350 he AUGUST 1959 I, MORGAN HORSE Alk Morgan Foal at two and one-half months id FAA ivavizt AN OIL PAINTING OF 11 YOUR FAVORITE HORSE ?Cd f AN OIL PAINTING OF YOUR FAVORITE HORSE BY AN ARTIST WHO REALLY KNOWS HER HORSES! MRS. .4 /30 rE PICTURE AN OiL PAINTING OF EDITH KINSMAN HAS A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING "DIABLITO" ].037B OF STANCE, COLORS AND TRAITS OF EACH BREED OF BY HORSE. HER VAST KNOWLEDGE AND INTEREST IN THIS EDITH KIN.SMAN FIELD IS VISIBLY REFLECTED IN EACH PAINTING COM- MEMBER OF PLETED BY HER. MORGAN HORSE CLUB ACCLAIMED BY CRITICS For Complete Information ... Please Write Wow:gag 9ee4 EDITH KINSMAN 3457 N. WESTERN AVENUE CHICAGO 18, ILLINOIS MEMBER OF MID AMERICA MORGAN HORSE CLUB PARADE 10138 The stallion with a very high concentration of Ethan Allen 2nd blood. Parade is the sire of Broadwall St. Pat, Broadwall Drum Major, Waseeka Thisizit and many other good youngsters. Seneca Sweetheart, the mother of Windcrest Donfield was a half sister to Parade. BROADWALL ST. PAT Parade - Lippitt Georgia An outcross of the old Lippitt strain but still keeping to the Ethan Allen 2nd blood. His colts are outstanding. BROADWALL ST. PAT 11353 (Parade - Lippitt Georgia) MR. and MRS. J. CECIL FERGUSON Greene, R. I. TABLE OF CONTENTS fettets SPECIAL FEATURES Second Annual Oregon All Morgan Horse Show 11 Brattleboro Morgan Horse Show 13 the Eitoits Michigan Show Results 14 I Had A Hard Time Finding Morgans 26 Dear Sir: REGULAR FEATURES May I compliment you on the con- stant improvement of The Morgan Letters to the Editor 4 Horse Magazine. I just received my New England News 6 latest issue and they get better each Tha Midwest Morgan Horse Owners, Inc. 8 month. I have taken the magazine for Mid-America News 9 the past six years and have yet to find Central States News 10 an issue that isn't interesting. Here Comes Indiana 12 I do not own a Morgan at the pres- North Central Morgan Horse Asscciation 13 ent time because I am in the service. Northwest Morgan News 14 A few years ago, however, I owned a New York News 15 Northern California registered half-Morgan named Allen's News 16 Mid-Atlantic Garrett Thomas. He is now owned by News 25 a young man in Williamsport, Penn., and he and his owner are winning their share of blue ribbons in that area. Officers of The Morgan Horse Club My home is in Elmira, New York and as you probably know, Mrs. Aye- President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont lien Richards of Pine City, New York, Vice-President GERALD F. TAFT is "The" top breeder of Morgan horses Northville, Michigan in that area. I purchased my half Mor- Treasurer WHITNEY STCNE gan colt from her when he was six 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y months old. He was sired by Ayelien's Secretary FRANK B. HILLS first Morgan, Gipsey Allen. 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. I was home on leave in May for 20 days after serving a tour in Europe, and went to visit Ayelien and her Mor- The Morgan Horse Magazine gans. She has one of the finest col- Vol. XIX August, 1959 No. 7 lections of Morgans I have ever seen and it is still growing. At the present A Monthly she is training some of her Morgans so that she will have a four in hand Trio Official Publication of THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB. Incorporated (Continued on Page 33) 90 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. Please sand all correspondence regarding subscriptions and advertising to publication office: The Morgan Horse Magazine, Leominster, Mass. OUR COVER Publisher Otho F. Eusey CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ray Anderson Em Pedler Jane Behling Rheda Kane Mabel Owen Ruth Rogers Rodney Gould Helene Zimmerman Eve Oakley Mrs. Keith Morse Barbara Bell Mrs. Henry L. Nelsen Sheila Cunningham Pat Worts Joan Hodgkin Barbara White The Editor and staff of The Morgan Horse Magazine and the Morgan Horse Club, Inc., are not responsible for opinions and statements ex- pressed in signed articles or paid advertisements. These opinions are not necessarily the opinions of the editor and staff of this journal. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $3.50 Two Years $6.50 Three Years $9.00 Bald Mountain Spring, a two and Canada $4.00 Foreign Rate $4.50 per year one-half month old stallion foal, bred The MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly except January by Keynith Knapp of Arlington, Vt., by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St., New York, New graces our cover this month. He is by York. Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second Easter Twilight and out of Helen's class matter at post office, Leominster, Mass. Closing date for copy and Glory. He has recently been sold to advertising 1st of month preceding date of publication. Mr. Frank Forward, also of Arlington. Copyright 1959 by The Morgan Horse Magazine. GREEN MEADS MORGAN WEANLING SALE 2nd ANNUAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1959 Parade of Colts 11:00 A. M. Sale Promptly at 1:30 P. M. AUCTION 15 STALLIONS 20 FILLIES The 2nd Annual Green Meads Morgan Weanling Sale will be bigger and better this year! More Colts! Better Colts! Greater Enthusiasm! We firmly believe that nowhere in the world can you see as good a collection of 35 Morgan Weanlings as you will find at Green Meads on October 12th! Remember the Date: Columbus Day, October 12. Remember the Place: Green Meads Farm vu eau cpuy gOith. Cottiicience cAt 'hie Sale GREEN MEADS MORGAN WEANLING SALE Green Meads Farm Richmond, Massachusetts Darwin S. Morse, Sale Manager E. M. Granger, Jr., Auctioneer Green Meads Farm is located on Route 41, 2 miles south of Route 20, 5 miles north of Exit 1, Massachusetts Turnpike. NEW ENGLAND MORGANS R RODNEY GOULD Arrival of Morgan foals at New England horse farms tops the season's news. Dana Kelley shown with his stallion ETHAN ELDON 8447. Enclosed in a recent letter from our finest Morgans have been raised. A there now. This spring many foals good friends Dana Kelley of Wood- tribute to a well known stallion raised are showing the influence of this real stock, Vt., was a copy of an editorial in that area, Ethan Eldon 8447, owned old type blood and they will in turn that appeared in "The Vermont Stan- by Dana Wingate Kelley and handled grow up to carry on the line that made dard". This editorial concerned the by Howard Simpson of St. Johnsbury this section of Vermont famous. To- UVM Morgan Horse Farm. Since was a feature of the show. Ethan was day Ethan Eldon carries as high a there has been wide-spread concern driven around the track and the ring percentage of the original Justin over the fate of this farm, I feel that the in a 150 year-old high wheel racing Morgan blood as any stallion living in editorial will be of interest to Morgan gig. Few viewers could believe that the world." :nthusiasts throughout New England as he was 21 years old. Ethan is a three Two foals have arrived at the Jus- well as in other parts of the country. quarter brother to Vigilda Burkland, tine Morgan Horse Farm. They are For this reason, 1 am taking the liberty dam of many champions, who was a bay stud colt, Royalton Archer, a of reprinting it now — it reads as raised by Frank Orcutt and recently son of Royalton Ashbrook Darling, follows: retired at the National Morgan Show. and Royalton Elnora, a daughter of While the stallion was being pre- "We are glad to see that Represen- Ethan Eldon and out of Lippitt Nora. sented a trophy the following an- tative Dern of Dorset has launched a This is Elnora's first foal and is truly nouncement was made over the loud- drive to save the Morgan horse farm a picture Morgan of all that is de- speaker: in Weybridge. sired. Lippitt Royalton Nekomia, a "Ethan Elden 8447 was born in the daughter of Lippitt Sam and Lippitt "The 942 acre farm was turned over hills of East Burke, Vt., 21 years ago, a Gladys Moro has again foaled a beau- to UVM by the federal government in son of the grand champion Vigilant tiful filly sired by Royalton Ashbrook 1952. A UVM plan to sell this farm and out of the well known old type Darling. This filly is just like her and possibly buy a new one nearer Morgan mare Ethanelda, a daughter year old sister, Royalton Nekomia who Burlington has been endorsed by Gov. of Sir Ethan Allen and strong in the won the blue as a '58 filly at Mr. Strafford. Ethan Allen-Billy Roberts line. He was Robert L. Knight's all Morgan Show. "During recent years, a number of raised by Frank H. Orcutt, who for Mr. Howard Simpson of St. Johns- persons have suggested that the day years carried the old fashioned true bury, at whose farm Ethan Eldon is of the horse is over — and that it is Vermont line of Morgan horses that standing at stud this season, is more rank waste to spend the state money for made this state famous, as did his than proud of a filly from Ethan's a horse breeding program. father and grandfather. daughter Nyla, and sired by Royalton "We beg to differ. "In search for a foundation sire, Ashbrook Darling. Several foals in "True, farm power in Vermont has Dana Wingate Kelley purchased Ethan the St.