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It was a dark chestnut, about fifteen hands high, and weighed about 

 ten hundred and fifty pounds. He was owned, in 1853, by John 

 Clark, at Dunham, Canada East, and we think was raised by him at 

 Windsor, Vermont, where he formerly lived. This horse had an ex- 

 cellent, open gait, fine style, and was called the fastest horse in his 

 neighborhood ". 



F. A. Weir of Walpole, New Hampshire, says : " Revenge 

 was the sire of many trotters. I sold seven of his colts in one year, 

 and five of them could trot fast". 



The dam of the celebrated stallion, Henry Clay, foaled 1837 

 and founder of the celebrated Clay family of horses, was the fast 

 trotting mare Surrey, or Lady Surrey, that came from, and is sup- 

 posed to have been bred in, Surrey, New Hampshire. This mare 

 was foaled about 1824, was of Morgan size and quality, and it has 

 been said was got by Revenge. We spent two days at Surrey trying 

 to trace this mare, not succeeding; but F. A. Weir of Walpole in- 

 formed us that Revenge was kept for stock at both Walpole and 

 Surrey, and the following advertisement from the " Bellows Falls 

 Intelligencer" makes it certain that he was kept at Walpole, adjoin- 

 ing Surrey, at about the right time to have got this mare : 



"The noted horse, Revenge, will stand at the stable of Mr. Ha- 

 vens, in Westminster, Mondays and Tuesdays; at Mr. Holland's 

 stable, in Walpole, Wednesdays and Thursdays ; at the stable of 

 Edward Lee, in Springfield, on Fridays, and at the stable of subscri- 

 ber the remainder of the week through the season, at fifteen dollars. 



JOHN R. GIBSON. 



Rockingham, Vermont, May 10, 1823". 



Accounts of the Gordon Horse, Randolph Horse, Nichols Horse, 

 Blazing Star, Brandywine, Fox (Corbin's), Highlander and Defiance 

 will be found in their regular places among the pedigrees at the latter 

 part of this book. 



We come now to the three sons of Justin Morgan that have 

 been most widely known: Sherman, Bulrush and Woodbury Mor- 

 gan, foaled in the order named. These three horses will always com- 

 mand the admiration of every student of horse history. Born amid 

 the mountains of a new State, among a scattered race of pioneers 

 that were 'stout and poor'; sprung from dams whose pedigrees 

 could never be definitely traced ; reared to toil and kept most of their 

 lives in obscurity ; yet such was the inherent vigor of their blood 

 that each produced a family of horses that, as roadsters and for the 

 general purposes of business, have never been surpassed ; and from 



