rOn.1.11W—"IIIMi6'- * When Ed Cox Carried The President

* Farming With Morgans

AN IN . .

Mr. and Mrs. Willard K. Denton extend a cordial invitation to

the readers of the Morgan Horse Magazine to visit ARDENCAPLE

ACRES, the home of distinctive and distinguished Morgan Horses.

Those who love the Morgan breed find the opportunity here to

see a carefully selected group including:

DENNIS K. BLACK SAMBO ARDENCAPLE ACE ROYAL ZEPHYR

JUNEFIELD

LIPPITT DUSKY KATE LIPPITT DUPLICATE LIPPITT ETHAN LIPPITT BETSY

These horses are now in spring training for pleasure use and the Show Ring. In

addition, visitors will see a fine kennel of Shetland Sheep Dogs and miniature poodles.

Mr. & Mrs. Willard. K. Denton Succabone Road

MT. KISCO, N. Y. MT. KISCO 6-6989

Crabapple Valley Farm Morgans

Brood mare band at our farm

We have Morgans of all ages and both sexes for sale at all times.

Visit our farm or write to us if you are interested in buying a Morgan.

Mail inquiries to

MERLE D. EVANS Ohio Merchants Bank Bldg., Massillon, Ohio

Secretary FRANK B. HILLS

VOL. Xlll April. 1953 No. 4

Mabel Owen Russell Smith

Three Years $9.00

C. Fred Ausln Helen Brunk Greenwalt

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Table of Contents SPECIAL FEATURES

When Ed Cox Carried the President 6

Farming With Morgans

The Morgans—Why We Love Them 12

News of Morgans and Their Owners 14

Veishea Horse Show 19

W. S. C. Light Horse judging School 20

Connecticut Morgans 21

Morgans Afield and in the Ring 22

N. E. Morgan Assn. Meeting 24

REGULAR FEATURES Leiters to the Editor 4 The Editor's Comments 5 Jelly's Journal — Pan 5 10 Names in Pedigrees 11 Quiz Corner 13 Mid-Western Morgan News 15 Morgan Pictorial 16-17 Illinois News 18 Allegheny Notes 18 Minnesota Morgans 24 Once Upon A Horse 30 Stable Hints 31

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Officers of the Mor gan Horse Club President MERLE D. EVANS

Ohio Merchants Bank Building Massillon, Ohio

Vice-President FREDERICK 0, DAVIS Windsor, Vermont

Treasurer WHITNEY STONE 90 Bread Street, New York 4, N. Y.

90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y.

The Morgan Horse Magazine

A Monthly The Official Publication of

THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, Incorporated 90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y.

Publication Office Leominster, Mass.

Publisher Otho F. Eusey for The Morgan Horse Club. Inc

Editor Sumner Kean

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

THE MORGAN HORSE MAGAZINE, published monthly by THE MORGAN HORSE CLUB, INC., 90 Broad St:, New York, New York: Printed by The Eusey Press, Leominster, Mass. Entered as second class

matter at post office, Leominster, Mass.

Copyright 1952 by The Morgan Horse Magazine

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

!diem to taw

Dear Sir: I am enclosing a picture of my Mor-

gan colt, which I would like to have you put in the Morgan Horse Maga-

NYLA S., 08554

zinc. She was six months old when

the picture was taken. Her name is Nyla S. 08554 and was foaled May 28, 1952. Dam, Mixie; Sire, Ethan Eldon.

Howard Simpson St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Dear Sir: I am enclosing a snapshot of my

Morgan mare with me on her. Her name is Christa and her number is 07551.

I am in the costume I wore in the annual Homecoming Parade in Brew-ster.

I borrowed my great aunt's side saddle that is about fifty years old.

I don't think there is any thing I like better than riding and caring for

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Th T-1 • e Editor ' s Comments

Horseplayers when questioned as to their means of obtaining a livelihood solemnly reply that they are working "for the improvement of the breed.• And many of them by daily application of "their all" to the uncertain outcome of a horse race may be doing just that—improving the breed of mankind by setting a cockeyed example.

Improvement of the breed is the aim of every breed association, and, in the current revival of the Morgan it assumes tremendous proportions.

Starting with the depleted ranks of the once popular and prolific strain the Morgan breeders of America have done a tremendous job in a short span of time. True, the goal of some is not the goal of all. But each in his own way is hewing to a line of endeavor which brings results. Time, experience, breeding classes and enhanced sets of values do much to bring them close to-gether in the end—the end Morgan. Uniformity in recent National show breed-ing classes is proof of it.

Throughout the country there are great individuals linked to this program for the improvement in the breed. You find them in New England, the mid-west, the west and the northwest and even up in Canada. But death, maturing families or other factors have a tendency eventually to curtail the program of this one or that. The result is that there are very few who span the years at the same pace. True, new ones take their place, but in most cases it is necessary that they too go through the trial and error period, face dismay at the result of early efforts, try again and finally come up with something good—a cred't to the breed. That then is improvement.

But the Morgan, in common with other breeds needs a continuing cham-pion—in theater parlance an "angel" who will back his stock in any market with no diminution of effort despite the weight of years or circumstance.

The question is: Who, No individual is able to commit his descendents to this program. No

individual, facing today the voracious inroads of death taxes can give any assurance that his ideas will be tarred to fulfillment. No, the answer is not the individual. And, because the alternative is a group. or organization competent to carry on it brings us to the conclusion:

The land grant colleges. The land grant college, so named because it maintains a school, of

agriculture, is in a position to carry on, under able direction, a breeding pro-gram extending over the years. The head' of the animal industry, at every such school with which we are acquainted is an excellent judge of type, be it hogs, cattle or horses.

Take the New England state schools, for instance. There is a small band of Morgans at each. Some are headed by an outstanding stallion. Many of them have a few good mares. But all suffer from the. spectre of too-tight breeding so are forced to sell off their young mares because the school is unable to main-tain more than one stallion. But even so, some excellent stock has come from these schools despite the handicaps under which they operate.

We have talked with some of the animal husbandry directors and to a man they agree: That the New England land grant colleges could, present a better Morgan face to the world if some ,co-operative plan were worked out whereby stallions could be rotated on an annual basis. Thus schools could keep their best young -mares, breed them to the rotating stallions and thus vastly broaden this experimental breeding program. .

Induce some of the big breeders of, the country to lend stallions to this rotation plan. The • owner would be assured that the get of, his stud would .be reared, under the closest, •observation and enjoy the best of feed and stabling.

Thus, with the one doing the "laboriatoiy a program far bigger than the . one they can now afford, more consistently 'good breedina stock • uld be .made • available to , the new breeders as they come into the picture. No one ph* of Morgan breeding would prevail over another. And the end reult Would be the goat of all of tii .--gbod horses with good - blood and plenty of Morgan tharaeteristics.

• Improvement of the breed. ' •'' "

MARCH 1953

OUR COVER

Mrs. Anna Wurz of Napa, Calif., and her half-Morgan, Sally Rand pro-vide us with our cover this issue. Mrs. Wurz and her black performing mare are known widely on the west coast where they are listed as an attraction in street parades and shows. Mrs. Wurz, an excellent horsewoman has owned horses all her life but a few years ago, after she had made the ac-quaintance of Morgans via Sally she acquired other, registered stock. The silver-studded stock saddle she is rid-ing in th epicture is valued at $12,000.

LETTERS (COntinued from preceding page)

horses. I am very proud of Crista. She will kneel, lie down, sit up, stretch, and put her front feet upon a box.

I would like to: have anyone write to me that cares to. I am 14 years old.

Doris Dillinger Brewster, Kansas

Red Pepper Not Hot Dear Sir:

We have decided to breed our two mares this year to the Morgan stallion, Red Pepper, by Goldfield, out of Ambi-tion. Red Pepper is standing at Wind-low Farm in Hocdick, •.New York, owned by Mr. Charles Breese. He cer-tainly represents all that is beautiful in the Morgan, and I believe none can ex-cel' him in gentlenesis'. He was given the honor of teading'the'big parade last! August for the anniversary 'celebration of the 'Village -Of :North' Hoosick, and was a picture of spirited beauty and perfect manners. •

:Mr. Breese derrionstrated his doeile temperament to us just this Sunday afternoonthe door of his box stall Was opened; and Pepper stepped out of his own free will,—no lead rope or re-straining hand, coming to us and stand-ing quietly to be petted and admired.

Then he returned to his stall, where-a measure of oats was placed in his

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"with mouths wide open. ears back flatly to their heads, and nostrils distended, the Flume Chariot team came flying up the driveway"

When Ed Cox Carried . . . the President

He set a record that took the other stage drivers completely by surprise. By JAMES ALDREDGE

It must have been thrilling to take a flying trip through the White Moun-tains eighty years ago. Both the air-plane and the automobile were then unknown, and the railroad had not yet pierced any of the notches. The only way travelers got about was by stage and carriage.

In those days, probably the most pop-ular stopping-place for tourists was the famous Profile House in Franconia Notch. It was also the chief point of departure for other hotels and towns in the mountains.

Guests at this old inn would rise early to see a stirring sight. Every morning ten or twelve large "Concord" coaches were barked up to the portico

of the Profile, six horses harnessed to each coach, awaiting the hour to start.

When seven o'clock came, they would all move off, one go - rig to Little-ton, another to Plymouth, another for the Crawford House, and so on. Each would have its load of travelers, head-ing off in different directions.

It goes without saying that the stage-men had to keep some sturdy animals to do all that passenger•hauling up and down the New Hampshire highways. One of the most celebrated of these drivers—and also an "expert" on horse flesh—was Edward Cox.

Cox carried hundreds of guests from the Profile to the Flume, the favorite

goal of mountain sightseers. For this purpose he had a large carriage, almost as big at a band-wagon, capable of seat ing fifteen persons. It was roomy, the springs were good, and it had a high seat in front, where Ed sat and held the reins, like a genuine Dan Phaeton.

Everybody at the Profile knew Cox and his fine team. The driver loved a good horse as a sculptor loves a fine piece of statuary—and he always had them. It was said there was a snug farm down in Vermont, known only to him, where a certain type of Morgan would be had, and that Cox slipped down there each spr'ng and bought the choicest of them.

"turned a handsome penny each year by selling horses to the rich men who flocked to the mountains"

So, along with his business of carry-ing passengers to the Flume and other points, Ed turned a handsome penny each year by selling horses to the rich men who flocked to the mountains. Many a select pair went from his stable to those millionaire sportsmen in New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

The most famous drive Ed Cox ever made with his big stage took place on the evening of Aug. 28, 1869. There was a lot of excitement in the White Mountains that summer, fo r President Grant had decided to break away from the heat of Washington and make a flying trip through that part of New England.

Early on the afternoon of that day, word was telegraphed to the Profile House that the President and his party were to be picked up in Bethlehem and brought over. As there were fifteen persons, here was a job for Ed Cox and his Flume Chariot!

Guests on the hotel porch, who saw him start out, thought they had never seen a nobler team. There were eight horses in all, each a bright bay, with heads up and ears erect, and coat glistening in the sun. Eyes full of life, they seemed to ask, "What finer steeds could draw a President?"

Ed started about three o'clock, jogg-ing along very easily down the Notch. It was the biggest day of his life, and he knew it. but he did not propose to wear out his horses by useless haste, until the time came.

He dawdled all along the route, and at Bethlehem he found more time to kill. It was about seven o'clock of that quiet summer evening that, following instructions to the letter, Ed drew to a standstill in front of the Sinclair House. The President's party was wait-ing on the porch.

General Grant, another great lover of horse flesh, could not help but notice those splendid animals.

The President stepped briskly toward the driver's seat.

"If you don't object, I'll get up there and ride with you."

Ed Cox was flattered, but his natural candor forced him to answer, "It's pretty rough riding up here, General."

"I can stand it if you can," came the laconic reply.

And, so saying, the President clam-bered onto the box beside the driver, and settled himself. His black suit was pretty well covered by his long linen duster, but there was no protection for It's high silk hat.

When the other members of the party, including General Grant's fam-ily and the Governor of New Hamp-shire and his family had found seats, Ed Cox tightened the reins with a "Whist!" The next instant, with a spring and in clock-like unison, the horses were off.

Sitting in the window of the Sinclair House, with a finger on the telegraph key, the operator flashed word to the Profile the second the start was made. It was exactly seven o'clock.

Lung before eight, a large company was on hand at the big inn across the valley to witness the President's arrival. Sitting in the lobby of the Profile House were the other stage drivers, and as they waited, they exchanged opinion as to how soon the President could be expected.

