that won in 1946. circle, but always do the counter-turn no battle, ever. You will have won Name him. back the way he came. That is im- if you get him by it without his whirl- portant, learning to whirl is the last ing or jumping, even if a minor de- 8. Since the Junior Division of the thing you will want him to do. If tour was necessary. Next time the (Continued on Page 35) you will simply sit still in the saddle, detour will be much smaller because taking care not to let him turn or he will remember that whatever it back, and not to urge him ahead, he was did not hurt him, nor did you. • will surprisingly soon get bored There's a state of mind necessary to riding youngsters on strange new by- enough to walk on by, whatever the APRIL IS THE STALLION ISSUE! horrendous thing was that he boggled ways. Don't do it if you are tired or at. If you can possibly manage not upset but only if you can find amuse- to, don't tighten your leg or rein grip. ment in the crooked line your foot- Send in your pictures with By so doing you will often telegraph prints make, and take pleasure in the your ad.
MARCH, 1958 11 and his dreams came to him one by one and one after another turned slowly Beyond . . away and his strong, man's yearning for his woman came to him and drove away some of the tenseness that was pulling at the muscles of his back, and THE TALL MOUNTAIN before the heavy drowsiness came to him he knew that for him there could be no turning back from this fight, By ERN PEDLER nor any fight that might come into the making of a life for him and the girl back across the eight mile creek. In the early morning he stood up, PART II (Conclusion) shivering from the drilled in cold, and he wished the sun would look down into the deep canyon early, but knew it would not an his cold break- He had trouble getting them up and took place. For one of the few times fast lay like a heavy lump in his sto started again. He wanted to be high in his life he felt really lonesome, and mach and his string of horses was hard in the mountains tonight, with the while he had never worried much to catch up even hobbled, snorting and shorter climb left for tomorrow, for about the where and how of dying, blowing rollers to echo up the canyon snow was already patchy in the aspens it came to him now that if a man was on the thin mountain air, and one of on the shady side, and he knew that shot down it would be better if he had his ponies began to pitch before he had tomorrow the trail would be under friends around to know about it and the pack tied down, scattering his the drifts and slides, and there would bury him deep enough that the coyotes house-building tools across an acre of be some heavy wallowing to do. Game could not pick him over. He thought mountain and getting tangled up in was plentiful up here and fairly tame, of the security of working for the the rope. By the time the pony had standing back to watch the cows, he bigger outftits and of the steady pay been caught again he was cold no more saw big deer and old ones, shaggy and and the good, regular meals, with no and was pulling deep for wind, feeling gray even this time of the year at this big risk to be taken, and he thought the bite of it at the bottom of his lungs. altitude. He thought to knock down too of the danger he was looking into He had made enough noise by now a pine hen for his evening meal, but now, and of the hard, lonely months that anyone within a mile could a shot would be heard afar off in the ahead before he would have his woman have heard him even above the noise of clear air, and if he knocked one down with him. He remembered the poverty the bawling calves and the rumbling with a rock he still could not risk a fire ridden nester and the empty home- stream, and it was a sure thing that tonight for cooking. By the time he stead shack leaning with the wind on anyone who could track a bull elephant was half way up the canyon, summer the open plain. He had seen pros- through four feet of new snow would had been left behind, and it was spring pectors mumbling and lopsided from have no trouble finding him. Still he with the aspen leaves no larger than a the years alone, and he knew that with found himself trying to be quiet after man's fingernail, and the patches of many men solitude would have its way. his horses were packed, and he called melting snow larger now and deeper, Yet a man was not a man complete quiety to the cattle as he gathered and when he saw that the grass was until he had made his try. them and started up the canyon. getting short he stopped, knowing It was in his thinking that if the At the end of an hour the bottom there would not yet be feed higher on drifters did make a try for his cows it of the canyon was blocked by a great the mountain. would not be in their plan to leave him snow slide, broken and splintered He made rope hobbles for all the in health good enough to follow, and trees and brush tangled in it like spag- horses this time, that they would be for the first time in his life he found hetti and above it the mountain was harder to stampede and run off, and himself thinking like a family man, swept nearly bare where the slide had he staked his pride and joy with his figuring that a tittle law in this land run, and the trail died under the slide. lariat, leaving the saddle on him until would not hurt a thing. For a man He moved his herd around the short dark, ready to ride in a hurry if need could stand the danger and the fear end of the avalanche, having his hard be. He ate his meal cold and drank himself, and it seemed like a man's time to thread them through the brush, from the roaring mountain stream and job to do so, but he wantetd to know and from here on the canyon tipped found himself shivering afterwards that there was some safety for his up sharply to the pass, and the pitch from the tenseness and the cold meal woman, and that terror or danger was was steep, and above him the snow lay and the chill of the oncoming night. not waiting outside the cabin door. in fields, covering more of the moun- On the side of the canyon, not too The mountain air found him with tain than it left uncovered, and a mile high, a granite ledge stood up, hanging its pointed chill even through his soo- or more below the pass he rode around out over some and he climbed there to gans and the stars stood out big and his herd to find the best way through. have a look, and found the base of it quiet, and a little crisp looking, and The sun had not yet looked down into level enough for bedding down, and he allowed that it would be a poor the canyon, and the snow was granu- with but little effort cleared out room night to be sitting on the snowy peaks lated from many thawings and freez- enough for his horse to stand. He dressed in nothing but a pair of spurs ings and was frozen enough now to figured not to be left afoot if the raid and a collar button. His thoughts (Continued on Page 35) 12 The MORGAN HORSE His wife, Pat, who has been both a Secretary and Show Secretary to the Central States News Fox Valley Saddle Club will act as one of our Directors for 1958.
By EVE OAKLEY Our new Vice-President, Rae Miller, of Downers Grove, Illinois, a second year member is well qualified for his position, having held many positions in At the close of each year, it is cus- now in different areas for Club acti- the Cass Community Club and Du- - tomary in America for all good con- vities in the good weather months Page Saddle Club, of Downers Grove, structive organizations to review their ahead, concluding with our Annual Illinois, being President of the latter past years' performance and to plan Club Trail Ride in the fall of the organization in 1956. He is also a for the year ahead. This is a good cus- year. Ring Master, announcer and what tom if it is followed with the intent Tours of Morgan Farms are being have you for many of their shows. His to set high, but attainable goals for the organized for members so they may charming wife, LaVerne, is our Re- coming year. This is the beginning see and study the different Morgan cording Secretary and Treasurer and of a New Year, the third one, for the families and familiarize themselves she is certainly well qualified for this Central States Morgan Horse Club, with good Morgan type. position having held this position Inc. and it promises to be the biggest in the DuPage Saddle Club for to date. A Junior Division has also been added to develop interest among the two years. She has also done a Our long range program is to pro- younger members and enable them to fine job as Show Secretary for the mote the Morgan Horse; to acquaint take part in our monthly programs. Cass Community Club for several people with his desirable qualities, par- years. A Morgan Brochure is being com- ticularly as a pleasure and all around Our Historian, Miss Dorothy Col- using horse; to thoroughly enjoy our pleted, covering the history of the Mor- gan Horse; Club activities, location burn, has been with our club since its own Morgans, for in enjoying them beginning and needs no introduction ourselves, our neighbors learn of their and dates of Morgan shows, names and addresses of club members, names and to many. She is a commercial artist excellence; to promote knowledge of locations of Morgan owners, breeders by trade in Chicago and has done the Morgan Horse for all owners, many lovely drawings for the club's breeders and Morgan enthusiasts in and many other items of Morgan in- terest. The art work is being done by use. To her, must go the credit for an effort to popularize America's Miss Colburn with the assistance of making our first Annual Trail Ride oldest breed of horse. other officers and members. This Bro- such a huge success, for she took care The 1958 Central States Morgan chure will he distributed personally by of all details and planned the entire Horse Club program was established club members to advertise, as well as ride without assistance. at our first Executive meeting held create and develop new interest and Mrs. Charlene Custer of Orland January 8th. This program is a high- knowledge of the Morgan horse among Park, Illinois, is our Director of ly stepped-up one, particularly in acti- interested horse people. Records, a position which is keeping vities for the club members, which in- All in all, we have a very busy sea- track of the many Morgans in our area. cludes monthly meetings instead of son ahead of us for our forty odd so that our club may perform the ser- the usual quarterly ones and a monthly members. vice of giving information as to the Club News Bulletin on Morgan ac- whereabouts of Morgan stallions and tivities and items of interest through With horse activities at a low ebb mares when requests are made of us. out the area. We are sure this new ac- this time of year, we would like to Mrs. Custer also keeps up copies of celerated program of Club activities take this opportunity to acquaint our pedigrees on these stallions, so that will increase Morgan interest and acti- readers with some of the fine mem- any member interested in obtaining vities much more rapidly and provide bers who comprise the managing part the services of a stallion in the area many more opportunities for Morgan of our club for 1958. may check as to bloodlines. promotion and pleasure purposes. It We are very fortunate, indeed, to will give our members many more have Ron Hayward, of South Elgin, Mrs. Custer, together with her hus- chances of getting together, exchanging Illinois, for our President. Ron and band Dave, Miss Colburn the writer ideas and just plain getting more his attractive wife, Pat, joined our and Larry Oakley were responsible pleasure out of their Morgans. club at the first meeting back in 1956 for making Ted Davis' meeting in and he was Vice-President last year. the Chicago area in January, 1956, so Our educational programs will be successful, which resulted in the carried on. These are on horseman- He has also held offices in the Fox Valley Saddle Club of Elgin, Illinois, founding of the Central States Mor- ship and horse mangement and have gan Horse Club. proven a very interesting Club activity. and is President of that organization Live demonstrations with a Morgan for 1958. This club is one of our most Other new or re-elected Directors are given and fully explained and then successful Saddle Clubs of the area, for 1958 arc Dave Custer, Larry Oak- discussed in a question and answer with a membership of 135. They put ley and Howard Bowers, one of our period. on two good horse shows each year, original Directors. own their own club grounds and are These officers, together with our The Club is increasing the use of now building their own club house. forty-odd enthusiastic members will Morgans as trail and pleasure horses We feel that Ron is certainly well and several rides are being organized qualified for his position as President. (Continued on Page 35) MARCH, 1958 13 already have seven classes scheduled in their Association. From them comes Ohio Morgan Association the following news: On January 10th the Morgan Rules Committee of the COSCA met at By ELEANOR BRACKMAN Hale's Diner in Medina, Ohio to for- mulate the rules for the Morgan classes for the 1958 season. The committee consists of Don Shook, chairman, from A meeting of the OMHA Directors ber is eligible to compete for these Cuyahoga Falls; A. J. Andreoli of was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. trophies. Bath; Jim Gardner of Mansfield; Ed Mattox, January 26th at eleven Frank Lowe of North Olmstead; and It was brought to the club's atten- a. m. After all the business at hand Ed Mattox of Mansfield. In addition tion the need for a futurity at the was taken care of Tom and David to working on the rules the committee State Fair. It is felt that this will Mattox brought out their Morgans for also had much general conversation on definitely boost the foals in Ohio and us to see. Heading the show of course Morgans of course. help the sales. We are fortunate to was head man of the barn, Devan have one of our Directors, Jim Gard- Mr. Andreoli reported that he has Chief. Chief stood quiet and posed ner of Mansfield, as a Director on the two Morgans that he purchased in in spite of the cold wind, for he Horse Show Board at the State Fair. Indiana last September. He has a seemed to sense the footing was dan- Mr. Gardner has promised to do all three year old, Jus-Sue by Ethan El- gerous on the snow and ice. The two in his power to attain a futurity and don out of Lippitt Susan and a four broodmares, Millsboro Lady and Jo- open Morgan classes at the State Fair, year old, Crown Jewel by Ethan Eldon leen, already heavy with foal were fat but he explained that it will be plenty out of Justine Morgan. The four year and sassy, but the young filly of tough as he is bucking a strong Saddle- old is 13.8% Justin Morgan. Both David's stole the show as she let bred faction that has been the whole these mares were at the Lippitt Mor- everyone know she didn't like the idea gan Farm in Vermont and taken to of being the last out. Returning to show for many years. If you have foals you would like to nominate in an Indiana as weanlings. At the present the house, we found a delicious lunch they are in training at the Stanley Ohio Futurity or would be willing awaiting us which Mrs. Mattox had Edwards Stables at Ghent, Ohio. Mr. so graciously prepared. to show in open Morgan classes, please contact Mr. Gardner, Route 2, Bowen Andreoli's son, Eric, is planning to The regular business meeting of the Rd., Mansfield, Ohio and give him show Crown Jewel and also Mr. And- OMHA was held at the North Lake your full support. If you want more reoli's stud, Fleetwing and the three Park Pavillion at two p. m., January information on what a futurity is, he year old mare will be in the show ring 26th, for the purpose of electing officers will be only too happy to give you this this year. Fleetwing and his new son for the coming year. It was first de- information. The State Fair belongs Stacked Deck (a replica of his father) cided that the outgoing president to all not just a few. What better are at home at the present time but would automatically serve a one year place to promote Morgans than at Fleetwing will move to the Edwards term as a Director. Paul Rumbaugh the State Fair, one of the largest in the Training barn soon. Also at the of Polk was elected President. Don country? Write Mr. Gardner right Andreoli barn in Bath are a good Shook of Cuyahoga Falls Vice-Presi- away as plans are being made now Palomino mare, Golden Dawn, and a dent and the Secretary-Treasurer will for this year's fair. Don't wait until half-arab mare, both of which are to be appointed later by the President. fair time to voice your opinions. We be sold to make room for more Mor- Two Directors elected for three year welcome out of state breeders and gans. terms were Mrs. Alan Ferguson and showmen; let us hear from you, too. Jim Gardner reported that he and Sam E. Brackman. Mr. Hermon Mr. Floyd Mack are building a new Speck of Hinkly was appointed to fill We had a large attendance, the barn for Morgans at Mr. Mack's place a two year term as Director vacated best to date, and many reports on work in Mansfield. At the present time by Paul Rumbaugh and Mr. Ed Gran- being done. From all indications this they have five Morgans and plan to ger to fill a one year term to fill Don is going to be a good Morgan year add more. They have three two-year- Shook's unexpired term. Joe Bukey is with a very bright future. Following old fillies, a three-year-old mare and again to serve as Representative to the the meeting a social hour was enjoyed of course the well-known stallion OWHA and Henry Nelson to the by all. A special thanks goes to Joan Celebration. COSCA. Mrs. Sam Brackman agreed Gardner for she always has her "coffee At the Hi-Low Farm in North Olm- to be the Corresponding Secretary for pot" hot and full. stead, Mr. Wayne Harris is training one more year with the promise of New members in attendance were: Frank Lowe's 3 year old Morgan assistance from Mrs. Joe Bukey and Mrs. Henry Nelsen. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Elson of 973 (Continued on Page 34) Valley Drive, Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. This year the club voted to present Ray Jones of Route 1, Parkersburg, two High Point Trophies, one to go W. Va.; Mrs. Dorothy Wright, Mt. • to the stallion winning the most points Vernon, Ohio. and the other to the top mare or geld- APRIL IS THE STALLION ISSUEI ing. Points may be acquired in any NEWS ITEMS Morgan class anywhere with the ex- ception that 65% must be won in Central Ohio Saddle Club has some Send your pictures with your Ohio. Anyone who is a OMHA mem- hardworking Morgan members. They crd today.
