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Honest Harry, 2:22-^, and fifty heats in 2:30 or better; Uncle Abe, 

 2:27; Ed Getchell, 2:27; Ben Morrill, at four years old, 2:32f, at six, 

 2:28; Fleetwood, 2:29; Modoc, 2:29; Baby Boy, 2:29; Sweet Briar, 

 2:32i; Sam Curtis, 2:28; Belle Morrill, 2:34; Charley Morrill, 2:33; 

 Letrenoux's Purity, 2:37i; W. Morrill, Mich., 2:37; Baby Girl, 2:45; 

 Louis Surette, 2:45; Yellow Dog, 2:42; I.ady Morrill, 2:43; Little 

 Fraud, 2:43^; Lady Mansfield, 2:45; J. G. Morrill, 2:50, half, 1:21, at 

 three years old. 



His record and success shows the wonderful progress made in the 

 Morgan family by the introduction of a small element of real trotting- 

 blood. This stallion will aiford an excellent cross to reunite with the 

 other Morgan strains in Daniel Lambert and Gen. Knox, although the 

 Morgan blood of the latter horse will be hard to find and can scarcely 

 be recognized. 



bale's greex mountain morgan. 



Another branch of the Morgan family deserving of notice, as 

 having made progress in the development of trotting excellence by 

 means of alliances with other good lines of blood, are the various 

 scions tracing through Hale's Green Mountain Morgan. This latter 

 horse was foaled in 1834, and was a chestnut horse by Gilford Morgan, 

 son of Woodbury — and his dam was by Woodbury. Gilford, his sire, 

 has been celebrated even among the Morgans for his beauty and 

 unapproachable style. 



He is credited as being the sire of Eastman Morgan, the sire of 

 Little Fred, with a record of 2:20, and forty-one heats in 2:30 or 

 better. I have an impression that it will be found that Eastman 

 Morgan was by a son of Hale's Green Mountain Morgan. The dam 

 of Little Fred was by Simpson's Blackbird, a highly bred horse — 

 almost a thoroughbred — but a trotter. 



Hale's Morgan was also the sire of Morgan Eagle, the sire of 

 Lady Sutton, with record of 2:30. The dam of Morgan Eagle was 

 by Callender, a son of American Eclipse, grandam by a son of 

 Sherman, and he showed in his own produce and those that came 

 after him the advance he had made in breeding quality. 



magna charta. 



This highly successful stallion in himself and his progeny proves the 

 readiness of the Morgan stock to receive and appropriate the good 

 qualities of other highly bred racing and trotting blood. He was by 



