618 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Jersey, but previously of Vermont, 1852, who bought for Garrett Van 

 Ness, Pompton Plains, N. J., where the horse died, 1857. He left good 

 stock in New Hampshire and New Jersey, some of his colts selling as 

 high as $500 and $600. Linsley says : "A very fine horse, good style and 

 action. Stepped light, but was not fast. Was kept as a stock horse in New 

 Jersey. Lost one eye when two years old, the consequence of a boy throwing 

 a stone at him ". 



YOUNG BULRUSH 2D 



Bright bay, 16 hands, 1200 pounds; foaled 1835 ; bred by Ellis Bliss, 

 Bradford, Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to have been a good mare 

 and a fast trotter, brought from Maine. Linsley says : "Style not so good, 

 and build not so compact as some, but high spirited, and a good roadster. 

 He was a fast trotter, and one of the strongest-going horses. Went South 

 when young". 



BONAPARTE 



Fourteen and one-half hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1836 ; bred by John- 

 son & Bros., Bradford, Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to be by 

 Napoleon Bonaparte. Sold, 1845, to F. A. Weir, Walpole, N. H. Mr. Lins- 

 ley says : "Very compact, close built, a fast driver and strong goer; he re- 

 sembled his sire very much". 



EMPEROR 



Bright bay, noo pounds; foaled 1837 ; bred by Rufus H. Hyde, Chel- 

 sea, Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan. Sold, about 1840. A good figure, but 

 not a remarkably good gait. Linsley. 



MORGAN BULRUSH (AUSTIN'S, CLARKE HORSE) 

 Bay, black points, very heavy and long mane and foretop, tail docked, 

 14 hands, 900 pounds; foaled 1840; bred by Dudley Cabot, Chelsea, Vt. ; 

 got by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to be by Fortune, son of Quicksilver ; and 

 2d dam by Justin Morgan. Sold to Chester Clark, Chelsea, Vt., 1842 ; to 

 John Henderson, Conesus, N. Y., about 1846; to Norman E. Austin, 

 Orangeville, O., half interest, October, 1848, where the horse was taken that 

 winter, as his license, filed April 10, 1849, shows; to Joseph Shepherd, An- 

 dover, O., 1852. He is said to have been the first Morgan horse taken 

 to Ohio for stock purposes. He was of the genuine Morgan pattern, and a 

 very good horse. His stock were highly prized in Ohio, and a number of 

 his sons were kept entire. 



Linsley says of him (see Clark Horse, p. 273) : "One of the best act- 

 ing sons of Bulrush. A fine, spirited animal". 



W. C. Hull, Orangeville, O., writes: "Morgan Bulrush was of low 

 pony build, smooth body and long barrel, good head, fine eye and fine 

 ears pricked forward in traveling, gait short but very prompt and easy. He 

 had very clean, hard-looking limbs, and his stock generally resembled him in 

 this as well as in having good dispositions, dark color, generally brown bays, 

 similar action and nearly always sound. He was very popular here during 



