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THE MORGAN HORSE 



FLEETING RAY 



Chestnut, 15^2 hands, 1050 pounds; bred by Joseph K. Lippincott, 

 Haddonfield, N. J. ; got by North Morrill, son of Sherman Black Hawk : dam 

 chestnut, said to be by a horse called Shadager, of running blood. Sold and 

 went to Indiana. Very stylish and handsome; could trot in 2:45. Colts 

 fine, stylish drivers, and some of them speedy. 



BLACK HAWK (HOWSER'S) 



Fifteen and a half hands; foaled 185-; said to be by Sherman Black 

 Hawk. Purchased in Vermont, it is thought at Bridport, when about three, 

 by John Howser, Montgomery Co., Md., and taken to Maryland, where he 

 stood many years in different towns, and got much fine stock. Died when 

 old, property of Mr. Howser. He was a very handsome and excellent horse. 

 E. P. Goodman, Hyattsville, Md., says : " As pretty a horse as you ever saw ; 

 a perfect horse, as near as I could j-udge. He always took ist premium at 



fairs". 



CHALLENGE 



Black, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1859 ; bred by Jared A. Foote, 

 Middlebury, Vt. ; got by Sherman Black Hawk : dam black, bred by Jared A. 

 Foote, got by Black Lion, son of Black Hawk ; 2d dam gray, resolute and 

 of Morgan type, breeding unknown. Bought by Rollin J. Jones and Sylvester 

 B. Rockwell, Cornwall, Vt., who took him, winter of 1 860-61, to California, 

 and sold to Wm. Davis, who sold, 1866, to Wm. Doty, Meriden, Cal., where 

 he died, 1874. 



Races won, 14. Races lost, 47. Total races, 61. 



MORGAN (McKENZIE'S) 



Bred by Darius Myrick, Bridport, Vt. ; got by Sherman Black Hawk : 

 dam said to be Morgan. Bought a yearling by D. E. Braisted, who sold 

 when four to Milton McKenzie, Port Henry, N. Y., who kept him at Port 

 Henry one or two seasons and then took him to Prophetstown, 111., where he 

 remained several years, was sold and went to Wisconsin. Left valuable 

 stock ; good roadsters. 



Sire of dam of Webber 2 128. 



YANKEE BILL (JOHNSON HORSE) 



Said to be by Sherman Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk : and dam by 

 Flying Morgan. Owned in Vermont by a Mr. Johnson, and afterwards in 

 St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 



