T4 8 THE MORGAN HORSE 



touched by these two famous animals at the same instant ; the third 

 heat was won by Beppo in 2 128 ; the fourth by the mare in 2 129, 

 and she won the fifth and race in 2:32. This famous race was for 

 only one hundred dollars. Lady Suffolk was a daughter of Engineer, 

 2d, he by Engineer, a very handsome gray horse of entirely unknown 

 pedigree, kept on Long Island in 1816 and 1817. 



Thus the daughter of Engineer vanquished the son of Gifford 

 Morgan; but six years later, in 1849, Mac ( 2 - 2 8 to harness, 2 127 to 

 saddle), son of Morgan Caesar,- trotted with Lady Suffolk, then the 

 reigning queen of the turf, a series of seven races that season, five of 

 which he won, the other two being lost on the 6th and 7th of June, 

 when Mac was lame. The comments of the "Spirit of the Times", 

 at the time, show that it was understood that Mac could beat Lady 

 Suffolk, one or two mile heats, any day when he was right. Mac 

 was a brown gelding, standing fifteen and a half hands, bred by 

 Thomas Record of Canton, Maine, and foaled in 1843. He was kept 

 entire till after he was three, and got about fifteen foals at that age. 

 Mac trotted thirty races against the very best horses oi his day, and 

 in twenty-one of them he was victorious. Morgan Caesar had another 

 famous trotting son, the brown gelding Pizarro, that commenced 

 trotting as early as 1840, and made a record of 2 135 in 1843. 



Morgan Eagle got the famous brown mare Lady Sutton, that in 

 a contest with Lady Suffolk and Pelham at Centreville, Long Island, 

 took a record of 2 130. This was a seven-heat contest, in which Lady 

 Suffolk took the first and second heats, Lady Sutton the third and 

 fourth ; the fifth and sixth were dead heats between the two mares, 

 and Lady Suffolk won the seventh heat and race. Pelham was dis- 

 tanced in the third heat. The time was 2 129^, 2 131, 2 130, 2 131 J^, 

 2:32, 2:31, 2:38. Lady Sutton had the year before beaten Lady 

 Suffolk and Lady Moscow on the same course, in a six-heat contest, 

 taking first, second and sixth heats. 



Thus early were the grandchildren of Woodbury Morgan from 

 three different sons engaging in brilliant and successful trotting con- 

 tests with the fastest and gamest in the land. Two of these three 

 famous sons were founders of trotting families. A son of Morgan 

 Eagle, bearing the same name, got Magna Charta 2:33, that at 

 one time held the four-year-old trotting record of the world, and 

 became one of the foremost among the trotting sires of Michigan. 



Gifford Morgan got the noted Green Mountain Morgan, sire of 

 young Green Mountain Morgan, which got the dams of Kirkwood 

 2:24 and Bashaw, Jr., 2:24^; another son of Green Moun- 