"Ed's a rattling good driver," said

one, "but he'll never make it under two hours.

"Two hours? Why, if it's less than two and a half, he'll be doing well."

To a man the stage men were agreed that the Flume Chariot with its big load couldn't be brought over from Bethlehem in less than 120 minutes!

But then there came a sound that made every one of these drivers stare at each other in amazement. Boom!

It was the little cannon at Echo Lake that was to announce the Presidential party's appearance.

This point was less than a mile away. Could it be possible? It wasn't even

eight o'clock yet! The crowd was in-credulous. There must be some mis-take. The manager quickly sent a bell boy out to investigate.

But in another minute or so there came the sound of horses hooves, and the rattle of wheels. Swarming out onto the porch, the guests saw a sight they never forgot.

It was the President and his party, sure enough! With mouths wide open, ears back flat to thei r heads, and nos-trils distended, the Flume Chariot team came flying up the driveway.

General Grant was gripping his hat with one hand, and with the other holding firmly to the seat. But tower-ing over all the rest stood Ed Cox with his feet planted agaThst the foot-board, his teeth set and his eyes blazing, and every rein drawn tight in his hands!

As the chariot swept around the large circle and drew up in front of the

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A Yankee Farmer

Hates Tractors

That's Why He Tried and

Made a Success of .. . Buzzell seldom separates his team. One of the few occasions is the annual Justin Morgan class at the 1952 show when his entry

took second place.

Farming With Morgans "Whoa," said the man on the load

of logs and the well-matched pair of Morgan stallions stopped in their tracks. Heavy harness and collars, team bridles and blinkers detracted from their beauty not a whit. Ears cocked in the welter of their manes, eyes bright and interested they looked inquiringly at me as I untroduced my-self to the driver-owner, John Buzzell of North Brookfield, Mass., a lineal descendant of the famed school teacher, Justin Morgan.

"The Morgan Magazine, eh," he re-plied to our introduction "I read every issue of it and enjoy it very much," he added and I made a mental note to in-corporate this free plug for our esteemed publication in the story about this farmer-horsemen whose reputation extends over a fa'r chunk of New England.

"Just hauling out a few logs," he ex-plained and then, as he saw me eyeing the wagon he explained the cleverly-designed rig made of a pair of auto axles and a high set steel pole made to turn the wheels without turning the axle. It was a good rig, easy to pull, low enough to be easy to load. On it three heavy, wet ash logs were chained to the bunks. The driver rode in front and his helper on the rear of the load.

"I'll see you at the barn," he said and lifted the reins. The horses—colts actually — stepped into the collars quickly and the load moved off. I followed in the car, watching the ease with which the team held the load down a grade. Then as they reached the bottom, like a pair of matched sad-dle horses they leaped into a gallop. Thoughts of a runaway were quickly dispelled. Buzzell was sifting as calm as a May morning, the reins held easily in his left hand. And those horses were flying. In perfect unison they galloped, head extended, legs reaching, bodies close to the road. What a sight!

Around a bend they flew and headed into a grade, running as though the devil was after them. I halted the car and jumped out the better to watch them. The log wagon rode easily, well balanced. The driver and helper kept their seats without much difficulty. Up the grade raced the team—up to the top without slackening and over—and out of sight. I hurr'ed back to the car and tore after them but when I topped the rise they had pulled into the Buz-zell farmyard and were standing quiet-ly. The driver stepped down, dropped the reins and started to unhitch. The stallions were breathing softly—they wouldn't have blown out a match.

='Swell show," I remarked as I stood and admired the pair.

"I don't do that as a rule," Buzzell half-apologetically replied," but I wanted you to see that Morgan stallions can do anything and do it pretty well.

I had seen Morgans under almost all condit'ons, ridden, driven and worked but these were the best broke, best driven pair I had ever laid an eye on. Gallop any other young team for a half a miles with a heavy load on blacktop and then trust them to stand. Raise a team so conditioned that not even a test like that can make them blow or turn a hair. This was a horseman had met up with!

Sandy and Diamond, liver chestnuts, neat of leg and hoof with powerful fronts and quarters, hard round bar-rels and handsome heads. Their hides were l'ke silk.

Both are by Niles the former Uni-versity of Massachusetts stallion of gov-ernment farm breeding. Sandy is out of Marigold and Diamond out of Sea-lect Lass. Their registration names are Bay State Sandy and Ethan Sealect. They stand a little better than 15.1 and Buzzell estimates their weight at 2200, a small team, perhaps but with the strength and quick energy of an atom bomb.

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The MORGAN HORSE

SANDY and DIAMOND, registered Morgan stallions, eat 12 quarts of grain a day, fre. quently work as many hours on mower or manure-spreader but have plenty of stuff

left for night rides or weekend coaching.

Buzzell bought them in 1951, as two-year-olds, one in the spring and one in the fall. Both were broken dou-ble alongside a well-trained stock horse. In fact the first stallion was bought as a mate for the western import but worked out so well he decided he wanted a pair of stallions.

The colts hauled manure and logs the first winter they were mated and in 1952 they hauled 300 loads of manure in the spring, plowed six acres, mowed 100 acres of hay and four times cultivated 10 acres of corn. In the fall they hauled another 125 loads of manure. In addition to that they were ridden n'ghts and Sundays in trail rides under both western and English tack.

"Some folks thought I was bearing down too heavy putting two-year-olds to a mowing machine," he said. "But I started them with an hour a day and gradually worked up. Both developed fully and, I think the work has done them a lot of good. They always feel good, they get 12 quarts of horse feed a day. Yesterday I drove them in the spring wagon to Sturbridge, 14 miles. They pulled a tourist barge all day, must have done 10 miles more. Then I hitched them to the spring wagon and drove the 14 miles home and they nearly lifted me out of the seat as I same up the long grade to the Earn. They're good boys," he added.

"But the thing I like about these Morgan stallions is their common sense and manners. They never need any urging. Neither one has ever felt a whip and they hit the collars with everything they've got the minute you touch the reins. But even when they first started working double, when they were still green colts they could be de-pended on. Why the second day they were hitched to the mower I ran into a coil of wire and it jammed the teeth of the cutter bar. 1 stopped them and got down. I tied the reins to the spreader.

"I was really in a fix. No help within hollering distance, green horses and a jammed cutter bar. But I dis-engaged the cutter and gradually worked out the wire. They stood like veterans all through it. But the min-ute I climbed back on the seat they were off.

"Another time I had a heavy load on the big manure spreader. I had just started to spread when the wheels locked but they pulled it, locked wheels and all, before I realized something

was the matter. I got down, walked over to a fence and pried off a piece of board. I climbed onto the load and dug down using the board for a shovel. I thought they'd light out any minute but they stood still. Finally I found the trouble. A piece of plank had jammed the works. I pulled it out, got back onto the seat and off we went. They've got sense."

But Buzzell's dream is a stallion four-horse hitch to be used for coach-ing tours in Vermont.

Torrence, another son of Niles out of Oriole, owned by a friend of the Buzzells will be the third horse in the four horse hitch. Because he has two mares, one of which matches well, the fourth horse may not be a stud, thus rupturing Buzzell' s dream of a four-stallion team. But whatever it is I'll guarantee that he or she will behave as well as Sandy and Diamond. That man has a way with horses—a good way and a sure one. And whatever the combination it will be worth a trip to Woodstock for a look if not a ride on the coach which will make a 25-mile trip through the beautiful Ver-mont countryside Memorial day week-end and the three following weekends.

Buzzell, in addition to being a superb horseman is a dirt farmer in

every sense of the word. With only the help of a 15-year-old schoolboy he farms his 217-acre place and cares for 53 head of Holsteins.

"I suppose you use a tractor for the bulk of your farmwork," I remarked and got a fast "No sir. I hate tractors. I own one but I use it as little as pos-sible. Horses are cheaper power, gaso-line is too expensive. Besides, I'd rather work with horses."

Buzzell was born in nothern Maine. His great grandfather was Lawrence Morgan, a direct descendant of the famed schoolteacher, Justin. He learned of Morgans as a boy for not only the patriarch but his maternal and paternal grandfathers were Morgan men and used the breed almost ex-clusively on their farms.

Buzzell bought the North Brook-field farm in 1929. He was married two years later and he and his bride while on their honeymoon visited his grandparents.

"It was in the fall," he recalled," and farmers were digging their potatoes. I helped and drove a team of Morgans hitched to a potato-digger. We hitched at 6 a. m. and unhitched at 6 p. m. and

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Both my horses recently have been cast in their stalls. This is a familiar predicament to experienced horsemen. To the new horse-owner the sight of his friend lying helpless against a wall is an appalling spectacle, especially with the knowledge that without aid the horse cannot arise, and that in this position the viscera may be so abnor-mally displaced as to cause death.

Both Bonnie and Jeffy are quiet horses in the stable. I was, therefore, much surprised early one morning to hear a pounding noise. I rushed to the barn and found poor little Jeffy wedged into a corner of his stall with his hind legs waving in the a:r, and his fore-legs thrashing against the wall. He stilled as I entered. I flung my arms around his neck and pulled him about a foot away from the wall. This was enough so that he could get a purchase on the floor. He jumped up and nipped me, clear evidence that all was well.

A few nights ago, Toby and I re-turned unexpectedly early from an eve-ning engagement. All was quiet in the stable adjourning the garage, but as it was close to the eine of my evening visitation, I went there to check up on the horses. Jeffy was up and seemed a little restless. I stood on tiptoe to look over into Bonnie's stall. My heart lept with fear. She was lying absolutely still, parallel to one wall, partly on her back and partly on her off side. "Toby," I called, "Bonnie's cast." By reaching over her, we worked the long webbing longe down below her off legs which were crumpled against the wall. She made no move at all; she was com-pletely limp, but she was warm and breathed. Together we put our weight and our strength on the webbing and pulled her right over. With her feet thus freed from the wall, she was able to get up and did so at once.

A horse usually becomes cast in a stall because he tries to roll all the way over, and in doing so lands too close to the wall either to roll back or to get his feet under him to get up. A horse is more likely, they say, to be cast in a new stall because he has not had time to "take its measure." You read and

hear of various ways to help a cast horse. For example a block and tackle can be used to move the horse, by the tail if necessary. A wreck:rig tool can break out partitions. In big box stalls straw can be heaped along the walls and in the corners to make a bowl shaped bed, out of which it is hard for a horse to roll. Some stables are made with removable partitions in slots. A livery stable formely in this town kept on hand a long board padded with a blanket. The board was used to press the legs of a horse cast in a stra;ght stall down onto the floor, so that their thrashing would wriggle the horse into a position to rise. All these suggestions come from more experienced heads than mine, so I pass them on to you new owners.

Now, however, I cannot withstrain myself from also handing on a dis-covery of my own. Does your horse snatch at his tie ropes? Does your colt carry his lead line in his mouth or grab at it every few minutes? All you need do is rub the rope, or the leather, or the chain, well with yellow, naphtha bar soap, renew it every other day for a few days, and I think you will find these habits dropped into the limbo of forgotten things. This soap was used to discourage the chewing of mice in my childhood home, so I tried it. It works with both Bonnie and Jeffy, and is so much nicer to use than other substances recommended, and much to be preferred to the punitive nagging which this mild misdemeanor tends to induce.

Speaking of misdemeanors leads me back to Jeffy. You may remember that since he was a few weeks old he had been led with no trouble whatso-ever both from foot, and from horse-back, in fields and in traffic, in day and at night. Then at six and a half months he asserted his independence by rearing and biting. In the last issue, I reported on our show-down on this. As a result he appears to have no in-clination to rear at all, or to deliver one of those slashing bites. He still nips but that is another matter. How-ever, the age of revolt was not yet over at eight months. He discovered that

if her suddenly bolted out and then swung in a half circle with the pull of the lead, he could create a fine mess of a situation, especially if he did this over and over again. The effect can only be appreciated with experience but the result is that you get practically nowhere on your route, and that with great effort. It was high time for the best-known cure-all for leading trou-bles, that is the chain of the lead strap over the nose. With this, either his run-out or my jerk bangs the chain against the bone of his nose. He learned almost at once, and now he leads as light as a feather in my hand.

I wouldn't want you to think that Jeffy is mean. He is not at all mean but at present he is in a stage of re-bellion against control. He is trying to assert his rights which he interprets as complete liberty. At the moment however, we are in a state of love and charity with each other. What will happen next month remains to be seen.