14 The MORGAN HORSE a little at times from someone else's Sonthern California ideas. It's worth listening to. Some North Central might be good and some not so good. News I have tried to direct all visitors to News other Morgan owners. I hope they By MEL found their way to your place. By DAVE AND MARIANNE NAAS I received a very encouraging letter On December 14, 1957 the Morgan from Mr. Dean Jackson, of Harrison, There have been a lot of Morgan Horse Club of Southern California Montana, who as you know has been sales reported this past month. Stan held its annual Christmas party at the a breeder of Morgans for some years. Sahlstrom of St. Cloud purchased the ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Little, His letter read, and I quote: "1 enjoy stallion, Milaca Major, also a mare and this being the last get-together for the reading your news letters in the Mor- three fillies from Dr. R. B. Graves of year. Our next meeting is of course the gan Magazine, very much. It let's Red Wing. election of officers. Do keep it in people like myself know just what the mind for we need each and every Morgans are doing in your part of the Marilyn and Cliff Hitz sold their new stallion, Jubilee's Ace, to Mr. vote. You will be notified just as soon country." It's letters like that that as the time and place have been de- tells me our efforts are appreciated. Harry Dahlstrom of North Branch. cided upon, and I do hope in time so Mr. Shaw, from Washington, also Ace has since been gelded and is being as not to interfere with other plans. commented on how everyone enjoys used as a mount for Mr. Dahlstrom's Watch for date the first part of Febru- reading our news. I have mentioned son. The Hitz's also sold the young ary for dinner meeting and election. before to the club members — please stud that they raised from their mare, If interested in the Morgan breed, send in your news. if you have made Starlet de Jarnette, to Mrs. L. S. Green- please attend our meetings. a sale or a transfer or have changed walt of Springfield, Ill. In the past six months I have had your address, please send it to me, Mrs. Eddie Urenn of Fargo, No. inquiries as to stallions, mares, fillies then when out-of-state visitors ask to Dakota, is a new Morgan owner with and Morgan geldings for sale. Mr. see other California Morgans, I can the purchase of Kay-K, from Dr. and Mrs. Frank Waer, of the Double direct them your way. Please remem- Knippling of Princeton. Kay-K is a F. Ranch in Orange, California, in- ber this. nice bay five year old sired by Red- form me that they sold a Morgan geld- I have received word that Mrs. berry. ing to Mr. McFarland, who resides in Rollo Grover is on the sick list. I Sorry to hear that Mr. LeMar Bit- Apple Valley, Calif., as a Christmas wonder if it wouldn't be just so nice tinger of Moorhead had the misfortune present for his daughter Jackie. Merle for every member to send her a get- to lose his Morgan gelding, Tyler. Little sold a filly to Mr. Abby, by well card just to let her know how Tyler dropped dead while Mr. Bit- Anddy Pershing out of Cherrita. concerned we are. The address: 420 finger was riding him. An autopsy Keith and Mel Morse have shipped Foothill Blvd., Arcadia, Calif. proved it to be from a heart attack. their black stallion Top Flight to Paw- nee, Illinois, to the Highview Farm The Horse Show, held at the Po- The L. S. Greenwalts bought back this being his original home. As a mona Fair Grounds, November 10, the mare, Bette Belle from David weanling we purchased him from the 1957, under the auspices of Corral No. Blunt of Litchfield. Also understand Highview Farm and shipped him here 35, gave a combination class to the they have bought the young stallion, to California. He is the sire of our Morgan horse owners. There were six King's Jester, from LaVerne Freyer young stallion Flight Admiral. to participate, which are as follows. of Clinton, Iowa. Jester, although bred We have had as visitors to see our 1, Bossman, Merle Little; 2, Jean at Highview Farm was foaled here at Morgans and other Morgan owners, Allen, Florence Coffey; 3rd, Anez, Cedar Hills Farm in Savage, and so some out-of-state Morgan enthusiasts Merle Little; 4, Poco Aijoy, Orval we will be interested in his progress. — Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Williams, Smith; 5, Banana Sundae, Merle Little; Friends of Adelaide Nichols will now of San Bernardino, Calif., but 6, Sunbonnet Sue, Ronnie Cronk. be sorry to learn it was necessary for formerly of Illinois. Mrs. Eve Oakley There were trophies for first and her to have her favorite mare put away and her family motored from Chicago second place and also a trophy for the this winter. Rayrette was 25 years to California. Mr. Oakley came on entry that displayed speed in making old and was the first registered Mor- business. Mrs. Oakley and her son the change. This was won by Bossman gan Miss Nichols owned. "Ray" was made it out our way, and of course with Don McDaniel up. This is get- the dam or grand-dam of nearly the topic was horses and club activities. ting driving classes started but we do every Morgan that Miss Nichols Just before New Years I had the need much more training to make this raised and sold throughout Iowa and pleasure of having Mr. and Mrs. C. E. class interesting. Minnesota. I believe that Radonna, Shaw from Walla Walla, Washington. I'm sorry I lost out on one news Mr. Shaw is the President of the letter to the members but this flu bug Pacific Northwest Morgan Horse finally caught up with me. I had • Association. These people are proud quite a time getting back on my feet Morgan owners, and of course again again, but I hope I can hold my own the conversation was breeding and club now and continue on with the monthly notes. There is nothing I like better news. APRIL IS THE STALLION ISSUE! than to have the opportunity to display Your 1958 Club dues are now our Morgans, and see if others see payable. Address: Mel Morse, 1244 Send your pictures with your them as we do, for we can all learn So. Sunkist Ave., West Covina, Calif. ad today. MARCH, 1958 15 , eat/u/te 772eilit/t
Jacket painting for the book "Horses Across The Ages"
The dictionary defines sportsman- Ted Davis, a second portrait of Black Herrick's maiden name of Jeanne ship as skill in or devotion to sports. Sambo (in action) for his present Mellin just in case you have become Jeanne Mellin has proved how very owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Noble confused. Jeanne has been doing horse true this definition must be. Most and Windcrest Donfiehl and Wind- portraits since she was seventeen and of you know her as Mrs. Fred Herrick, crest Sentimental Lady for Waseeka her training was acquired at the the slender young woman who rides Farm. In the past she has written famous Rhode Island School of Design, Madalin and Tivoli up to receive rib- articles which were published in this where she received a Bachelor of Fine bons from the ring master with frust- magazine and she illustrated an article Arts Degree. She has demonstrated rating frequency. Her skill as a rider by Mrs. Eve Oakley. Other com- her versatility by doing several dog, is evident to everyone who has watched missions have included such famous and a few cat portraits, in addition to her ride. Her ability as an animal horses as Andante with Dave Kelley the prize winning Jersey bull, Gypsy portrait painter has been appreciated up (Andante was the High Score Tycoon of Syndicate Farm, also owned by such well known Morgans and Award winner in the Jumper division). by Mr. Weldon. She considers the owners as Mr. and Mrs. Willard K. and the 1954 Conn. Parade Horse last assignment "Great Fun." Al-; Denton who commissioned her to do Champion, Silver Cloud in action with though her favorite media is oils be- portraits of Dusky Kate, Duplicate, full regalia, for Mr. John Kriz. Miss cause they have greater permanency, Dennis K., Black Sambo, Lippitt Ethan Mellin has just finished a portrait of she also works in water color, charcoal, and Junefield with Dennisfield as a the grey gaited stallion, The Earl of and colored pencils, which give the ef- foal. That was 1953 and up until 13rookmont, for Mr. J. Loring Brooks. fect of pastels without their messiness. then, as Jeanne put it, she "had done As if this had not kept her busy At present Miss Mellin is working on a raft of Hunters but since 'finding' enough, she has written 3 well known portraits in oils of Dr. Schaeffer's the Morgan horse I've done more of books which have been published by Nancy Date and Topfield, a life- them than any other breed." Since E. P. Dutton. They are: Horses sized portrait of a shetland stallion she "found" Morgans she has also Across America, Horses Across The owned by Jane Clark's Saddle Acres painted portraits of Upwey King Benn Ages (see illustration) and Pidgy's Pony Farm in Maryland. for Mr. C. P. Weldon, Upwey Ebony Surprise, a charming story about a little Yet, this talented, famous, and very Princess and Rocky Bon for Mr. Ralph girl and her Shetland pony. All writ- Lasbury, Upwey Ben Don for Mr. ing and art work is signed with Mrs. (Continued on Page 33)
A lust-for-fun oil painting titled The Red Mesa" ' Pat and Jack" a portrait in oils of a farm team owned by Arthur Evans, Piermont, N. H.
16 The MORGAN HORSE The New York Club wishes to express Ronald Groshong, Albany and Dr. New York State deep sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Or- C. D. Parkinson, Eugene. cutt and their family. Dr. Parkinson gave the first meet- ing an additional send off with the Who needs a Quarter Horse when News showing of the film "The Morgan a Morgan is at hand? "Pete" Hess Horse in New Engand." This film of Akron came home recently just in By RL III ROGERS gave the Westerners proof of why the time to see his band of heifers get Morgan horse is the outstanding breed through a broken gate and take off in the Eastern states, and this group for the woods. He quickly saddled his January is almost over as this re- is confident that the same can be stallion, Pecos and went after them, port is written, and by the middle of accomplished on the West Coast. February "winter's back is broken." just managing to cut them off before As we turn towards Spring, it is time they reached the protection of the trees. The first activity on the agenda will to plan our Morgan activities for the Then Pecos went to work. Totally be an All-Morgan-get-together and Play Day which will be held in the coming season. without cow-horse training, the stud understood almost at once what he Salem arena in the Spring of 1958. The New York Morgan Club needs had to do, and turned one after an- There will be both halter and perform- more shows, more field days, trail other of the recalcitrant creatures back ance classes. rides or other informal gatherings. into the herd. Finally he drove the Charter members, all of whom own We have always been hampered by dis- tiring heifers home and penned them. tance in this state — no one wants to Pecos went into his stall strong and one or more Morgans, were: Dr. R. drive too far too often — but by care- triumphant decidedly pleased with W. Van Pelt, Jr., Portland; Dr. C. D. ful planning we should be able to himself. And I suspect that Phil Hess Parkinson, Eugene; Theodore Klebe, increase our activities. Think about was more than a little proud of his Hubbard; Mrs. Elizabeth Bechtold, this, club members, and be ready with horse, too. Tigard; Roy Garlick, Jefferson; Mr. suggestions at the April meeting. and Mrs. Henry Kronbugel and The Buffalo International Horse Don't forget to plan on the April daughters, Betty, Sharon and Joan, Show will be held this year on May meeting in Warsaw. The Eisenhards 15th to 18th, inclusive, at the Buffalo expect to have an early foal to show Salem; Harvey Dunkin, Glendale; Saddle and Bridle Club. Three Mor- us by that time. Date and details will Mr. and Mrs. James Michels, Philo. gan classes are planned at the present be mailed, as usual. math; William F. Gent, Corvallis; writing — pleasure, open, and stake. Philip Morrison, Grants Pass; Patrick Others can be added if we are sure we J. Dennison, Halsey; R. W. Van Pelt, can fill, but a guarantee would have Sr., Renton, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. to be made. This is only the second Oregon Morgan Ronald Groshong, Albany; Dr. and year of Morgan entries. In time we Mrs. E. S. Vanderhoof, Salem; and can work up to a full division. Carole Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Langston, Sher- Clyne, R. D. #4, Lockport, is the one Owners Organize wood. to contact in regard to this show. By THELNIA LANGSTON Nancy Gochee of Rome, N. Y. took Anyone desiring more information first place and Mildred Hilts Dalton of about this organization, may contact The date of December 15, 1957. will Gouverneur, won second place in the the secretary at P. 0. Box 305, Sher- be a memorable date for the owners recent Morgan Magazine colt contest. and breeders of Morgan horses in wood, Oregon. This is the third time New York Oregon, for it was on this day at Dr. State has had a winner — last year and Mrs. E. S. Vanderhoof's home in Marie Louise Mills of New York City Salem, a group of Morgan owners won a Broadwall colt. met and formed the Morgan Horse DON'T MAKE A MOVE, Mrs. Leda Cook Tharnish of Mid- Association of Oregon, as they all SUBSCRIBER, dleport was married in January to agreed that they could not do justice Harold Wells, also of Middleport. We to their versatile breed of horse with- . . . without including The are sure that "Butch" will be as in- out such an organization. MORGAN HORSE Magazine, terested in Morgans as he has been in in your plans Before you re-locate saddle horses. This enthusiastic group elected remember to send both your old their officers as follows: Dr. R. W. Mary Arnold's 3 year old filly, Ar- and new address (including zone Van Pelt, a Portland veterinarian who numbers) to us. Please allow nona Chere 0, is desperately sick at is rapidly becoming famous for his this time of writing with a lymph about six weeks for the change articles in all types of equine maga- . . . it will help us (and the gland infection. Chere was roadster- zines, was elected president; Bei , trained and won many ribbons last post office) to serve you Langston, Sherwood, vice-president; efficiently. season. We hope with all our hearts Mrs. Thelma Langston, Sherwood, for her sake and Mary's that the filly secretary-treasurer. recovers. The MORGAN HORSE One of the worst tragedies in Mor- The Board of Directors were elected Magazine gan history was the recent fire at the to represent different parts of the Lyman Orcutt farm in New England, state as follows: Theodore Klebe, Box 149, Leominster, Mass. in which 16 fine Morgans were lost. Hubbard; Patrick Dennison, Halsey;
