T&e ^Morgan Jforse <JMagazine A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE Office of Publication SOUTH WOODSTOCK, VERMONT VOL. II MAY, JUNE, JULY, 1943 NO. 4 BEN ALI 7986 Chestnut: f. of May 17, 1936. THIRTEEN MORGAN STALLIONS PLACED BY Bred by Chas. A. Stone, Va. THE WAR DEPARTMENT Sire: Benign 7755 by Bennington 5693. Dam: Alda 04247 The following is a complete distribution list of Morgan stal lions: Stallion Agent Location ABBOTT C. B. Burton CofTcyvillc. Kan. NO MORGAN SHOW BOB ROMANESQUE R. W. Schaeffcr Hannibal, Mo. DELMONT Forest Bordelon Plaucheville, Fla. AND George Long Winter Haven, Fla. HAVEN Merle D. Evans Massillion. Ohio NO MORGAN SALE HAWK JIM Robt. M. Stockett Jackson, Miss. V1ANSCOT GLORY L. E. Wyman Due to the gasoline embargo affecting all pleasure driving and Vina, Calif. REVERE Saml. Hessclgesser Burwell. Neb. to the acute labor shortage in this area, it has been thought neces­ ROMANESQUE Pine Ridge Ind. Agency Pine Ridge, S. D. sary to call off the Morgan Horse Show and the Morgan Horse Hiebert Brothers Hillsboro, Kan. SWANTON Sale usually held in connection with the Trail Rides at Wood­ Leo Light Snowmass, Colo. TEHACHAPI ALLAN stock, Vt., and the Annual Meeting of the Morgan Horse Club (Awaiting Assignment) Front Royal, Va. ULYSSES H. D. Perry Hollywood, Fla. will be postponed. UPWEY BEN SCOTT Very truly yours, VIRGIL C. M. GREER, JR 2nd Lieut.. Q. M. C Assistant. War Department, Washington. TRAIL RIDES AS USUAL, SEPTEMBER 2, 3 and 4 For the Quartermaster General: It may be a mistake to say the Trail Rides this year will be "as usual"—all that can be said is that the Trail Rides will be held at Woodstock, Vt., on the above dates, under very modified conditions, since there is extreme shortage in man power at the SALT AND WATER SAVE HORSES! Inn Stables and for laying out trails, etc. But Doctor Johnson, head of the Green Mountain Horse Association, reports that out Overheating of horses and mules will not occur if the animals of many inquiries received about the 100-mile and the 50-mile are allowed free access to salt morning, noon and night, and are Rides, he expects there will be a dozen or so participants and given some water every hour while at work. since the 100-mile Trail Rides originated in Woodstock and are In blazing hot weather, when temperatures in the shade are nationally known, we should not abandon them and deny to 95° F. or above, temperature in the sun where horses and mules horsemen this vacation activity. are at work will often exceed 110° F. •r Horseback riding does not require gasoline, and riders can W. H. Forbes and R. E. Johnson of the Fatigue Laboratory, ride to Woodstock as part of the training, as was done by a win­ Harvard University, who have made exhaustive studies of sweat­ ner some years ago from Lake Placid. ing in men and animals, recently wrote Wayne Dinsmore, Sec­ This event is not a build-up to secure spectators, collect admis­ retary of the Horse and Mule Association of America, Inc., as sion money or share in any gambling racket—this is purely a follows: horse event, and as stated by Doctor Johnson: "A working horse must sweat profusely in hot weather to "It is designed primarily to stimulate greater interest in the keep cool. The sweat must be replaced if he is to continue work. breeding and the use of good saddle horses, possessed of stamina Sweat consists principally of water, but contains a significant and hardness and qualified to make good mounts for trail use." amount of salt, as well as minute and probably unimportant amounts of many other instances. As far as is known the water (aj To demonstrate the value of type and soundness and the and salt are the only ones which are lost in sufficient quantity to proper selection of horses for a long ride. require special consideration. (b) To learn and demonstrate the proper method of train­ "Salt is very important for maintaining the balance between ing and conditioning horses for a long trip. the various constituents of the body and between the fluids and (c) To encourage horsemanship in long distance riding. solids of the body. (b) To train and demonstrate the best methods of caring "Both water and salt are essential but water is the more for horses during and after long rides without the aid of arti­ important. The chief importance of salt is that it helps in main­ ficial methods or stimulants. taining the water balance in-the tissue of the body." The ride this year will terminate on