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THE MORGAN HORSE 



CLOUD (FLYING CLOUD, FISH HORSE) 



Dark chestnut with silver mane and tail, 15^ hands, 1050 pounds; 

 foaled 1860 ; bred by Zadock Cheney, Washington, Yt. ; got by Flying Ban- 

 ner, son of Hammett Horse, by Black Hawk : dam bay, bred by Elihu Case, 

 Canada, said to be by St. Lawrence ; and 2d dam English. Sold, when 

 three, to John P. Fish, Washington, Vt., whose property he died, 1880. A 

 high-headed, stylish-appearing horse, easy-gaited and fast. 



YOUNG BANNER 



Chestnut with white hairs, flaxen mane and tail, 15 hands, 900 pounds; 

 foaled 1869 or '70 ; bred by Mr. Marston, Topsham, Yt. ; got by Fish Horse, 

 son of Flying Banner : dam chestnut, said to be by Rowland Horse, son of 

 Bailey Horse, by Woodbury Morgan. Sold to Charles Chamberlain, Newbury, 

 Yt. Gelded. Ichabod Rowe, formerly of Corinth, Vt., writes : " He was a 

 beautiful little horse, with perfect natural trotting action, which would win 

 applause in any crowd, and he would have trotted very fast had he been 

 handled right in the beginning ". 



PAUL JONES 



Dark chestnut with white hind feet, 15^ hands, 1075 pounds; foaled 

 1854 ; bred by Dr. Beriah Shortt, North Montpelier, Yt. ; got by Hammett 

 Horse, son of Black Hawk : dam dark brown, bred by Beriah Shortt, Bethel, 

 Vt., got by Green Mountain Morgan ; 2d dam bay, said to have been bred by Dr. 

 Anger in northern Vermont, and got by Sherman Morgan. Sold, when a 

 small colt, to Dr. Azro A. Shortt, and by him to Dr. S. Bennett, Lithopolis, 

 O., who owned him until he died from collision with Kurtz Horse, one of his 

 sons, at the State fair in Columbus, O., September, 1865. He was a very 

 valuable horse, and left a most valuable progeny. Dr. Azro Shortt writes 

 that he was very showy and fast, and that no stock of horses stood as high as 

 his in the section where they were known. 



Races won, 15. Races lost, 41. Total races, 56. 



GEN MORGAN (KURTZ HORSE) 



Sorrel, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; foaled May, 1857 ; bred by Jacob H. 

 Pickering, Pickerington, O. ; got by Paul Jones, son of Hammett Horse, by 

 Black Hawk : dam sorrel, bred by Mr. Bish, Pickerington, O., and sold by 

 him to Jacob H. Pickering, got by Ricket's Printer, son of Snip Printer, by 

 Printer, thoroughbred ; 2d dam chestnut, bred by Mr. Bish, got by Fiery 



