(7AP February 1950 MORGAN HORSE dia#11412ne THE )!'[ORGANS AT TOWNSHEND A MORGAN i0ADSTER 'MAKING' MORGAN SHOW HORSES gp4illOitaah galtmd ARE OFFERING THESE TOP MORGANS FOR SALE SPRINGBROOK PEGGY 06988 SPRINGBROOK PATSY K. 07361 Dark chestnut 4 yrs. old Dark bay 3 yrs. old Every horse offered a blue ribbon winner Sire: Fillmore 7948 Darn: Golly 05029 Sire: justa 8498 Dam: Golly 05029 SPRINGBROOK WYNETTE 07843 SPRINGBROOK GOLADDY 07818 Light chestnut 2 yrs. old Bright bay 2 yrs. old 111110 1111111111111111111 illiii1111 Our overstock is rapidly being reduced don't wait Sire: Lipplit Moro Ash 8084 Darn: Wyntoon 05663 Sire: Springbrook Laddie 9228 Dam: Golly 05029 WE STILL HAVE TWO STALLIONS FOR SALE SPRINGBROOK SAM 9567 Red Roan 4 yrs. old. Sire: Justri 8408, Dam: Soneta 04816 SPRINGBROOK MOROSON 10248 Bright Bay 1 yr. old. Sire: Lippitt Moro Ash 8084, Dam: Soneta 04816 Sp2ig.420ah 45625 W. Eight Nile Road Bich. a F. TAFT, Owner FLOYD APPLING, A New Breeding Opportunity for discriminating MORGAN owners A Royal Bred LIPPITT Morgan Stallion Croydon Prince 5324 Ashbrook 7079 Nancy 03553 Lippitt Billy Ash 7724 Billy Hoffman 6043 Lippitt Sallie 04565 Mary Allen 03443 DYBERRY BILLY 9649 Moro 7467 I Lippitt Moro 7622 Croydon Mary 02900 Lippitt Miss NeKomia / 04938 Ashbrook NeKomia 7079 09489 Bridget 02852 Standing at ROLLING ACRES FARM — Athol, Mass. Write or Phone DR. RAY FESSENDEN, 415 Main St., Athol, Mass. Tel 875-W o^e 'd qt/at. IN TOWN OR COUNTRY with top performance and appearance FIRST — Chosen by Gene Autry as the Best Parade Horse out of a class of over 100, at the World's Champion- ship Rodeo street parade in Boston. FIRST — Winner of the Heavyweight Division at the Dartmouth Horsemen's Association 35 mile Trail Ride. FIRST - LIPPITT VICTORY looks Morgan and nothing else. His great versatility in parades or on the trails spells FIRST in Morgans. Breed your mares to VIC this spring With one foot parked and his attention in the direction of some pretty Radcliffe College girls, LIPPITT VICTORY is shown here enjoying himself during a political parade in Cambridge. Warren E. Patriquin __ 137 Westminster Ave., Arlington, Mass. fetteiteJ to the &titan "Morgans? Oh yes, but after all they're really only a buggy horse . ." Was it a buggy horse, Comanche, who fell grievously Discernment wounded at the little Big Horn but survived, and alone, the rear Sir: murderous onslaught of the Indians which took the life of In the December issue of the Morgan Custer and those of his entire command? Horse Magazine I noticed a great similarity Was it a buggy horse, Rienzi, which carried Sheridan at between the horse Superb in the print on mile-devouring pace from Winchester to stay a Union defeat? the cover and the horse on the masthead. Was it a placid harness nag which bore the dauntless The form of the two horses is very much Confederate girl dispatch rider in her heroic dashes? c.like as far as the detail will allow. is It No. Your Morgan may be a tractable animal, docile in possible that the horse on the masthead harness and willing to reel off his ten miles an hour drawing was gotten from that print? a cart or road wagon. But never forget, that is but one of the 1 enjoy the Morgan Horse Magazine very facets of his many-sided usefulness. much—especially since the new form was started. Back of that docile disposition, compliance to man-made Sincerely, rigs, is the fierce courage of the barbs of Araby—the will to Ann Koch win which carried many a desert sheik to war—and back. 4 Orkney Court The Morgan has a glorious background as a horse of Baltimore 12, Maryland war. He was tough; he could live on little or nothing and he (The horse in the masthead of the Mor- could give all when the need arose. gan Horse Magazine is Superb. We con- The spark of life in your Morgan today is as staunch as gratulate a very discerning reader who we it was in 16-year-old Comanche as he lay, terribly wounded might mention is a close student of the while General Custer and all around him died. Comanche Morgan type in order to make this identifi- was nursed back to health by a sentimental group of soldiers cation possible. Ed.) and lived to a ripe, respected—and decorated—old age. Rienzi was the personal mount of General Phillip H. Sheridan since the day he was given to him. Rienzi was Black Hawk Blood jet black with three white feet, 16 hands high and strongly Dear Sir: built. He had great powers of endurance and was so gaited I am enclosing a couple of pictures of that he could cover five miles an hour at his natural walk. horses. These pictures