348-y THE MORGAN HORSE 



AMERICAN STAR (SEELY'Sj 



Chestnut or sorrel with star, hind feet white, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; 

 foaled 1837; bred by Henry H. Berry, Pompton Plains, N. J. ; got by 

 Coburn's American Star, son of Cock of the Rock, by Sherman Morgan : 

 dam bay, stripe in face, about 16 hands, a used-up stage mare purchased in 

 New York city by Mr. Berry, at small price, to work in team, breeding en- 

 tirely unknown. 



The pamphlet above referred to gives the history of the horse as 

 follows : 



"Advertised by breeder, 1844, to stand at Warwick and New Milford, 

 Orange county, N. Y., at $7 to insure, and warranted to haul a wagon in 

 three minutes. He served but few mares and in August of that year was 

 sold to John Blauvelt, jeweler, New York city, for $350 and two single 

 harnesses. His feet gave out and he was traded for a gray gelding to Cyrus Du- 

 bois of Columbia or Ulster county, who kept him seasons of 1845, '6 and '7 

 and then sold him to James Storms of Hudson, N. Y., who sold him soon after 

 to Walter Shatter, Hillsville, N. Y. He kept him one or two seasons and 

 sold him, fall of 1849, to Edmund Seely and Hiram Smith, Goshen, N. Y., 

 for $750. Season of 1850 he stood at Goshen, served 54 mares, and got 45 

 colts at $15 each. In 1851 he served 87 mares, and got 63 colts, at $10 

 each, also at Goshen, and, 1852, at same place, he served 97 mares and got 

 62 colts, and, in 1853, at same place and same price, he had 49 mares, 

 with 35 colts. That fall he was taken to Chemung county, N. Y., and trotted 

 a race against Jupiter, winning the sixth heat and race in 2 145. The next 

 spring, 1854, he was taken to Elmira, New York, where he stood for $20, 

 serving 20 mares and getting 15 colts. It is said that a very large majority 

 of his get were mares. In 1855 he stood at Piedmont, Rockland county, 

 N. Y. He served 50 mares and got 35 colts. In the fall of 1855, Mr - Seely 

 took him to Mendota, Lasalle county, 111., where he was kept until the next 

 fall, serving 30 mares and getting 20 colts, at $20. He was then, 1856, taken 

 to Bristol, Kendall county, 111., and in November of same fall was taken back 

 to Goshen, N. Y. In 1857 at Goshen he served 64 mares and got 53 colts, 

 at $20; in 1858, at same place and price, 55 mares and got 45 colts. In 

 1859 he became the sole property of Edmund Seely. Stood at Goshen at 

 $25 and served 71 mares and got 43 colts. In 1860 he got but 10 colts and 

 that fall was given away by Mr. Seely to Theodore Dusenburg, whose 

 property he died, February, 1861. * * 



" He had a great deal of speed. Mr. Berry ran him a great many one- 

 half and one-fourth mile races and never had him beaten. At five years he 

 served mares at most any price and was driven to a butcher wagon. He 

 then began to show a fine trotting step. This was in 1842 ; and the next 

 season he received about the same treatment, and could out-trot any horse 

 in the country, and haul the butcher wagon after him. Mr. Berry often 

 made the remark that he had the most bottom and best game of any horse 

 he ever saw." * * * * * * .* 



