Five Broadwall Filly Colts Every one of these colts have nice Morgan heads, are close coupled and move properly. If you are going to own a Morgan, start right — buy a Broad- wall colt. It takes a little longer this way but you have something worth while. in the end. McolaK Sid aptd qii4 ad/4, al6z. &zed Maizes /o4 taie al izeadowakte t.lices. 13.11.0MILIAIL Chinitil Mr. & Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson * * Greene, R. I. Seuelial Al 049afra hilz d..aie WINDCREST DONFIELD WINDCREST SENTIMENTAL LADY eita.1.0444 of Today and Tomorrow 1X/ASEEKA, Ashland, Mass. Tel. Framingham TR 3-7084 WASEEKA'S NOCTURNE WASEEKA'S ROCKETTE Vatiohd, aim altaall welcame. Table of Conients SPECIAL FEATURES The Lights of Home 6 N. E. Assn. Clinic 8 letterA to Developing Light Horse Programs 9 Sealed 10 Florida Trail Ride 14 the editom Mid-Alantic Club Organized 14 National Morgan Show 15 Attention Please 15 Using Morgans of the Southern Tier 17 General Thanks Burlington, Vt. Show 24 Dear Sir: N. E. Calendar of Events for Morgan Owners 36 Thank you for your kind letter of REGULAR FEATURES March 23. Glad to know that you Letters to the Editor 4 liked my story on Morgans with the The Editor's Comments 5 Roundup Riders and that it will ap- Names in Pedigrees 11 pear in the April issue. I would Jeffy's Journal 12 N. E. News 13 surely appreciate receiving five copies North Central Association News 16 of that issue if convenient. Utah Morgan News 16 I am personally a long-time admirer Justin Morgan Horse Assn. 21 of the Morgan horse and I especially Badger State News 21 N. Y. State News 22 enjoy the occasional copy of The Maine Morgan News 23 MORGAN HORSE that comes my Washington News 23 way. I think it is high time I be- Breeders' Listing 32-33.35 came a regular subscriber so that I Once Upon A Horse 34 Stable Hints 35 will not miss an issue. I enclose your ad from The Chronicle and my check for $3.50. Officers of the Morgan Horse Club Sincerely yours, President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Wayne 0. Kester Windsor, Vermont Brigadier General, USAF Vice-President GERALD F. TAFT Northville, Michigan Office of Surgeon General Treasurer WHITNEY STONE Headqua rters, USAF 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. Washington 25, D. C. Secretary FRANK B. HILLS 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y. Shoer's Fr:end • Dear Sir: The Morgan Horse Magazine The March and April cover pictures were very nice and quite Morgan, but XV May, 1955 No. 4 the picture of the grey really did A Monthly look like a hunter. I have actually The Official Publication of seen him a few years ago and I should THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated never call hm "Morgan type." 90 Broad Street, New York 9, N. Y. Publication Office I am thoroughly in favor of your Leominster, Mass. March editorial concerning natural Publisher Otho F. Eusey action and long feet. I hope it can for The Morgan Horse Club, Inc. and will be stopped at the National. Editor Sumner Kean All my horses have good natural Mor- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS gan action, I am glad to say. They do C. Fred Austin Carol Ramsey Mabel Owen not need weights or long feet to make Helen Brunk Greenwalt Ern Pedler Beverlee Stahl them move. Janet Dakin Virginia Lau Mrs. Frank Linnell Gladys Koehne Margaret Gardiner Very truly yours, The editor and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan Margaret Rice Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements Plea For Kindness expressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are Dear Sir: net necessarily the opinions of the editor and staff of this journal Even from the pages of our mag- SUBSCRIPTION RATES agine, devoted to the Morgan horse One Year $3.50 Two Years S6.50 Three Years 59.00 conies hints of human callousness. The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January I have in mind the fine stud, re- by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second ported killed in a sale barn fire (when class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and will barn fires be made impossible?) advertising 10th of month preceding date of publication. and the Morgan described in the re- Copyright 1955 by The Morgan Horse Magazine port of Beverlee Stahl. His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, It seems that human nature and the bad luck of Justin Morgan still exists and his countenance enforces homage,. (Continued on Next Page) - kioq OUR COVER The Editor's Comments "Horse and buggy days." The phrase is heard often these days, usually to denote