Saturday, September 4 Men who see to it that their work animals have all the salt they in Woodstock instead of South Woodstock, Vt. For full infor­ want, and who take a barrel of water to the field and water their mation, entry blanks, etc., address Green Mountain Horse Asso­ horses or mules every hour in hot weather, do not lose horses ciation, Rutland, Vt. or mules from excessive heat. They are competent horsemen. PURE-BRED MORGANS SECRETARY HILLS QUESTIONS THE LIFE By an Old Timer PAINTING OF JUSTIN MORGAN In 1931, after voluminous correspondence with Mrs. Cushing "You asked for information of the Quarter Horse in this partHil l of Middlebury, Vt., and her cousin, Burton Thompson of of Illinois. If you will please turn to Volume III, Wallace's the West Jersey Corporation, Elizabeth, N. J., I purchased a American Trotting Register, page 92, you will find Banerges ch. painting of Black Hawk by Theo. Marsden. This painting foaled in 1841. You will find the starting point in the cham­ had been owned by David Hill who owned Black Hawk from pion Quarter Horse sire Roan Dick, for his dam traces to this about 1844 until his death in 1856. It is probable that David stallion. She was by Greenstreet's Banerges, he by Owen's Hill had the painting made since in 1855 he published copies Banerges. he by Lowrey's Benerges, he by Hyson Ackley's of an engraving or woodcut. I think these were supplements to Banerges. So far as to the dams of Greenstreet's Banerges and some agricultural publication such as the Rural New Yorker, Owen's Banerges, they were never given so far as I know. Low­ but I am not sure of this point. Mr. Charles A. Stone owned rey's Banerges dam was Jennie Crasson, a fine Quarter mare bred one of these prints which Whitney now has at Morven. I ran by Edward Lowrey at Norwich. N. Y. Foaled in June, 1937: onto a copy a few years ago and bought it for myself. These 3 golden chestnut; 15 4 bands high and weighed 1,175 lbs., with prints were from the painting which the Club now owns, and silver mane and tail. Second dam was Nellie, a stage mare, this painting is hanging in the outer office. It is a very bad foaled in 1811 by Fenton's Weasel, a Dutch horse owned by painting. Marsden certainly wasn't a horse painter. It is quite Richard W. Fenton of St. Johnsbury, Vt. As to the breeding possible that David Hill had him make a painting based on of Black Nick dam and sire Charley Stewart's Telegraph he was imaginative woodcuts or line drawings of Justin Morgan which sure a Quarter Horse. He was tried against anything that came probably may have been in existence when Black Hawk and along and was never beaten for a quarter of a mile. Their breed­ his sons achieved such a great reputation throughout the coun­ ing has never been given as far as I know. try. "Of course, there never existed a pure-bred Morgan save Justin No interest in the horse Justin Morgan was shown by anyone Morgan, or a pure-bred Hambletonian save Rysdyk's Hamble­ until Black Hawk and his sons acquired their reputation in the tonian. The descendants of each horse have been very much 1840s and 1850s. It seems almost certain that no one would interbred, but all have numerous out-crosses. Possibly the have taken the trouble to paint Justin Morgan in 1797. descendants of no stallion that ever lived have been so much It is possible that the painting which you have may be another inbred as those of Justin Morgan. But pure-bred Morgan or one of Black Hawk or of some of his get while he was owned pure-bred Hambletonian would not be true, no matter to what by David Hill. extent the inbreeding is carried. If Justin Morgan had been Green Mountain Morgan was a contemporary of Black bred to a full sister or his dam, and the produce interbred there Hawk and in Vermont a good deal of the time up to 1853 there might have been upon the earth a purebred Morgan. But apparently. Does the painting which you have resemble in any his sons and daughters were coupled and the process repeated respect the wood-cuts of Green Mountain Morgan, some of until today the Morgans as a family possess more of the blood of which I think are in Volume I of the Register and also in Linsley's their founder than any other family of horses. So much so that book? I wonder from what the woodcuts in Linsley's book a Morgan Stud Book is being published—something that was which are entitled Justin Morgan, Black Hawk, etc., were made? never undertaken for any other family of horses. There is a F.