How much JUSTIN MORGAN blood does your horse have? If you want the answer to this or other pedigree problems, write us. We offer a special MORGAN

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JEFFY'S JOURNAL .. . PART 5

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The MORGAN HORSE

COLEMANS EUREKA, 451 (Twenty-fifth in the Series - - Names in Pedigrees)

By MABEL OWEN

In point of years, the American Saddlebred is one of our most youth-ful breeds of horse, for its register was not founded until 1891 although its foundation sire, old Denmark, was foaled in 1839, almost twenty years after the death of Justin Morgan. For some years prior to 1890 the "Farmer's Home Journal" and its editor, Colonel I. B. Nall, had devoted many columns to the show horses of the day, their names and breeding, their ring accomplishments and the constant in-quiries necessary to authenticate each. The breeders' association and resultant register was a yeoman's work, for the individual strains and families had to be catalogued and evaluated. The original list of foundation sires num-bered seventeen, including the pre-dominantly Morgan horses Coleman's Eureka, Cabell's Lexington, Harrison Chief, Tom Hal and Davy Crockett as well as John Dillard and Prince Albert, carrying probable Morgan blood through Tom Hal. In 1902 the foun-dation listing was narrowed to ten and still included three of the Morgan-bred sires, Eureka, Cabell's Lexington and Tom Hal. This list remained until 1908, when at the annual meeting of the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, it was decided and decreed that the grey horse Denmark would henceforth be recognized as the sole foundation sire of the American Saddle-bred horse.

In a sense, there was no small irony in this, for the demoted Coleman's Eureka, Cabe11's Lexington and Harri-son Chief were still given Saddlebred registration numbers, albeit not con-sidered foundation stock, with the end result that there were, and are, many saddle horses carrying none of the blood of the accepted and recognized progenitor of the breed. Among others to fall into this same category were the Morgan horse, Benjamin's Whirlwind, and the great mares Lou Chief and Lute Boyd, top performers and breed-ing horses all, American Saddlebreds by the left hand of their good records and the proclivities of Justin Morgan, if not by Denmark F. S.

Old Green Mountain 42 was a re• markably showy and spirited animal, as was his sire, Gifford Morgan 30, and these two were the first of the early Morgans to become of note as saddle horses. By their great strength and power, the Bulrushes went easily into farm work, while the Shermans and Black Hawks were at their peak of glory as harness horses supreme. Green Mountain and his family had the bal-ance of action, and much of the size, to make them highly desirable as saddle horses, with the result that this line suplied many of the colts sold to the south and west to be bred to native mares to produce the type of horse needed in these parts for various saddle uses. One of the most successful of these emigrants was Butler's Eureka, 449. This horse • was a dark chestnut son of Green Mountain out of an ex-tremely handsome little bay mare by Gifford Morgan, she out of a mare by the speedy Cock of the Rock, by Duroc. Eureka was foaled in 1851, bred by Asa Tinkham in Windsor County, Vt., and was sold by this gentleman's son-in-law, Lorenzo Pratt of Woodstock, to Dr. Russell Butler of Woodford County, Kentucky. Eureka was a par-ticularly stylish, well-finished horse of average Morgan height and weight, fifteen hands and about one thousand pounds. He was a very dark chestnut, without white markings, and although he was killed by lightning when but nine years old, made a most respect-able breeding record, for his colts were well-marked in his image and were splendid harness and saddle animals, always finding ready buyers. He was considered too small by many Ken-tucky breeders, and his stud fee was considered to be almost exorbitant for the times, fifteen dollars to insure a foal, but had he lived long enough to profit by the reputation he had after his death, his patronage would have been immense. As it was, his best sons were Cox's Eureka 453 and, the sire of Young's Morgan 450, both of which were great successes in the stud, so much so that the Eurekas were known as the finest horses in Kentucky's

Frankfort County, a rare tribute in a solidly pro-Thoroughbred section.

The breeding of the dam of Young's Morgan is completely unknown, but since she was a tall mare, close to six-teen hands, and very square-gaited, as well as a mare of sufficient quality to be a saddle and harness winner at a Lexington Fair, it would seem safe to assume she was of good breeding, very probably with a predominance of Thoroughbred blood. Young's Mor-gan was a larger horse than Butler's Eureka, almost sixteen hands, which did much to make him more popular in the stud. He sired a great many show winners, both saddle horses and roadsters, and was also the grand-sire of the good race winner Ada Paul. This bright chestnut mare was a daughter of Red Buck and made a time record of 2:26, besides w'rining seven races and almost $5000, beating Monmouth Bashaw, Monroe and others as good.

The Civil War, and its accompany-ing social upheaval, was responsible for wholesale changes in the horse breed-ing outlook of the South. Prior to it, most farms maintained large bands of Thoroughbred mares, and the leisurely, but expensive, training of the colts for flat racing was an accepted feature of Southern life. An unfortunate number of these mares were pressed into ill-fated Grey cavalry units, and even after the fighting was over, few of their owners were in any financial position to restore their once-large racing stables. These people gradually turned to newer pastimes, trotting or the show ring, and entered their hores in the saddle classes patterned after the Eng-lish conceptions of performance and conformation. One of the most suc-cessful of these show winners was the fine mare Mary Boston, owned by Thornton Merriweather. Sired by Bartlett's Boston, by Boston, she carried two close crosses to the great Sir Archy by imported Diomed, and one to the good racehorse and sire Sir William. Bred to win at four miles, she turned her talents to the show ring wherein she was rarely defeated, and after true

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The Good Book commands us to love our enemies. Now we may not all have attained to that high state of perfection, but it is human nature to love our friends. Those that we know by long years of acquaintance are real friends—ever to be trusted—always found true and steadfast—through good and bad report, still our friends.

Now knowing them as well as I do, having lived with and bred them for many years, I want to go on record as saying that the genuine Morgan horse is always man's friend—ever to be trusted and relied upon.

Let me tell you of a few incidents of which I have had personal knowledge, that have caused me to love the Mor-gans.

A good many years ago my father owned a beautiful black mare, whose sire was Vermont Black Hawk. This mare was used on the farm for all and any kind of farm work, and also driven on the road by the whole family. She was not a large animal but had that indomitable courage and will-power that enabled her to keep her end of the whiffletree up against horses of much greater weight. On the road—hitched light—no horse could outlast her on a long drive.

I remember one occasion being about 40 miles away from home when a fierce wind and snowstorm came up. It was necessary that I reach home that night so all the afternoon I drove on through huge banks of snow often as high as the sides of the team. The horse I had beside her was somewhat larger, especially in his girth, and I thought to myself, he will in some way manage to stand up till we get through, and knowing the old mare so well, I never for a minute doubted her ability to get there. When about five miles from home her mate began to show de-cided signs of fatigue and to lag be-hind. This only seemed to spur the mare up, and she would champ the bit and swing her head as much as to say, "Come on, you loafer. We will get there if you don't lose heart."

The last two miles of the road were full from fence to fence, and the storm,

which was directly in our faces, seemed to gain in fierceness as the night came on. The big horse had lost his grit and would settle down in the snow, as we came to a great drift, as if he in-tended to go no farther. Then I would get out and stamp the snow down (having no shovel) as best I could in front of the discouraged horse and then getting into the sleigh speak to the mare, who would plunge on to the next high drift, taking the horse and sleigh along with her

Many times did I repeat this until I became so benumbed with the cold and so completely exhausted that I nearly lost heart myself, and I think I should have given up but for the mare, who never once dropped her head or showed any signs of giving up the fight, even striking out with first one front foot and then the other to paw away the snow. This gave me new courage and I struggled on.

At last the horse threw himself down in the snow and refused to get up. As the night came on the cold had become fierce and I knew that to stay there un-til morning meant almost sure death, so covering up the now thoroughly dis-couraged horse with what blankets I had, I unharnessed the mare and leav-ing only the bridle on, mounted her, and asked her to go.

Did she go? you ask. Go! Of course she went, though it was only by jumps and then only a little way at a time before she must stop for breath. She went and continued to go till at last after almost superhuman effort on her part we reached the house. After placing the grand old mare (she was then 15 year old) well covered in the warm barn my brother and I with two fresh horses, shovels and lanterns went to the rescue of the other horse, which by the way, was not a Morgan er he would have rescued himself as he was unhooked from the sleigh. We found him just where I had left him and after a hard struggle on our part finally got him to the barn. The next morn-ing the mare was as bright and limber, and as full of life and nerve force as though she had not been out of the

barn for a week. She seemed to un-derstand perfectly how well she played her part in that grand fight for life.

Two years afterwards—when she was 17—my father and mother drove her to the southern part of the state—a distance of 50 miles—to visit their daughter. They left home about 10 a. m. reaching there between 4 and 5 p. m. without stopping to feed. They drove through the city of Rutland and several large villages.

When they arrived, father thought it would be a good plan to let the mare have a little grass to eat and so turned her into a small paddock by the house while they ate their supper, intending then to put her in the barn for the night, but when they went to get her she could not be found.

Her tracks where she had cleared a high fence and started for home told of her way of leaving. About mid-night I was awakened by the sharp whinny of a horse on the green, and though it didn't seem possible I felt sure it was the voice of the Morgan mare that I knew as well as any in the family, and upon investigating found for a fact it was she. She had made her way in the darkness unguid-ed by man through the city of Rutland and several villages to her own home. Probably she neither fed nor rested but a few minutes.

This was before the day of tele-phones and knowing that my father would be somewhat worried, I mount-ed her early the next morning and cov-ered the 50 miles back in just six hours. In a little over 24 hours the old mare had travelled 150 miles, and when she was driven home two days later was none the worse for it.

Does this sound like a big story? Well, I admit it does, but big or not, it's true, and I want to tell you right here and I want you to remember it, the well-bred Morgan horse—like the Green Mountain boys—is able to do big things—MIGHTY big things.

It just makes my blood boil when I hear men say "Oh, they are good little horses, but too small to amount to any-thing." Do we judge men and women by their size and weight? Only a fool would do that. No more do we judge a Morgan by what he measures and weighs.

In my long experience with horses I have learned to judge them exactly the same as I would judge a man or

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<7 he Moir yam . . . Why We Love Them The following is taken from the article "The Morgans—Why We Love Them" by E. C. Ryder, published in the American Horse Breeder, Decem-

ber, 15, 1908.

By MARGARET LINNELL

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Question: Could you tell me what coat color has predominated in Mor-gans? Also, are more of the high-per-centage horses apt to be bay?

Answer: In his book, the first one on Morgans, Linsley gave detailed pedigrees and descriptions of some 244 horses. He omitted the color of 33, but of the rema'nder, 85 were chestnut, 79 bay or brown, 31 black and 16 of various other descriptions, mainly greys and roans. Taking a representative group fom the latest volume of the Morgan Register one finds some 142 chestnuts to 66 bay and brown, 22 black and only 2 of any other color, gold, grey, etc. As to the percentage -versus-color question, there seems to be no connection, since, at the recent Robert Lippitt Knight dispersal, at which all the horses were considered of a high percentage, there were 43 chestnuts to only 10 bays and browns, considerably less of a ratio of bay to chestnut than the average. There is an explanation for the gradual color trend to chestnut, in fact two. The first is that Justin Morgan himself was not a genetically pure bay since he sired a number of chestnuts. The second is the fact that two true chestnuts always produce a chestnut, while two bays actually can produce a chestnut or a bay. It's possible for bay to become an actual dominant, as in the case of the Cleveland Bay breed of light draft horse. Also, in some Thoroughbred stallions, where all the ancestors for four or more generations have been bays, the color seems to run true, in that all foals will be bay, regardless of the coat color of their dams.

Question: I have heard Headlight Morgan referred to as the "western Ethan Allen 3rd." Could you please explain the connection?

Answer: The two horses were bred very similarly, as both were by Ethan Allen 2nd, and pedigree-wise Headlight Morgan was one of the best-bred Mor-gans foaled outs:de of New England prior to 1900. He was very much the good old type, as was Ethan Allen 3rd, both being well-known for their good

legs, dense bone, fine heads and ex-cellent dispositions, as well as their inherent ability to move well, although Headlight Morgan was somewhat the taller and heavier of the two. Both were excellent breeding animals as Ethan Allen 3rd mares figure gener-ously in all of the major Morgan families in the East while Headlight Morgan mares became the foundation of the Morgan herds in the Southwest. When he was at the Sellman ranch in Texas, he was bred to some very good mares, some of Richard Sknner's breeding, some by Major Antoine, and Major Gordan, thence back to Octo-roon, and although these Sellman mares have since been dispersed widely across the country, they have been found to cross well with almost any sire line, as did these by Ethan Allen 3rd. Oddly enough, both excelled as broodmare sires, although there are somewhat lesser-known sire lines tracing to each.

