62 THE MORGAN HORSE. 



some filed their affidavits swearing that he was a French Cana- 

 dian, while others were ready and did swear to many othe* 

 versions of his pedigree. This investigation, in which I Jiave 

 been engaged for many years, gives me the above, I think cor- 

 rect, conclusions. 



As to his individual appearance, as described by Lindsey : 



" He was about fourteen hands high and weighed about 950 

 pounds ; color, a dark bay with black points ; he had no white 

 hairs on him. His head was good; not extremely small but 

 lean and bony; the face straight, the forehead broad, ears 

 small, very fine and set rather wide apart, eyes medium size, 

 very dark and prominent with a spirited but pleasant expression, 

 and showed no white around the edge of the lid. His nostrils 

 were very large, the muzzle small and the lips close and firm: 

 His back was very short, the shoulder blades and hip bones 

 being very long and oblique and the loin exceedingly broad 

 and muscular. His 'body was rather long, round, deep, close, 

 ribbed up ; chest deep and wide with the breast bone projecting 

 a good deal in front. 



" His legs were short, close jointed, thin but very wide and 

 flat, hard and free from meat with muscles that were remarka- 

 bly large for a horse of his size, and this superabundance of 

 muscle exhibited itself at every step. His coat was short, very 

 bright and glossy. He had a little long hair about the fetlocks 

 on the back side of the legs, the rest of limbs being entirely 

 free from it." 



His feet were rather small but well shaped, tough as iron ; 

 and he was, in fact, in every respect perfectly sound and free 

 from all blemishes to the day of his death, which was caused 

 by an accident when twenty-nine years old. 



He was a very fast walker ; in trotting his step was short 

 and nervous, displaying considerable knee action. He was sure 

 footed and, his bold, fearless style of movement, and vigorous, 

 untiring action, have, perhaps, never been surpassed in any 

 horse. 



He was a natural parade horse, and was perfectly kind and 



