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tion has unraveled the snarl, we are now, and have been for 

 many years, ready to accept the following as his breeding: 



His sire, without doubt, was a bay horse called True Briton 

 or Beautiful Bay — he was known by both names — a son of 

 Imported Traveler, his dam a chestnut mare sired by Ranger 

 of Pomfret, Conn., an imported Arabian horse from Morocco, 

 who was afterwards taken to Virginia and his name changed to 

 Linsley's Arabian. (See Linsley's Arabian, in Arabian Horses, 

 Chaptei II.) 



His grand dam was a close, compact, medium-sized, light, 

 bay mare of the Wild Air breed ; a very smooth, handsome 

 traveler. Her sire was . Diamond, who was by "Wild Air or 

 Church horse, by imported Wild Air, imported by DeLaney of 

 Long Island and afterwards taken back to England. ' 



The third dam of Justin Morgan was a Dutch mare brought 

 to this country (either she or her dam), by Dutch emigrant 

 settlers of the Mohawk valley. 



Of Imported Traveler, the grandsire of Justin Morgan, the 

 Stud Book says : " This horse was second to no other of the 

 early importations," etc. His pedigree traces in a direct and 

 unbroken line to the White Turk and Laton's Barb mare. 



Wild Air, the g. g. g. sire of Justin Morgan, the Stud Book 

 tells us also traces in an unbroken line to the White Turk and 

 Laton Barb mare, and was so well thought of in England that 

 he was purchased in America and re-shipped to England. 



Thus we find that history proves this most wonderful horse, 

 Justin Morgan, that some called a scrub and some a 

 Canadian, to be a very high-bred animal ; he was, without 

 doubt, sired by a high-bred horse and out of ,a well-bred dam. 

 Indeed, he was no come-by-chance horse. « 



As to his true breeding, probably no horse of note that ever 

 lived had as many different versions as to pedigree, or found 

 more people (forty of fifty years after his death), willing to 

 file affidavits as to his breeding ; but, strange to say, no 

 two of them were alike, so far as I can learn. 



According to Lindsey in his work " The Morgan Horse," 



