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which have proved so eminently useful as the Morgan breed. They have often 

 excited the admiration of strangers and foreigners. They combine in a great 

 degree the properties so desirable to New England Yankee notions, viz. : 

 Go to church, go to mill ; and to the saddle, before the gig, to the coach, 

 and before the plow. They excel in great endurance, carrying weight a 

 long distance ; noble and generous-spirited, with such docility of temper 

 that the most timid can drive them ; but if put to their mettle they are a 

 full hand for the best whip. * * * 



The Goss Morgan horse was the crack stallion in Vermont and that 

 vicinity for more than 25 years, and he probably produced more foals than 

 any horse on record. He was the sire of the famous Sherman Morgan horse, 

 a stallion of merit, extraordinary powers and fine properties. I obtained 

 some years since a remarkably fine mare which was got by the Goss Morgan 

 horse. She was owned in my neighborhood by a baker, who resided 16 miles 

 from Boston. She had been driven- in his bread-cart with a load of bread 

 into Boston and back again, six days in the week, for several years, hardly 

 missing a day. Her style and fleetness excited much attention. After ob- 

 taining this mare I bred her to the imported horse Bellfounder, and she 

 dropped me a filly ; and when the filly was four years old I bred her to the 

 Sherman Morgan horse, and she dropped me a colt which I call Bellfounder 

 Morgan. I have attempted to breed a horse to order, to combine as much 

 as possible speed, health, constitution, vigor and good temper legs showing 

 the bone and muscle of the blood horse ; chest and body round, full and 

 compact ; shoulders well laid in, back short, with good coupling, neck rising 

 prompt from the shoulders, and a good length, with a light head, well placed ; 

 all of which are admirably combined and developed in Bellfounder Morgan. 



Bellfounder Morgan is 15 hands and one inch high, well grown, a beau- 

 tiful dappled chestnut color, with a coat comparing with a thoroughbred 

 horse ; his gaits are free, easy, true and regular ; he trots a mile in three 

 minutes, varying but a few seconds now, although he has never been trained, 

 nor never has eaten four bushels of any kind of grain since he was foaled. I 

 have managed him wholly myself ; he is perfectly safe, and well broken be- 

 fore a gig or under the saddle ; he has never shown a vicious act, is gay and 

 prompt. I have never seen a sounder horse, to my knowledge I believe he 

 is without a blemish. I have been many years in accomplishing this object, 

 and know not how to combine more useful properties in any one horse. As 

 a stallion his value can hardly be 'calculated. As a gig and saddle horse he 

 is not excelled ; he is quiet and perfectly manageable in the gig or saddle, 

 on the road. In France and many other places the horses in common use 

 are entire. My family chaise horse, milk-cart horse and team horses are 

 entire and no more trouble than geldings. 



Yours very truly, SAMUEL JACQUES. 



LORD NELSON (BALL HORSE) 



Bay; foaled about 1852 ; bred by John McDonald, Sidney Forks, Cape 

 Breton Island ; got by Bellfounder Morgan, son of Sherman Morgan : dam 

 bred by Rosa Campbell, Big Pond, Cape Breton, got by Barney, a horse 

 taken from South River, Nova Scotia, to Cape Breton, and there owned 

 by John M. Gillaroy, of Meadows ; 2d dam brought from Inverness 

 Co., Cape Breton, formerly owned by Thomas Howly of River Inhabitants. 

 Lord Nelson was purchased by Sir Alexander Ball, Cape Breton, who sold to 

 Alexander Cochrane, Newport, N. S. He had trotted several match races 

 on the ice and had invariably won. Mr. Cochrane traded him to a Mr 