MARCH, 1958 17 Arena on the campus at Storrs. Friday evening is devoted mostly to a horse New England News show, while Saturday is devoted more to livestock classes and horse show From the Executives of the New England Morgan Horse Association championships. The competitors are students, who show University animals including their Morgans. Demonstra- The owners in this area seem to hav e the pleasure of meeting at the Lin- tions, contests, etc., are included in the taken a holiday from letter writing, coln's charming Colonial home high program, so it is a well rounded week- so the news this month is unusually in the hills of Somers, Conn., and we end. Many "horse" people make it a light. We can only hope that we will can truly say that these Morgans are point to attend and I'm sure any Mor- hear from all the people who have pleasure horses, enjoyed by the family gan enthusiasts who attend will enjoy bought or sold Morgans this winter at home yet ready to take their place it. before the news of the arrivals of foals in the show ring when called upon When a well-known stallion changes starts to come in. The lack of news to perform. ownership, its' news. It is good news this month has made me very curious A University of Connecticut co-ed, that Mr. Richard S. Nelson of Am- to know all about the news which has having ridden and shown the Uni- herst, Mass., has purchased U. S. Panez hope you will send yours to us right versity's senior stallion Mentor, bought by Panfield out of Inez, from Maple away, so we can keep our readers up one of his sons, U. C. Torin, and Lawn Farm, Ashaway, Rhode Island. to date. Perhaps I have scared you off This bright hay, 8 year old stallion was not come into our hands yet. I do bred at what was then the U. S. Mor- by asking for pictures, which are nice, LORD BYRON gan Horse Farm, now the Vermont but not necessary. Perhaps you do not by Carolyn Trussell Morgan Horse Farm in Weybridge. think your news is important, but we I have ridden many horses. As a weanling, he was sent to the feel it is vital for the continued life of But my favorite seems to be, University of Massachusetts where he this column. The purpose of this A funny, frisky chestnut was under the care of Mr. Nelson un- column is to keep Morgan enthusiasts Who's as cute as he can be. til he was sold in 1956. During this I really wish he was my own, all over the country aware of the ever Although he'll never be. time, the big bay won his way more increasing popularity and appreciation Some people do not like him, and more into the hearts of the Nelson of Morgans which is sweeping New But why I cannot see. family. The arrival of Panez at their England and we have been very grate- Some people think he's stubborn. own barn, as their own Morgan, made ful for the warm manner in which But I really can't agree, Because I ride him with a crop, a happy Christmas for the Nelsons, owners have responded to our pleas And he never is for me. and no doubt for the horse too who for news. We wish to take this op- I wish that you could see him came back into the care of the man portunity to say Thank You to each When we decide to jump, who brought him up. We expect to see of you who have so generously sup- He canters over smoothly him return to the usual wide variety ported our amateur efforts to present And I never feel a bump. He hardly ever bucks me off, of classes at future National shows, the news properly and comprehen- Unless I make him mad. ridden and driven by Wayne, Alan, sively. But he kicks at other horses, Gwen (now Mrs. James Chorak), and Now we can only hope we will hear Which, of course, is very bad. of course, by Dick, himself. I love Lord Byron very much, from some of the owners who have not Even though he's sometimes bad. The stables at Stonleigh-Prospect had an opportunity to send in their When I can't ride "my drearnhorse," Hill School in Greenfield have a num- news. Our tenure as correspondents It makes me very sad . ber of Morgans, which may be related ends in June, and we hope you will in part to the fact that Mrs. Warner help us to make the second half of our Carter, a New England member and year an outstanding example of the co- brought him home to her barn in Morgan enthusiast, is teaching riding operation for which Morgan owners West Suffield. Marianne Jones has there this year. Benny Emerson's two are famous. done a grand job training this Morgan Morgans, Lippitt Sandy and Bay State Helen and "Sandy" Lincoln and stallion who is now three years old. Tuppence, are used in the classes, as their Morgan geldings, Valient and Torin has placed well in colt classes is Mrs. Carter's own UVM Blitzmar. Spring Frolic, are well-known in Conn- and now that she has him going well One of the girls, Jean Abbott, has hei ecticut show rings. Both horses are under saddle, we will hope to see this own Morgan, Shenandoah Shadrack, very versatile and are shown in riding grand combination at the Connecticut there at school with her. It is hoped and driving classes. Valient, who was shows this coming season. Marianne that Tuppence will add a fifth Morgan never driven until Sandy owned him, has a good deal of show experience to to the band as she is in foal to Ore- was purchased from Harry Williams of her credit as her horse, King Cassilis, land Vigildon. Poultney, Vermont on the same day now 19 years old, has been Champion Mrs. John Mann, Jr., of Hamilton, they bought Spring Frolic from Mr. Pleasure horse and Champion Road Mass., writes that her Ashland's June Ferguson in Woodstock, Vermont. Hack of Connecticut. Pride, by Ashland Donson out of Fire- Spring Frolic has proved himself in The Block and Bridle Club, an fly's Lady Jane, finally recovered from open hack, equitation, and western Animal Husbandry Department club the severe respiratory infection which classes, as well as in the Morgan divi- of the University of Connecticut, will went into strangles, which the mare sion. Valient's specialties are the hold their annual "Little International picked up early in the summer. After Parade class and the Trotting races. Livestock and Horse Show" on March about a month of use, Mrs. Mann The Connecticut organization has had 14th and 15th at the Ratcliffe Hicks thought she'd try her in the North 18 The MORGAN HORSE This family of mares from the University of Massachusetts are, ASHLAND'S JUNE PRIDE, owned by Mrs. John W. Mann of from left to right: BAY STATE CLASSIQUE, by U. S. Panez out Hamilton, Mass. recently won the Rusty Bradly Sweepstakes of Optic; BAY STATE BONNIE by Meade out of Optic, and her Trophy of the 1957 North Shore Horseman's Ass'n. 25 mile filly BAY STATE DEBBIE, now corning two, by U. S. Panez. Trail Ride.
Shore Horsemen's Association 25 mile Rhode Island. One is a coming four and is a flashily marked chestnut son competitive trail ride. Not only did year old gelding by Merry Master and of Orcland Leader out of Bay State she complete the ride, but she won it the other is a coming two year old Victress, the mare they just purchased. and the Rusty Bradley Sweepstakes filly by Justin Jubilee. Both are out The Gliddens also sold Ashland Trophy. This is the fourth time in of Diana Mansfield. They are the Juneson to Miss Maxine Averbuck of seven years that a Morgan has taken first Morgans for the lower Cape and Hanover, N. H. Miss Averbuck is a home the trophy. Townshend Sealois are to be used for pleasure riding and newcomer in the Morgan field. She is won it twice, and Jer-Echo once. as hacks in the local shows. from Florida and has been summering Lord Jeff, by Upwey Ben Don out in New Hampshire. She showed Ash- of Junior Miss, whose sale to Mrs. land Twilight Sun for Howard Archibald Cox of Wayland, Mass., was Guyotte this past summer very suc- reported in the Maine news last month, cessfully and she has been looking for is a grandson of Mrs. Cox's beloved a Morgan for herself for sometime — Townshend MacArthur, who was laid finally choosing Juneson. She plans away after a long and respected career to show him in New England shows on the trails and in the show ring, this next season. under her daughter Sarah. Mrs. Cox Mrs. Roderick Towne in Montpelier, is very happy to have Jeffy in her barn Vt., has sold two of her weanlings. and he looked wonderful when this Town-Ayr Holly (Lippitt Rob Roy x writer saw him. Mansper is his stable- Dream Star) went to Robert J. Ur- mate, and a 4-H project horse for Mrs. singer of Media, Penna. She is a nice Cox's younger daughter, Phyllis. hay filly of the old-fashioned blocky Mrs. Mercer and her daughter Ruth, sort. This is Mr. Ursinger's first Mor- write that their filly, Just-a-Darling, gan, and he plans to have her schooled is now seven months old and growing Ruth Mercer of Westminster, Mass, chose for the Western division. The filly to feed her filly JUST-A-DARLING (by Ore- well and doing just fine roughing it Land Vigildon out of just-A-Sweetheart), is a full sister to the two colts, Towne- with her dam, Just-a-Sweetheart, and by this novel method. At that time the filly Ayr Sprig and Towne-Ayr Twig who their old mare, Black Honey. They was four months old. are owned by the Glenns in Royers- have two warm shelters to go into as ford, Penna. they wish, but they are free to do as Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor of Towne-Ayr Bayberry went to Mrs. they please in the pasture at Just-a- Marblehead have purchased Bay State Kenneth French of Bloomfield, Conn. Hobby Farm in Westminster, Mass. Victress, who is in foal to Ashland This one is by Lippitt Rob Roy also They love the snow as much as a cat Donson, and Ashland Samson from Mr. and is out of Lantz' Beauty, and is loves catnip and it seems to affect and Mrs. Lawson Glidden of Ash- therefore a full brother to Mrs. them in the same way. land, N. H. The Proctors have their Towne's show colt, (Towne-Ayr Bob- William E. Cabral, Provincetown, coming two year old stallion, Hillside bin.) This colt is a dark bay with a Mass., has purchased two Morgans Leader, in training with John Lydon very attractive white star and one from the Joseph Robinsons of Bristol, of Millis. He is called Erin for short, (Continued on Page 34)
U. C. TORIN is a three year old stallion owned by Miss Mr. Sanford Lincoln, Somers, Conn„ on VALIENT {by Mentor out Marianne Jones, a co-ed at the University of Connecticut. of Naiad); Mrs. R. Ellsworth Howard on SPRING FROLIC (by Springfield out of Townshend Lass) The Lincolns own both Morgan geldings. NAPIER • Our Morgan
By NAN BIGELOW MARCY
100 mile trail ride inspection 5, 1 54,
My heart sank when I felt the un- got him ready to start out. The judges judge had been right, and we finished even, unsteady steps of my horse as would stop him before he trotted by cn time. I knew that the summer of tried to lead him out of the stall on to them if they felt his legs were in bad planning, preparation, and hard work the barn floor. What had happened? enough shape. had been well-spent. My goal was to What had I done? Were weeks of "Number fifty-four, six-forty-four ride across the finish line with his hard work and preparation going to sharp!" The timekeeper noted the head still held high and his ears alert. end in failure — failure to reach a time and signaled me to trot down the As we passed the timekeeper I heard goal? I could never forgive myself road. Dozens of people lined both a spectator comment: "My, but that if I had done him any harm by taking sides of the road. Some I knew, some horse looks fresh! You'd never guess him on the hundred-mile trail ride. were strangers. On the two previous that he's been a hundred miles!" I I knew when I started getting him in mornings I had been able to smile at think he heard her say that because he shape ten weeks ago that the chances my friends and say "thanks" when seemed to hold his head even higher of coming through the ordeal without they wished me good luck. Today I ar,d he flicked his ears as if to say, a single injury were only fair. He could not see them, the tears were too "Let's go tell the judge I deserve first just has to be all right! He was too many. Besides, I had to concentrate place!" good a horse to have anything serious on him. Would he work out of his By the time our turn came to ride happen to him. stiffness by the time we reached the l- efore the judges, his stiffness had I could see other riders tacking up turn to the trail? What would the returned and he walked unsteadily their horses. It was almost time for judges say? around the ring. Later, in the barn, the first horse to leave on the last leg Somehow we got by them. One of I rubbed and rubbed his legs, hoping of the ride — twenty miles in three them flooded to me and said, "He against hope I was making him feel hours. Very few horses had dropped looks okay. He will probably work better and that he would be all right out during the first eighty miles. The out of it." This encouraged me. May- when the judges saw him for the final competition was keen. My heart was be we will reach that goal after all. time. heavy as I cinched up the girth and The next three hours flew by. The During the final judging no one was