back- wardness in some conservative who fails to go along with a crackpot idea. The charge is most frequently made by some who, either through lack of years or opportunity, never really knew those days, Our cover picture this month is and particularly, the horse and buggy. of Mrs. Arline E. Fletcher of Beau- mont, Calif., shown with her two Mor- But many recall them with delight in those days before won- gans at Big Bear Lake, Calif., where der drugs, TV, super-sonic speed—and the atom bomb ... days when she and her husband operate a string apples, potatoes and flour were bought by the barrel, when the only of camps, shown in background. Mrs. Fletcher is riding Antonette Morman. food a family ate was prepared on a wood-burning kitchen range At the end of the leadline is . when hams and bacon strips dangled from a beam and salt Antonette's filly by Montabell, Red pork kept forever in its briny cellar barrel . days when a buggy Arrow Gift. Shown also is Mrs. ride was the thrill of the season. Fletcher's riding companion, her Ger- man shepherd, Rowdy. Tack on Who has sat in a brightly-painted buggy behind a well-groomed mother and daughter Morgan is a pleasing contrast of Eastern and horse with a "three-minute lick" will never think disparagingly of Western tack. those days ... one who has heard the soft thump of a well-greased wheel box, seen the road's dust carry part-way up the felloe before Letters it dropped away in a feathery fountain, sniffed the never-forgotten (Continued from preceding page) odor of the sun-heated leather in the buggy seat, that one will ever to plague his descendents. Too many Fine Morgans stand in an enviornment recall the horse and buggy days with deep contentment. unworthy of them, due to human in- difference. Is it not possible for all Days of peace they were, peace among nations, among neigh- the Morgan Horse Associations to do bors and among men. But they were not dull days—the mare's something for the gallant Morgans response to the lifted rein-hand for a friendly contest on a straight who need help? It seems to me that stretch, eating a competitor's dust or making him eat your own, every Association should have a branch which makes the proper care and pro- those days were far from dull. Small joys perhaps of a small tection of Morgans who have fallen people. But the people were not smaller than today's disparagers, on hard times its particular business. they merely knew their own stature. Someone with available stabling should be subsidized to care for them until Because all things achieve stature by relativity so do today's the right homes could be found. horsemen rate well up in the scale of things. They devote time Since the growth in popularity of the small home stable there are some and money, thought and effort to recapture the spirit of those Morgan owners, I regret to say, who frequently-derided days. are too lax in their standards. They would never allow their horses to be What is their pay? so ill cared for in another's place! Yet they themselves degrade their fine Compensation comes not in dollars but in contentment, con- horses by letting them stand and lie tentment in reversion from today's break-neck speed to another era in their own dirt, without good feed and water. Let the Morgan members when solace was measured by the beat of a horse's trot. drop in at each others stables in the mornings and find out for themselves. Let Morgan horse owners show pride by work as well as words, try to keep their horses and stables so that they will not suffer by compari- (Continued on Page 15) APRIL 1955 5 The wandering horseman's thoughts turn to . • • The Lights of Home By ERN PEDLER He rode through the pass in these wards of his years, the products of his wanting somehow to feel the nearness old low hills and onto the hogback, life, his "thirty years gatherings," a of people. The engineer waved a and there he stopped, looking out tarp and a bedroll, a couple of shirts silent greeting, not bothering to call over the big country, along the bot- and razor, and enough pots and pans above the roar of the engine, and tom of the great bare valley, looking to make a camp. Still he thought, in curiosity was in the eyes of a passen• from here scarcely wider apart than all the years he had met no other ger or two to see a lone rider, smaller the tines of a fork, the rails of the wandering man whose horses could than an ant in an acre in this vast trans-continental road gave back the match his own, and these horses had land and then the silence came back flash of the sun, and the valley was been his roots, the only things he had and the melancholy.