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fectly trained to all the paces and evolutions of a parade 

 horse, and when ridden at military reviews (as was fre- 

 quently the cabG,) his bold, imposing style, and spirited, 

 nervons action, attracted universal attention and admiration. 

 He w^as perfectly gentle and kind to handle and loved to be 

 groomed and caressed, but he disliked to have children 

 about him, and had an inveterate hatred for dogs, if loose 

 always chasing them out of sight tlie instant he saw them." 

 I have given you thus a minute description of this famous 

 horse, V)ecause I consider him, in most respects, the perfect 

 type of a Vermont horse, and the fountain from which all 

 the famous stock horses of New England drew their blood. 

 It is a fact that New England has never had any stock 

 horses aV)le to perpetuate their name and fame save those of 



Morgan blood. 



The following was taken from " Murray's Perfect Horse." 



I have two reasons for presenting it to you ; the first is, to 

 show you what eminent horsemen outside of Vermont say 

 of the Morgan Horse ; and the second is, it is the most 

 truthful and logical statement of the excellencies of the Mor- 

 gan stock for breeding purposes that I have seen. He says: 



" I claim for the Morgan horse a few things which make 

 him the most desirable horse on which to base experiments 

 in crossinor that anv man ever had. The first of these 

 peculiarities is this — the power of transmitting Ms excel- 

 lencies to his oifsjoriiig. 



" The second excellence for which the Morgan is noted is 

 beauty. Twenty years ago speed was everything. If a 

 horse could go that was enough. We have lived beyond 

 that period. Beauty is demanded now in .the markets, and 



