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and a few of them have trotted faster 

 than 2.30. The hair is silky, mane of 

 medium length, head small, ears erect, 

 neck arched, withers narrow, barrel 

 round, legs hard and flat with rather 

 small joints. The fox trot can be main- 

 tained all day and carries a horse at 

 the rate of 4 to 6 miles per hour. Many 

 western cow ponies have this gait. The 

 running walk and single foot have a 

 great range of speed from 5 miles an 

 hour to a three-minute gait. The Sad- 

 dle Horse possesses a wide range of use- 

 fulness. 



harness horses. For this purpose a small 

 number was imported into the United 

 States in 1902. 



The Morgan horse originated with 

 Justin Morgan, owned by a man of the 

 same name from West Springfield, Mass. 

 The foundation horse of the breed was 

 foaled about 1793 and was claimed to be 

 of Thoroughbred descent. A thorough 

 investigation by Wallace and others 

 shows pretty clearly that the ancestry of 

 the original Morgan horse is unknown. 

 Sherman Morgan was among the prog- 

 eny of this horse, his dam being a Nar- 



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The Orlov trotter — This is the light 

 harness horse of Russia, and the breed 

 was established by Count Orlov in the 

 last half of the eighteenth century. The 

 Orlov horses trace their ancestry to an 

 Arab horse called Smetanka, imported 

 from Greece in 1775 and bred to Danish 

 and Dutch mares. The tendencies of the 

 breed are somewhat mixed, giving rise 

 to light and heavy trotters, with hairy 

 fetlocks, sloping hips and wedge-shaped 

 heads. The prevailing colors are gray 

 and black. The length of leg varies 

 greatly within the breed, so that some 

 are good trotters, while others are heavy 



ragansett pacing mare. He is noted as 

 the sire of Black Hawk, the most fa- 

 mous of all the Morgans. In 1847 Black 

 Hawk made a mile in 2.43y 2 . Ethan 

 Allen, a son of Black Hawk, sired six 

 trotters inside the 2.30 limit. Some of 

 the Morgans have been admitted to the 

 American trotting register, but there is 

 a special Morgan register at Middlebury, 

 Vermont. (For secretary, see appendix.) 

 Mr. Joseph Battell of Middlebury has 

 given a good part of his life to the 

 solution of the endless controversies 

 which have arisen about the Morgans. 



