120 THE IIORSK. 



Black Hawk was an imported half-bred English mare. The 

 dam of Black Jack was got by Medley, he by Little Medley, 

 thoroughbred, he by imported Medley— his granddam by Shep- 

 ard's Consul — thoroughbred — by Bond's First Consul. 



In all which instances, I submit that it is preposterous to 

 refer the qualities of these animals to the very remote strain of 

 doubtful blood, on the sire's or Morgan side, rather than to the 

 recent pure strains, of the highest quality, on the dam's. 



But to proceed with the present stock, the qualities, to 

 which they pretend, are neat style, good trotting action, great 

 honesty, great quickness and sprightliness of movement, apart 

 from extraordinaiy speed, which is not insisted on as a charac- 

 teristic of the breed — although some have possessed it — and con- 

 siderable powers of endurance. There lias been some conflict 

 of opinions concerning the courage and endurance of the Mor- 

 gans, as they are called, and their ability to maintain a good 

 stroke of speed, say ten miles an hour, for several hours in suc- 

 cession ; but 1 conceive it to be well established that the excep- 

 tion has not been fairly taken, and that these horses lack neither 

 courage nor ability to persevere, though not, so far as I can 

 judge, at a high rate of speed. 



And now, having admitted these qualities, I mean to assert 

 that they are qualities appertaining to all horses, which are more 

 or less— and the more the better — crossed with thorough blood. 



In the quarter, whence the Morgans come, there is an excel- 

 lent type of draught mare, of different degrees of weight, power 

 and speed, itself doubtless the produce of a variety of crosses, 

 originally I think from the Cleveland Bay stock, possibly with 

 a strain of Suffolk Punch, unquestionably with a large strain of 

 Canadian, and unquestionably, also, with more or less admix- 

 tures of thorough blood, entirely distinct from that of True 

 Briton. That from the highest bred of these mares by crosses, 

 sometimes with other thoroughbreds, sometimes with stallions, 

 the sons and grandsons of the Justin Morgan, themselves out of 

 well-bred dams, sometimes with clever half-bred trotting horses, 

 a likely and useful stamp of horses should arise, possessing just 

 tlie form and exactly the qualities, which the pretended Mor- 

 gans do possess, would be predicted by any person, in the least 

 degree cognizant of the principles of horse-breeding. 



