e6 "GENERAL BEALE," "HEGIRAy "ISLAM," 



earliest boyhood old men spoke of him as an Arabian-bred horse. I 

 was born within five miles of where Justin Morgan was got and foaled, 

 — i.e., Springfield, Massachusetts. My father, grandfather, great- and 

 great-great-grandfathers were all born between Springfield, Massachu- 

 setts, and Hartford, Connecticut. None were horse-dealers, but all 

 owned and loved good horses. As a family, they were remarked for 

 good memory and cultured intelligence. Fifty years ago, as a boy, I 

 would listen to these old gentlemen in Springfield as they talked about 

 the Arabian-bred " Morgan horses," and many was the one I rode or 

 drove. 



Study, observation, and practical experience with my sons and 

 daughters of General Grant's Arabian stallions, refreshes memory, con- 

 firming my belief in the statements by these old gentlemen regarding 

 the Arabian breeding of Justin Morgan. First, the get of Arabian 

 stallions are small in inches, but powerful in muscular development. 

 Their heads are fine and good, and their ears are small. From four- 

 teen to fourteen and three-quarters is the usual height. One rising to 

 fifteen and one-quarter or fifteen and one-half is very large for an Arab- 

 bred horse. They are short in the back, are well ribbed up, and power- 

 fully compact in build. Justin Morgan had all these points. Any one 

 of my sons and daughters of General Grant's Arabs, would pass in 

 Vermont for highly-bred Morgan horses, although Hegira would be 

 considered very large. Three of them are duplicates of old-time pen- 

 pictures of Justin Morgan. 



L. L. Dorsey's old Golddust, which I have spoken of, is a happy 

 illustration of the principle in animal life of once out and thrice back 

 to a primitive blood. If Justin Morgan had been the product of Eng- 

 lish thoroughbred running-horse blood far removed from Arabian, why 

 is it that the Morgan type could never in any way be duplicated in 

 England or America by or through crosses from the English thorough- 

 bred fixed type ? Still, the Morgan horse retains his characteristics 

 widely different from any thoroughbred race-horse crosses. 



Besides Messenger, Morgan, and Dorsey's old Golddust, each a 

 representative of close-bred Arabian product, we have Andrew Jackson 

 and his best son, Henry Clay. Now, every horseman knows that each 

 one of these five different Arab-bred stallions were natural trotters, 

 and to the end of time produced instinctive trot in their get; with all, 

 the first get by each representative Arab-bred horse were famous 

 quarter horses at the running gait. Is there no reason in our argu- 

 ments? 



