EXPLANATORY. 



In stating pedigrees we set down whatever information we have, and 

 stop ; not deeming it necessary to add explanatory words, such as " untraced," 

 or "breeding unknown." 



We generally follow back the line at least two generations, and often 

 more, or until we strike the name of some well-known horse. In the case of 

 the following noted horses, however, we give the name only, and whenever 

 the name is used alone it refers to the horse mentioned in this table : 



Black Hawk, 



Bulrush Morgan, 



Daniel Lambert, 



Ethan Allen, 



Fearnaught, 



Gen. Knox, 



Gifford Morgan, 



Golddust, 



Green Mountain Morgan, 



Magria Charta, 



Morrill, 



Sherman Black Hawk, 



Sherman Morgan, 



Winthrop Morrill, 



Woodbury Morgan, 



Young Morrill, 



means that son of 



Perkins' 



Sherman Morgan. 

 Justin Morgan. 

 Ethan Allen. 

 Black Hawk. 

 Young Morrill. 

 Vermont Hero. 

 Woodbury Morgan. 

 Vermont Morgan. 

 Gifford Morgan. 

 Morgan Eagle. 

 Jennison Colt. 

 Black Hawk. 

 Justin Morgan. 

 Young Morrill. 

 Justin Morgan. 

 Morrill. 



The tables of performers in the body of this work are from the best in- 

 formed sources and include the results of much investigation made by 

 ourselves, but we have not undertaken to verify each pedigree. 

 In records we intend to confine ourselves strictly to those made in a dona- 

 fide races. We do this because, first, no comparison of speed is just unless 

 conditions are similar ; and records made against time are always made with 

 quite dissimilar conditions from those made in races. A number of these 

 alleged time records, and some of them quite important, that we have seen 

 made, were grossly irregular, the horses running quite a share of the distance ; 

 yet the results were proclaimed from the stand without hesitation, and the 

 horses were duly accredited with the "records" thus obtained. On the 

 other hand, in dona-fide races, the rules are generally so far enforced, at least, 

 that no horse gets a record faster than the time honestly made ; so that nearly 

 all race records are fairly obtained. 



In the tables of performers the "turf period" given is the first and the last 

 year in which the animal was a winner. Performers are arranged in the or- 

 der of number of races won, because in our opinion that is ordinarily the best 

 test of merit a horse capable of winning many races being generally more 

 valuable than one capable of winning few or none, though the latter be faster 

 for a single mile, and thereby take a faster record. 



We give transfers in the order in which they occurred, so far as we have 

 knowledge ; but our knowledge at the best is very incomplete, and we would 

 take this opportunity to urgently request all our friends who preceive errors 

 in this work, or have further information of horses that appear in this work, 

 or who know of other Morgan horses than appear here, to forward us this in- 



