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not satisfactory. For instance, here is the kind of 

 story that was once current. Revenge was in the 

 stud at Surrey, New Hampshire, in 1823. The 

 dam of the famous Henry Clay by Andrew Jack- 

 son was the noted mare Lady Surrey, foaled 

 about 1824. She was said by some to be sired by 

 Revenge. Mr. Randolph Huntington, the histor- 

 ian of the Clay family of horses and the staunch- 

 est advocate of their merits, does not endorse this, 

 as he says that Lady Surrey was a Kanuck, and 

 brought to New York with twelve other horses 

 from the neighborhood of Quebec. Had she been 

 the granddaughter of the original Morgan, the 

 fact would hardly have escaped Mr. Huntington, 

 who has also always been a believer in the Mor- 

 gan blood. But there is very little profit in dis- 

 cussing or analyzing these old stories. There is no 

 mortal way of getting at the truth, and we can do 

 little more than grant that many of them are not 

 impossible. What is important is that in the 

 course of three horse generations the Morgan 

 was a fixed and reproducing type in Vermont, a 

 type which had attracted the attention of breed- 

 ers and horsemen all over the country to such an 