100 Mile trail ride first morning out 9/2/54. My but that sun feels good! Think get a tan. At the 1953 National. "Well what are we waiting for?" allowed in the barns but the officials. Then I heard over the loudspeaker: Napier came to live at Pine Acre I don't know whether he was stiff as "The award for the rookie of the year Stable in Goffstown, New Hampshire. they led him up and down the barn goes to number fifty-four!" I heard For three summers Napier and the floor, whether he looked fresh, or no more. Tears streamed down my Bigelows went to many shows and whether he managed to tell them what cheeks as I realized we had won in a trail rides, and met many wonderful he had wanted to a few hours earlier. competition of a score of horses and people with Morgans. The climax All I know is that he was lying all riders. We rode up to receive our of each season was the fifty-mile trail curled up in the corner of his stall trophy. My hands were shaking with ride in Woodstock, Vermont. Napier sound asleep when I returned to get joy. As we returned to our place in and Nan had a lot of fun those sum- him ready for the presentation of line, I hugged him and cried, "Oh mers with truck-driver Dad and Mom awards. I could only hope for the Napier, you wonder you!" with a currycomb. They learned a best. lot together through the trials and After all, I told myself, all you tribulations as well as glories of the wanted to do was finish. Anything Napier 8776 (Canfield 7788—Indra show circuit. Napier liked to learn else would be above and beyond your 05289) was born on May 27, 1943 at and he loved company, so he went expectations. I guess I succeeded in the Morgan Horse Farm in Middle- away to school with Nan her senior calming myself because friends said bury, Vermont. Six years later he ar- year. There he met his competition we looked perfectly at ease as we lined rived at the home of his third owners, as Nan's equitation mount. When up in the ring with the sixty-two other the Benjamin Bundy's of Amherst, this new horse came to Pine Acre, horses who had finished the ride. Rib- New Hampshire. Soon after his eighth Napier made up his mind to be the bons and certificates of completion birthday, along came a high school best trail and pleasure horse possible. were given out. "Well, my friend," freshman girl who wanted a pleasure As the new horse brought Nan nearer I whispered in his ear, "we accom- horse. Although their first ride to- the top in equitation, Napier won a plished our goal. Let's be satisfied." gether was full of the unexpected, it few more blues in pleasure classes, His ear flicked in agreement. was "love at first sight." And so, (Continued on Page 33)
Nan and NAPIER We did it again! ORCLAND WALLINDA ORCLAND GAYMAN Fire by Ulendon out of Townshend Lady 15. Broadwall Debutante, ch. m., Sensation. 4 yrs.; by Lippitt Ethan Ash out of (Continued from Page 7) 10. Orcland Sensation, ch. st., 1 yr.; Mansphyllis. These two Morgans 4. Orcland Vigileen, br. m., 9 yrs., by Ulendon out of Townshend Lady were owned by Jane Clark of Ames- 15.1; by Ulendon out of Vigilda Burk- Sensation. This colt showed great bury, Mass. land. Reserve New England Cham- promise as the most outstanding mov- 16. Lackman, a 3 year old black pion Morgan. ing Morgan ever raised by the Orcutts. gelding, sired by Orcland Leader, 11. Paleface, ch. m., 13 yrs.; by owned by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Atwood 5. Orcland Walinda, bay m., 3 yrs., 14.1; by Ulendon out of Lippitt Squire Burger out of Zona Skinner. of Haverhill, Mass. Wally Moro. 1st in the 3 year mare 12. Orcland Gaylad, bl. g., 1 yr.; 17. Circe, the bay Arabian mare owned by Patsy Freund. class, 1957 National. A Christmas by Ulendon out of Orcland Gaylass. This was a full brother to Orcland The three Morgans which were gift to Louise. Gayman. saved are: 6. Townshend Lady Sensation, ch. 13. Lippitt Wally Moro, bay M., 1. Ulendon, seal brown stallion, m., 11 yrs., 14.3; by Cornwallis out of 14.3, 21 yrs.; by Lippitt Moro, out of 14.3, 24 yrs.; by Ulysses out of Allenda. Ping Pong. The first mare to win a Nekomia, a full sister to I.ippitt Miss As well as having made a reputation Justin Morgan Performance Class Nekomia. This mate was due to foal for himself as a young horse, this ('53) and placed 3rd in the Green this spring. venerable senior stallion at Orcland Mountain 100 Mile Trail Ride and was Four boarders were also lost and Farms has such well known progeny judged Best Trail Horse of the same horse lovers everywhere extend their that he needs no introduction. He re- ride. sympathy to their owners. They were: tired in a moving ceremony at the 7. Orcland's Lady Man, bay st. foal; 14. Soneldon, ch. g., 14.3, 15 yrs.; 1953 National. by Ulendon out of Townshend Lady by Ulendon out of Ethanelda. He was 2. Anna Darling, ch. m., 6 yrs.; by Sensation. two-time winner of the Green Moun- John A. Darling out of Royalton Bob- 8. Orcland Superleen, ch. m., 1 yr.; tain 100 Mile Trail Ride also Justin bin Morgan. She is due to drop a by Supersam out of Orcland Vigileen. Morgan Performance Class at the foal by Ulendon this spring. 9. Orcland Ulenda, bay m., 2 yrs.; National Show. (Continued on Next Page)
ORCLAND GLEAM TOWNSHEND LADY SENSATION tarily. This is the same breeding which middle of their demanding and trying Orcutt Tragedy . . ■ produced Gayman and Gaylad. duties, called five New England Mrs. Roger Ela of the Townshend breeders so they might offer a message Morgan-Holstein Farm and Dr. Robert of hope and compassion to the Or- New England Orcutt joined Jim in the task of super- cults. Together with the Elas own offer, these breeders each offered a mare to be bred to Ulendon and the Neighborliness get would be their gift to the stricken family's future. Since that time, Sunday, January 19, fire destroyed THE FIRE dozens of spontaneous offers have amost the entire herd of Morgan horses poured in — owners of only one mare at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace By BARBARA KELLY have offered their only pride and joy L. Orcutt Jr., in West Newbury. This for a similar use, the owners of some outstanding band of breeding stock of the leading stallions in the country consisted principally of offspring of Fire strikes without a cause have offered free services, individuals their fine 27-year old stallion Ulendon, And all that's left is grief and loss. have offered tack and equipment, and who was one of the few horses saved On January the 19th it doomed a barn there have been offers from as far from from the fire. The Grants alone could And rill hearts were moved in great the scene as the mid-west. Justin Mor- not possibly make any real start at alarm. gan lived in a time when this country building a new breeding herd of Ulen- The Orcutts lost more than one dear was demanding tremendous courage don offspring, because his age makes friend and cooperation from the people who it probable that this spring breeding And now the good Lord only were trying to make it their home. We season may be his last, and high understands. tend to forget, today, that we have a quality Morgan brood mares just aren't Supersam and Cayman too heritage of helping each other over the available for purchase in sufficient Have gone to homes beyond the blue. rough times. But Morgan owners right number on short notice, regardless of Wallinda, Vigileen and Gleam no less, across the country have transcended the the problem of price. The Orcutts Have gone through gates that are temporary spirit of competition, which alone couldn't do it, but New England the best. is the normal and healthy attitude in neighborliness and Morgan breeder Now all Morgan friends lets pray to the show ring, with the fundamental friendship, that runs deeper than the God, heritage, which proffers immediate help rivalries of the horse show ring, could. That "Ulendon" blood will again to those in need, without regard for Before all of the embers of the fire grow strong. personal sacrifice, as a matter of were cold, within 24 hours after the The Atwood's colt was only three, course. tragic blaze, offers of help at a new Though his life was short, great start had come in from leading Morgan love found he. The shock of the fire and the nearly breeding farms all over New England Patricia Freund's horse was also lost, complete loss of their stock has left — Windcrest Farm at Windsor, Vt.; Suffering will be great for her little the Orcutts understandably unsure, as Waseeka Farm at Ashland, Mass.; horse. yet, of the exact plan they will follow Broadwall Farm at Greene, R. I.; Bar- The Clarks lost Debutante and in the future. Ulendon's advanced age T Farm at Rowley Mass.; Serenity Soneldon, too, and condition will severely limit any Farm at South Woodstock, Vt.; and The home of Jane will long be blue. rapid replacement of their stock, if it Townshend Morgan-Holstein Farm at These and others not mentioned we'll is to be based, as they hope it may, on Bolton, Mass. To the Orcutts, coming not forget, his progeny. However, anyone who home to a flattened barn, shattered And their life with humans they'll has spoken with them since will be plans for the future and a lonesome ne'er regret. struck by their enthusiasm for their stallion, all of these farms said: "Breed Though we all may suffer, we'll think future, and their courage which will your grand old stallion Ulendon to one am' try always be a symbol of hope to horse of our mares this spring and the colt To understand and not to cry. lovers. is yours to help start you on your way Many of us who are deeply disturbed to a new breeding herd of Morgans." by the immediate unpleasant past may Even one owner of a single mare has take comfort from the sweet philosophy made the same offer. To the owner of little Louis e who said with a child's of a good Morgan brood mare, it is a vising, not only the actual fighting wisdom and faith, "I'll miss WaLinda real sacrifice to give up a year's pro- of the fire but the care of the surviv- and all the horses, but isn't it nice that geny. Morgan horses are known for ing animals and also the unpleasant now Grammy will be able to take care their friendliness. Some of their good details of cleaning up afterward. They of them." Even those of us who never friendship seems to have rubbed off try to disclaim credit for heroism be- had the good fortune to know Mrs. on their owners. yond the call to duty, but any one of Dickson personally can take comfort us can easily imagine what they en- from the knowledge that she and her dured in order that the barn could be Morgan horses are together. And we Fire bull-dozed over and things put back to are sure that Orcland Farms will again normal as much as possible, before build a famous line of excellent Mor- (Continued from preceding page) Mrs. Ela's sister and brother-in-law gans, starting with a few individuals. 3. Orcland Gaylass, bl. m., Il yrs., returned from New Orleans. It is the courage and foresight which 15.1; by Ulendon out of Gayselba. Her The fire had been out but a few go with Morgan owners as much as foal by Ulendon is expected momen- hours when Anna and Roger Ela in the with the breed. MARCH, 1958 23 QUIZ KID, Champion Morgan Horse of Michigan with owner The Lau's Morgan Mare, RUTHVEN'S VICTORIA accepting the Gerald Taft riding. Pictured with him is Fred Verran of North- blue in the Three-Year-Old-Filly Class at 1957 Michigan All-Mor- ville, president of the Justin Morgan Horse Association. gan Horse Show, Justin Morgan Horse Association
By R LIE DA KANE. Publicity Director
Michigan's loss is Rhode Island's Horse Association will be presented huddle and decided they needed a new gain as James Lau announced at our to the Lau's in appreciation for their cabinet and coffee maker. The cabinet last meeting that he and his family unending efforts to promote the will be kept at the hall to hold the are moving to Rhode Island where he Justin Morgan Horse Association and club's cups and etc. The coffee maker is accepting a position as Treasurer for its many activities. They will event- will have a capacity of 100 cups. Need- the Fram Company. Mr. and Mrs. ually he taking their very fine Morgan less to say the Board of Directors Lau have been very active in Morgan mare, Ruthven's Victoria with them. passed on the funds for this very needy circles and they will be very sorely When a new dollar finds its way cause. missed by the members of our Asso- into the Association's bank account Plans for the 1958 Michigan All- ciation. The February meeting will there immediately arises new ways of Morgan Horse Show have begun. Our be designated as a "Lau Family Night" using it up, for, when the Food Com- President, Fred Verran, appointed Ray and will he highlighted with a pot- mittee heard the Treasurer's Report at LaBounty of Ypsilanti as Chairman of luck dinner in their honor. A mem- the last meeting (not to mention any the Horse Show Committee with yours bership in the New England Morgan names) they promptly went into a (Continued on Page 32)
JOHN GEDDES, Michigan Champion Pleasure Horse and Reserve Virginia and James Lau, new residents of Rhode Island. Champion Morgan Horse. Pictured with him is Thor Nielsen, of Fenton, Renee and Walter Kane. owner.
