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his like. He was not so thick a horse as Green Mountain, not quite 

 as heavy, but full as tall, better fore legs, and better-tempered colts". 



Mr. Solomon Yurann, West Randolph, Vermont, a very old 

 man, says: " His colts came checked up and on the jump". 



Gifford's poster for 1850, the year of his death, reads: "The 

 foals got by this horse number over thirteen hundred. Many of his 

 foals are bought for the southern market, as far south as New Orleans, 

 and several have been taken to England. They excel in great en- 

 durance, are full of noble and generous spirit, with such docility of 

 temper that the most timid can drive them, but if put to their met- 

 tle they are a full hand for the best drivers. Among his celebrated 

 foals is the trotting pony, Horatio Sargent, who made a mile in 2 :3<D, 

 and for the last three or four years known in New York as Henry 

 Clay; the chestnut horse of Robert Abel, going in 2:40; the noted 

 Beppo, making time on the Centerville track of 2 :32 ^ ; the chest- 

 nut horse Pizarro, going in 2: 50 at Cleveland, in 1848; the Green 

 Mountain Morgan, Gen. Gifford, Morgan Gifford, Morgan Hunter, 

 and Morgan Chief, and the fine mares now owned by Joslin and 

 Eldridge of Greenfield, Massachusetts". 



GREEN MOUNTAIN MORGAN. This renowned son of Gifford 

 Morgan, by Woodbury Morgan, was born about 1832. He was 

 foaled the property of George Bundy, Bethel, Vermont, but was bred 

 by Nathaniel Whitcomb, Stockbridge, Vermont. He was seal brown 

 in color, weighed about eleven hundred pounds and was fourteen and 

 a half hands high. His dam was dark bay, a low, thick-set mare of 

 ten hundred pounds ; purchased at Nashua, New Hampshire, where 

 she is said to have worked upon a canal, by Mr. Whitcomb, who 

 traded her to J. Kendall and he to G. Bundy; said to be Dutch and 

 also called Morgan, but nothing definite is known of her breeding. 

 D. L. Putnam, former owner of Putnam Morgan, who knew her well, 

 describes her as rather heavy-built, strong-muscled and flat-ribbed. 

 A. W. Whitcomb, Bethel, Vermont, writes of her: " I know noth- 

 ing of her pedigree. She was not valuable nor good-looking ; light 

 mouse color, yellowish about the belly, and darker on the back ; such 

 a mare as a poor man could own. She was well along in years when 

 she produced Green Mountain Morgan, ha.d a ringbone and was 

 valued at very little". 



