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THE MORGAN HORSE 



to, his colts all resembled him. They were uniformly large, mostly 16 hands 

 high, with long necks, sharp-pointed ears, lofty carriage, best of legs and 

 feet, and possessed of that long, slashing gait which pleases the eye of the 

 horseman. He got Badger Girl, record 2 125^ ; Classon mare, that could 

 trot in 2 130 ; Cloud, black stallion owned by J. B. Hayes, Horicon, Wis. ; 

 Storm, owned by C. S. Dole, Crystal Lake, 111. ; Frank Forester, Black Dia- 

 mond, and a number of other good ones. Badger Girl is the only one of his 

 colts that has ever been trained. He has probably got more than a hun- 

 dred colts that could trot in 3 :oo. They have usually sold on account of 

 their beauty for first-class carriage horses, some matched spans selling as 

 high as $5000. They have been taken to all the principal cities of the 

 United States. St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, 

 Buffalo, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Petersburg, Va., and 

 Havana, Cuba, have each their representatives of Black Flying Cloud. Hun- 

 dreds of his colts have been taken to New York alone. Some of the shrewd 

 horsemen of that city have made small fortunes out of a few carloads of Black 

 Flying Cloud colts, which they have picked up through Dodge, Jefferson 

 and Waukesha counties". 



Sire: Flying Cloud (Corbin's) I, i p. 



Dams of Badger Boy 2 :27% and May Douglass 2 ^i^ ; Boston Davis 2 :26%, Marion 2 :2i%, 

 Ticonic 2 '.26%. 



FRANK FORESTER 



Dark brown, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled about 1860; bred by 

 Mr. Randall, Hustisford, Wis. ; got by Black Flying Cloud, son of Black 

 Hawk : dam brought from New York by Mr. Randall. Bought by J. W. 

 Parmele, and taken to Goldfield, la., about 1866 ; passed to others in that 

 region, and was used mostly for a driving horse until the Black Flying Clouds 

 became noted, then used for stock till his death, 1891. Kind and intelligent, 

 of fine style and graceful movement. 



Sire of dam of Bird 2 :24%. 

 Second dam of Roman 2 :2g. 



FLYING CLOUD (CORBIN'S) 2:30^ 



Chestnut, stripe in face, one white hind foot, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; 

 foaled 1864; bred by S. M. Randall, Lebanon, Wis. ; got by Black Flying 

 Cloud, son of Black Hawk : dam chestnut, bred by S. M. Randall, got by 

 Morgan Sultan, son of Gifford Morgan ; 2d dam bay, bred in Connecticut 

 and taken to Wisconsin, breeding unknown. Owned by W. B. Matthews, 

 and Dr. A. D. Johnston, Slate Lick, Penn. ; by A. Corbin Jr., Gouverneur, 

 N. Y.; by V. Sheldon, Canton, N. Y., 1888; by G. W. Dennis, South 

 Edwards, N. Y., 1890. Mr. V. Sheldon writes : " As stylish as Ethan Allen. 



