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THE MORGAN HORSE 



SNAP (HILL HORSE) 



Black with small star, 15^ hands, 1075 pounds; foaled 1860; bred by 

 Henry Hill and D. B. Nelson, M. D., Manchester, N. H. ; got by Young 

 Morrill, son of Morrill : dam black, bred at Ticonderoga, N. Y., said to be 

 by Black Hawk ; and 2d dam by Abdallah, son of Mambrino. (J. W. Hoi- 

 comb and John Porter, both of Ticonderoga, owned Abdallah mares at this 

 time, and probably above dam was bred by one of them). Sold, when a 

 colt, to W. H. Henderson, Ryegate, Vt., who sold, 1869, to Dr. Barnham, 

 Boston, Mass. Kept in the Connecticut River valley. Died about 

 1878. A remarkably handsome horse, of fine pleasant disposition, very 

 active and fearless. He was a fast trotter, and his stock were excellent. 



UNION 



Brown, 15^ hands; said to be by Young Morrill. Brought from an 

 island in the Kennebec River, Me., about 1862, by Mr. Butler of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y.,"who sold him to John Doty of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Said to have 

 trotted in 2 132 on a half-mile track. 



Dam of Alfred S. 2:16%. 

 Second dam of Lord Byron 2:18. 



RAILSPLITTER 



Black ; bred by Nathaniel Perkins, Manchester, N. H. ; got by Young 

 Morrill, son of Morrill : dam Rose of Washington. Gelded and sold to I. 

 W. Copp, Boston, Mass. 



Dam of Kentucky Blanche 2 :26%. 



VELOX 



Dark brown, little white on one heel, 15^ hands, noo pounds; foaled 

 1860 ; bred by John H. Morgan, Evansville, Ind. ; got by Young Morrill : 

 dam Ellen Douglas, black (that trotted at Dover, N. H., 1858, in 2 146, and 

 was sold to J. H. Morgan for $900), bred by Joseph Smith, Durham, N. H., 

 got by Manchester Black Hawk ; 2d dam Princess, said to be three-fourths 

 English blood, and fast. Taken with his dam from Manchester, N. H., to 

 Evansville, Ind., by S. H. Edgerly, for his owner. Trotted in 2 136^. Died 

 March 25, 1889. 



