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remarkable how seldom the gray color has occurred In 

 Ethan Allen's descendants. 



Perhaps the strain now most prominent, and most 

 likely to be perpetuated, Is the Peters branch of the 

 Ethan Allen family, which was established by the late 

 Joseph H. Peters of Bradford, Vermont. Belonging 

 to this branch are the stallions Donald, owned by C. C. 

 Stillman of Cornwall-on-Hudson; Welcome, owned by 

 A. Fullerton Phillips of Windsor, Vermont; Bob B., 

 owned by E. A. Darling of East Burke, Vermont ; Ethan 

 Woodbury, owned by F. H. Orcutt of East Burke, 

 and Ajax, owned by Judge Sanders of Cleveland, Ohio. 



The widespread popularity of the Morgan family 

 continued until about the year 1862. In that year 

 Ethan Allen was defeated by the Hambletonlan stal- 

 lion, George Wilkes, then called Robert FUlIngham. 

 This race came at a time when the horse-raising and 

 horse-using public had become Infected with the craze 

 for speed, and the result was that the Hambletonlan 

 family took the place which up to that time had been 

 held by the Morgan family. Thereafter almost all 

 the horse-raising farmers in New England, as well as 

 in the West, started to breed Hambletonlan horses, 

 and the Morgans would have become extinct as a sepa- 

 rate family, except for a few staunch friends, Vermont 

 farmers, mainly, who preserved the old strain. 



But Morgan blood has entered largely into the 

 American trotter; and the cross between Hambletonlan 

 and Morgan has often resulted in animals that com- 

 bined the best points of both families. Among the 

 famous trotters and pacers that have the Morgan cross 



