4 THE MORGAN HORSE 



pacing record and still is, we think, all things considered, the greatest pacer 

 to date ; ahorse that is now (1892) doing fast work in his ninth season on the 

 turf, winner of 19 races and with 91 heats in 2 : 30 and better, and several fast- 

 est records yet to his credit. The sire of Johnston is recorded in this 

 Register and was of Morgan and thoroughbred blood. 



Lord Clinton 2 : 10)^ in a winning race (a race record at the close of 1892 

 never beaten by a gelding) and winner of 21 of the 27 races he has trot- 

 ted, is by an inbred Morgan horse of the Ethan Allen strain, and has no 

 known trotting inheritance from his dam. Kitty Bayard holds the half-mile 

 track race record in 2 : 12^. Nelson-2 : 10, that has several times held the 

 stallion record of the world, which he would probably hold to-day had he not 

 been ruled off from all fast tracks the last season, and whose 2:11^ against 

 the watch is the fastest time ever made on a half-mile track, is largely of 

 Morgan blood. 



The double team record (2:12^) is held by Honest George and Belle 

 Hamlin. Honest George is Morgan on both sides, while Belle Hamlin 

 traces four times to the great Morgan sire, Black Hawk, and carries twice as 

 much of his blood as of that of Hambletonian. 



These instances might be extended indefinitely, and are especially 

 prominent in long-distance trotting, where there is more of Morgan blood 

 so far as known than belongs to any other one family. But we have men- 

 tioned enough, we think, to show that the Morgan blood is capable of going 

 as fast as any, and may at any time capture any record. The Table of Fifty- 

 Race Trotters given in the appendix, as also that of Ten-Race Winners, shows 

 that for the quality of endurance, that enables a horse to live out many con- 

 tests, the Morgan is in the first position. 



It is a significant fact that four stallions recorded in the Morgan Regis- 

 ter, two tracing to Sherman, and one to Woodbury Morgan, appear in the 

 list of fourteen sires selected as the foundation stock for their Register by 

 the National Saddle-Horse Breeders' Association, organized in Kentucky in 

 1891. 



We decided to admit the Pilot family because the place and time in 

 which he was bred, as well as the quality of the horse, suggested strongly 

 that he was a Morgan, at least on one side, and our tracing, so far as we 

 were able to trace, sustained this theory ; so that he and the famous Dan- 

 sereau breed to which he belonged seemed fairly entitled to a place in this 

 Register. These are rated as possessing one-eighth Morgan blood. 



The investigation of the pedigree of nearly every Morgan horse involves 

 the examination of several others in collateral lines. In the nearly five 

 thousand pedigrees registered in this volume, a large proportion of the noted 

 horses of America are named. Of course, no breeder of Morgan stock can 

 know all that is to be known of the origin of his own stock without an ex- 

 haustive knowledge of the pedigrees of those animals whose blood comes in 

 collaterally to the main line. -Many of them of necessity must be outside the 

 Morgan family. 