Question: My yearling goes very well on a longe line, but only to the left. Is there any way I can get him going the other way without punish-ment?

Answer: Of course, it's a matter of human habit to work around a horse's near side, probably originating from a wish to use our right hand, so there is little to wonder at when a colt be-comes one-sided. All foals should oc-casionally be led from the right side when they are small, but it is easy to forget this. If you have someone to help, the simplest answer would be to have a helper lead him in walking circles to the right while you hold the longe line in the center. Gradually have your assistant do less and less leading, then merely walking at the colt's side until he can desist alto-gether. If you are alone, you may find the English method of teaching a horse to longe the easier plan. It involves the use of two lines or ropes, one snapped into the halter square on each side. Using them as long lines, drive the colt in circles, being very certain to go each way, even to go more often in what was the "sour" one. If your colt is a bit apt to play up, walk out of

heel range, and keep the slack out of the lines so he won't step over them. As he becomes accustomed to it, shift your position more and more to the center of the small circles you are do-ing. At this point, your nearest line will come from his halter to your hand, the farther one will be from the halter, back across his quarters, above the hocks, to your other hand. Finally, the farther line can be raised until it goes only across his withers and then, as the colt ;s used to answering what has in effect become a longe line, des-pense with the other one entirely. You will find you will have better control of a colt on a longe line if you yourself walk in small circles within his larger one, being certain to be always a bit to his rear, which will encourage his moving along smartly, and discourage the young horse's tendency to imag'ne you have said "whoa." Some horses work on a longe line far better than others, and it can be a mistake to pur-sue it at tiring lengths. Such exer-cise does not benefit your horse if he does it with no interest or enthusiasm.

Question: We've been told our horse is good enough to show, but we are green at such things. Are there any books on the subject?

Answer: There are many books on ring riding alone as well as on phases of training and fitting the show horse. If you will ignore the chapters dealing with setting tals and the rack, you will find both of Earl Farshler's books very helpful. One is called "Riding and Training" and the other "The Ameri-can Saddle Horse." Margaret Cabe. Self's two, "Fun on Horseback" and "Horses, Their Selection and Hand-ling" also contain some useful hints. For chidren, there is C. W. Anderson's "Heads Up, Heels Down." For wes-tern riders there is J. A. Gorman's "The Western Horse." The above should all be available locally; if they are not, the Service Department of this magazine would be glad to order them for you.

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Once a person owns a Morgan, it seems almost inevitable that they buy another. Several years ago, Mrs. Jo-seph Miner, of Norton, Mass., bought the young stallion Buddy S. Sentney. By Powerful out of Silver Babe by Sil-ver Ranger, Bud is a grand horse. He is a particularly good-bodied animal and has a nice head with sharp little ears, almost l'ke thorns with their little curving tips. Gelded, he has become and excellent saddle horse, in almost daily use on the Miner farm and over the good dirt roads in that section. Last Fall, Mrs. Miner sold Bud to her daughter Beverly, and from Merrylegs Farm bought a smart dark chestnut

.r by Meade out of April Showers by Squire Burger. Named Merrifield, this colt is a really good one as he and his dam won a blue for mare and foal and the colt won easily over a good group in the colt class at the Dart-

mouth Horsemen's Associat'on Horse Show last Fall. Registered Morgans dominated othe r breeds in many of the open classes at that show, although no class for Morgans only was offered. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence G. Coman brought their young stallion Merry Magic over from Putnam, Conn., and he was paired with his sire Squire Burger to a spectacular win in a very large pair class. Squire Burger won the open jumping class, was second after three jump offs in knockdown and out, and then served as an equ'ta-tion mount for Miss Ann Golding. Miss Jane Ashley of Westport, Mass., had a fine day with her good bay geld-ing Orcland Benn Beau. By King Benn out of Jubilee's Lucinda, this horse was only a three-year-old, yet he was in the ribbons in a large bridle-path class and as an equitation horse, plus good thirds in the fam - ly and

trail horse classes. Probably the best class of the day, insofar as as prepara-tion and spectator interest went, was the costume class for children. It brought out a large number of cow-boys and cowgirls, one very authentic Indian, a Peter Pan, Drum Majorettes, circus riders and a host of others. The final winner was nine-year-old Miss Nancy Wardwell, in a lovely old green taffeta riding dress, complete to a feathered hat and wh'te kid gloves. She was riding sidesaddle on Merry-legs, the little bay mare coming out of retirement for this class since Nancy's pride and joy, Merry Melody, known familiarly as Blackso, was only two years old at the time and considered a bit young for shows.

A winter ago, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan E. Murphy of East Providence, Rhode Island spent many days, and put in many miles, 'n their search for a Mor-gan mare. Finally they motored out to Illinois where they visited the Brunk and Greenwalt farms, seeing all the horses and taking some excellent movies. This visit resulted in their purchase of the red chestnut filly Can-nella, by Congo out of Nellanne, by Juzan out of the good old mare Nella. Now coming three, this young mare

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is green-broken to saddle and harness and is the pride of little Maryanne Murphy's very existence. There can't be more than a month or two differ-ence in their ages, but "Nella" is as careful of the small fingers and erratic meanderings of her small owner as if she were an old, old horse. There is a world of pleasure and satisfaction in the ownership of a horse with such an unaparalleled disposition and the Mur-phys are to be congratulated on find-Jig so easily the one horse that is so

perfect for their needs. They are now building a new home in Barrington, Rhode Island, whose by-roads they will explore by a time-honored method, Morgan mare and road wagon.

There aren't many Morgans on Cape Cod itself, but if you ever do motor down there for a visit, there is one place you should not miss. Since Glenn Farms dismantled its Newport stables some years ago, there are very few people who maintain an estate and stables 'n what is best described as the baronial manner. Mr. Edward K. Davis of Osterville has a tremendous place. Seapuit has its own bridle paths and roads, its own dairy herd, chickens, cranberry bogs, kennels, blacksmith shop and other interests. All the work is done by two teams of registered Percherons, all greys, at least one of which, Barbara, is a model for her breed. The lighthorse stables are what every horse must dream of living in. Large, airy boxes, quiet-spoken grooms, no expense was spared to make of it a place in which a horse might live, and a man might work, in perfect, almost luxurious, comfort. Each day, weather permitting, Mr. and Mrs. Davis go for a drive behind their team of black, grade Morgan, mares, Rum and Coke. Many w'll remember these mares from their Woodstock Vermont days, but hitched to a perfectly appointed Vic-toria, and wearing a brass-trimmed, largely patent leather, harness, they are superb. In addition to the black mares, two big chestnut hacks, a grey pony mare an a registered Arabian filly, the Davis' also own two Morgans, one, Upwey Anna Kay, by King Peavine out of the old Bennington mare Upwey Anna, and he r coming two-year-old son, Maestro, sired by Squire Burger. All of the horses bred on the farm are given names from the musical diction-ary, and in the affections of everyone at the farm, Maestro lives up to his name. A personable, even-tempered

colt, with a great deal of breed charac-ter, from his lovely, short head on down, Maestro is being broke to har-ness by Donald Manchester, and it is possible he may be shown later. The mare is to be re-bred to his s're, in the hope of a pair, for, with the eventual retirement of the black, it would he shame to have that lovely old Victoria stand idle.

When Glorita, owned by Mrs. Helen B. Greenwalt, was pinned grand cham-pion mare of the Illinois State Fair, comparatively few New Englanders knew that the little filly's grand dam has been a local inhahtant for some years. This is old Gizea, by Go-Hawk out of Liza Jane, the dam of Aggazizz who sired Glorita. This black mare, now twenty-four years old and be-lying it with every hair and every step, now makes her home with the Clar-

Hi folks, are you getting all ready for those early spr'ng shows and trail rides? It won't be long now 'til they are upon us. The days are already getting longer. These are the days when we start cleaning our tack in fond anticipation of those good times ahead.

I received a very nice letter some lit-tle time ago from Mrs. Connie Holstein

of St. Louis, Mo. Seems that she was originally a Vermont g'rl, and like most Vermonters, learned early to love Morgans. While there she owned a couple of good using half Morgans, but she had to leave them behind when she moved to Missouri.

Mrs. Holstein now owns a coming three-year-old bay filly sired by the Morgan stallion Royal King, a son of Juzan. This filly is called King's Little

ence G. Conran family in Putnam, Connecticut. In a sort of semi-retire-ment, he is ridden by the smaller mem-bers of the Coman family, junior size Hopalong Cassidys all, who find her a welcome bit of "higher education" after their Shetland. This mare is truly one of the old-fashioned sort, the kind that seems so rare now, fat and round, gentle for the children, with a lot of fire and act'on in a light cart, yet perfectly competent to work in double harness if that is your wish. She is also the dam of Captain Red, sire of the dam of Dennis K and lot of other good show horses. Through Aggazizz again, she is great-grand-dam of Mr. Taft's Springbrook Ann, the reserve junior champion mare at last year's National Morgan Show, a wonderful breeding record for an honest and hon-orable old mare.

Rascal, and stands around 14.2 hands. From her pictures she looks like a very typey rule mare, the kind anyone would be proud to claim.

Mrs. Holstein is training Rascal as a family pleasure horse, as she has three young children who fully share her enthusiasm for horses. She certainly has the right breed, for I can think of none other that would serve as well in this capacity.

I do hope that all of you readers and your horses have fared through the winter in good shape. We are rather lucky here in Kansas, for we have very little really bad weather. Our horses are stabled, but many folks leave their animals in open sheds with good re-sults.

We don't change the diet to any great extent. A gallon of oats morning and night and all of the pairie hay they want. On the colder days we give them some alfalfa along with their other hay. This seems quite welcome from their point of view. On such a ration the horses stay in wonderful con-d'tion and health. Hay is selling at such a premium that many find it rather difficult to keep a sufficient sup-ply on hand. We are luckier than some, for we raise all our own feed here on the farm.

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stallion owned by P. C. Alfred Dorow of Springfield. Minn.

Despite the recent cold snap and snowfall which has laid a restraining finger on the eager buds and flowers, this may be the earliest midwestern spring in several years.

Evidence that nature plans to rush the season a bit this year is piling up in this Illinois-Indiana region. It comes in the form of wild plants that are pushing tentative green shoots through the leaf-matted woodland floor and the songs and antics of the wild birds of the field.

The Morgans at Stahlward are also awaiting spring when their training will become more intensive. As now the constant freezing and thawing makes riding or driving extremely hazardous. But with the gentle winds that sweep up across the marshland to the south of us, they know that soon spring will be here in all its fresh green glory.

Recently on a short pleasure trip to the central portion of Illinois we took the opportunity to visit with Mr. Noah Schrock of Arcola. As he was soon planning to move to Kansas, he was busy with preparation, but neverthe-less he took time to show us his Mor-gans

In a rearby pasture were three nice mares in good shape and quite friendly. A cute little yearling filly, dark chestnut frosted with a light mane and tail, caught my eye. She is by Bonfire out of Kaki Bon. Her dam is by Congo out of Pikake. Mr. Schrock also has a flashy 2-year chestnut filly by Fill-more. This colt carries a lot of white markings and has been broken to drive by his young daughter and is reported very gentle.

He plans to take these young mares with him to Kansas where he will establish himself with the other breed-ers of that area.

Mr. Schrock has recently sold several of his mares and his good stallion Bon-fire to Mr. Leon Losey of Trumans-burg, N. Y.

We stopped at Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Greenwalt's Highview Farm at Paw-nee, Illinois. , where we saw their many very excellent Morgans.

Glorita, last year's Illinois State Champion Mare was worked on a long

l'ne for us and she looked and moved better than ever. Fort Knox, a three-year-old gelding, was also worked for us and moves with a lot of style and boldness. He was in our keeping as a yearling and 2-year-old and was al-ways gentle and amazingly quick to learn. Fort Knox is by Flyhawk out of Betty Barr. Jenny Lake and Jubilee Joy were there, being nearly perfectly matched they make an attractive pair in harness. Incidentally, Jubilee Joy has won the brood mare class at the Illinois State Fair for the last five years i n succession.

