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THE MORGAN HORSE 



MORGAN ECLIPSE 



Chestnut, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1848; bred by J. & R. C. 

 Johnson, Bradford, Vt. ; got by Morgan Caesar, son of Woodbury Mor- 

 gan : dam Lady Clifton, purchased on Long Island, 1843, by J. John- 

 son, said to be by American Eclipse. Owned and advertised to be kept at 

 Bradford, Vt., in 1853, by breeders, who claim in their circular that he 

 resembled Woodbury Morgan. He received ist premium at the Ver- 

 mont State fair, 1853. Mr. Linsley says: "Was sold, 1854, to an agri- 

 cultural society in New Brunswick for over $2000. His stock have taken 

 several premiums at State fairs in Vermont. At Brattleboro (Vt.) fair three 

 of his colts took first premiums, besides two mares with foals by their 

 side from him. He was a very fine horse ". C. S. Lugrin, Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture, New Brunswick, writes : " He got speed and went to Maine ". 



BLACK HAWK MORGAN 



Chestnut, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1852 ; bred by Jesse Johnson 

 & Bros., Bradford, Vt. ; got by Morgan Eclipse, son of Morgan Caesar : dam, 

 dam of Black Hawk Eclipse, which see. Sold to a stock company at Lock- 

 port, N. Y., and by them to parties at Kalamazoo, Mich. Kept in Chic- 

 asaw, la., several seasons (about 1864-66). 



MORGAN BUCEPHALUS 



Chestnut with stripe on nose, 14 hands, 900 pounds ; foaled 1853 ; bred 

 by George W. Cook, West Fairlee, Vt. ; got by Morgan Eclipse, son of Mor- 

 gan Caesar : dam said to be by Woodbury Morgan. Linsley. 



YOUNG MORGAN ECLIPSE 



Foaled 185 3; bred by Jesse Johnson & Bros., Bradford, Vt. ; got by 

 Morgan Eclipse, son of Morgan Caesar : dam said to be by Young Morgan 

 Emperor, son of Emperor, by Bulrush Morgan ; and 2d dam by Bulrush 

 Morgan. Took ist premium at Vermont State fair, 1855. 



BLACK HAWK ECLIPSE 



Black with stripe in face, 14 hands, 975 pounds; foaled 1853; bred 

 by Jesse Johnson & Bros., Bradford, Vt. ; got by Morgan Eclipse, son of 

 Morgan Caesar : dam black, bred by J. & R. C. Johnson, got by Black 

 Hawk. Sold young and went to South Carolina. He was full brother to 

 Black Hawk Flyaway and Johnson's Black Hawk Morgan. Linsley says : " An 

 excellent-moving horse, very clean, light head, general style and action good ". 