24 The MORGAN HORSE Carolina 09681, and she has the dis- Morgans in North Carolina tinction of being the first purebred Morgan to be foaled in the state since 1912. A write-up about her in the By BARBARA BE.AusioNT Cot.E Raleigh "News and Observer" shortly after she was born has brought her nearly two hundred visitors in the last At the present time there are only strawberry roan, set off by four white year, many of them interested in be- five registered Morgans in the state of stockings. He is also owned by Mr. coming Morgan owners themselves. North Carolina. This figure does not and Mrs. Edwards, who are consider- Last but not least, is our newly-ac- include Morgans owned by North ing offering him for sale to make quired coming yearling chestnut filly, Carolina residents but kept outside of room for future purebred Morgail Poppy Ashmore 09801, by Lippitt Ash- the state, like the mare Redfern of stock. more out of Jubilee's Amber, bred by Royalton 07639 which is owned by Mrs. Bryant of South Woodstock, Vt. Mr. George Culberson of McAdenvillc, We have great hopes for both fillies but stabled in Vermont. as future show and breeding prospects. All of these Morgans 1have l moved The registered Morgan residents of to North Carolina within the last North Carolina consist of one stallion five years, and I believe they are the and four mares owned by three differ- small beginning of a Morgan trend ent families. First in seniority of here. Certainly the local people who residence is the twelve-year-old chest- have seen the Edwards' Pinup and nut stallion Lujack 9513, by Senator our fillies have been most interested Graham out of Birdseye, bred by the in learning more about the breed. Here, L. U. Sheep Company of Worland, as everywhere else, more and more Wyoming, and now owned by Frank people are beginning to buy family Cooper of R. D. 1, Marion, North pleasure horses. Of course this is Carolina. I have not seen this stal- Walking Horse and Saddlebred coun- lion but have been told that he has a try, but there is no reason why it wonderful disposition and lots of style, shouldn't be Morgan country, too. as well he might since he is a full PINUP 06620 (Canfield x Hermina) owned The North Carolina Morgan owners brother to the Maine trail horse Ebony by Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Edwards, Jr.. Apex. all welcome visitors, and we hope that Girl and the Middle-western show North Carolina. Morgan lovers from other parts of the champion Lurgan. He has not sired country will stop in to see us when any registered foals in North Carolina, they are travelling South . . or but his grade offsprings are said to be It is hoped, by the way, that Pinup North. uniformly good. will increase the registered Morgan Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Edwards, Jr., total in North Carolina to an even of Winchester Farm, West Chatham half-dozen in April. She has been bred Street, Apex, N. C., own the flashy to Marilyn Childs' Lippitt Mandate coming thirteen year old mare Pinup 8331, and appears to be safely in foal. 06620. She is by Canfield out of Her- Lastly there are the mare and two mina, and was bred by the Govern- fillies owned by my husband and my- ment Farm. She is a showy mare, self, Mr. and Mrs. James Cole, Octo- with her red chestnut coat set off by ber Farm, Rock Quarry Rd., Raleigh, a nearly flaxen mane and light tail, First of these is our seven-year-old and she has about as much natural pleasure hack and broodmare, Katie action, especially hock action, as a Twilight 08228, a brown mare by Lip- Morgan can have. At one time this pitt Sam Twilight out of Conniedale, mare was leased by the University of bred by Mrs. Rice of Meredith, N. H. Massachusetts, where she produced We have owned Katie since she was two registered daughters, Bay State a two-year-old. She is, by the way, Tuppence and Bay State Uppin, both the dam of Doctor Faustus 11357 (by by Niles. Since coming to North Caro- Lippitt Victory), the coming three- lina, she has had a beautiful Morab year-old stallion that is New Eng- colt, sired by the purebred Arabian land's 1957 Reserve Champion Mor- stallion Kumar. This colt, now a year- gan Colt and Reserve Champion Open ling, bears out all that many people Horse Colt. We heed Doctor Faustus say about the Morab being an ideal when we lived in New England, and horse. This colt, Winchester's Thun- he is now owned and has been shown der Bird, has all his dam's action, if to his triumphs by Mr. and Mrs. not more, plus that airy "floating" Joseph Kean of Pepperell, Mass. CAROLINA 09681 (Lippitt Mandate — effect that Arabs have. He has all the Katie's other foal, a bay filly by Lippitt Katie Twilight) here 11 days old. Bred pride and style in the world, head Mandate, was born here in North and owned by Mr. and Mrs. James Cole. always up and tail high. He is a light Carolina last March. She is registered Raleigh, N. C. MARCH, 1958 25 Mid-America Morgan Club News
JANE BEHLING, Publicity Director BEVERLEE STAHL, Assistant
On January 12, 1958, twenty five }MEE'S TOP interested Morgan enthusiasts met at BRASS, owned by the Spinning Wheel Restaurant, Hins- H. H. Cleveland, Waverly, Iowa. dale Illinois, to discuss the organiza- Lynn Cleveland up. tion of an active Morgan horse club for this area. Mr. Leonard Schmitt of Mundelein, Ill. acted as monitor for this meeting assisted by Margaret Beekman of Libertyville, Ill. acting as temporary secretary. and standard for the Morgan division. lofty action and wonderful disposition. After careful consideration, it was Following a delicious dinner the an- Another good two year old stallion unanimously agreed that the new or- nual Wisconsin Horse Ass'n. Cham- is Billy Burkland (Gay Dancer—Vigil- ganization be named the MID-AMERI- pionship Awards were presented. The da Burkland) who at the tender age CA MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC. Champion Open Model Morgan trophy of six months took the age old advice The following slate of officers were was won by Lurgan, who has an ex- "Go West Young Man, Go West." elected for the ensuing year. ceptional show record behind her, and Billy is developing by leaps and bounds President, Mr. L. J. Schmitt; Vice- is owned by the HyLee Farms of into a very handsome hoss. Like his President, Mr. Robert Stahl; Secretary, Cambria, Wis. Runner-up in this Eastern relatives, he is a delightful- Mrs. Peg Beekman; Treasurer, Mr. division was Dyberry Ethan, owned to-watch horse with wonderful four- Harold Meyer; Publicity Director, Jane by Chester Treftc of Silver Lake. Hy- cornered motion. Purchased from the Behling; Assistant, Beverlee Stahl. Lee Farms was also recipient of the Robert Orcutts, by HyLee Farms. Board of Directors: Mrs. William Bar- Champion Morgan Western Pleasure The excellent pencil sketch used in ton, Mr. Robert Behling, Mr. Tom award with their mare Crown Point's the Mid-America Morgan Club an- Ingold, Mrs. Beverlee Stahl, Mrs. Jewel. This handsome trophy was nouncement ad (located elsewhere in Edith Kinsman. donated by the Mid-West Morgan this issue) was done by Edith Kins- It is the motive and desire of this Owners Ass'n. Dyberry Ethan, Mr. man of Chicago Ill. Edith has done club to work as a unit to promote the Treftc's stallion was Reserve. some excellent oil paintings of Mor- use of Morgan horses, through the gans, having an exceptional talent for I understand that those two city mutual loyalty, respect, and liking capturing personality and animation slickers, Payday (Mansfield-Glady) among and between its members. on canvass. There are some very interesting and College Colonel (Melysses-Kitts), programs in the making, including are enjoying life in the country these plans for a field day to be held at the days. We had a nice visit with these Farm For Sale Barton's Big Bend Farm, at Rockford, two gentlemen in their downtown and a trip to the HyLee Farms, at Chicago, second floor apartment last Famed Cambria, Wisconsin in July. fall, and although they didn't seem to We extend a sincere welcome to new lack for comfort, we are certain that members, applications and further in- they will enjoy themselves in the great ORCLAND FARM formation may be obtained from the outdoors! Both horses are owned by West Newbury. Mass. Miss Elise Heinz of Chicago, and are secretary, Mrs. Peg Beekman, Rt. 1, On a hilltop commanding beau- now stabled with Harold Meyer's fine Box 252A, Libertyville, Illinois. tiful panoramic 20 mile view. Morgans in Barrington, Illinois. The annual Wisconsin Horse Ass'n. 353 acres-145 acres field and business meeting and award banquet Recent word from club members, pasture. was held January 19, 1958 at Milwau- Melba and Harry Cleveland, of Wa- Authentic 9 room Colonial built kee, Wisconsin. verly Iowa, is that their two year old in 1703 features 4 fireplaces, fine Although the Wisconsin weather Morgan stallion, HyLee's Top Brass beams and panelling. was traditionally snowy and windy, (Max Hi Ho Kid—Dolly Mae) is Comfortable 6 room Herdsman's and the roads treacherous, one hund- still "the only horse in Northeast House. red and ten members from Wisconsin Iowa that can trot standing still." The Cinder Block Barn 174'x38'. and Illinois were on hand to discuss Clevelands arc grooming Brassy for Town water—low taxes. and vote on rule revisions, and to elect the two year old fine harness classes GERTRUDE KALMAN, officers and directors for 1958. this year, and their reports are glow- Realtor After some considerable discussion, ing. We last saw this colt at the Newburyport, Mass. the membership voted to accept the Illinois State Fair last Summer, and Homestead 5-0842 American Horse Show Ass'n. rules was impressed with his animation,
26 The MORGAN HORSE Ohio Morgan Association
The Ohio Morgan Horse Association proudly presents its first High Point Morgan, Devan Chief, owned and shown by Tom Mattox of Mansfield, Ohio. Devan and Tom competed suc- cessfully in Morgan classes whether it be halter, English, Western or fine harness throughout Ohio and Michi- gan. Devan Chief, sired by Captor out of Lady Hawk, is an eight year old chestnut stallion. He was purchased as a yearling by Mr. Ed Mattox for son Torn from Crabapple Valley Farm. Originally he was intended for a pleasure horse after Mr. Mattox be- came vitally interested in Morgans be- cause of their even dispositions. At the time there was no thought, whatso- ever, of acquiring a show horse. He was taken to Miles Hines of Ashland (Continued on Page 31) DEVAN CHIEF with Tom Mattox up.
NEW ENGLAND MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION
Training Clinic — All Welcome April 20, Wellesley College, indoor ring. Lunch—Wellesley Inn at noon, clinic at ring 1:30.
OFFICERS Keynith Knapp, President Nathaniel F. Bigelow, Jr., Treasurer Bald Mountain Farm, Arlington, Vt. I1 Shirley Park, Goffstown, N. H. Mrs. Winthrop S. Dakin, Vice-President Miss Doris M. Rockwell, Secretary RR 3, Amherst, Mass. 148 State St., Hartford 3, Conn. DIRECTORS Mrs. E. Keene Annis Miss Margaret Gardiner Mrs. j. Cecil Ferguson William C. Glenney, Jr. Miss Mabel Owen Mail your application to the Treasures Join Today — Dues: $3.00 Individual Membership $5.00 Family Membership the popular Bill Roberts of Amherst, will head up program advertising. 16th National Morgan Mrs. Kenneth Robinson has been one of the "unsung heroines" of past shows and will graciously carry on again this year. George Russell of Horse Show New York City will boost publicity on the National and Metropolitan scene. Entries and local publicity will be handled at the show manager's office. The basic purpose of the National The Sixteenth National Morgan of Northampton and his Hampshire Morgan Horse Show is to present the Horse Show will be held this year at County Riding Club co-members will Morgan to the public in the most favor- the Three County Fair Grounds, handle tickets and parking. Mrs. War- able light and to establish standards Northampton, Mass., on July 25, 26, ner Carter of Montague has accepted of excellence through competition and 27. a special assignment of which more among breeder's. Since the Morgan is The new manager, Walter M. later. Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson will be Bryant of Amherst, is fortunate in that encouraging our more distant breeders the most versatile, beautiful, manage- able horse for all around pleasure use Janet Dakin, Dr. Russell Smith, and to exhibit. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Seth Armen, all of whom have contri- Holden of Amherst are helping with by the entire family, the show is unique in its appeal as wholesome family buted to the success of past shows local problems as they arise. W. Brice- will be available for advice and coun- land Nash of Northampton is presi- affair. Since it has also become a sel. The official show committee has dent of the Fair Association and a source of revenue for the Morgan been named and plans are underway booster for the show. He will be on Horse Club it has its commercial as- for the best show ever. Mr. and Mrs. hand to greet exhibitors and act as pects as well. A remarkable expansion Nathaniel Bigelow, Jr., have agreed to liason between the Fair Association, in variety of classes, number of entries, handle trophy and ribbon donations, the exhibitors and the management. and financial importance has created and with a year's experience behind Mr. Everett Roberts, president of the problems and this year the following them will be doing a most demanding Pelham Men's Club and his members steps will be taken in an attempt to job with a little less strain, it is hoped. are again going to do the ring work solve them. The efficient and faithful Ray Black and police the grandstand. His brother (Continued on Page 31)
"ALIKE AS PEAS IN A POD" NO!
They are NOT identical twins. But, like every Waseeka Morgan, they repeatedly possess the finest characteristics of type, quality, and action which have made Wctseeka Morgans so famous, so desirable and so pretty.
For sale at this time: TWO YEARLING STALLIONS
WASEEKA FARM, ASHLAND, MASSACHUSETTS
Mrs. D. D. Power Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Annis for forward, pressure behind the girth for sideways motion. There should Maine Morgan News he no kicking. Skipper Bartlett has had a wide ex- perience with Morgans, he trained By MARGAR G.'S !LIMNER about 20 of the Stratton Morgans among many others. He said he had been told many years ago by Dr. Or- The third seminar sponsored by the used consist of the snaffle, pelham and cutt that a Morgan should show like Maine Morgan Horse Club was held full bridle. Saddles may be with or a Saddle horse, go all day in harness January 26 at Mrs. Thurston's big without knee rolls. Degrees of col- like a country Doctor's horse and be new indoor ring in Lewiston. About lection at different gaits were demon- able to pull like a draft horse. 250 people were present. The subject strated. The natural aids are the Skipper Bartlett presented the Equi- was Horsemanship, a discussion and weight, hands, legs and voice (do not tation or Saddle seat demonstrated by demonstration of the different kinds use voice when riding in company). Debby Hary and Pamela Gay, who of seats. Our two protagonists were: the artificial aids are whip, spurs, were handicapped by not having rid- Mrs. Braley Gary, Jr., of Old Town, martingale, etc. Weight signals are: den for several months, and being leader of the Penobscott Pony Club (a forward for faster, back for slower mounted on totally strange horses. A branch of the Pony Club, an inter- speed. When trotting, one should full bridle and a straight saddle with national children's riding organiza- post on outside diagonal although no knee rolls should be used. No mar- tion) who presented the Balanced seat; AHSA rules call merely for change tingale is allowed. He emphasized the and Clarence D. "Skipper" Bartlett of of diagonals in figure 8. Hands should similarity between the Balanced seat Naples, for 40 years the leading horse- be gentle, with flexion at wrists. One and the Equitation seat, indeed until man and riding teacher in Maine, difference between the Balanced Seat recently the Equitation seat was called whose pupils have been successful in and the Equitation Seat is that when the Balanced seat. (In the Balanced shows all over the country, who ex- the signal is given for the canter in the seat, the rider can adjust his balance plained the Saddle or Equitation Seat. Balanced seat, the horse's head is to the balance of the horse; in the Mrs. Gray spoke first, while Susan turned toward the desired lead, where- Equitation seat, the rider tends to col- Robinson demonstrated on command as in the Equitation seat, the horse's lect the horse to adjust the horse's with Mrs. Thurston's Morgan stallion, head is turned away from it. Leg balance to his.) Hands should be King Coriso. Bridles which may be signals are: squeezing on the girth (Continued on Next Page)
Presenting At Stud .
Cornwallis Sire: Pecos Hepatica SEALECT OF W1NDCREST 10427
Jubilee King Dam: Janee Golite
Age. 8 yrs. Color: Brown Height: 14.3
RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION HARNESS HORSE, NATIONAL MORGAN SHOW,1957 RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION HARNESS HORSE, MID-ATLANTIC MORGAN SHOW, 1957 RESERVE CHAMPION STALLION, MID-ATLANTIC MORGAN CLUB Although not shown to collect points, Sealect of Windcrest received fourth place in the American Horse Shows Ass'n. High Score Awards for 1957.
TERMS: Private Treaty
Mares boarded at nominal fees; unexcelled facilities for visiting ma•e,-. V O O R H I S FARM RED HOOK, NEW YORK Gordon Voorhis, Owner Fred Herrick, Trainer 6 inches in front of saddle. Rider should he erect but relaxed with heels 1. Jockey seat (monkey-on-a-stick) originated by Tod Sloan. down, legs hanging naturally, not Used entirely on race horses. No reference books. drifting back in saddle or letting legs point forward. The aid used almost 2. Forward (Italian) seat, originated by Caprilli. A simple entirely is the hands. There should rigid seat for impossible horses, especially for jumping. Used with be gentle flexion and light contact, knee-roll Italian style saddle. Heels down, toes out so that sole with the horse always up in the bridle. of foot is visible from in front. Body, upper leg and lower leg It may be seen that the Equitation 4 seat is very subtle and calls for the at right angles to each other, body inclined forward about 45 degrees highest degree of training on the part so that rider is virtually locked in to saddle. Hands little used, of the horse and rider. As horse and flexion begins at elbow, so any subtlety of rein signal is impossible. rider approach perfection, the Balanced a. Reference — Riding Forward and many other books by San- seat merges inperceptibly into the 0 Equitation scat whenever collection is § tini. This seat has been largely abandoned. F called for. 3. Balanced seat originated by U. S. Cavalry. Described above. Skipper Bartlett had Steve Burns 4 ee demonstrate the Show seat briefly, Reference.— FIorsemastership, Self. showing maximum brilliance of action 0 4. Hunter seat — the AHSA recognizes a Hunter seat but a on the part of the horse. In the Show co seat, toes are forward, weight is back does not describe it. Mrs. Gray described the "toe-and-kidney" on the cantle, hands are much heavier seat, in which the rider sits as if in a chair with his weight on the than Equitation seat. There is no aca- horse's kidneys, and his upper leg horizontal so knee is near top of '2 demic basis for it and it is not taught 0• saddle. It has no academic basis and is not taught anywhere, but a anywhere. is widely used by hunters and polo players. There was a display of books and magazines too numerous to list. 5. Equitation (Saddle) seat described above by Skipper Bart- Many of the spectators took advan- lett. This is the Equitation seat recognized and described by the tage of the opportunity to ride and AHSA rule book. have a few minutes of instruction with the two discussion leaders. 6. Show seat described above. No references, this seat is not Resume of different seats, ranging taught. in order from maximum speed - to maximum high action.
