108 THE HORSE. 



treated to a deduction — to wit, that this imported horse, Traveller, 

 is no other than the famous horse Moreton's Old Traveller, 

 by Partner, without even an attempt to show that this horse was 

 so much as standing in l^ew Jersey, at the time of the occur- 

 rence. 



But to proceed. We are, one step farther, treated to half a 

 score of different hypotheses concerning the dam of Justin Mor- 

 gan and the dam of the stolen horse True Briton. Mr. John 

 Morgan, a distant relative, contemporarj^ and neighbor of Justin 

 Morgan, the owner of the original Morgan horse, writing in 

 1842, asserts, that he knew the dam of the horse in question ; 

 that she was of the " Wildair hreed^'' of middling size, with a 

 heavy chest, of a very light bay color, with a bushy mane and 

 tail, the hair on the legs rather long, and a smooth and hand- 

 some traveller. She was got by Diamond, a thick heavy horse 

 of about the middling size, with a thick heavy mane and tail, 

 hairy legs and a smooth traveller. Diamond was raised in East 

 Hartford, Connecticut ; his sire Avas Wildair^ known as the 

 Church horse, got by Delancy's imported Wildair. His dam 

 was the noted imported mare Wildair, owned by Captain 

 Samuel Bart, of Springfield, Massachusetts, 



The latter part of this pedigree is simply nonsense ; since 

 there never was any imported mare AVildair, nor any mare 

 Wildair at all, "Wildair" being the name of a horse. 



If this mean any thing, it means a Wildair mare, instead of 

 a mare Wildair, that is to say, a mare begotten by Delancy's 

 Wildair, on some dam, concerning which there is no pretence 

 to her being of blood. 



But this is not likely, since farmers would not be generally 

 disposed to stint a daughter to her own sire, as a stallion ; since, 

 beside that the practice is unscientilic, it is in some degree 

 morally repugnant to the ideas of unsophisticated men. 



The above is the pedigree given by Mr. F. A. Weir, in the 

 Albany Cultivator of 184G, concerning which Mr. Linsley re- 

 marks — ■" If this pedigree be correct, the dam must be at least 

 three-eighths thoroughbred." 



But it is no such thing ; and, if it had been, it would be no- 

 thing to boast of, in a progenitrix. 



If she were got by Diamond out of a common mare, and 



