230 THE MORGAN HORSE 



1846. He is thought to have been bred by Dr. E. H. Knights of 

 Springfield, Vermont, and got by Barnard Morgan, son of Gifford 

 Morgan. His dam was lightish bay, about fifteen hands high, and 

 weighed ten hundred pounds; a mare of very marked excellence, 

 showing most decidedly Morgan breeding. She was brought to 

 Springfield from Bethel, Vermont, and was said to be by Sherman 

 Morgan. 



Vermont Morgan was foaled the property of Mr. Fairbanks, 

 livery keeper, at Springfield, Vermont, who purchased his dam when 

 in foal ; and passed, when a colt, from him to Mellen Messenger, who 

 bought out Mr. Fairbanks livery. Seymour Lockwood, also of 

 Springfield, bought Vermont Morgan, still a colt, of Mr. Messenger, 

 and sold him, in 1848, to John Y. Sawyer and Hamlin VVhittemore of 

 Springfield. Sawyer took him to Godfrey, Illinois, in 1849, where he 

 kept him till 1854 and then sold him to L. L. Dorsey, Louisville, 

 Kentucky, who sold him 1860 to parties in Alabama. He got a few 

 colts before he left Vermont. He could trot in about three minutes. 

 Mr. J. Y. Sawyer writes, dated March ipth, 1888: "I first saw Ver- 

 mont Morgan at the Windsor County fair, North Springfield, Ver- 

 mont, in 1848, at which he took first premium as best two-year-old 

 stallion. I learned when I first saw him he was by Barnard Morgan. 

 They were shown at the same fair as sire and son, by Mr. Barnard and 

 Mr. Lockwood ". 



A letter from Mr. Seymour Lockwood says: "It was the J. 

 Barnard Horse that got the colt that I sold to H. Whittemore. When 

 I bought the colt his ankles were cocked. I asked Messenger the 

 cause. He said the mare ran in the livery stable. I don't think 

 Messenger ever owned her. How he came by the colt I don't know, 

 but I remember young Barnard told me, that he told his father, 

 for the sake of the horse's credit he would better put the colt out of 

 the way ; but his ankles came out all right. When he was about 

 nineteen months old I let him serve a mare and got a colt that was 

 afterward sold at New York for thirty-three hundred dollars. I was 

 born in 1805 ". 



Mr. L. N. Barnard writes : " Barnard Morgan, when two years 

 old, got three colts, and John Sawyer of Reading, Vermont, had one 

 of these, that was afterward taken to Illinois. I think that the dam of 

 this colt that Sawyer had was owned by Dr. E. H. Knights of Spring- 

 field, Vermont, and was a Morgan mare of small size". 



GOLDDUST 2 143. The brilliant career of this most potent sire 

 was run in a short life of sixteen years. He was born in 1855, and 



