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was driven a carefully measured mile on Winthrop pond, 
two men toasleigh, without a break in 2.32, the last 
quarter in the remarkable time of 33 seconds or a 2.12 
gait, and was not up to his speed until ‘the half mile was 
passed. He paced at that time, but next season shifted, 
and has been a square trotter sincé. His success in the 
stud, always with common hard-worked farmer’s mares 
(Gen. Knox and Drew always taking the best) isa mat- 
ter of public record. At the close of the season of 1877 
he stood number five on the list of sires of horses 
trotting in 2.80 or better. Said list including all 
which have trotted in that time since the first record in 
this country, viz: Hambletonian, 27 representatives; 
Volunteer, 16 representatives; Blue Bull, 10 representa- 
tives; Daniel Lambert, 9 representatives; Winey Mor- 
rill, 7 representatives. 
His get are uniformly of great courage, excellent trot- 
ting action, and have an appearance of. higher breeding 
than would be expected from his ancestry. 
Mr. H. T. Helm, in his work entitled ‘American Road- 
sters and Trotting Horses,” has the following concern- 
ing Winthrop Morrill. 
“This is one of the most successful stallions of the 
Morgan family, and the only one that can be claimed to 
be a real Morgan. He was foaled in 1855, is a bay horse, 
by Young Morrill, his dam by the Huckins Horse, son of 
Royal Morgan, called also Morgan Rattler; his next dam 
by Morgan Eagle and the next by Bulrush. He has two 
crosses of Messenger, one of Duroc; the one line to the 
Vance Horse through old Morrill,and the dam of Morgan 
Eagle being by Callender, son of American Eclipse. 
But it is a matter of frequent occurrenee that one or two 
crosses of Messenger blood in connection with genuine 
road elements, will after awhile develop and produce a 
trotter and a trotting sire. 
Such was the case with Rhode Island, and such un- 
