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many colts and fillies, but being kept in training 

 the better part of his life he never had so good a 

 chance as some other horses to become famous as 

 an ancestor. Through his sons, Honest Allen and 

 Daniel Lambert, his name and that of his sire 

 have been kept very much alive in the records, 

 for his descendants have been fleet in the track 

 and most successful in the show ring. His daugh- 

 ters and granddaughters have also done him 

 proud, proving the excellence of the Morgan 

 blood as brood mares. It is only when we get to 

 his generation that the chroniclers take much no- 

 tice of the importance of the females in perpetu- 

 ating the Morgan type and family. Honest Allen 

 spent the last ten years of his life at Lexington, 

 Kentucky, and he was mated with many of the 

 best mares in that section, his son, Denning Al- 

 len, out of Reta, a granddaughter of Black Hawk, 

 proving himself one of the best speed producing 

 sires the country has had, one of his colts, Lord 

 Clinton, being marvelously fast and courageous. 

 Woodbury Morgan was the largest of the stal- 

 lion sons of the original Morgan. He was 14f 

 hands, and usually weighed about 1000 pounds. 