Top man at Highview is Senator Graham, who is well-known through-out the country, patricularly in the west where he stood at the L. U. Ranch of Worland, Wyoming. His colts when shown always place near the top. The mid-west should feel very for-tunate to have this stallion in their midst.

The "oldtimer" Flyhawk was in his usual place of honor. Dozing in the sun, he seems content and quite oblivious to the Morgan history he has made through his sons and daughters. I've always admired "old Fly" as to me he epitomizes the word Morgan.

From Highview we took a short drive to see Judy Stout's mare Seneta by Senator Graham out of Moneta at their farm in Glenarm, Ili. Seneta was Illinois State Champion Mare in 1950 as a yearling. She has since been broken to ride by Judy and is quite use-ful everyday handling the cattle and livestock at the farm.

Next we stopped to see Thomas E. Brunk at Springfield, Ill: As the day was cold and raw we did not care to stay long in the out of-doors. We did see King Mick. Although crippled as a yearling, he still possesses the ability to pass on his many good qualities as was seen in his son, Danny De Jarnette. Mr. Brunk's other stallion is Ricardo by Fillmore. He is an extremely dark chestnut and can move with the light-ness and agility that posses most Fill-more colts.

A short time ago while in the neigh-borhood of Palat'ne, ill., we stopped to see the Henry J. Berenz family and horses at their Lazy B Ranch.

Having just moved there a short time before, they were busy remodel-ing a dairy barn into a comfortable horse barn.

In the barn was the beautiful stallion Ala B., a golden chestnut with a white mane and tail. He is a son of Fill-more possessing an even disposition and a lot of manners. Next were the two stalwart Morgans from C. J. O'Neill's farm, namely Danny 0 and O'Neill's Commander. There was also an attractive chestnut stallion from the Chiloco Indiana, registered at Gay Gene J.

Among the mares were a well-matched pair, Flyella and Flyala, one of which had been sed to Milford Fox of Chesterland, Ohio. There was also Fancy B and her offspring, Dana B, by O'Niel's Commander.

Allegheny Notes New Morgan owners are Mr. and

Mrs. James Gardner of Mansfield, Ohio, who have purchased Celebration, chestnut weanling stallict sired by Bonfire-Jubilee Joy. Jubilee Joy and this foal won the mare and foal event at Illinois State Fair last summer. The Gardners have a champion Palomino stallion, and hope to make a top west-ern stake horse out of Celebration, which was purchased from Mrs. Helen B. Greenwalt, Pawnee, Ill.

* * * Through Mrs. Greenwalt, also, a

former Eastern exhibitor, Patricia Hall-quist, now of Hillsboro, Mo., has purchased the yearling bay stud, Red Cap, sired by Senator Graham and from Dottie Irene, a Flyhawk mare owned by Carls-Haven Farm of Ring-town, Pa. Miss Hallquist sold the four-year-old stud, Townshen Gay-meade, by Meade—Gayselba, to Mrs. Greenwalt who plans to send him to the L. U. Ranch in Wyoming.

* * * Charlies O'Neill travelled through

New York State recently (there are sime nice Morgans of his breeding up there), and went back to Illinois with a coming yearling Shetland Pony from the Richards Ranch of Pine City, N. Y.

* * * Folks looking for some really topnv

young Morgans, broke to ride and drive. should stop by the Stonaire Farm at Lewisberry (outside Harrisburg),

Illinois News By BEVERLEE STAHL

18 The MORGAN HORSE

CHIEF HAWK j'Sire: Hawk Jim 7689

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Address rnquiries

R. F. WYSOCKI — 2120 Arthur Ave.

Sire: Linsley 7233 Dam: Lady Spar 04515

Sire: Mansfield 7255 Dam: Narissa 04132

— Cleveland 7, Ohio Phone: Lakewood 1-6578

Pa., where there is a nice band under the ownership of Mrs. Robert R. Stoner, Jr. Among those that particu-larly take the writer's fancy are three cho- ce fillies: the three-year-old chest-nut, Debutante, sired by Upway Ben Don-Betty Ross; the three-year-old bay, Surprise Date, sired by Lippitt Man-date-Vixen; and the two-year-old chest-nut, Flicka Date, sired by Lippitt Man-date-Flicka Hawk, and both of the lat-ter fillies winners at the National Mor-gan show. There are more Morgans than folks to ride them, and some will be sold.

* * A great blow occurred to the Ed

Brown family of Bloomsburg, Pa., when their beautiful bay stud colt, Proud Duke Miller's Pride-Duchess Ann, died suddenly right after Christ-mas from forage poisoning. However, the Browns will soon have a new Mor- gan to take to the shows.

* • * Mr. and Mrs. Leon Losey of Tru-

mansburg, N. Y., have recently pur-chased the nice stallion, Bonfire, and his two-year-old daughter, Flaette, from Noah J. Schrock of Arcola, Ill.

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VEISHEA HORSE SHOW The 1953 Veishea Horse Show, the

ninth annual, will be Thursday, May 14, in the Iowa State College Armory, Ames, Iowa. Two shows will be pre-sented, one in the afternoon, the other in the evening.

Premiums totaling $1500 w:11 be given. The scheduled classes include the open three-gaited, open stock horse, three-gaited, open parade,. and open five-gaited.

Chariot races by ponies of Wilkie-man Farms and the Shriner's all-chestnut drill team will perform as special acts. An eight-pony hitch of R. E. Reisinger and the King of Dia-monds, a Dessage horse from North Dakota will also be presented.

Shine Ogan of Lexington, Kentucky, will he the judge; Harry McGlothlen, the ringmaster. "Doc" Lawson, well-known organist, who played for the political conventions in Chicago, will play background music for the horse show.

Further information on the 1953 Veishea Horse Show may be secured by writing: Veishea Horse Show, Me morial Union, Ames, Iowa.

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New Jersey and Pennsylvania have become increasingly Morgan-conscious, with a number of people looking for family-broke horses to ride and drive about the countryside. Support of shows in New York, New Jersey, Penn-sylvania and Ohio which sponsor Mor-gan classes will help to keep this snow-balling movement for Morgans grow-ing in the Allegheny-Ohio River re-gion.

* * * Dr. John Brisini of Nanty Gio, Pa..

is the owner of Elsine Date, a chestnut filly with colorful white markings which he purchased from D. F. Switz-ler of Carrolltown, Pa. This filly is sired by Lippitt Mandate—and is from the great old winner, Althea. Althea last year raised a beautiful filly by Mr. Switzler's young stallion, Trophy, and is again in foal to him.

* * * It will not be long until foal reports

start coming,- in. Those reporting mares due this spring are: Mr. Switz-ler with Althea; Mrs. Robert R. Stoner with Flicka Hawk; Carls-Haven Farm with Lippitt Sally Moro; Mrs. Ayelien Richards with Polly, Nancy Ann, and Gwen S.; Bill Fritz with Ruthven's Mildred Ann.

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JUBILEE'S GLORIA, 07775

MRS, LARRY OAKLEY

CAVEN-GLO FARM Home of Cavendish & Jubilee's Gloria

FEATURING

CAVENID111-1 10200

This Stallion gives the discriminating mare owner a golden opportunity of type, quality, desirable blood lines and Mor-gan beauty.

His lovely golden daughter, Caven-Glo's Suisuin, can be seen at the Farm, thus demonstrating his ability to pass on his conformation, disposition, and coloring.

Limited stock will be available next fall.

Rt. 2, Box 8. Phone 5195 Downers Grove,

W. S. C. Light Horse Judging School PULLMAN, WASH.:—Northwest

horse fanciers will be greeted by a new combination Grandstand-Stables when they arrive at Washington State Col-lege for the annual WSC Light Horse Judging School and Light Horse Show. May 22-24.

The new building is a gift from industry. It will have 12 box stalls and seating for 1,000 under roof.

The school will be held all day on May 22-23, and the show on evenings of May 22-23 and the afternoon of the 24th.

Dr. M. E. Ensminger, chairman of the an'mal husbandry department, says the students in the Horse Husbandry class will again put on the show, Some 40 students are enrolled in the class this year. The Lariat Club, the animal husbandry under-graduate organiza-tion, will also help.

Some 200 horses are expected this year. Entries close May 1. Anyone may enter horses in any event, except the Thoroughbred halter class, which will have horses from WSC's Hilltop Stables only. There are no entry or stall fees. Horses entered in breed halter classes must be registered pure-breds, or eligible for registration.

Head judge this year will be Ira Dry-mon, a Thoroughbred horse breeder who comes from Russell Cave Pike, Lexington, Kentucky. At the time the immortal Man-O'-War passed away, Drymon gave the eulogy of the old horse over NBC. He has been presi.

dent of the Horse and Mule Associa-tion of America, and was president of the Thoroughbred Club of America in 1942.

Ward W. Wells, of Oswego, Oregon will do a dressage exhibition on one of his stallions at each of the horse show performances. Wells owns Sharik, internationally-known dressage exhibition horse, and Sharik's Sun. Both stallions are acclaimed by author-it:es as the most brilliant and advanced dressage horses in the West. They have made performances before more than 500,000 people all the way from Vancouver, B. C., to Los Angeles, to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Wells will also serve as one of the judges of the show.

Some 45 competitive classes are planned. Halter classes will include Palomino, Arabian, Quarter Horse, Morgan, American Saddle Horse. Per-formance classes will include Western pleasure horse, three-gaited saddle horse, junior equitation, Appaloosa, five gaited saddle horse, Morgan, English pleasure horse, Arabian costume, fine harness, working stock horse, pole bending, Arabian, children's equitation, parade horse, trail horse, Palomino, Horse trailer race, jumping, Arabians under English, Morgans under English.

Classes in the Judging School will start at 9 a. m., May 22, at Hilltop Stables. Each breed will be discussed as it is being shown. "Students" will hand in cards with their placings, then the judge will announce his decision.

Lunch will be served at Hilltop Stables, and a smorgasbord at the New Edison School on May 23, after the judging school events are over. "Stu-dents" will be given a chance to judge all the breed halter classes. Those completing the judging school will be given signed certificates.

The event trains students in how to put on a school and show, trains judges as officials for light horse shows, trains horse owners in the practical art of select;ng horses, and serves as a model exhibition in conjunction with the school. Ninety per cent of the proceeds go into the operation of Hilltop Stables, and 10 per cent for paying expenses of animal husbandry student livestock judging teams, essay winners, etc.

Sponsors, besides the department, in-clude the WSC Agricultural Extension Service, Washington Horse Breeders' Association, and the Pullman Chamber of Commerce.

The affair has grown each year: 165 horses from four states were entered in 1951, and 175 in 1952.

The show ring at Hilltop Stables is equipped with drainage pipes to make it serviceable no matter how much it ra;ns. The surface is finshed with gravel, sand and clay to give good foot-ing for show horses, and floodlights are installed for night shows.

The Stables is a 50-acre area, with a brood mare barn (with in-door ring), stallion barn, quarantine shed, three experimental barns, garage, and three houses.

Stonington. Connecticut

the home of

DYBERRY BOB 10401

Sire: Lippitt Billy Ash 7724 Dam: Lippitt Miss Nekomia

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Color: Bay Height: 14.1 Age VA

OFFERING FOR SALE

ROSE OF DAWN, 08372

Chestnut with white markings Foaled June 23, 1951

MRS. ANN STEDMAN R.F.D. 1- Stonington, Conn.

Several readers of the Morgan Horse have asked me—why not some news from our corner of the country, Well, there are some good Morgans in my secton and owned by good people—not show people but there Morgans mean as much to them as though they were blue ribbon winners at the National. For the most part they are their three P's—Pleasure, Pets and Prides. Let's take a little spin and have a look-see.

Mrs. James Hubbard of Kent has re-cently acquired a nice Morgan gelding name of Springdel, by Springfield and out of Delight Maria. I believe he was shown at the National by his pre-vious owner but not with more pride than he was shown me by Mrs. Hub-bard. He is the fulfillment of a long desire for his new owner and I am sure he will bring many years of pleasure to her. It will be hard to get her away from Skiff Mt. now.

The Pulver boys of Millerton, N. Y. are not exactly Connecticut but very near to it and are looking forward to the arrival of foals this summer from their Morgan mares, Lippitt Adeline and her daughter, Whinny. The boys now have two yearlings from these two mares and by my Nabob Morgan. Good luck to you boys with your Mor-gans and your Holsteins. Veteran far-mers now and not yet out of high school.

The McCann sisters of Bridgewater are very proud of their young mare, Janard Strut out of Janard Lass and by Nabob. Well they might be, for she is a fine looking young mare and I am sure she will live up to the girls' expectations.

