7io THE MORGAN HORSE 



BEMIS HORSE 



Chestnut, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled 1854; bred by Thomas 

 Preston, North Springfield, Vt. ; got by Baltimore Morgan, son of Green 

 Mountain Morgan : dam sorrel, bred by Thomas Preston, Baltimore, Vt., got 

 by Roswell Earle Horse, son of Young King William. Sold to Ed. Bemis, 

 Baltimore, Vt., who took him to Wisconsin about 1860; to Dr. Blackmail, 

 Stoughton, Wis., whose property he died some years later. He left excellent 

 stock in Wisconsin. 



JOE RENNOCK (BIXBY HORSE) 



Dark bay, 15^ hands, 1150 pounds; foaled 1855; bred by Joseph 

 Bixby, Mount Holly, Vt. ; got by Baltimore Morgan, son of Green Mountain 

 Morgan : dam Doll Bixby, dark brown with stripe in face, about 14^ hands, 

 1000 pounds, blocky and deep shouldered, a great roadster, foaled spring of 

 1836, bred by Jesse Bixby, Mount Holly, Vt., got by a dapple bay Morgan 

 stallion with blaze in face and white hind feet, owned in Chester, Vt., and 

 kept in Mount Holly, Vt., about 1834-36, said to be of Woodbury Morgan 

 blood (probably Johnson Horse) ; 2d dam bay, small, called the Spaulding 

 mare, bought at Ludlow, Vt., breeding unknown. Sold to A. B. Bixby, now 

 of Poultney, Vt. ; to E. G. Pettingrew, about 1862; to Mr. Dustin ; to 

 William A. Dutton, Brattleboro, Vt., who took him to Canada ; to James 

 Burbank, Danville, P. Q. ; to John Harkness, Sherbrooke, P. Q., 1865 ; to 

 Mr. Berry, Biddeford, Me., 1871, where he died. Awarded ist prize at the 

 Richmond Agricultural society fair, P. Q., 1864. John Harkness, proprietor 

 of the trotting park, Sherbrooke, P. Q., and a very experienced horseman, 

 says : " I drove Joe Rennock 90 miles in a day, hitched to a covered 

 carriage, with my wife, self and baggage in it, the last ten miles through the 

 sand, where I had to stop three times to rest my arms. He filled this country 

 with the best horses ever here. He was the handsomest horse I ever saw, 

 and the best; I will except none. He could travel 100 miles a day, and re- 

 turn the next day. His stock were like him. I owned a pair of his colts, 

 bay mares, which I drove 40 miles in four hours, with six persons in a 

 three-seat traverse sleigh, and had all I could do to hold them at the end 

 of the trip. If I owned him to-day, and he was five years old, knowing him 

 as I do, I would not take $10,000 for him". A. B. Bixby, Poultney, Vt., to 

 whom we are indebted for the pedigree of Joe Rennock, says that his dam 

 was one of the very best of mares ; that he has known her taken out of the 

 pasture and driven 70 miles with ease. 



VERMONT BEAUTY (FARMER'S BEAUTY) 



Bright bay, 16 hands, 1420 pounds; foaled about 1856; said to be by 

 Baltimore Morgan, son of Green Mountain Morgan : dam large. Sold to 

 Cornelius Russell, Rockford, 111., for $1200, by Frank Griswold, West Ran- 

 dolph, Vt. ; to George and Alvin Kidder, Farmington, 111., 1864. Kept in 

 1862-63 at Dumont, 111. ; 1864 at Lodi, 111. A compactly-made horse of 

 Morgan style and appearance ; had good disposition, and got good stock. 



