yi2 THE MORGAN HORSE 



Horse, son of Sherman Morgan. Sold to by Archibald Atherton, Claremont, 

 N. H., who sold him, 1857, for $1200, to George P. Burnham, Boston, Mass., 

 agent for F. Dukiett, New Orleans, La., where the horse went. 



EUREKA (BUTLER'S) 



Dark chestnut, about 15 hands, 1000 pounds ; foaled Sept. i, 1851; 

 bred by AsaTinkham, Windsor county, Vt. ; got by Green Mountain Morgan : 

 dam a handsome, blood-like bay mare and a smart trotter, 14^3 hands, 1000 

 pounds, bred by Asa Tinkham, got byGifford Morgan ; 2d dam said to be 

 by Cock of the Rock, son of Duroc. Purchased of Lorenzo Pratt of Wood- 

 stock, Vt., son-in-law of Mr. Tinkham, in the fall of 1854, by Dr. Russ But- 

 ler of Woodford county, Ky., who took the horse to his home in Kentucky, 

 and kept him there several years. He was killed by lightning at the farm of 

 Dr. Gagle, New Liberty, Ky., about 1860. William McCracken, Lexington, 

 Ky., says : " Eureka was as nice a chestnut horse as ever you saw, 15 hands, 

 1000 pounds; very stylish; owned near Frankfort, Ky. ; he stood there all 

 the time. He marked his stock with his own points through three or four 

 generations ". This horse has often been erroneously credited to Long 

 Island Black Hawk. 



MORGAN (YOUNG'S) 



Dark chestnut, 16 hands, noo pounds; foaled about 1860; bred at 

 Shelbyville, Ky. ; said to be by a dark chestnut or sorrel horse, 16 hands, 

 a fine saddle or harness horse, son of Dr. Russ Butler's Eureka, by 

 Green Mountain Morgan : dam chestnut, 16 hands, an extra saddle and 

 harness mare, awarded premium at Lexington (Ky.) fair, bred by a farmer 

 near Lexington, Ky., breeding unknown. Young's Morgan was advertised 

 to be kept at Eminence, Ky., in 187 2, by L.S. Ellis, and was called an extra 

 saddle and harness horse. One of his colts is said to have received 15 pre- 

 miums and another 5 premiums. Died at Eminence, Ky. 



Sire of dam of Ada Paul 2 '.26. 



EUREKA (COLEMAN'S) 



Dark chestnut, 1 6 hands; foaled 1868; bred by William L. Coleman, 

 Trimble Co., Ky. ; got by Young's Morgan, grandson of Eureka, by Green 

 Mountain Morgan : dam said to be by Beckett's Boston, son of Boston ; and 2d 

 dam by Cannibal, son of Muckle John, by Sir Archy. Passed to W. S. Wil- 

 son, Eminence, Ky. ; Noah Frazer, Cynthiana, Ky. ; Mr. Shuff, Scott Co., 

 Ky. ; W. Gay, Bourbon Co., Ky. An advertisement of this horse, in 1886, 

 says : " He has taken 123 premiums out of 124 shows ; took the ist premium 

 at St. Louis, Mo., in 1877, for the best combined stallion, mare or gelding, 

 with 42 in the ring. He has racked at several fairs in 3 :oo, and trotted in 

 2 136%. He sired the fine show gelding, Woodlake, that beat Lady de Jar- 

 nette in 1885, and was sold for $1500. L. Ellis raised and sold 10 geldings 

 by him, at an average of over $500. He got 70 colts in 1885 ". The " National 

 Saddle Horse Register" says : " Coleman's Eureka was a horse of remarkable 

 power to transmit his good qualities, and Kentucky is full of good stallions 



