620 THE MORGANS. 



racing incHnation from it. The germ once planted would come out, 

 and the result in Winthrop Morrill is a trotting sire of remarkable 

 success. He stands side by side with Knox and I^ambert, but is 

 more nearly a Morgan than either of them. 



Mr. Levi S. Gould, of Boston, whose name appears in an early part 

 of this work, has furnished me from his own pen, the following account 

 of this stallion: 



Winthrop Morrill. — Bright bay horse, with dark points, star, off liiud 

 ankle white; full mane and tail; height, about 15)^ hands; weight, 1,000 

 pounds; head, after the Morgan type^ clean and intelligent; neck, thin, long, 

 blood-like, and carried in good style. Shoulders sloping and strong; chest 

 deej) ; back stout and beautiful in contour troni withers to haunches ; barrel, 

 round and well ribbed back; tail finely set on and well carried; limbs rather 

 light in bone, but well muscled; hind pasterns very straight; upper bone of 

 the forearm let down low to the knee ; cannon-bialie short ; feet blue, tough 

 and excellent. Foaled, 1856. 



Placed in training when from three to four years old, he developed wonder- 

 ful speed as a trotter, and was entered in a race at Providence, R. I. Too 

 severe work for a youngster Caused him to suddenly shift from a trot to a 

 pace. Repeated attempts failing to correct the evil he was.traded to a jockey 

 and went to Maine, where he passed from one to another at a mere pittance in 

 price, finally bringing up in a peddler's cart. While in this menial capacity, 

 he sired the chestnut gelding Fleetwood, record, 2:29. Purchased by Geo. C. 

 Goodale, then of Winthrop, Me., for ninety dollars, he was used for general 

 farm work for a season and finally sold to Messrs. Charles G. Jackson and 

 Jos. G. Rounds, and went into the stud at Winthrop. In Mr. Goodale's 

 possession he was driven a carefully measured mile on Winthrop pond, two 

 men to a sleigh, without a break, in 2:32, the last quarter in the remarkable 

 time of 33 seconds or a 2:12 gait, and was not up to his speed until the half 

 mile was passed. He paced at that time, but next season shifted over, and 

 has been a square trotter since. His success in the stud, always with common 

 hard-worked farmer's mares (Gen. Knox and Drew always taking the best) is 

 a matter of public record. At the close of the season of 1877 he stood num- 

 ber five on the list of sires of horses trotting in 3:30 or better. Said list 

 including rt?; which have trotted in' that time since the first record in this 

 country, viz : llambletonian, 27 representatives ; Volunteer, 10 representatives ; 

 Blue Bull, 10 representatives; Daniel Lambert, 9 representatives; Winthrop 

 Morrill, 7 representatives. 



Ills get are uniformly of great courage, excellent trotting action, and have 

 an ai)pearance of higher Ijreeding than would be expected from his ancestiy. 



. Winthrop Morrill was bred by Rodway Bradford, of Barre, Ver- 

 mont, and was recently owned by the late Mr. T, B. Williams, of 

 Boston. He is now owned at Hartland, in the. State of Maine. His 

 record stands at present as follows: 



