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laid upon him ; with limbs of medium length and size, supported 

 by cords of full size ; with joints not too prominent, but so pro- 

 tected by ligament and cartilage as to secure them against 

 deformity and ruin by spavins or ringbones ; with a spirit and 

 power of locomotion that shall secure any reasonable driver 

 against the exercise of impatience when on the road, and with 

 a style in all his movements that shall confirm the truth of the 

 poet, when he said of this noble animal : — 



The steed you pompously bestride, 



Shares with his lord the pleasure and the pride. 



And lastly, possessed with courage sufficient to secure him 

 against alarm, and a docility of temper that shall not be excited 

 to resistance though the vehicle to which he may be attached, 

 with all its precious freight of wife, children, &c., should, 

 through the frailty of the harness, or any other casuality, be 

 precipitated against him. 



To point the breeders of horses to any race, in which all 

 these qualities are combined, may be a difficult task; yet we 

 believe that embraced under the head of Morgan, approaches 

 nearer the standard we have raised than any other now known 

 to us ; and although we may not at present have within our bor- 

 ders any of the very best samples of this breed, we are favored 

 with those of that or of other breeds that have produced a de- 

 cided improvement in our stock, within a few years past, among 

 wliich are the " Young Hambletonian," more recently known 

 by the name of " Waterloo," owned by Messrs. Williams and 

 Bright, of Adams, and " Young Black Hawk," owned by S. 

 Hooper, of West Stockbridge. The stock of the former has 

 probably borne off more of the prizes offered by this society, 

 on mares and colts, than that of any other horse yet. We be- 

 lieve his stock may prove better adapted to the labor of the 

 trotting course than that of the farm. He has a number of 

 times been exhibited before this society, and justly partaken of 

 its munificence. The latter has twice been a successful com- 

 petitor among the stallions presented on former occasions, and 

 although his standing point has ever been within the borders of 

 the State of New York, yet it has not been so remote as to 

 prevent a liberal dispensation of his favors among the breeders 

 of our own county, and favors indeed they have proved, for 



