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mont; that he was by the Barnard Morgan, and his dam was known 

 as the Moses F. Chase mare; that she was a bay mare fifteen hands 

 high. She was called a Sherman Morg-an, but this amounts to nothino- 

 for such would have been likely to have been the case in the absence 

 of any known pedigree, as it was fashionable in Vermont as late as that 

 day to claim all the Morgan blood possible in any and every animal 

 of excellence. She was a good roadster but of unknown blood. 



The dam of Barnard Morgan was a highly bred mare, sixteen hands 

 high, and she it would seem gave the Barnard Morgan his size of fifteen 

 hands and three-quarters in height, and doubtless much of the excel- 

 lence for which he was distinguished. After Mr. Sawyer had brought 

 the colt Vermont Morgan to Illinois, he found that he had become or 

 was sterile — perfectly impotent, which sometimes occurs with a young 

 stallion from change of climate and location. Mr. Sawyer, thereuj^on 

 in 1855, brought out from Vermont the Barnard Morgan and kept 

 him near Alton, Illinois, until about 1872, the time of his death. He 

 was a stallion of great excellence, and became very popular in that 

 part of Illinois. 



In 1857 he was exhibited at St. Louis with twenty-six of his colts 

 and the judges covered him, as Mr. Sawyer says, from end to end with 

 blue ribbons. 



Barnard Morgan took the first premium of the Madison County 

 Fair in 1855 and 1856, as best stallion for roadsters. He has left 

 much stock in that part of Illinois and other adjacent parts of Mis- 

 souri, all noted for great excellence as road horses and many of them 

 quite speedy, and what is more, their gait and way of going is much 

 unlike the other Morgan families and much like that of the Golddusts. 

 Mr. Sawyer sold Vermont Morgan to the breeder and owner of Gold- 

 dust, who succeeded in restoring his virility and raised several colts 

 from him — Golddust among the number. 



We are informed that the Barnard Morgan was a son of Gilford 

 son of "Woodbury, and was a bay horse fifteen hands and three- 

 quarters in height, and weighed about 1,150 pounds, and was a supe- 

 rior trotter. GiflFord was undoubtedly one of the best of the Morgans 

 of his or any other period. He was the most popular horse of the 

 Morgan family, and left the largest jirogeny of any horse this country 

 has produced unless it be Hambletonian. It is stated that he produced 

 about thirteen hundred foals. There were so many lines of trotting 

 blood accessible in Vermont in the localities from which these horses 

 Gilford and Barnard Morgan and Vermont Morgan came, that it is 

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