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THE MORGAN HORSE 



bred by A. I. Fogg, Gray, Me., got by Roberson Horse, black, whose throat 

 got cut in the stable, about 1857, untraced ; 2d dam gray, called the Hooper 

 Strout mare. 



TOM B. PATCHEN 2 -21% 



Black with stripe in face and white hind ankles, 15^ hands, 860 

 pounds; foaled 1871; bred by Jabez C. Benson, Dry Mills, Me. ; got by 

 Andrew Johnson (Churchill Horse), son of Young Black Hawk, by Chief- 

 tain : dam black, bred by Jabez C. Benson, Gray, Me., got by Telegraph 

 Morgan, son of Mclntyre Horse ; 2d dam Black Betsey, bred by Jabez C. 

 Benson, got by old Judge ; 3d dam Maria, bred by Jabez C. Benson, got by 

 French Morgan Lion ; 4th dam Black Jennie, bred by Joseph Morse, Gray, 

 Me., got by Black Hawk. 



J. W. Thompson, in " Noted Maine Horse ", says : " He won a great 

 many races in Maine and was taken to Michigan, where he made a record of 

 2 130 at Adrian, July 3, 1879. Afterward brought back to Maine and be- 

 came blind. At Taunton, Mass., Sept. 29, 1881, he won a race in straight 

 heats in 2 127^, 2 12714;, 2 127^ ". 



GEN GRANT (CHASE'S) 



Black with star, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1870 ; bred by Josiah 

 Wedgewood, North Parsonfield, Me. ; got by Young Black Hawk, son of 

 Chieftain, by Black Hawk : dam bay, bred by Hardy Merrill, Parsonfield, 

 Me., got by Samuel Ames' Horse. Owned successively by David M. Chase, 

 North Parsonfield ; Robert Merrill, Parsonfield, and John Moulton, Porter, Me. 



MORGAN TIGER (BEMIS HORSE) 



Bay with star, one fore and one hind foot white, 16 hands, 1150 pounds; 

 foaled 1862 ; bred by Jesse Marshall, Burke, Vt. ; got by Chieftain, son of 

 Black Hawk : dam chestnut, bred by Jesse Marshall, got by Morrill. Sold 

 to Alonzo Bemis, Willoughby Lake, Vt. Kept at Lyndon, St. Johnsbury, 

 Burke, Sutton, Brighton, Morgan, Charleston and Brownington, Vt. Died 

 about 1886. Untrained, but fast and very stylish, kind and got good stock. 



MORGAN WHITEFOOT 



Bay with star and four white feet, 15 hands 1000 pounds ; foaled June 

 15, 1874 ; bred by J. P. Lyon, Westmore, Vt. ; got by Tiger, son of Chieftain, 

 by Black Hawk : dam bay, stripe in face, four white feet, 1020 pounds, said 

 to be a mare of great speed, by Stanton Horse, son of Wheeler Horse, by 

 Vermont Morgan Champion ; 2d dam by Billy Root, son of Sherman Mor- 

 gan ; and 3d and 4th dams Morgan. Sold, 1874, to James Dunkley, West 

 Burke, Vt., who sold, 1886, to J. P. Lyon, Westmore, Vt. 



