MORGAN horse: HIS RELATION TO BREEDING. 295 



Wildair breed. But, for one," I care nothing for this 

 verbal pedigree in the case of Justin Morgan : it is a 

 waste of words to discuss it. The proofs of his pedigree 

 were not hack of him, but in him ; and they were read 

 in living characters in his three great sons, — Sherman, 

 Woodbury, and Bulrush, — and in all the successive gen^ 

 crations of his descendants, even down to the present 

 time. What names adorn the scroll of his fame ! — 

 Black Hawk, Gifford, Ethan Allen, Morrill, Taggart's 

 Abdallah, Gen. Knox, Fearnaught, Lambert: these are 

 enough, if there were no more, to make his name 

 immortal. The sire of such sons cannot be denied his 

 rank and place amid the great stock-horses of the 

 world. The ignorance of some, and the malice of 

 others, cannot belittle his greatness. This stands 

 secure, not only above the peril, but even above the 

 reach, of attack. 



It is of a family of horses with such an ancestor, and 

 sharing his characteristics, that I now write, not in 

 way of eulogy, but rather of suggestion to breeders. 

 I claim for the Morgan horse a few things which 

 make him the most desirable horse on which to base 

 experiments in crossing that any man ever had. The 

 first of these peculiarities is this, — the power of trans- 

 mitting his excellences to his offspring. 



This power makes the horse that has it absolutely 

 invaluable for breeding-purposes, because it takes 

 uncertainty from the process. Give the breeder a 

 horse that marks his get in form, color, and tempera- 



