CHAPTEK VII. 



MORGAN HORSES.— Continued. 



Woodbury Morgan — Royal Morgan — Morgan Caesar — Green Mountain 

 Morgan — Morgans for stage purposes — Morgans for cavalry service 

 — Adaptation to rough and hilly roads — As trotters — Ripton — Last 

 message of Ethan Allen. 



AMONG other individual members who have contributed 

 to establish and perpetuate this great and mighty 

 family may be mentioned Woodbury Morgan, foaled in 1816, 

 the property of Lyman Wright of Tunbridge, Yt. He was a 

 dark, rich chestnut, with one white hind foot and a stripe in 

 his face. He was fourteen and three-quarters hands high and 

 weighed 990 pounds. He was a very handsome, bold, and 

 stylish horse, with great resolution and nervous temperament. 

 He was a good driver and appeared well in harness, but 

 showed to the best advantage under the saddle and was the 

 best parade horse of his day. He was sired by Justin Morgan, 

 dam untraced. He finally died in Alabama in 1838 from 

 exposure in a long and stormy sea voyage, at twelve and one- 

 half years old, perfectly sound. 



Mr. Lindsley, in " Morgan Horses," says : 



" Eoyal Morgan was foaled in 1821, the property of Mr. 

 Aldrich of St. Johnsbury, Vt., sired by Sherman ; dam known 

 as the Aldrich mare, and sired by Justin Morgan. She was a 

 dark bay of remarkably compact form, with great powers of 

 endurance, having produced and nursed a colt when twenty- 

 nine years old. Royal Morgan was thirteen and three-quarters 

 hands high and weighed 975 pounds ; color, dark bay with full 

 black points and a small star in forehead. This horse was 

 taken to Maine and had much to do with establishing the 

 noted roadsters and gentlemen's driving horses of that State, 



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