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THE MORGAN HORSE. 



Hawk : dam bred by Simeon Bates, got by Randolph Morgan, son of 

 Bulrush Morgan. Taken by breeder to Lafayette, Ind. Stout and stylish. 



MORGAN HAWK 



Dapple bay with star, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1853 ; bred by 

 A. R. Warren, Berlin, Vt. ; got by Peck Horse, son of Black Hawk : dam 

 Jenny Lind, said to be by a Woodbury Morgan horse ; and 2d dam black, 

 1 1 oo pounds, by a Sherman Morgan horse. Purchased, 1860, by Hugh Mc- 

 Monagle, Fredericton, N. B., for the board of agriculture of that bailiwick, 

 and afterward sold to Dr. Dow, Fredericton. An excellent road horse. 

 CREEPER (SWANSBROUGH'S) 



Chestnut, heavy mane and tail, 14^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1854; 

 bred by H. C. Alexander, Tunbridge, Vt. ; got by Peck Horse, son of Black 

 Hawk : dam red roan, a great roadster, bred by Oliver Kendall, Strafford, 

 Vt., got by Lewis Pennock's horse of Strafford, son of Young Bulrush Mor- 

 gan ; 2d dam red roan, bred by Levi Nelson, Tunbridge, Vt., got by Green 

 Mountain, son of Sherman Morgan; 3d dam said to be by a "Dutch" horse 

 owned by Charles Brigham ; 4th dam red roan, taken from Holland Pur- 

 chase, N. Y., by a Mr. Beedee, who sold her to Fred Smith, and he to Wm. 

 Hopkins, who is supposed to have bred the 3d dam. Sold (with dam), 1854, 

 to David F. Chapman, Tunbridge, Vt., who took him, spring, 1861, to Wau- 

 kegan, 111., where he was kept by O. H. Heath till spring, 1865, then sold to 

 J. L. Williams, Waukegan ; to J. W. Swansbrough, Waukegan, whose property 

 he died, 1885. Very stylish, a great roadster; could trot in 2:40, and 

 would have been much faster if properly trained. He was a stock horse of 

 great merit; is said to have got about 1200 foals, nearly all of which could 

 trot in three minutes ; they were mostly chestnuts, great roadsters, some 

 very fast. 



Races won, 16. Races lost, 29. Total races, 45. 



Dams of Greystone (?) 2:28%, Hannis Jr. 2:29% and Orange Leal 2:29)4, Madge Miller 

 2:22%. 



YOUNG LUCIUS B PECK (CHARLES C SMITH HORSE) 

 Black, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; bred by W. Smith, Orange Co., Vt. ; 

 got by Peck Horse, son of Black Hawk: dam black, 15^ hands, 950 

 pounds, an excellent road mare, bred in Portsmouth, N. H., and said to be 

 by Morgan One Eye, son of Bulrush Morgan. Bought at auction when two 

 by Charles C. Smith, Corinth, Vt., and kept mostly at Corinth and Brad- 

 ford, Vt. Dr. J. H. Jones, Bradford, Vt., writes : " A noble animal. Was 

 killed on track at Manchester, N. H. His performances were of the first 

 order. Cannot give record, but could trot better than 2 135 at time of his 

 death". 