We, the charter members are proud to announce the organization
of THE MID-AMERICA MORGAN HORSE CLUB INC. Mr. Harry Andre Mr. Ton: Ingold Mr. William Barton Mrs. Susan Ingold Mrs. William Barton Mr. William Ingold Miss Peggy Barton Mrs. June Ingold Miss Patsy Barton Mr. George Kinsman Mr. Paul Beekman Mrs. Edith Kinsman Mrs. Margaret Beekman Miss Sylvia Kraus Mr. Robert Behling Mr. Harold Meyer Mrs. Jane Behling Mr. Donald McDaniel Mr. Harry Cleveland Mr. Jerome O'Grady Mrs. Melba Cleveland Mrs. Mary Robinson Miss Elise Heinz Mr. Leonard Schmitt Mr. Robert Hoburg Miss Darlene Schmitt Mrs. Joan Hoburg Mr. Robert Stahl Mrs. May Ingold Mrs. Beverlee Stahl President MR. LEONARD SCHMITT
Vice-president Secretary Treasurer MR. ROBERT STAHL MRS. MARGARET I3 EEK MAN MR. HAROLD MEYER
Directors
MRS. WILLIAM BARTON MR. ROBERT B E HUNG MR. TOM I NGOLD MRS. EDITH KINSMAN MRS. BEVERLEE STAHL MRS. JANE B EHLING (publicity) I6th National attraction," something of unusual in- Ohio terest involving Morgans. The manage- (Continued from Page 28) (Continued from Page ment would like to hear from anyone 27) First step will be to have two rings who could provide entertainment such to be broken and the further he pro- in operation part of the time, which as: a Morgan dressage exhibition (can gressed in training, the more evident will give the grandstand spectator a you hear me, Payday?), a cutting it became that he had all the qualities better break and allow time for steps horse demonstration, a drill team on for a show horse. Somehow, and no two and three. Morgans. or a celebrity interested in one recalls just how, Ed and Tom de- Morgans. Word has just been received cided to enter him in the Midwestern Step two involves additional classes that the Seabrook Four-in-hand will for amateurs and some with good spec- Show at Columbus, where as a three be with us again this year through the year old he took Reserve Grand Cham- tator appeal. Last year's "Country kindness of Mr. John Seabrook, and in Driving" will be a "Gay Nineties" pion in the western Morgan perform- the capable hands of Mr. John Whi- ance class. That started him off on class this year, with emphasis on cos- taker will lend incomparable color tumes and vehicles. Entrants will be his career. and interest. For the past two years he has been asked to parade once in addition to Step four will be a special effort showing in the class. The same vehicle shown by Toni who is his legal owner, toward publicizing the show among not Ed. At out of state shows he will be eligible for the pleasure driv- horse-minded people. You as Morgan ing classes in which the horses will be placed second in English performance enthusiasts have a responsibility to the at the Justin Morgan Club's all-Mor- judged as smart carriage horses, ama- show and to the breed and that is to teurs to drive. Mrs. Carter is work- gan show in Michigan as well as do some consructive thinking in the second in the stake class. He was first ing on problems connected with these next few days and pass the results driving classes, including the job of in fine harness and second in English along to Box 632, Amherst, Mass. Do performance at Michigan State Fair. rounding up vehicles. She would like you know of an interesting Morgan to hear from those of you who are in- He wound up his show season by win- exhibition? Do you know where pub- ning Grand Champion Morgan Stal- terested in what may eventually be- licity should be placed to reach a large come a revival of the "heavy harness" lion at the Ohio Western Horse Asso- number of potential Morgan enthus- ciation's Fall Round-Up in Marion. classes. Western horsemanship under iasts? We have some pretty wonder- 18, and two classes for geldings, under ful merchandise and shall make every Not only has Devan Chief rated and over amateurs to ride, will round effort to display it attractively; now high as a show horse, but he has sired out the additions. let's get lots and lots of people coming a number of fine colts. Millsboro Step three will be to have a "gate through those gates. (Continued on Page 32)
REMEMBER THESE DATES FOR THE 1958 National Morgan Horse Show JULY 25, 26, 21 Tri-County Fairgrounds, Northampton, Massachusetts CENTRAL STATES MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC. — Slogan —
17 " Mcf2ilaK I-Veadau
The object of this Club is to encourage and promot e the breeding and use of registered Morgans as versatile pleasure horses; to standardize the requirements and specifications for showing and judging; to exchange ideas on and promote knowledge of the Morgan Horse for all owners, breeders and Morgan enthusiasts, wherever they may be.
Sect. & Treas. President Directors LAVERNE MILLER RON HAYWARD C HARLEN E CUSTER Publicity Sect. Vice-President PAT HAYWARD EVE OAKLEY RAE MILL ER HOWARD BOWERS Historian DAVE CUSTER DOROTHY COLBURN LARRY OAK LEY Club Mail Address: 285 W. 55th St., Westmont, Ill. Join The Central States Morgan Horse Club, Inc. Ohio Show at East Lansing will take place on April 4th and 5tth. This horse /04 c4ampion4ip (Continued from preceding page) show is managed by the Block and Chief, one of his colts, placed second Bridle Club members in cooperation MaNan . . in two year old fine harness at the with the Animal Husbandry Dept. National Morgan Show. "Little Chief" This year, as last, they are asking for VITAMINERAL as he is called by Tom, was also win- exhibitions put on by outstanding ner of the Michigan Two-year-old breeds of horses from the state of EQUINE Futurity driving class and Junior Michigan. The Morgan breed will Grand Champion Morgan Stallion at again be putting on a fine harness ex- SUPPLEMENT FEED the Saginaw, Michigan, show. hibition. We feel this fine harness Devan Chief is now stabled at home class is quite a crowd pleaser inasmuch and will stand at stud, besides sharing as it is the only one of its kind in show duties with his ambitious son, the show. This special exhibition will Millsboro Chief this year. take place on Friday evening, April Congratulations to a fine stallion 4th. and a fine showman — Devan Chief Members of the Block and Bridle and Torn Mattox. Club who are University students are permitted to borrow outside horses for their events. Dean Scoggins, a mem- Justin Morgan Assn. ber of this organization and trainer (Continued from Page 24) during the summer months for Woods truly again presiding as Secretary. As and Water Farms, will borrow Kane's Parade, champion Morgan shown in the past five years the show will Walthor and enter him in 7 or 8 here with owner J. Cecil Fer- again be held at Woods and Water classes. guson of Greene, Rhode Island, Farms, South Lyon, on Sunday, Aug. The very sad news of the Lyman keeps in top condition with Vita- 31st. This makes an ideal date for Orcutt fire dropped like a bomb-shell mineral Equine Supplement Feed the show as it gives the ehxibitors in our midst and everyone in this lo- as an ingredient of his daily chance to show at Linden on Sept. 1st, cality expresses their deepest sorrow ration. the Michigan State Fair for five days for Lyman's unreplaceable loss of his starting Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, and sixteen Morgans. To build and maintain the sta- then on to the Saginaw Fair beginning mina, strength and capabilities Sept. 8th for a week. Letters traditional in the Morgan breed, Several members of the Justin Mor- today's nutrition-conscious owner gan Horse Association attended the An- (Continued from Page 5) cannot rely upon natural feeds nual Meeting and Banquet of the Mich- Dear Sir: alone. Lack of any of the essen- igan Horse Shows Association held at I was very much interested to read tial feed elements can result in the Civic Center in Lansing on Feb. 2. the letter sent in by Edythe and George a nutritional deficiency impairing Approximately thirty 1957 Michigan Russell in your December issue, in the animal's condition or per- Championship Trophy Awards and the which they wonder why the Morgan formance. same number of Reserve Champion- horse is not represented in greater More and more veterinarians are ships were presented. In the Morgan numbers in the state of Maryland, etc. recommending Vitamineral Division, Quiz Kid owned by Gerald Speaking for myself, I can say that Equine Supplement Feed to bal- Taft won the Morgan Horse Cham- it has been a lifelong dream of mine ance the ration of Morgan horses pionship, the Reserve going to John to own a registered Morgan mare, but under their supervision. It's a Geddes, owned by Walter and Rheda what with the price of breeding stock concentrated supplement — just Kane. John Geddes won the Open and the cost of shipping from New two ounces will provide your Western Pleasure Horse Championship England to Maryland, my dream must Morgan with 50 milligrams of with Commanchie Jr., a Quarter horse remain a dream until our three children Riboflavin, plus the recommended owned by Tom and Georgia McKinley have completed their education. daily supplement of vitamins A, taking the Reserve honor. The Mich- Horse owners are definitely increas- D2, D3, calcium, phosphorus and igan Horse Show Association has de- ing in numbers in my own neighbor- vital trace minerals. Ask your cided to have two Morgan Champion- hood and I hope someday to be able veterinarian. ships next year — Morgan Under Eng- to introduce the Morgan horse to this lish Tack and Morgan Under Western section of Maryland. Vitamineral Equine Supplement Tack. Sincerely, Feed is available in 25 lb. and 100 James Donahue was elected the Mary K. Howeth lb. drums — through your veter- Michigan Horse Show Association's McDaniel, Maryland inarian only. new President. We were all very pleased to hear Dear Sir: Vitamineral Gerald Taft has arrived home from We would like to tell the readers of the hospital after a successful operation the Morgan Horse Magazine, that we Products Company and we all wish him a speedy recovery. have purchased from Mr. Robert D. Peoria, Illinois The 10th Annual Michigan State Riley, Delta, Iowa, a Morgan stallion, University Block and Bridle Horse Julio 9071, also Keomah Kay 09805 32 The MORGAN HORSE 4 month old filly half-sister of Linda Jeanne Mellin Dee 09458, Linda Dee was first in :SEND FOR THIS (Continued from Page 17) one year old mare class and Reserve Champion Mare, Illinois State Fair, busy young lady has, for fun, "because 1957. I can't work in color at night," sat We already had a Morgan mare, down and put all her talent into a gift of thirteen sketches for the Morgan Make money with which was ridden in parades in Fron- horses. Every farmer. Magazine to use whenever they wish every lover of horaefleah should have tier Days, Cheyenne, Wyo., Greely a copy of this booklet. II you Want and need a sketch to make any article to know how to break, train and Rodeo at Greely, Colorado, Boulder make mosey with bones, wrifeloday Pow Wow, Boulder, Cob., Rooftop more attractive. This is measuring for frill Infornothan FREE, together will; my special offer of a Warne In "devotion to sport" with a most gen- Animal Breeding. If you are inter- Rodeo, Estes Park, Cob., by Miss eated In Galling and Riding the erous and overflowing ladle! The saddle horse cheek here.° Do file - Lynne Seybold, Estes Park Rodeo day—now. Yorall neer regret U. Queen, 1957. magazine will publish these sketches, for your enjoyment and pleasure BEERY SCHOOL OPHORSEMANSHIP My husband rode this mare in Parade throughout the New Year. One is Pleasant RIM Ohio, U. S. A. at Larimer County Fair, Loveland, going to he a permanent addition to Colo. We were very proud of her the New England News. performance. These Morgans are prized as he could be with his new friends very highly by us. Morgan lovers everywhere are deep- ly indebted to Miss Mellin, and grate- (his girl-friends, especially), he could We would like to hear from some ful for her unique sportsmanship; not seem to shake the asthma that had Morgan breeders. for her skill, devotion and generosity been with him since the preceding We intend to purchase several regis- to Morgans. spring. During the next summer tered Morgan mares. Our dream of Napier was wheezing constantly, the future is to raise Beautiful Mor- coughing frequently, and was begin- gans. ning to lose weight in spite of in- Bill and 011ie Mae Dansby You Wonder You creased feed. He was apparently be- Riverview Cabins (Continued from Page 21) coming tolerant to drugs used to im- Estes Park, Colo. prove his breathing since his response and climaxed the 1954 season by plac- was not nearly as good as a year ago. ing in the lightweight division of the If allergy was involved a cause could hundred-mile trail ride. not be found. This fall, on November The Chronicle, Inc. What happens in the life of many 23, 1957, after fourteen and a half Middleburg, Virginia a horse happened to Napier — Nan years of a useful and good life, Napier went to college. For two years he was put to rest in Amherst, Mass., An illustrated weekly devoted to stayed home and waited her return in under the careful supervision of "Doc" all Thoroughbred sports - Racing, June. The summer of '55 they went Smith and Steve. The Smiths and the Steeplechasing, Foxhunting, to camp, and Napier's human rival Bigelows miss their friend; but, as he Beagling, Polo, Horse Shows, arrived on the scene. The next year is comfortable, they are happy. Euitation and Junior Activities. the Bigelows felt that Napier needed Perhaps the thing they remember $7.00 per year companionship and exercise, and the the most about Napier is his Morgan- R. E. Smiths of Pelham, Massachusetts Space and classified rates on ness — his friendly way of being mis- wanted a gelding as a stable-mate for request. chievous, his winning personality, his Steve's mare, Lady Pelham. Napier quiet disposition. His hope, they know, Name seemed to fit their needs; the Bigelows is that other high school freshman girls Address were assured of Napier's good for- (and any other "kids") who want a tune; so he went to live with the friend and some real good times will Smiths. Although he was as happy remember a Morgan.
