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exclusive advocates and exclusive admirers of the Morgans ; 

 but I am certain that they are founded on correct and ascer- 

 tained principles of nature, in regard to the breeding of ani- 

 mals ; and, as I have no possible interest, ^ro or con^ and only 

 desire to advance, to the utmost, by all means within my power, 

 the horse-interests of the country, I put forth what I believe to 

 be true, influenced by neither fear nor favor. 



THE MORGAN HORSE. 



Recently there has become familiar to the sporting world a 

 class or type of horse coming from the State of Vermont, known 

 as the Morgari horse ; and still more recently, a claim has been 

 set up that this class is neither more nor less than a distinct 

 family, directly descended from a single horse, owned a little 

 before and a little after the commencement of the present cen- 

 tury, by Mr. Justin Morgan, of Randolph in Vermont, a school- 

 master, and teacher of writing and singing in the district schools 

 of that region of country — from whom the name is given to the 

 family — as it is pretended to be. 



In this place, therefore, it is convenient to refer to the por- 

 trait of Ethan Allen, from a painting executed for this work 

 from life by Mr. Attwood, a pupil of the celebrated animal 

 painter Ansdell, who is spoken of as the probable successor to 

 the great Landseer in this jjeculiar line. 



Ethan Allen I have selected as the type of the Morgan 

 horse, just as I chose Young Black Hawk as the representative 

 of the highbred trotting horse — which does not claim its excel- 

 lence as arising from any exclusive breed — not because I assume 

 to decide that either is the best trotting stallion, or is better 

 than the other, or than any other or others, but because they 

 are beautiful specimens of the style of animals to which they 

 are admitted, without dispute, respectively to belong, and 

 strongly exhibit the characteristics of their respective breeds. 



Ethan Allen was got by the Morgan Black Ilawk — his dam 

 a medium-sized white mare, said to be of Messenger blood. 



The Morgan Black Hawk was by the Shei-man Morgan 

 horse, his dam the Howard mare, got by a colt of Hamble- 

 tonian. 



