SOWS OF JUSTIN MORGAN 149 



tain Morgan, called Morgan Eagle, got Kentucky Queen, dam of 

 Kentucky Prince, that has nineteen to his credit in the 2 : 30 list, among 

 them the black gelding, Guy 2 114^. Eastman Morgan, another 

 son of Green Mountain Morgan, got Little Fred 2:20. Prince 

 Albert, another son of Green Mountain Morgan, got Matchless, sire 

 of Palma 2 122^. Gifford Morgan also got the Hackett Horse, sire 

 of Flying Morgan, whose son, Ira Allen 2 136, got Ripon Boy 2 125. 

 But the fame of Gifford Morgan as a progenitor of trotters rests 

 chiefly on the great Golddust family, the head of which, Golddust, 

 bred by L. L. Dorsey of Kentucky, was a son of Vermont Morgan, 

 he by Barnard Morgan, son of Gifford. 



Take the entire records and it will be seen that the blood of 

 Woodbury Morgan has been a very potent factor in trotting pedigrees. 



BULRUSH MORGAN, sometimes called the Belknap Horse, was 

 bred by Moses Belknap of Randolph, Orange county, Vermont, and 

 foaled on the farm of Ziba Gifford, Tunbridge, Vermont, in 1812; 

 he was got by Justin Morgan ; dam's breeding unknown, but said to 

 be part French. The following is Mr. Linsley's account of him : 



"Bulrush was foaled in 1812 or 1813. Of this we think there 

 can be no reasonable doubt, although it has been stated that he was 

 foaled in 1816. We have consulted persons who owned both Bul- 

 rush and Woodbury, and they all agree that Bulrush was the older 

 of the two. Now, there is no question but that Woodbury was foaled 

 in 1816, and if Bulrush was older, it is altogether probable that he 

 was more than one year older, for the Justin Morgan was taken to 

 Claremont early in the spring of 1814, and remained there one year, 

 and the dam of Bulrush was owned in Randolph, Vermont, the year 

 he was sired, so that, in the absence of any other testimony, we might 

 very reasonably conclude that he was not foaled later than 1814; 

 but the testimony of Chester Belknap is clear and direct, that he was 

 foaled in 1812. Mr. Belknap was married in 1819; his father, who 

 raised the horse, owned him at that time, and soon after sold him to 

 Abel Densmore of Chelsea, Vermont ; he was then seven years old. 

 This statement of Mr. Belknap in relation to the age of Bulrush is 

 confirmed by many persons who knew him well, and there can hardly 

 be a doubt that it is correct. 



" The blood of the dam of Bulrush is unknown. She was a 

 dark bay, with black legs, and heavy black mane and tail ; she was 

 low and compact, had heavy limbs, with large joints, neck rather long, 

 a good head, but did not carry it up very well ; she was a sharp 



