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 JUSTIN MORGAN 



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The dam of Justin Morgan was a medium-sized light bay mare r 

 with brownish mane and tail inclining to black, foaled in 1784, and 

 bred at West Springfield, Massachusetts ; her sire was Diamond, bred 

 at East Hartford, Connecticut, and got by the Wildair, owned by Mr. 

 Church of Springfield, son of Wildair that was imported by Col. 

 James DeLancey with the Cub mare ; the dam of Diamond is stated 

 by Justin Morgan in his advertisement to have been a good mare, 

 but her breeding is not given. The darn of Church's Wildair "was 

 the noted imported mare of the Wildair breed owned byCapt. Samuel 

 Burt of Springfield, Massachusetts". 



Wildair was a famous bay thoroughbred, foaled in 1753, bred in 

 England by Mr. Swinburne, and imported with the Cub mare by 

 Col. James DeLancey, in 1764. He remained in this country till 

 early in 1773, when he was sent back to England, where his service 

 fee was forty guineas. The sire of Wildair was Cade : first dam by 

 Steady, foaled 1720, son of Devonshire Flying Childers ; second dam 

 by Partner; third dam by Greyhound; fourth dam Chestnut Layton, 

 by Makeless; fifth dam Bay Layton, by Counselor; sixth dam by 

 Brimmer ; seventh dam by Place's White Turk ; eighth dam by Dods- 

 worth, and ninth dam, the Layton Barb mare. 



Cade, the sire of Wildair, was bred and owned by Lord Godolphin 

 and got by the Godolphin Arabian : dam Roxana, by Bald Galloway; 

 second dam, sister to Chanter, by Akaster Turk; third dam by 

 Leedes' Arabian, and fourth dam by Spanker. 



Steady was gray; foaled 1733; bred by Duke of Devonshire; 

 dam Miss Belvoir, bred by the Duke of Rutland, got by Gray Grant- 

 ham, son of the Brownlow Turk; second dam by Paget Turk; third 

 dam Betty Percival, by Leedes' Arabian ; fourth dam by Spanker, 

 son of the D'Arcy Yellow Turk. 



Partner (Croft's) was foaled 1718; bred by Mr. Pelham ; got by 

 Jigg, son of the Byerly Turk: dam, sister to Mixbury, by Curwen's 

 Bay Barb. 