Paul O'Rielly of Litchfield has a nice par of Morgan fillies purchased from Dana Kelley. They are Royalton Rose-mary Moro and Royalton Rose of Sharon. Paul had a little trouble with sickness this winter but all is OK now and just wait and see what the spring grass will do for them. As he recent-ly joined the New England Morgan Horse Assn. we feel sure he is in Mor-gans to stay.

George Crutch and his daughter Bobby are fairly new to horsedom but

they are doing a nice job with their horses. Bobby has a half Morgan filly born to her Paint mare last June that has all the indications of being a good Morgan. Bobby will be hard to locate at meal time come summer and she starts working that filly. Her dad is equally proud of a filly foal born Oct. first and out of Dianathus. Both these fillies were sired by Nabob. There is going to be plenty of competition be-tween father and daughter.

Danny Easton of Harwinton recently called on me. Danny wears a big smile when he thinks about the foal he ex-pects to get this spring from his Figurine mare who was bred to Nabob. Danny bought Figurine as a weanling and has trained her to ride and drive. What with his love for horses and his early abilities, Danny should make a real horseman.

Not too long ago we stopped by to (Continued on Page 22)

Connecticut Morgans By WM. P. (Bn.L) CLARICE

Breed to these stallions who are proven sires

of excellent Morgan type, style, and beauty.

SPRINGFIELD 8421 JUBILEE'S COURAGE 8983

LIPPITT ETHAN ASH 7621 owned jointly with Mrs. J. C. Ferguson

FOR SALE: Handsome, typey 7-year-old daughter of Springfield — broken to ride and drive.

A really splendid, showy 2-year-old son of Lippitt Ethan Ash out of Paragraph — sure to be in the ribbons.

There will be one or two 1953 foals available also.

MEETING WATERS Phone 3610 or 7452 R.F.D. 1, Springfield, Vermont

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Morgans Afield and in the Ring

By THE RAILBIRDS

Morgan Breeding Farms that are interested mainly in breeding the old blocky type-percentage Morgans and showing only at the National Morgan Show have done a great service to the Morgan Rejuvenation all over the country. But these same people, to some extent, tend to frown on the Morgan breeders and exhibitors who have tried by their programs to refine the blocky old type Morgan to make for a better appearing horse in the show ring without eliminating any of the Morgan characteristics. To these people who spend their own time and money to keep the Morgan Horse in a favorable position in the face of the public—the old time breeders should give praise instead of knocks. For it is the Morgan owners and breeders who show Morgans at all the shows in-stead of only at the National who have brought the price of a weanling filly average up from $250 to an average of $500. To these exhibitors we say, "Thank You."

At the recent annual banquet of "New Hampshire Champions," spon-sored by the New Hampshire Horse and Trail Association, held March 7th at the Riviera Restaurant in Concord, N. H., the following awards were given out for the 1952 show season:

Champion New Hampshire Morgan, SARACEN owned by Clyde Taylor, Franconia N. H.

Reserve Champion N. H. Morgan, LIPPITT LENORA, owned by Rich-ard Corliss, Manchester, N. H.

Other Morgans receiving awards were:

Reserve Champion Junior N. H. Equitaton won by Carol Swanson, Peterboro, N. H., ridng UPWEY BEN ISABELLA.

Reserve Champ'on N. H. Open Hack, REWOOD, owned by Judson Sanderson, Pembroke, N. H.

Reserve Champ'on N. H. Trail Horse, MORNING STAR, a typy grade Morgan owned by Mrs. Wallace Dennis, Durham, N. H.

There is another award given each year at this banquet. An "Out of State Guest" is chosen. - This year Mr. and Mrs. Wallace L. Orcutt, Jr., of West Newbury, Mass., well-known Morgan

breeders and exhibitors, were given the honor of being the out of state family which had contrfbuted the most to the New Hampshire Horse Shows during the 1952 season.

Each year the New England Horse-man's Council governs horse shows throughout New England, allotting different dates to Show. Managers, so there will be no confusion due to con-flicting show dates. The New Eng-land Horseman's Council sets up a program of different classes of shows. They are namely — Class A, Class B, and Class C. Scoring of points being different for each class show. For instance, a blue in class A show is worth 24 points, against 16 points for a blue in class B and 8 points in a class C show. Points accumulated during the show season at recognized New Eng-land Council Shows count towards "High Score and, Reserve High Score" awards at the annual banquet, which is held in a different New England state each fall. Each exhibitor to be eligible for these awards must be a member of the New England Horse-man's council. Then each member is notified of coming Council Shows. For further information about the New England Horseman's Council contact Mr. A. E. Denghausen, 105 Sefton Dr., Edgewood, R. I.

The classes which the Council offers for Morgans both in Major and Minor Awards are the following: For Major awards—Model, Open, Under and Over 15 hands, Stake and Champion-ship. For Minor award, Morgan Combinat.on, and another new division has been offered this year for the first time for a Minor award, Morgan Pleasure Horse. All these Morgan classes are governed by the American Horse Shows Association. The reason I have dwelt so long on the New Eng-land Horseman's Council is due to the fact that a great many Morgan exhibi-tors do not know of these competitive awards.

The following New England Horse-man's Council Shows will offer Mor-gan classes:

May 2, Melrose Lions Club. Contact Gladys Allen, Lookout Stock Farni, Melrose, Mass.

May 9, Essex County 4-H. Contact Deborah Murphy, Quaker Farm, Georgetown, Mass.

May 17, P. H. A. Med,field. Contact Leonard Almy, 50 Washington St., Marblehead, Mass.

May 23, Weston 4H. Contact Miriam Brooks, Boston Post Rd, Weston, Mass.

May 24, Brush Hill. Contact Mrs. T. F. Maguire, Framingham Ctr., Mass.

Then another organization offering five shows throughout the season, to-wards their own annual awards—is the North Shore Horsemen's Association. These are strictly amateur shows. Horses to be ridden by amateur mem-bers only. The shows are held behind Howard Johnson's, route 1, Lynnfield, Mass. Though they offer only one open Morgan class, Morgans can enter in any of their Bridle Path, Western, Driving, Pair classes etc. Their first show date is May 3. For further infor-mation write Sec. Henry Sellick, 43 Main St., Saugus, Mass.'

Let's all meet in Weston on Mon-day, April 20th at Mrs. Edward, Ray-nor's in the morning. Leave your trailers at Dean's Dairy across the road on Route 20. The 4H group have planned a wondeful program. If you cannot bring your horse—bring your-selves and meet at Mrs. Roger Ela's in Wayland, Mass., at noontime. Bring your lunch and the 4H members will provide the entertainment. Think everyone will go home with some new ideas on how to care for their horses.

Connecticut Morgans (Continued from Page 21)

see Mrs. Jane Bristol of Canton and to see Bobana Morgan. Mrs. Bristol was not at home so we took Bobana out on a lead rope and surely got a surprise at the growth she has made since leav-ing us. She is a rugged individual, a picture of health and vigor and just all well-manered as she could be. We think she is gong to be a mighty good Mor-gan.

Howard Tracy of Waterbury is now seen all about the city on his young Morgan gelding which he calls "Reno." Reno has his home almost in the center of Waterbury and even as a four-year-old, he can manipulate the city traffic like an old veteran. I expect that soon now he will graduate to the buggy and sleigh to replace Howard's old standby Whippett who is now in his 24th year. Whippett has been used constantly about the city and surrounding country by Howard for the past fifteen years. This seems proof enough that the Mor-gan feet and legs can take it for his are as sound and free of blemishes now as ever. I shall long remember a

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I understand that Lippitt General Pershing has a new home in Middle-bury. The General was previously owned by Wilmont Abbott of Water-bury. I reget that I have not met his new owner but we all wish her the best of hick with the General and feel sure he will make her an excellent mount and companion for a long time to come.

I recently took a trip down in Penn-sylvania with Harrison Miles of Ox-ford. We looked at anything horsey enroute but the real object of our trip was to look at Lippitt Sandra and her colt by Lippitt Norman owned by Mr. Parsons. Mr. Miles now has them at his stable in Oxford. This colt is a fine prospect for anyone looking for a high percentage stud to rase. Mr. Miles is the owner of Lippitt Hippolyta who is a full sister to Sandra and, Lippitt Tril-by Ash and her stud colt by Lippitt Selassie. Trilby is a full sister to Lip-pitt Ethan Ash and though she is now 22 years old she doesn't act it for as I write this she is out in my pasture w:th my wife's Morgan gelding and having a grand time. She is to be bred to Nabob and of course Mr. Mles is hop-ing for that eternal filly. On this trip we visited: Earl Miller of Downing-town, Pa., who has a few nice Thor-oughbred mares and also at the Hanover Shoe Farm in Hanover where they breed Standardbreds in quantity and quality. On our return trip we stopped in at the Mid-state Morgan Horse Farm and there saw, among others, a Lippitt bred filly that we wanted to put in the back seat and bring along.

Well folks that about makes the rounds for this time and I hope that all the Morgan Horse readers will enjoy hearing about these folks and their Morgans as well as they enjoy hearing of others. Lets hear more about Mor-gans and their owners in both this state and others. Why not make it a point to look up some of the Morgan owners when you are out for a plea-ore ride, get acquainted and talk Mor-gan for I believe it a fine way to further the breed.

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feed box and his seven-months old daughter allowed to enter and "eat with Daddy—Pepper moving over and allowing "daughter" to have her share of dinner. Not once did he show the slightest bit of anger;no laid-back ear or effort to keep the baby from either the grain or stall. Rather, he went out of his way to make the little filly com-fortable.

This is, I know, someth'ng that cer-tainly should be seen to really believe!

I have seen a number of Pepper's colts, many from pinto mares, and he really leaves the Morgan look—every colt I have seen is a beauty—confor-mation and intelligence to spare.

June Stowell Johnsonville, New York

GILFORD, 9612

His Name is "Gilford" No. 9612. His dam was Belidale, and his sire Hudson.

I am also sending a check for three dollars and fifty cents for a year's sub-scription for my father, a horse fancier from way back. Thank you.

Mrs. Walter A. Rihl Lebanon, N. H.

Dear Sir: Mrs. Bates, (Capt. Louise D. Bates,

ANC.), has been called back into the Army.

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FOR SALE: Morgan stal-lions. Mares and colts. Good quality. Reasonably priced. We deliver.

C. J. O'NEILL

Manteno, Ill.

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The Executive and Trail Ride Com-mittees of the North Central Morgan Association met February 28th in St. Paul. Plans are well under way for a trail ride and a tentative schedule calls for the ride to be held June 6th and 7th at St. Cloud. This seems to be the most centralized location and good accommodations are available for both Morgans and their owners. A general meeting and dinner will be held on Saturday evening the 6th and the ride will be on the following Sun-day. When definite plans are made all members will be notified.

A new secretary was also appointed at this meeting. She is Miss Marilyn

MILACA MAE at 18 months with owner R. G. Anderson of Fargo, N. D.

Dreher, Boulder Bridge Farm, Ex-celsior, Minn. All future club corres-pondence and news for the magazine should be sent to, her.

Morgans are certainly holding their own at the Moorhead Country Club Stable. Mr. S. J. Duginski of Moor-head keeps three of his Morgans there and Mr. Ray Anderson of Fargo, N. D. keeps his filly, Milaca Mae, there also. "Mae," sired by Victory Allen and out of Golden Jane, has done quite a bit of traveling over the state during her two short years. Foaled at Mor-Ayr Farms in Red Wing, she was sold to Milaca where she acquired her name and is now at home in Moorhead and if Mr. Anderson's enthusiasm is any indica-tion that is right where she will stay.

At the present time she has been broken to harness and Mr. Anderson enjoys driving her to a road cart.

Dr. R. B. Graves of Red Wing, snowed in by a recent Minnesota blizzard, had to hitch up two of his Morgans in order to get out. One of the horses had never been harnessed previously, but went right off with no trouble at all. The Graves arc await-ing the first foals by their stallion, Milaca Major, a son of Mentor. Susette Jarnette and Beauty Sentney are both in foal to him.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rathbun of St. Cloud have been doing a lot of driving this year. Headlight Glen and Gail Dean are used on both cart and cutter.

David Blunt of Litchfield must be the busiest person in the state with If s Morgans. He is training three four-year-olds to saddle. They are his stal-lion, Bay Rocket, a gelding, Dakota Bird, and a filly Betty Belle. David says all three are coming along well and show the typical Morgan disposi-tion and intelligence. Fancy Faye, another Morgan, is in foal to the Illinois champion, Congo.

