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family. There is a register for Morgan horses ; already about 

 five thousand have been recorded in the second volume, and to 

 be eligible for registration the pedigree of every horse recorded 

 must trace in some degree to Justin Morgan. 



Justin Morgan had a long stud career, but he did not produce 

 great breeding sons in the same degree as did Hambletonian 10. 

 Three of his sons, Bulrush, Woodbury, and Sherman Morgan, 

 were his greatest offspring. A son of Sherman Morgan, named 

 Black Hawk, foaled in 1833, was a trotter and vigorous sire, and 

 fourteen of his sons became recognized trotters. Ethan Allen, 

 his greatest son, was bred in New York State, and was foaled in 

 1849 from a dam of unknown ancestry. He became very famous 

 and popular as a successful trotter and he proved also to be a 

 great sire. The mare Pocahontas, by Iron's Cadmus, with a 

 record of 2.17^ in 1855, bred to Ethan Allen, became the dam 

 of another Pocahontas, for which Robert Bonner later on paid 

 $40,000. Among the thirty-six producing sons and daughters of 

 Ethan Allen no one attained such distinction as did Daniel 

 Lambert, himself the sire of thirty-eight trotters. The sire of 

 the dam of Daniel Lambert was Abdallah, the sire of Hamble- 

 tonian 10. Later years have shown that the Hambletonian and 

 Morgan families could be bred together to very great advantage. 



At the present time the United States government is conduct- 

 ing special experiments with the purpose in view of developing 

 an American breed of heavy harness horses. The Morgan family 

 is being used to furnish much of the important blood used in this 

 work. The stallion Carmon, a descendant of Justin Morgan, is 

 the chief stallion in use in the stud at the Colorado Experiment 

 Station, where the government is conducting this work. The 

 Vermont Experiment Station is also establishing a stud of 

 Morgans, where experimental breeding will be conducted under 

 government direction. 



The Clay family. In 1820 a stallion was imported from Trip- 

 oli, foaled in 18 16, that was regarded as of great beauty, action, 

 and speed. He was a small iron gray, standing 14^ hands high. 

 Used in the stud near Philadelphia he sired Young Bashaw out 

 of a granddaughter of Imported Messenger. Young Bashaw 

 sired Andrew Jackson, the fastest trotter of his day. The 



