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THE MORGAN HORSE 



kept by him thereafter (except the season of 1881, when he was on the 

 turf) at the Bread Loaf Stock Farms at Middlebury and Weybridge, Vt., 

 till his death, occasioned by epizootic, October 5, 1886. Motion was a 

 horse of the highest type of strength and beauty, being in form an ideal 

 Morgan, a pattern of Justin Morgan himself. His record was 2 129, made at 

 Hartford, Oct. 13, 1881, in his first and only season on the turf. He was 

 much faster than his record, and being of very remarkable muscular develop- 

 ment, would pull a road wagon with the greatest ease and astonishing speed. 

 His courage and ambition were without limit. He got about 150 colts of 

 very uniform excellence, not only for speed, but for the carriage, style and 

 beauty for which their sire was distinguished. 



Total, 9; 6 in 2:30 (i p.) ; 8 race-winners. 

 Races won, 28. Races lost, 69. Total races, 97. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN 



Chestnut, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 1883; bred by Joseph 

 Battell, Middlebury, Vt. ; got by Motion, son of Daniel Lambert : dam Alixe, 

 gray(dam of Squirrel 2:39^), 1 6 hands, noo pounds, bred by Geo. C. 

 Hall, Brattleboro, Vt., got by Young America, son of Hoagland's Gray Mes- 

 senger; 2d dam Blonde (dam of Blonde 2 129^), chestnut, foaled about 

 1830, bred by Jacob Borain, Flushing, L. I. (who sold her to Lathen Mitchell, 

 Manhassett, L. L, who bred from her four colts, the last two by Jackson's 

 Flying Cloud, and sold her to Mr. Bishop, New York, N. Y., who sold to 

 to George C. Hall), got by Abdallah, son of Mambrino. Kept by Otis Riford 

 at Braintree, Vt., seasons of 1887-88; remainder of time at Bread Loaf 

 Stock Farms, Middlebury, Ripton and Weybridge, Vt. Has something of the 

 coarseness of the Abdallahs, but an excellent horse. 



OSSIAN 



Light chestnut, 15^ hands, 1032 pounds; foaled May 22, 1884; bred 

 by Joseph Battell, Middlebury, Vt. ; got by Motion, son of Daniel Lambert : 

 dam Kathleen, a fast trotter, sorrel, bred in Maine, taken to New York and 

 sold to H. N. Sherwood, afterward brought to Manchester, Vt., where she 

 was bought by W. Billings, who sold to J. Battell, pedigree unknown. Sold 

 to J. L. Freck, Millersburgh, Perm., April, 1885 ; Harry Rawley, Smyrna, 

 Del., August 21, 1886. 



DAN 



Chestnut, white in face, 15^ hands, 1060 pounds; foaled 1884; bred 

 by John Towle, Cornwall, Vt. ; got by Motion, son of Daniel Lambert': dam 