At Kellogg is the stallion, Robin Bailey 0, owned by Mr. Wm. Rafter. A bay with a small star, he is sired by Doctor Bailey and out of Ginger De Jarnette. This stallion has been used for a number of years on a group of grade Morgan mares and gotten some very nice colts. Mr. Rafter reports several sales of these half and three-quarter Morgans.

I pad a visit to Ch;palee Farm at Rockford recently and was sorry to miss the Sperrys who were vacation-ing in California at the time. I did see their two Morgan mares, Bert's Beauty and Bert's Topsy, both of whom arc in foal to Questionnaire and. due to foal in April and May.

Mr. S. D. Sahlstrom of Milaca and Sr. Paul is expecting a colt this month from his mare, Tillicum. She was bred to Milaca Query. "Query," I understand will be used by the South Dakota State College th;s year on some of their mares.

This takes care of all the Morgan news for this month. Beginning with the next issue your new correspondent will be Miss Marilyn Dreher, since by

the time this column appears in print, I will be living on the East coast. I dislike leaving Minnesota and my Mor-gans just now when spring is finally coming. I do look forward to seeing the Eastern Morgans and coming back later for Barbadon. It has been my ambition for several years to show her at the National Morgan Show and now it looks as though this will be possible.

I wish our newly organized North Central Morgan Association continued growth and the best of luck and suc-cess in all its ventures. I have enjoyed being your first secretary and corres-pondent to the magazine and look for-ward to taking an active part again in the more distant future.

N. E. Morgan Ass'n. Meeting

Winter appears to have increased in-terest in the Morgan Horse. As evidence is the fact that our first meet-ing since last November turned out a record number of meal reservations (119), and a good deal more than that at the meeting, at the University of Massachusetts on March 22. As usual the weather was perfect, a bright sun and a mild air.

A very well-planned demonstration of the lineage of the horses at the University and the future breeding plans formed the program arranged and directed by Mr. Donald Kinsman assisted by others on the staff. Prof. Victor A. Rice spoke of general princi-ples to consider in good genetic practices. A very impressive line-up of about 7 Percheron mares all de-scendants of the old black mare, Lena, who led the line, initiated the pro-gram. This is the last year that Per-cherons will be bred at the University, a fact made the more sad by the sight of these fine mares in splendid condi-tion.

Morgan mares and fillies were then introduced by pedigree, those by the same sire, and those by the same dam. Mimeographed sheets gave further de-tails of the breeding. The two sires, Mead and U. S. Panez, were shown, and their use in the future breeding program indicated.

The business part of the meeting was deferred by the President, Mr. J. C. Ferguson, until the end. Again this year the Association will issue a Calen-

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Captain Bates served during World War II in Europe, and was also shipped to Japan for a tour of duty. After be-ing put on the inactive list, she pur-chased a farm near Granite Falls, Washington, and purchased her start in Morgan horses from me. The Mor-gan business is still going on there, just as if Captain Bates were at home.

On February 1, 1953, the army called her back to active duty, and she is pres-ently stationed at the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, Californ'a.

Donald Anderson Granite Falls, Washington

Advice for 'Wonder Horse"

Dear Sir: I greatly appreciate your page dedi-

cated to Stable Hints and find them very beneficial. They have been a source of inspiration and help to me, and have contributed towards the health and happiness of my two horses.

A startling incident occurred before I received your January issue, and as it concerned the subject that Stable Hints was based upon, I thought I would write and mention it.

One day after school, I let my geld-ing, White Blaze, loose, while I per-formed stable rites. Being a sensible old timer, he ramble s around his home-stead to get his exercise when I don't have time to ride him, and then returns for his evening meal when I whistle.

After I let Blaze out for his stroll, I shut the stable gate, which is 5' 8" if it's an inch. When I led Lippitt Victor out of his stall, he pranced around the enclosure, showing off as usual. Then the unbelievable happened. Vicki spied Blaze and began to act up. Before my surprised mind telegraphed to my equ-ally surprised reflexes, he charged the gate like a dark chestnut streak and hurtled over it in perfect form.

For some time after that memorable day, I went around in a daze. I had planned on a show career for Vicki be-cause of his natural style, which he seems to have inherited from his pa, Lippitt Victory. However, after this episode I don't know whether to end his show career and begin training him for a jumping one, or combine both of them. I find that he takes the greatest pleasure in jumping the silliest things when I'm hacking him. If he spies a good sized twig, he is apt to jump it.

I would be very pleased if someone would give me some advice, so that I can successfully cope with my "wonder horse."

Maxine Thomas 28 Newland St. Auburndale, Mass.

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came close to the one on my mare, and recommended that as the mare seems to resemble a Morgan, and Morgans originated in Vermont, I should try that state. I did the first time, but could find no place to address a letter. Could you possibly tell me if and where brands are recorded in Vermont and if it would be possible to get in-formation on brands from the Morgan register? I would appreciate any help you could give me. I am again writing to because of the help you gave on my last letter. i appreciated it very very much.

Enclosed is a picture of the brand, perhaps you or some of your friends may know of it. I am leaving no pos-sibility untried in an effort to gather informat'on about this mare.

Mrs. Chester Bahn Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

From Illinois

Dear Sir: Hello from Illinois. I have enjoyed

your magazine, The Morgan Horse. for more than two years. Truly a good book. I greatly enjoyed the article "A Breeze . . . From the Great Lakes."

I am enclosing a picture of my reg-istered Morgan mare, Gallant Lady #06765, and myself. Maybe you will use it in a coming magazine - for we are faithful readers.

"GALLANT LADY'S HISTORY" Bred by Simon Lantz of Congerville,

Illinois.

Foaled March 20, 1943. By Captain Red #8088, out of Mor-

gan mare, Rubby #X-05238, owned by Fred E. Hubbards of Oxford, Michi-gan.

Truly a great Morgan. Sincerely yours, Sue L. Paulson Oak Park, Illinois

Grown Up Dear Sir:

Enclosed is a picture of my pride and joy, Multnomah Gift #10205, a true registered Morgan stallion. You pub. lished his picture as a colt of two months old, some three years ago. Now, he is gentlest and best natured stallion around Portland, Oregon. People around here never cease to be amazed

at this stallions temperment. He is so gentle I now ride him bareback and let him follow me around the barn and corral without any reins or ropes. must say that my stallion appears to be one in a million for being good natured.

I do hope you can use the picture for one of your issues. I truly look for-ward to each issue, as I have learned a great deal from your articles.

I take my older issues down to the Pacific Telephone Company, where I work as a service representative, and let the other members of the company en-joy the magazine. Many girls have en-joyed leisure hours reading the Mor-gan Horse Magazine.

Sincerely, Mrs. Stephanie G. Webster Portland, Oregon

From "Pat" in Missouri

Dear Sir: I am sending you a picture of my

Morgan mare, Tribella, which was taken at the All-American Morgan Show last fall.

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TRIBELLA

This mare was first in both the Mares and Geldings under Saddle and the Adult Equitat'on Classes, and sec-ond in the English Pleasure Horse Class. She has also placed in both ladies' and men's pleasure horse classes here in Missouri, competing against Walking Horses and Saddlebreds. She is now in foal to Townshend Gay-meade.

The magazine is very good and the pictures are especially so. Keep up the fine work.

Patricia Hallquist Sleepy Hollow Farm Hillsboro, Missouri

Working Morgans Dear Sir:

Please find enclosed a picture of my-self and my horses at my barn. The horses are, left to right, Beecher, foaled 'n 1950, sired by Jay; Babe, sorrel western mare, 1400 lbs., 12 years old; next is Kate, a six-year-old bay mare, 1200 lbs., out of a western mare and sired by Jay; then Major, a bay gelding, five years old, 1400 lbs., half Belgian, I% Morgan, and at the extreme right is Jay, a registered purebred Morgan,

14 years old, 1110 lbs., brown. He is one of C. J. O'Neill's horses, of Man-teno, Illinois. The ages of the horses are all as of April 20, 1949, when 1 gave this four horse team an endurance test which I would like to tell you about.

It was a hazy sunshiny day with the temperature at 60 degrees. I was disk-ing cornstalk ground, gently rolUng field 80 rods long. After working an hour 1 rested them 'til their respiration was about normal, then I made one round of 160 rods and stopped to check their wind. I found the following:

Jay was breathing 50 breaths per minute; Kate 50 breaths per minute;

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Major was breathing 80 breaths per minute, and Babe 100 per minute.

You can see in this test the Morgan and half4Morgan although in we'ght, made the round with far less exhaus-tion.

I have seen dynamometer pulling contests, but I believe my endurance test is more important and interesting. In my 50 years of driving Morgans. Belgians, Percherons, coach horses and a few Army mules in 1918 as a Wagoner, I find the Morgans steady enough in the collar to compete with any of them, and yet unexcelled under saddle or light driving.

David Beckmeir Kent, Illinois

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Michigan News

Dear Sir: Enclosed is a picture of Hi-Crest's

Tommy, 10733, at his first show under tack at the Detroit International last October, Jack Thomas Up. He was foaled June 15, 1949. We showed him in the combination class and he placed third.

He is by Patrick Geddes, 8744, and out of that good old mare, Lippitt Polly Moro, 04873.

1 have a good weal'ng by Plains King out of the old mare and she is in foal again this year. Will sell her and my black mare, Pixie Hawk to the right parties.

My oldest boy, Tom, is in the service now in Georgia. He bought Polly's colt last year and he is known as Hi-Crest's Little Bud. He also has four registered Jerseys here. He started with one heifer in the 4-H Future Farmers and now has four with more coming. By the time he gets out, it looks like he will have a herd to take care of.

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FOR SALE: Coal-black registered mare, 5 years old, a beautiful rugged-built mare with good old fashioned Morgan looks and natural action. This mare is "clean-blooded." well trained and perfectly sound in every way. She is in top condition and has a good disposition. Priced reasonable, OR will consider trade for a smaller mare or fillies. Contact Mrs. Ayelien Richards, Pine City. N.Y. or phone Elmira (NY) 34985. I' can deliver.

FOR SALE: Towne-Ayr Traveler 10853, stud foal born July 31, 1952. Sire: Lippitt Firelight. Dam: Dream-Star. Well grown typey chestnut with white markings. MRS. RODERICK TOWNE. R. D. #3, Montpelier, Vermont.

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FOR SALE: Morgan mare. Ebony Girl. By Senator Graham out of a Flyhawk mare. Reglstered.Four years old. 15 hands. approximately 1000 lbs. Pure black; Rides and drives. Nice type. Price right. JOSEPH I. KELLEY, 56 Partridge Lane, Belmont, Mass. Belmont 5.1822.

. FOR SALE: #10725, Trygone, $650.00, two year old stallion, black with white hind ankles. #9357, Gipsey, Sr., eight year old stallion. Two yearling colts eligible for registration. JAMES W. KREHBIEL, Route 1, Clifton, Virginia. •

FOR SALE: • Albino colt, 20 mo., 14% hands, Arabian Quarter Horse cross. Reasonable. Call Princeton, Mass., 162.

UNUSUALLY GENTLE, well-mannered young chestnut gelding suitable for child to ride in show. Also two bay stallion colts. three-quarter brothers, which will 'make 'cr beautiful matched pair. Purest of Morgan blood lines. Reasoneille 'prices beccruse stable overcrowded._ Westfall Farm. RD 1, Port Jervis, N. Y.

FOR SALE: Registered Morgan . Stallion, chestnut: markings — star and left front pastern white: height 14.3, weight 1050 pounds; broke to ride and drive. I also have a true, six-year old Morgan Gelding, dark bay. small star: this is a good pled-sure horse, stands 15-1, weight 1150. broke western. For additional information, write Carl A. Schein:kart, Box 443, Sterns Road, Temperance. Mich.

Midwestern News (Continued from Page 15)

Hardly a day goes by that the weather is such that we can't ride or turn the animals in a paddock for ex-ercise. So all in all we here in Kansas fare pretty well, compared with the colder locales where so many special preparat'ons must be made for the ad-vance of winter.

I had a brief visit from H. E. Gilmer and Earl Yokely a Sunday or two ago. Mr. Gilmer is very pleased with the progress his new stallion is making. War Allen is Seven and only green broken, but is coming along now like a veteran, according to his owner.

