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the fifteen and a half hands of Newell's Grey. The weights of fifteen 

 are given, between the limits of eight hundred and fifty and eleven 

 hundred and fifty pounds. The average height is fourteen and three- 

 fourths hands precisely, and the average weight ten hundred and 

 twenty-two pounds, being a hand more in height and a hundred 

 pounds more in weight than the sire, as stated by the same authority. 

 The get of Sherman Morgan were early noted for speed, and the 

 progeny of his sons were found in the trotting contests of long ago. 

 His son Whalebone got Blackstone Belle 2 128^, and Pollard Mor- 

 gan, that in turn got Lewiston Boy, sire of Despatch 2:24^; Pol- 

 lard Morgan also got the dam of Whalebone Knox, sire of two in 

 the two-thirty list. 



Flint Morgan, son and stable companion of Sherman Morgan, 

 got Napoleon Morgan, sire of the dam of Fearnaught 2:23^, a 

 record which, when taken, in 1868, was the fastest stallion record in 

 the world. 



Billy Root, another son of Sherman Morgan, got, from a daugh- 

 ter of the same sire (if the records are right), the handsome bay 

 stallion, Red Jacket, sire of the great brood mare, Minna, that produced 

 Kentucky Wilkes 2:21 1/4, and the dam of Lizzie Wilkes 2522^; 

 Red Jacket also got Ida May, grandam of So-So 2:17^. Red 

 Jacket is also sire of the grandam of Red Wilkes that at nineteen 

 years of age has fifty-four performers to his credit in the two- 

 thirty list, eleven of which have records better than 2 :2O, including the 

 great campaigner Prince Wilkes 2:14^, whose dam was by a 

 grandson of Sherman Morgan. Besides these, the blood of Sher- 

 man Morgan, through other channels than Black Hawk, is a potent 

 factor in many pedigrees. 



But the most prominent son of Sherman Morgan was Black 

 Hawk, whose history is given in Chapter VII. 



The correspondent of "The Albany Cultivator", August 2d, 

 1845, writing from Vermont, says: "The immediate descendants of 

 the original Morgan horse were numerous, and remarkable for their 

 good qualities and striking resemblance to each other. Indeed, so 

 remarkable was their similarity that they were readily recognized by 

 ordinary observers; even when crossed with the common country 

 stock their peculiarities were often obvious to the second and third 

 generation. A horse called Sherman Morgan, got by the old Mor- 

 gan and owned by Mr. Bellows of Bellows Falls, Vermont, is gener- 

 ally believed to have done more towards giving character and fame 

 to the Morgan stock than any other horse, not excepting the first of 

 that race and name. This horse lived to a great age, and his progeny, 