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION South Woodstock. Vermont Sponsors: The Famous Annual 100 Mile Trail Ride. The Annual Horsemanship Clinics The Upper Valley Pony Club Publishes: The Green Mountain Horse Association Quarterly Magazine. Maintains: Grounds, Stables and Marked Bridle Trails over lovely Vermont riding country, for the use of Association members. Has Available: A list of books of interest to all persons interested in horses.
.association membership, including a subscription to the Magazine, is available foo as little as 5 . 5.00 per year. Your inquiries will be welcomed. Please write to: THE GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION South Woodstock, Vermont North Central This way you will be assured of noti- 3 most popular breeds in their territory fication of all Morgan gatherings in they write that Colfield has created (Continued from Page 15) our area. Plans are under way at considerable interest in Morgans a daughter of Rayrette is the only present for a Spring trail-ride. among the owners of the afore- Morgan Miss Nichols has left. mentioned breeds. Another new Morgan owner is Please do not forget that, even giv- George Gianoulis of Minneapolis, who New England ing you the quickest possible service, bought Dave Wall's, Chipalee Laddie. news which you put into the mail the We would like to extend an invita- (Continued from Page 19) day after you read this, cannot reach tion to all new Morgan owners to join white sock. The Frenches own the the readers until the May issue. Typ- our North Central Morgan Association. mare, Reveille, whom they have shown ing, mailing, setting up the magazine, Too often we fail to get complete ad- quite a bit, especially at our National proof-reading, printing and then again, dresses when you have bought your and at Connecticut shows. mailing the magazine all take time, Morgans and so cannot contact you. particularly as they must be done ac- However, if you will write or phone These two sales leave Mrs. Towne with only one weanling, the filly curately. We are proud that we can our secretary Mrs. Louis Nasseff, offer our readers such fresh news, and County Rd., B and Gohlke Rd., St. Towne-Ayr Rondo. This one is also by old Rob Roy and is out of Mrs. we want to keep it up to date. If you Paul, she will be happy to accept your send in your news the minute it hap- dues and issue you a membership card. Bryant's old mare, Lusealect, the honored producer of 100% filly foals! pens, we will be able to get it printed Mrs. Towne expects to keep this one that much sooner. for future use in the broodmare band there in Montpelier. HORSE MAGAZINES Last July, just a few days before the Ohio National show, Mrs. Joy Brennan of "For Your Reading Pleasure" (Continued from Page 14) West Medway, Mass., purchased the gelding, Star's Hope. To quote, "He's yearling, Don Denique, from Nancy Per coming along—goes like a son of a Wolfe of S. Byfield. He was bred by Year gun." He'll be in the show ring the Townshend Morgan-Holstein Farm this season. Morgan Horse, mo. 3.50 and he is sired by Orcland Vigildon The Maryland Horse, mo. 2.00 out of Townshend Panabell (Panfield- During the discussion we found that Horse World, mo. 5.00 Tinkerbell). Mrs. Brennan is eagerly there will be at least seven junior Mor- Horse, the magazine of, by, and for anticipating showing him this year, gans ready to be shown this season. people who like horses, now They include the above mentioned bi-mo., 12 issues for 6.00 particularly as she missed an oppor- Star's Hope, Jus-Sue, and Crown Horseman's Ad-Visor, the all-breeds tunity to show him last year at the publication, mo. 3.50 National by so few days. Jewel and also Tom Mattox's Mills- The Horseman, all breeds for boro Chief being trained under Thorn- Ohio and Pa., mo. 3.00 Quebec, Canada ton Carr, Jim Gardner's Abbie Gra- Blood Horse, wkly, thoroughbreds 7.00 Your New England correspondents ham, Doris Nelsen's Devan Dale, The Thormighbred Record, wkly. 7.50 are very proud to have had some of and Don Shook's Devan Pambroke. Thoroughbred of Calif., mo. 4.00 the Canadian Morgan owners send Central Ohio is not alone in bring- The Thoroughbred of Canada 4.00 their news to us. It is more and more ing out juniors. OWHA will see a Rocky Mountain Thoroughbred, apparent that the Morgan breed is gain- few too. The Brackmans are readying 10 issues 2.50 ing a following north of the border, their Sugar Run King while his full The Chronicle, the Thoroughbred in and we hope there will soon be enough sport—hunting, jumping flat brother, Merrylegs Allen is under the racing, etc. 7.00 Morgans there to deserve their own watchful eye of Joe Bukey at Sugar The Western Horseman, mo. 3.50 special space in our magazine. Mean- Run. Merrylegs is a coming three Hoofs and Horns, mo., Rodeos 3.00 while, we are honored to include their year old that is causing a lot of Horse Lover, bi-mo., 10 issues 3.00 news in this column. favorable comments. Nevin Combs of Saddle and Bridle, mo. 7.00 Mr. and Mrs. Graham Bockus of Wooster says he has two young ones National Horseman, mo. 7.00 Foster, Quebec, own the two year old and possibly a third that he is train- American Shetland Pony Journal stallion, UVM Colfield, by Stanfield ing for Crabapple Valley Farm. He mo. 3.00 out of Marionette. Mr. and Mrs. also said that he has attained a Junior Your Pony 3.00 Bockus have invaded several shows in Class for Morgans 4 years and under at Palomino Horses, mo. 3.00 the States very successfully, and have their Wooster Show. Over at Parkers- Arabian Horse News, 10 issues 3.00 also shown Colfield at the Brome Fair burg, West Virginia, the Ray Jones' The Quarter Horse Journal, mo. 3.00 in Canada, but he is the only Morgan have a coming three year old, Capt. Turf & Sport Digest, mo. 5.00 in their area so they have to come McCutchin, to bring out. This south to find other shows than Brome youngster has already made himself Rush Your Order Today! that offer Morgan competition. They known in that area as he has placed Remit in any way convenient to you. hope to attend more shows again this many times in open colt classes. Look Make checks and money orders payable to coming season, in spite of the diffi- for these juniors, it will be something MAGAZINE MART culty of getting across the border with new in Ohio, and a good indication of Dept. M. H. livestock. Although Arabians, Ameri- more Morgans out showing in the P. 0. Box 1288 Plant City, Florida can Saddlebreds, and Hunters are the future.
34 The MORGAN HORSE Another stallion out this year that Quiz Pedler is one to watch is Devan Diamond by (Continued from Page 11) (Continued from Page 12) Captor, owned by Mrs. Dorothy Wright of Mt. Vernon. He was pur- Vermont 100-mile ride has been es- support his horse. If he could get his chased as a two year old from Crab- tablished, it has twice been won, in cows to take to the snow fields it apple Farm and is the popular dark 1953, and 1954, by what registered chestnut. Trained by Miles Hines in Morgans? would save fighting them up through the brush and the tangle of downed as- the fall, Mrs. Wright hopes for a 9. Two registered Morgan mares successful season. have each won two times the Light- pens, and it came to him that if he weight Division of the GMHA 100- rode to the top and slid his horse back Mrs. John W. Junk's Sugar Run mile ride. Name these mares. down over the same tracks it might Farm has sold the broodmare Red 10. In the past five years, three make trail enough to tempt the herd Jewel 06357 to Mrs. Marvin Zollars registered Morgan geldings have won across the snow. Beyond the pass his of Millersburg, Ohio. The farm has the lightweight division of the 100- climbing would be done, and in the just two more stud colts for sale at mile ride, one of them twice. Name bottom of the draw on the other side this time. these three geldings. was his homestead waiting for him, This writer always welcomes the and the cabin he was going to build. news. Any news items may be sent ANSWERS The nagging thought was in him to Mrs. Sam Brackman, Holly Hill, that if the drifters were going to make Jackson, or Mrs. Henry Nelsen, 2780 1. Shepherd F. Knapp, 3320 their try he wished it would come soon. Graig Dr., Akron 13, Ohio, or Mrs. 2. Bradford's Telegraph 1279 He had no yearn to have the worry and Joe Bukey, Sugar Run Farm, Mt. 3. Ethan Allen 50 the tension in him and the thought Sterling, Ohio. 4. Coleman's Eureka 451 that they might come back while he 5. Wonderman 7671 was building his home. If there would 6. Dolly 02949 he a fight he wanted it over and if he Central States 7. Lippitt Morman 8211 came out on the short end of it 8. Mademoiselle of Windcrest 07732 (Continued from Page 13) the wonder came to him again, and Quorum 9423 would someone find him before 9. Sadwin 04746 (in 1951 and 1945) cooperate to build the Central States the predators had mauled him and and Friendly 04963 (1942, 1943) scattered his clothes along the moun- Morgan Horse Club into a strong ser- 10. Max 08010 (1952); Soneldon 8737 vice organization for the Morgan (1953,1954); Quorum 9423 (1955) (Continued on Page 39) horse and his owners. For informa- don, just turn to our club ad in this issue and drop a line to one of the officers, who will be glad to answer any of your questions.
CALIFORNIA MORGANS During my recent trip to the West Coast, I had the opportunity to see ELECTRIC the Morgans of Mrs. Mel Morse, West Fetlock and Ear Covina, California. Here, I saw the handsome 4 year old stallion, Flight CLIPPER Admiral. His sire, Top Flight, a son of Flyhawk and out of Sentola has returned to Highview Farm at Paw- nee, Illinois and will be shown this summer by Mrs. Greenwalt. Flight Admiral's dam, Highview Honey, was returned to Mrs. Greenwalt's Farm If you want one of the finest, handiest ready to show. Fits comfortably even in 1956 in an exchange of mares, Pap- stable tools ever made, just send this in a small hand, as it's only 6" long. illon being shipped to the West Coast card and let me send you one of these Has a 7.'4' rubber covered cord. Fac- and she is now in foal to Flight Ad- fine clippers made by WAHL. It's tory guaranteed for 1 year. For use miral. Honey was shown successfully quiet—hardly makes a sound. You on 110-volt, 60 cycle alternating cur- during 1956 and 1957 and is now in can use it to trim any horse's fetlocks rent, and it's only $12.85—if you like and ears and easily keep him looking Michigan at Wen lock Farm. There it after you try it. was also a very lovely coming two "little joe" Wiesenteld CO. Dept. N 16 Baltimore 1, Md. filly, Sheena, by Townshend Gay- "little joe": Please send me one of Name meade, and out of Lustre that Mrs. these Electric Clippers, at your ex- pense, on approval. If I don't want to Address Greenwalt had recently shippeod to keep it, send it back, at your ex- pense, in 5 days and owe you nothing. City Zone Mrs. Morse. I also saw King Sho- Otherwise, you may hill me just shone by Plains King, a popular $12, 85. Also send me your catalog. Store References parade stallion of a few years ago, now eighteen years of age and a gelding. MARCH, 1958 35 BREEDERS' LISTING
BIG BEND FARMS 1 MEETING WATERS MORGANS THREE WINDS FARM Winnebago Illinois A are bred for type, disposition, good AT STUD legs and feet, as well as high percent- The Home of age of the original blood. Dyberry Billy 9649 I I Sire: Lippiii Billy Ash 7724 NORTHERN ILLINOIS TOP I At Stud I Dam: Lippiii Miss Nekomia 04938 MORGANS I JUBILEE'S COURAGE 8983 Gold Band Come Sec: Our Future Stars I LIPPITT ASHMORE 10811 Home of Visitors Always Welcom e BLACK SAMBO DENNISFIELD I FRANCES H. BRYANT MRS. WM. W. BARTON South Woodstock, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Noble 1806 National Ave., Rockford, Ill. I (Serenity Farm) I R.D. 2, Clark's Summit, Pa.
BAR-T FARMS WIND-CREST 1 1 ASHBROOK FARM Rowley Massachusetts Home of 1 Breed to the Best! I Morgans of quality and true type. I At Stud If you want champions, come to AT STUD I LIPPITT SAM TWILIGHT 8085 the home of champions. Orcland Leader True Morgan in looks, action and I pedigree. Sire: Ulendon Dam: Vigilda Burkland I Visitors "Weiconic. MR. and MRS. F. 0. DAVIS Colts usually for sale. High percentage young stock usually for sale. Windsor, Vermont MARGARET RICE Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Tompkins Roekbotiorn Lodge Meredith, N. H..