Mr. Yokely is looking forward to the expected foal from Parader's Queen. This nice chunky little mare should foal early in April to Barberry. The colt should be a real little beauty.

Morgan news is rather scarce this time of year. The chilly days seem to scare everyone in around the fire, so do send me any news of interest you might have. It would be of great help.

Guess I'd better be leaving you, (can't keep this darn old gray cat off my lap long enough to finish this, that's what I get for having so many stray animals around!) I'll be seeing you all again soon, remember now, that's Rt. No. 2, Derby, Kansas, for your news.

Ed Cox (Continued from Page 7)

hotel, the driver threw his weight on the brake. The huge carriage stopped instantly.

The clock inside the Profile House showed that the drive had been made in precisely fifty-eight minutes!

When General Grant •descended from the driver's box, his appearance hardly suggested that of a nation's Chief ExeCutive. He was covered with dust from head to foot—just as if he had been rolled in the road.

But the President did not seem to mind how he looked. Apparently, he had enjoyed h's ride immensely. . At an impromptu , reception later that evening, he' said he had never seen. any Man handle a team of horses better than Ed Cox. . . •

To all the praise Ed only smiled and then held up; his little fingers. They were so stiff he could not bend them, and he knew they would ache all night.

Morgans—Why We Love Them

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woman, by what there is in them, not by what they weigh when placed on the scales. I have known many a Mor-gan that did not weigh over 950 to 1000 pounds in the barn, that com-menced to grow as soon as you began to buckle the harness on, and when it got warmed up on the road it appeared to weigh a ton.

I could tell you many 'other tales of the old Black. Hawk mare, did space permit. At 25 she was yet a good roadster when not in breeding. We bred her to such horses as Daniel Lam-bert, Abraham, etc. and she produced a grand lot of colts and fillies. To her and her great daughter Roxy, by Daniel Lambert, do I attribute the most of my success as a breeder of fine road and carriage horses.

The old mare lived to be 30 years old and was sound and free from any blemish when she died. Her daughter Roxy also lived to be 30 and at 25 produced the great show horse Rex that at 10 years old has about 30 blue rib-bons to his credit won at large exhibi-tions under strong competition includ-ing first when a three-year-old at the Pan-American Exposition in the open-to-all Morgan stallions any age, also the grand sweepstakes over all stallions, any breed, at our Vermont State Fair this year.

Some time in the future I may tell you some of the great things this mare Roxy did for me in her long life of usefulness. Enough' now to say that she did well her part and materially helped pay for the large farm. She alone produced foals for , which I re-ceived $4600 and still have many of her direct descendants left.

Some people, judging from their quick, springy action and great supply of nerve force; th'nk the. Morgans are hard to manage and not to be relied upon. This, let me..assure you, is a mistake. They will -Moe submit to abuse, nor. will .a high bred woman, but give- them love and good treatment, and like this same' high-hied woman, they make the belt-of hili)meets in

.,:this world. I. have irilo possession at the pres-

ent time a five-year-old stallion, a son - of the above mentiiindlex'aiid whose

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dam was the grand old road-mare Queen. This horse has great action and nerve force enough for a high pressure steam engine. For the past three months he has been driven every-where on our country roads by my daughter who is a registered nurse connected with the Presbytrian Hospi-tal of New York, and who never en-joys herself better, when home on her vacation, than when riding or driving our beautiful Morgans.

Many well-meaning people have said to me, "How dare you let her drive, alone, those young horses?" My re-ply is always the same, that the girl has good common sense and plenty of courage, and that is all that is required to be able to manage a well-bred Mor-gan. Many a time has she met the huge scary automobiles, often in diffi-cult places, and yet he never refuses to pass them and that without any help from the chauffer.

From boyhood I have lived with, bred, and handled this grand breed of horses and knowing their sterling characters ;and great worth well, do you wonder that I love and stand ever ready to defend them?

"Long may they livel"

Names in Pedigrees (Continued from Page 11)

success at one career, she was retired to the farm where, bred to Young's Morgan, she immediately achieved the top rung of another career, for her foal was Coleman's Eureka, one of the greatest show horses and sires ever bred in Kentucky.

Bred by William L. Coleman in Trimble County, Kentucky, Coleman's Eureka was foaled in 1868. He was carefully broken to harness and saddle by his breeder who showed him with great success as a two and three year old. At four, he was sent to one of the first great saddle horse trainers, Lewis S. Ellis of Eminence, Kentucky, who liked the young horse so well he bought a half interest in him. In the next fifteen years Eureka won 109 first ribbons out of 112 shows, winning var-iously in saddle, harness, roadster, general use, combination, model and get of sire classes. He was beaten once by Montrose, in an aged stallion class, was once defeated by one of his daugh-ters in a walking class, and was once

disqualified by the judges as being out of his class; these the only three times he ever returned without the blue rosette. Some of his wins were of a most phenomenal order, such as occur-red at Kentucky's Owen County Fair where he swept the boards, ten pre-miums, including best saddle stallion saddle sweepstakes, best harness stallion and sweepstake, best general use and stake for same, best combination stal-lion, best open harness and best com-bination and also first in get of sire. Again, he defeated Montrose handily at the enormous St. Louis Show, beat-ing that good horse and nearly thirty others at best general use stallion. At that same show he won over some twenty other top stallions in a roadster class, with style, action, speed and dur-ability all to count. This was a fitting climax to Eureka's long show ring career, for he was then over twenty years of age, and constant showing and traveling, together with his exceedingly heavy breeding schedule, had finally began to impair his speed and ring presence.

It is not unusual for one horseman to praise extravagantly the very animal another horseman will criticize equally severely, for horsemen are partisan in-deed, but of two great horses, Cole-man's Eureka and Golddust, Kentucky breeders have always been in fullest agreement. "The very greatest." Eureka was a deep dark chestnut color, almost chocolate, and his only white marking was a right hind ankle. He was very close to sixteen hands and weighed eleven hundred pounds. His head was excellent, with a well-defined mascu-line jaw offset by an Arab-like dish to his profile. His ears were small and very thin, always worn sharply forward, and his nostrils flared wide, doubly so at any work, His head was extremely well set onto Ws neck, with a parti-cularly clean throatlatch, and his neck, while somewhat longer than average, was well laid back into the best possible wither. His loin and quarters were very strong and he carried his long wavey tail like a plume always. His trainer was the inventor of an artificial appliance known as the Ellis Crupper, the fore runner of the present day tail-set, but it was never used on Coleman's Eureka. His gaits were perfectly ex-ecuted and distinct and it was always a well-known fact that if he were ever to be beaten, it would have to come early in a class, for the longer the class, the

better and faster Eureka would work. He was driven half miles in 1:15 to show wagons more than once and on many occasions was ridden a mile at the rack in well under three minutes. His disposition was almost unexcelled, and he worked with such ease that a professional rider was never a necessity. This was at extreme odds with his fiery rival Montrose, who was wont to enter the ring at a full gallop and only after several rounds a la wild-horse race, settle into showing.

Coleman's Eureka was sold to Noah Frazier of Cynthiana, Kentucky at the age of eighteen, then to T. K. Shuff of Georgetown and finally to Watson Gay of Bourbon County, who bought him at the age of twenty-five and kept him until his death at the advanced, Mor-gan-like age of thirty-four. In the stud he was both intensely popular and in-tensely successful, for he sired well over one thousand foals, and young geldings by him were sold in lots of ten for an average price of $500 for each horse. One of his best performing sons was the good gelding Woodlake, who beat the incomparable Lady de jarnette and was later sold for $1500 off that record.

As was the case of Indian Chief, Coleman's Eureka was destined to make his mark an indelible one, but for a breed other than Morgan. From his daughters descend the truly great show horses, King Bourbon, Chester Chief, undoubtedly the best son of Chester Dare, and the handsome bay stallion American Born, who combined the Morgan blood of Coleman's Eureka and Drennon with that of the Den-marks to become the best and most successful sire of the Denmark line. The heavy infusions of Morgan blood in the American Saddlebred represen-ted an earnest effort on the part of the early breeders to blend the substance, style and brilliant action of the harness horse with the exquisite finish and easy gaits of the Denmarks. It was this same reasoning and honest effort, albeit reversed, which led to the infusion of some Denmark and Peavine blood in modern Morgans in an effort to re-deem the splendid qualities of Cole-man's Eureka, Ind:an Chief and the other good Morgans which had been absorbed into another breed. If these latter efforts provide food for argument certainly the foregoing ones do not, for the American Saddlebred as he now is, owes much; very, very much, to a little-big horse called Justin Morgan.

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ONCE UPON A HORSE

Days of the

Fire Horses

By OLD TIMER

There is no doubt that the automo-bile is here to stay and that our civilization is solidly built on this pre-mise. There is nothing new in that. Motoring the year 'round has been an accepted fact even in northern areas for the past three decades.

But in hilly northern communities city departments clung to horses much later, and to horse-drawn equipment even longer. In fact, in the main fire-house of our city there are still vestigeal remnants—blankets, some harness and those snap-on steel collars the depart-ments could not even give away.

But to anyone who, as a boy was fascinated by a firehouse and the tingling experience of a run to a blaze, the doors of these red brick buildings which dot the country will always house the spirits of those animals which linked firemen with romance.

In our town, because of the hills, heavy horses were used. The runs were short and the few seconds lost in racing to the fire were more than made up by the fact that the team would always get there. But in spite of their size there was intelligent and quick re-sponce. They broke out of their stalls when the gates snapped back, trotted to their stations and stood while the suspended harness was dropped and hooked, tore out of the house the mo-ment the big doors opened. Their trot was awkward and their gallop ponder-ous—but they hauled the piece to the blaze wherever it was and whatever the conditions of the roads. Their great shoulders would bulge into the collars desp're muddy roads or deep snow.

And they were smart. Firemen, who lead a life of extremes—enforced idle-ness for long periods and then super-human effort demanded at a moment's notice—firemen gravitated naturally in their dull moments to the horses. Much

care was lavished on them. They were always groomed to the nines, hoofs polished, manes and tails carefully braided into a knot when the weather was bad. In addition, many were so well trained that periodically they were taken out onto the manure pile where they performed their chores and never sullied their stalls.

Their names were known to nearly everyone and partisans lined the streets to cheer on their favorites when the big red wagons rolled by on a dash to a fire. But because our town is in the hills with a high-perched water supply there was usually enough hydrant pres-sure for any blaze and the need for the steamer was not so great.

Recollection always goes back to New York when fire engnes are men-tioned and to a particular date.

It was Christmas time. With other members of my family I had gone to the big city for the holidays. But grandmother lived in an apartment on one of the principal avenues and it didn't take a boy of eight very long to explore the quarters. Then, with time heavy on my hands, I stared out the window at the wind-whipped snow. Then I saw it.

The first hint was smoke far down the avenue, almost obscured by the driving storm. Then, as it rapidly came nearer, the smoke billowed black, as the fireman poured on oil to waken his sleepy fire. Then, out of the snow and smoke sprang Romance.

The engine was brightly polished copper slung low between its rubber-tired red wheels. Hauling it were three horses, grays. They were lighter than the horses used in our town, lighter and leggier.

Low they ran, flattened out by the length of their great strides. Their

thin heads were outstretched, their ears tucked back from the sting of the storm, they moved as one. The pave-ment was slippery under its thin snow coat but they spurned it so lightly it didn't seem to matter. Rapidly they pulled abreast of my window and I tore my eyes from the magnet of their motion to gaze at the apparition on the tiny driver's seat. Big was the driver and black of blowing hair and swept back moustache. He was clad only in his red flannel underwear, his huge bare feet clutching the footrest with the grip of an ape, his long arms ex• tended over the rumps of the wheelers handling the ribbons, as delicately as he would have patted a baby's head.

Clinging precariously to the rig, a fireman strove to hold a blanket around the scantily-clad driver. But the driver's attention was solely on the horses. That, plus the wind, made the blanketing effort a futile gesture. At the back rail another fireman paid scant heed to the rocking motion but worked steadily getting up more steam.

One moment they were there before me in all their spine-tingling glory of valiant men, gleaming metal, cloud of smoke and running horses. Then they were gone in the snow, galloping up the avenue, on and on and on . . . galloping into the future which spelled their extermination, racing with time whose motors defeated them.

But one whose lifetime does not stretch back to the firehorse can have motor memories which shine as bright-ly as those implanted in boyhood on the early hundreds. Gone are the fire-horses and their gallant runs. But those who were lucky enough to have seen them will never forget.

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The MORGAN HORSE