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that she was nearly, if not quite, as well bred as 

 True Briton, for so remarkable an animal as Justin 

 Morgan could hardly have been a mongrel. 



It must be remembered that at the time when 

 Justin Morgan was foaled the typical thoroughbred 

 was very unlike the thoroughbred of the present day. 

 He was close to the Arab foundation, and conse 

 quently he was a shorter-legged, rounder built, more 

 compact animal than the race horse of the nineteenth 

 century. Such was the famous and beautiful Gini- 

 crack, 1 foaled in 1760. It is not surprising, therefore, 

 that Justin Morgan, though well-bred, was a chunky 

 little horse, with short legs and round quarters. He 

 had a line mane and tail, a short, powerful back, a 

 longish body, strong, oblique shoulders, a delicate 

 ear, a noble head, and the most intelligent, expressive, 

 and courageous eyes that the spirit of a Houyhnhnm 

 ever looked out of. He stood fourteen hands only, 

 and weighed about nine hundred pounds. He was 

 foaled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1793, and as 

 a two-year-old he was taken in part payment of a debt 

 by a school-teacher named Justin Morgan, who brought 

 him to Randolph, Vermont. The horse died in 1821, 

 near Chelsea, Vermont. 



necticut. On inquiry, they learned that these horses were sons 

 of Ranger. There were sixty of them, all grays, in a troop com- 

 manded by Captain Tallmadge, who is said to have lamented the 

 loss of one of them more bitterly than he did the death of a trooper. 

 The Virginia gentlemen made up a purse, and sent one Captain 

 Lindsey to inspect Ranger, and, if the horse answered the account 

 that had been given to them, to purchase him if possible. Captain 

 Lindsey accordingly bought Ranger and took him to Virginia, where 

 he was known as Lindsey's Arabian. He was a gray, high-spirited, 

 of a proud and commanding appearance. 



1 Gimcrack was by Cripple, by the Godolphin Arabian. He 

 stood onlv 14.1 hands. 