will give you some Sheridan rode Rienzi continuously in every campaign and idea as to what kind I am trying to pro- battle in which he took part, without once finding him over- duce. I like horses of good size and of unquestionable good disposition. Horses come by fatigue, although on many occasions the horse's that are both able and willing to strength was severely taxed by long miles and short rations. do a hard job. I only raise a few colts The "all-out demand" on Rienzi was made when he was each year, but I am a sticker for horses a youngster of four. On that day in 1864, Sheridan had just that can and will do the job expected of learned of the Union rout at Cedar Creek, twenty miles from them. Winchester where he had spent the night. The General, one The enclosed pictures are just amateur of the most famous horsemen in the Union army, leaped to snapshots taken of horses in their every Rienzi's back to start what has long been considered one of day using condition—description on back the most gruelling rides of all time—a twenty-mile gallop. of pictures. I believe this young stallion Black Winter "But there's a road from Winchester town carries as high a per cent of Black Hawk "A good broad highway leading down: blood as any other horse living today. "And there through the flash of the morning light, Yours truly, "A steed as black as the steeds of night Clark Ringling "Was seen to pass with eagle flight." P. O. Box 188 Lovelock, Nevada And the blood of old Justin carried him on through the deathless stanzas of that memorable poem until: Plug For Pictures "He dashed down the line mid a storm of huzzas "And the wave of retreat checked its course there Dear Sir: because Congratulations on the success of the "The sight of the master compelled it to pause." new Morgan Horse Magazine. I just love the picture section. I really think that it's On the monument which commemorates the event can wonderful. be read the line which buoys Morgan owners along today: Yours truly, Donna Muzzy "Be it said in letters bold and bright 2700 Almar Rd. "Here is the steed that saved the day Grants Pass, Oregon "By carrying Sheridan into the fight (Continued on Page 30) "From Winchester-20 miles away." ,lie MORGAN OUR COV Eau Table of Contents Special Articles Editorial Page 4 The Morgans at Townshend 6 Why A Morgan Futurity? 8 Light Horses & Their Place in N. E. 9 An Old Morgan Roadster 10 'Making' Morgan Show Horses 12 News from the Northwest 15 New England Morgan Horse Assn. Meeting 21 Morgan Horse Assn. of the West 21 National Stallion Show 22 Recent Morgan Sales 22 Morgan Marker 23 Sierra Madre Trail Ride 25 Why Own A Morgan 33 Regular Features Lippitt Mandate 8331, by Mansfield out of Lippitt Kate Moro. Letters to the Editor 4 The Vet Says 14 Probably no Morgan stallion living to- Young Enthusiast 16 day has traveled as many miles and Breeze from the Great Lakes 17 earned as many different honors as has Pictorial Section 18-19 this personality-plus little chestnut. Born New England News & Notes 30 at Green Mountain Farm, Randolph, Vt., Stable Hints 34 in 1940, he moved in 1943 to Carts-Haven Farm in West Springfield, Mass.; in 1945 he moved, with the farm, to Lexington, Ky.; Officers of the Moran Horse Club mistress, Marilyn G. Carlson of Carts-Haven and In 1947 he moved again with his President MERLE D. EVANS Farm, to Harrisburg, Pa. Besides these Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohic four "homes", he has shown in nine states Vice-President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS and has ribbons won in every one of them! Windsor, Vermont His bloodlines are superb; his color, type, carriage and disposition are significant of Secretary FRANK B. HILLS the best in Morgans. His colts resemble 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y their sire. Here are some other signifi- Treasurer WHITNEY STONE cant facts: 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N Y, New England Grand Champion Morgan, 1945. Sire of New England Grand Champion Colt, 1945. The Morgan Horse Magazine Full brother to the National Trail Ride winner, Lippitt Mormon. Vol. X February. 1950 No. 1 Only Morgan chosen by Susanne in her salute to the Morgan Horse in volume III A Bimonthly of "Famous Saddle Horses." The Official Publication of Winner in harness, under English tack, THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB. Incorporated Western tack, over jumps, in hand. 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. Hunts regularly with Beaufort Hunt of Publication Office: Harrisburg, Pa.