90 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



and he was used principally as a riding horse. 

 After the death of Mr. Morgan he fell into hands 

 which imposed heavier tasks upon him. D. C. 

 Linsley, who wrote a history of the Morgan 

 family, published in 1857, described Justin Mor- 

 gan as about 14 hands high and weighing 950 

 pounds. " His color was dark bay with black 

 legs, mane, and tail. He had no white hairs on 

 him. His mane and tail were coarse and heavy, 

 but not so massive as has sometimes been de- 

 scribed ; the hair of both was straight and not 

 inclined to curl. His head was good, not 

 extremely small, but lean and bony, the face 

 straight, forehead broad, ears small and fine, but 

 set rather wide apart. His eyes were medium- 

 sized, very dark and prominent, with a spirited 

 but pleasant expression, and showed no white 

 around the edge of the lid. His nostrils were 

 very large, the muzzle small, and the lips close 

 and firm. His back and legs were perhaps his 

 most noticeable points. The former was very 

 short, the shoulder blades and hip bones being 

 very long and oblique, and the loins exceedingly 

 broad and muscular. His body was rather long, 

 round, and deep, close ribbed up ; chest deep and 

 wide, with the breast bone projecting a good deal 