KENNEBEC MORGAN HORSE RICHARDS RANCH FARM I HIGHVIEW FARM I South Woolwich, Maine I I AT STUD: Mailing Address Flyhawk — Senator Graham Useful Morgans for I R. F. D. No. 2, WISCASSET I I Townshend Gaymeade Pleasure, Work and/or Show. I Owner I MISS MARGARET GARDINER I Morgans of all ages for sale. I I Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt Pine City, N. Y. Manager I TAMES F. DUNTON Pawnee, Illinois I I (near Springfield)
.41 Mid-State Morgan Farm 1 TOWNSHEND MOSHER BROS. A Morgan-Holstein Farm I Morgan Horses V - I Horses bred for conformation, Size and Performance I Breeders of the True Type I Morgans of Classic Quality I 3 Top Stallions at Stud I CONDO I Home of DICKIE'S PRIDE I ORCLAND VIGILDON I COMMANDO MR. & MRS. PETER W. HUNT MELODY MORGAN 9119 Stock For Sale Amos, Howard, and Leo Mosher DeMott Rd., Middlebush, N. I. I Mr. & Mrs. ROGER E. ELA Phone Viking 4-2646 2124 East 7000 South Bolton, Mass. a Salt Lake City 17, Utah
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WASEEKA FARM MAR-LO FARM I WINTERS' STABLE Morgans For Sale Home of I "Home of Morgan Horses and I Verran's Laddie I Harlequin Danes" and other fine Morgans Visitors Welcome I I STAR OF VALOR Visitors are always Welcome I Sire: Jubilee's Courage I I Dam: Kitty Hawk MRS. POWER MR. & MRS. MILO G. DUGAN 1 MR. & MRS. ANNIS I 52373 West Eight Mile Road BARRE, MASS. Ashland, Mass. I Northville, Michigan V
S Just "MORGANS" That's All. Searls Springwater Flying S Ranch AT STUD: Gold Band Stallions / I MORGANS Archie "0 - Lippitt Jeep Stock Farm 7856 86728 I bred for Conformation - Disposition Gold Band Archie 10778 I Always glad to show our horses Sire: Archie "0 - 7856 and Dam: Sue Travelmore and Angus cattle. We are easy to I Performance Under Saddle For a Dependable Morgan — find, 5 miles west of Medora. Or In Harness Buy a Gold Band Morgan, I Stock Usually For Sale. O'NEILL'S MORGAN HORSE MR. & MRS. RAY SEARLS I STUART G. HAZARD FARM 1308 College Ave. Ora Jane O'Neill Stuart, Mgr. Medora, IIlinois I Topeka, Kansas MANTENO, ILLINOIS I
NM- I I MERRYLEGS FARM WOODS and WATER DAWNCREST I I FARMS Morgans For Sale I "The pleasure their owners take in I Michigan's Top Morgan Breeders our Morgans is a source of great I I pride to us." Largest Collection of Blue Ribbon Visitors Welcome I Winners in the Midtvest. I Stock For Sale I Morgans of all ages for sale including I I about 10 weanlings. Mr. & Mrs. Harold I. Allbee I I MABEL OWEN, owner WALTER and RHEDA KANE North Falmouth, Mass. I So. Dartmouth, Mass. South Lyon, Michigan
MOW MAPLE LAWN FARMS, INC. I MID-WEST'S HOME OF I Crabapple Valley Ashaway Tel. 2270 Rhoda Island CHAMPION AFTER CHAMPION I Farms AT STUD At Stud U. S. PANEZ I HYLEE FARMS 10 Top Stallions Possessing and Transmitting I WISCONSIN'S TOP MORGAN / Featuring one of the country's largest BREEDERS Type — Disposition — Versatility V I !argest hand of brood mares. Morgans of all ages for sale. Why not breed him to your mare? Visitors Welcome I I Sensibly Priced Registered Holstein and Guernsey Cattle. 1/1 Mr. & Mrs. Robert V. Behling I Owner: MERLE D. EVANS owners Fcr detuilod information, write to: Visitors Always Welcome I Mr. Floyd P. Appling, Mgr.-Trainer ROBERT W. STARN, Mgr. I R. D. 2, Beach City. Phone 4-3367 A. B. Gray, Pres. A. C. Drowne, Mgr. ! CAMBRIA, WISCONSIN I Wilmot, Ohio.
MARCH, 1958 37 FOR SALE: Registered Morgan mare, FOR SALE: Registered 3 year old bay Chyanne 06965. 11 years old, dark chest- Morgan stallion, Dude De Janett 0. Broke nut with connecting star and strip. A horse and way one of the finest in the Harness of Senator Knox, Knox Morgan, Mansfield CLASSIFIED and Under Saddle. Sire: Archie 0. Dam: and Dan Patch breeding. 4-H Grand Cham- Rythm Lovely Lady. E. C. McCLAIN & pion English Horse. JERRY JOHNSON. SON, Williamsburg, Indiana. Melody Acres, RR 3, Mason, Michigan. 100 per word 52.00 minimum FOR SALE: Chuck Allen Royal, Regis- FOR SALE: Handsome Morgan-Saddle- tered Morgan gelding. Sorrel with white bred English-type gelding, sired by Up- mane and tail. World of action. Fine wey King Peavine, 16 h.. 12 yrs.. copper Parade horse in which we use. Sire: chestnut, white strip, one white sock, FOR SALE: 7 year old registered Mor- Chuck Allen Royal. Dam: Ginger. E. C. rides and drives. Exceptional trotter. gan gelding. out of Upwey Casablanca McCLAIN & SON. Williamsburg, Indiana. Phone REpublic 6-8700, MRS. EDWARD by Starfire. Dark chestnut, delightful RUCINSKI 573 Birnie Avenue. West Spring- pleasure horse, well mannered. EVERETT REGISTERED MORGAN SALE: First field, Massachusetts. L. ROBERTS. Arnold Road, Pelham, Mass. North Central Morgan Assn. Sale. Many Phone Amherst Alpine 3.7408. mares and fillies. Send your concitments to P. C. Alfred Dorow, Springfield, Minn. FOR SALE: Volume one and two Mor- WANTED: Morgan mare 3-7 years old Sale to be held on April 12 at 12:00 noon gan Horse Register. Fair condition, Best who is a good prospect for showing. I'm at Window Sale Barn, Winton, Minn. offer takes, L. McLAUGHLIN, RI. 5. Box a 4-H Horse Club member, will provide 326, Puyallup, Washington. excellent home. Send description — Ad- REGISTERED Morgan Stallion and Mare: vise price. MISS SHEILA BURNS, 79 Hobart 6 years old, not related. both saddle and WANTED: Morgan mare, 15A, 100.mile Street, Danvers, Massachusetts. harness boke; mare to foal early. W. L. prospect. Willing to pay for quality. DOWNING, Amberg, Wis. Also Crosby field saddle with extended SITUATIONS WANTED: Agricultural col- rear panels. DEBORAH SEALEY, Stone WE OFFER THESE for sale this year: lege graduate, lifetime experience saddle Steps Farm. Bethel, Vermont, horses and hunters young woman, secre- Three year old filly, full sister to our best tary, desires position breeding-training broodmare. Two year old filly, the blocky old-fashioned sort. Yearling colt, smooth NEW ENGLAND BREEDING FARM will farm or resort. References. MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, Box BH, Leominster, and well-grown, with a very nice length purchase a registered Morgan brood more of neck. Four 1958 weanlings from proven Mass. or filly any age. State color, !reeding, producers and sired by the National Show age and price. BOX 743, Morgan Horse winners, Grand Champion Parade, Lip- FOR SALE: Black 4 year old, registered Magazine, Leominster, Mass. pitt Ashmore and Merry Knox. Telephone Morgan gelding. Broke to ride and drive. WYman 2.7424. MERRYLEGS FARM, So. Top breeding and conformation. Disposi- Dartmouth, Mass. "HOW TO TRAIN HORSES" — A hook tion cannot be beat, will also make an ex- everyone who likes horses should have. cellent show prospect. DR. R. W. VAN WANTED: Used four wheel, two horse FREE. No obligation. Simply address PELT, 8415 5, E. McLoughlin Blvd., Port- trailer with lights, brakes. etc. BOX 288. Beery School of Horsemanship, Dept. land 2, Oregon. Phone BElmont 6.7220. 1053.C, Pleasant Hill. Ohio. Salem, Massachusetts.
FOR SALE: Two year old Morgan stud. BREEDERS' LISTING Good prospect. Excellent show record. Also two-horse tandem trailer. ELINOR AMSHEY 1259 Orlando, Akron, Ohio. University MORO HILL MORGAN FARM I HERITAGE FARM 4-1472. Dyberry Ethan 10801 I I WANTED Morgan mares. Give breeding, Ideal in type and bloodlines The home of: I age, color, size, training, full details, price, I MRS. L. P. WILLIAMS, 487 E. Grand Ave., LIPPITT TILLY I Rahway, N. J. FOR SALE MARGARET "0" Registered MORGANS of all ages I I FOR SALE: Frosty Gale, registered 3 NORA TWILIGHT year old Morgan mare by the Airacobra I I out of Triconga, green broke to ride and Home of that Grand Old Mare HERITAGE LiPPitt Jeep Limpid Tilly drive and will foal to Ben Don in August. ALRITA 05147 I I Hunt Brake perfect condition. On your next outing drive, ride. or ski CRAFTS I I INN at Wilmington, Vermont for an en- FOX RIVER ROAD SILVER LAKE, WIS. HOWARD C. DOBLER joyable time $7 to S14. Mr. & Mrs. Chester F. Treftc I Clarence Center, New York I
H. SEEWALD I Suncrest Ranch I Kenyon's OCALA WILDERNESS FARM Morgan Horses I .1Iinn•sota's Largest Breeder I At Stud: Home of I At Stud I REDBERRY 9837 Stud I Little Hawk 11398 TRIUMPH 10167 l I SCARLET O'HARA 05347 Dam Sire: Devon Hawk 10573 Sire: Mentor 8627 Dam: Double H. Cindy 09221 I Stock for Sale I Dam: Damsel 04822 I I it Last a Morgan Stallion in Florida I A. N. PETERSON, gwner I Rte. #1, Box 462 I 10909 Radisson Road, N. E. I EARLE & LUCILLE KENYON AMARILLO, TEXAS e Minneapolis 21, Minnesota Altoona, Florida Pedler carbine fire, but the hammer came ran down from his rasped cheek to mat down on an empty shell, and he threw in his whiskers and filter on down (Continued front Page 35) in another, feeling the pressure of fad- under his shirt collar, and he pulled tainside? The thought was still with ing time and he caught the dark one back his sleeve and saw the long red him when he saw the tracks of shod in his sights. He squeezed the trigger wound there, and felt the burning of horses stamped plainly in the frozen and watched the pony die in mid- it and the burning of his lungs as he snow, angling across the field from stride, and the dark one came on pulled hard for the thin, cold air. And the left and the plainness of them said through the air to him, catapulted as he shook a little now, feeling some that they had not been stamped there the horse went end over. But the weak. But he had won his fight and during the thawing hours of yesterday. makeup of a man will show through, his cattle. and he could not fire again at the The tracks had been made after sun- He stood by his horse in the snowy man face down but waited for what down last night or early this morning, pass and watched his cows start down would come. The dark one was a man and they had come up the draw to the into the land beyond these tall moun- living by instinct now, the look of north. tains, and nearby the smoke billowed meanness and some alcohol in his face He gave a quick look to the skyline, up, thick and heavy and almost greasy as he knelt and clawed at his hip for close now above him, and drew the from the green boughs he had dragged the six gun there, his rifle lost in the thirty-thirty from its boot, levering a to the top. He knew that Noall would fall, but he never got off his shot, for see it across the distance, for it had shell into the chamber as he stepped mercy and gentleness left the cattleman from the saddle to have a look at the been smoking that way for over an as he pulled the trigger again. He prints. Snow jumped up in front of hour. He threw on the rest of the saw the light go out in the dark one's wood and turned again to watch his him and there came the flat bark of eyes and waited to watch no more cows and the new land. He leaned a rifle from above, and the far corner for cross fire came at him. He found of his mind told him that he was not against his pride and joy, twining his the other drifter, so strangely pale for fingers in the long mane, and feeling dead or he would never have heard the an outdoor man, above him and to the comfort of having him there. The report of the gun, and when he reached the left. There he knelt steadying wind was a steady push over the pass for his horse he missed his grab for his revolver across his other arm for from behind, but mild enough now the pony had spooked from the rifle his next shot, the excitement had in the sun. And it leaned against him fire. He was a quarter mile from cover, drawn him from his cover. The cattle- standing out the wings of his chaps, a dark target against the snow, and he man whirled and fired, hoping to spoil and it wrapped the pony's tail about ran diagonally down hill toward the the other man's aim. He could not his hocks, and he heard the quiet cry closest brush, ducking and dodging, remember how many times he had of it in the pines below. His name and swearing at the heavy flapping of pulled the trigger but allowed he would never be heard far off, nor his chaps, and feeling no real need of had one left. It was on its way into would his accomplishments be great. his spurs now. No fear was in him, the chamber when he heard the spat nor panic, only the wild want to live But he was a man, brown and leathery, of his slug and felt the burn along his and this land had a place for him to fill. and to save his cattle and horses. He forearm, and the report of the other heard the measured spanking of guns man's gun came to him. And he saw again, a rifle and a revolver this time, He thought again of the sorrowful the pale man spin and drop his revol- nester, and the wind-swept homestead and was suddenly lifted high out of ver and claw like a wounded cat back shack, and of the lopsided prospectors his crouching run by a numbing blow to cover, and again he could not shoot he had known. He thought of Noall at his boot heel where the leaden slug at a man who was not facing him. But with his rough hands and his hard had struck, pitching him face down the pasty one's courage had come from life. But he thought too of Noall's wo- into the snow where he plowed a fur- too short a bottle that morning and man and the way she looked at her row with his nose and cheekbone. And he quit the fight and was scrambling man, and the calm smile that was hers. even as he slid down the steep pitch through the low brush tangle to reach He knew of the black gnats that would he felt the deadness in his leg from the his horse, higher up in the trees, and plague him in he spring, and of the impact of the slug, and he felt the the cattleman moved after him, lame summer's head-bursting heat. Of abrasive snow granules wearing the on his bruised heel and numbed leg. drought and dust and rain and mud, flesh from his face like a shoeing rasp. But he dug his toes in and went up the and of deep winter snows. And he He remembered too to hang onto his steep pitch gaining on the man who knew of the knife-edged slashing winds carbine and he brought his face up out fought the thick brush, and when the that would stagger his horse and al- of the snow and swung around to roll, pale man had to cross a tiny clearing, fighting hard to check his speed, and most push him from the saddle. But the cattleman held his breath to steady he knew too of the white, white face the side of his vision showed him the and put a shot above him, turning him of a new horn calf, and the spraddled black haired drifter coming on fast, away from his horse and out to the legs of a colt. There would be fine horseback, putting spurs to his horse ridge, and watched him cross the sky- days and evenings warm by the fire, across the snowfield, trying to pinch line shortly above. When he crossed and the feel of a woman's hand on his him off from the cover of the brush. the ridge he could have cut his man He dug in with his knees, and elbows arm, and the single noted melody of down, shooting less than a hundred wide apart to stop his rush down the his mouth organ in the night. yards. But he watched and let him go, slope and came up kneeling, and he lame and unarmed, and horseless He stepped up onto his horse, stiff looked down his rifle sights and fired. He did not remember tripping the across the long miles. a little now, and sore as he followed trigger when he fell, or hearing the Only now did he feel the blood that his cows down from the mountain. 39 MARCH, 1958 GREEN MOUNTAIN STOCK FARM
Randolph, Vermont
liome at "fippitt" 7not9ans
Lippitt Morgans enjoy a very high percentage of Justin Morgan blood and are bred and offered for sale as pleasure horses.
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