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MOHaA-N STOCK. 



JUSTIN MOEGAN. 



INext to Winthrop Messenger, Maine is probably more 

 largely indebted to th^ descendants of the famous Justin 

 Morgan, for whatever speed she may possess, than to 

 any other source. This horse, Justin Morgan, was a dark 

 bay with black points, and no white marks, about 14 

 hands high and weighed about 950 pounds, foaled in 1793, 

 bred in Springfield, Mass., and died near Chelsea, Tt., in 

 the winter of 1821; got by True Briton; also called Beau- 

 tiful !^ay. Mr. Wallace in his Trotting Register, Vol. II., 

 says: "It is altogether probable that the sire of Justin 

 Morgan was thoroughbred, and that his dam had some of 

 the blood of Lindsey's Arabian, in her veins." ' He was 

 blood-like in his appearance, but there is no evidence that 

 he was a trotter of any considerable speed. 



Among his descendants, who have been in the stud in 

 Maine at different times, are the following — viz. : 



Morgan C^sab, taken to Maine, in 1833, or 34, by 

 Spaulding Smith, of Wilton, and was known in Maine, 

 as "Morgan Post Boy;" got by Woodbury, by Justin 

 Morgan, dam, by Quicksilver. He was the sire of Mac, 

 Pizarro, etc., etc. He was taken to Vermont, in 1842, 

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