42 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
that she was nearly, if not quite, as well bred as 
True Briton, for so remarkable an animal as Justin 
Morgan could hardly have been a mongrel. 
It must be remembered that at the time when 
Justin Morgan was foaled the typical thoroughbred 
was very unlike the thoroughbred of the present day. 
He was close to the Arab foundation, and conse 
quently he was a shorter-legged, rounder built, more 
compact animal than the race horse of the nineteenth 
century. Such was the famous and beautiful Gim- 
crack,! foaled in 1760. It is not surprising, therefore, 
that Justin Morgan, though well-bred, was a chunky 
little horse, with short legs and round quarters. He 
had a fine mane and tail, a short, powerful back, a 
longish body, strong, oblique shoulders, a delicate 
ear, a noble head, and the most intelligent, expressive, 
and courageous eyes that the spirit of a Houyhnhnm 
ever looked out of. He stood fourteen hands only, 
and weighed about nine hundred pounds. He was 
foaled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1793, and as 
a two-year-old he was taken in part payment of a debt 
by a school-teacher named Justin Morgan, who brought 
him to Randolph, Vermont. The horse died in 1821, 
near Chelsea, Vermont. 
necticut. On inquiry, they learned that these horses were sons 
of Ranger. There were sixty of them, all grays, in a troop com- 
mauded by Captain Tallmadge, who is said to have lamented the 
loss of one of them more bitterly than he did the death of a trooper. 
The Virginia gentlemen made up a purse, and sent one Captain 
Lindsey to inspect Ranger, and, if the horse answered the account 
that had been given to them, to purchase him if possible. Captain 
Lindsey accordingly bought Ranger and took him to Virginia, where 
he was known as Lindsey’s Arabian. He was a gray, high-spirited, 
of a proud and commanding appearance. 
1 Gimerack was by Cripple, by the Godolphin Arabian. He 
stood only 14.1 hands. 
