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Lyndon Center, Vt., got by Shedd Horse, son of Vermont Morgan Champion ; 

 dam brown, bred by Austin Folsom, got by Shedd Horse, son of Vermont 

 Morgan Champion ; 2d dam said to be by Randolph Morgan, son of Bulrush 

 Morgan. Kept at Wheelock, Vt. 



WHEELER HORSE 



Bay, 15 hands, over 1000 pounds ; said to be by Vermont Morgan Cham- 

 pion, son of Sherman Morgan. Owned or kept by S. A. Wheeler, St. Johns- 

 bury, Vt. M. D. Chandler, Wheelock, Vt., says : " This horse stood here fifty 

 or more years ago." 



STANTOX HORSE 



Black with star and one white hind foot, i^/4 hands, 1160 pounds; 

 foaled 1845 or '46; bred by William B. Stanton, North Danville, Vt. ; got 

 by Wheeler Horse, son of Vermont Morgan Champion : dam brown, bred by 

 William B. Stanton, got by Batchelder Horse, son of Sherman Morgan ; 2d 

 dam bay, bred by William B. Stanton, got by Dean Horse, son of Sherman 

 Morgan ; 3d dam bay, bredby Mr. Batchelder, Danville, Vt. Owned only by 

 breeder; died 1873. Kept fifteen years at Lyndon; also kept at East 

 St. Johnsbury, Passumpsic, St. Johnsbury, Barton, Sheffield, Wheelock, 

 Peacham and Walden, all in Vermont. Very stylish, with good action and 

 disposition. Stock sold readily. 



VERMONT CHAMPION (JONES' BLACK MORGAN) 

 Black, 153^ hands, 1050 pounds; foaled 1842 or '43; said to be by 

 Vermont Morgan Champion, son of Sherman Morgan. Bought, 1845, f Mr. 

 Judevine, Hardwick, Vt., by F. H. Goldthwait, Newport, N. H., who sold, 

 1846, to Peter W. Jones, Amherst, N. H., who kept him ten years in New 

 Hampshire, and two years in Ithaca, N. V., and sold to William D. Sparks, 

 New York city, who sent him to his farm in Orange county, and after- 

 wards sold to James Jacks, New York city. Mr. Jones writes : " I drove 

 him, and won a race, from Nashua, N. H., to Boston, 40 miles, in three 

 hours and four minutes. He had good style and was a very excellent horse ". 



CHAMPION (PETER MOOERS HORSE) 



Black, 15^4 hands, 1040 pounds; foaled about 1844; bred by Peter 

 Mooers, Glover, Vt. ; got by Vermont Morgan Champion (while standing at 

 Haverhill, N. H.) : dam black, about 1200 pounds, a fine mare and good 

 roadster. Owned only by breeder ; kept mostly in Glover, Albany, Crafts- 

 bury, Barton and Coventry, Vt. Died about 1870. A very stylish, high- 

 spirited horse, kind, and a great roadster. Stock good. 



RICKER HORSE 



Chestnut, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1845 ; bred at Danville, Vt. ; 

 said to be by Vermont Morgan Champion, son of Sherman Morgan : and 

 dam Morgan. Owned by a stock company at Newport, Vt. ; by Mr. Ricker, 

 who traded a farm, valued at 36oo, for him, 1861. He was of good style, but 

 vicious ; could trot in three minutes. 



