88 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



The change of name indicates that in 1823 the 

 true value of the horse as a sire was not fully rec- 

 ognized. He died in 1835, some twenty of his sons 

 being kept entire. As in the case of Justin Mor- 

 gan we have no records of the females that 

 sprung from Sherman Morgan. His sons aver- 

 aged 14f hands, the average weight being 1020 

 pounds. Here was distinct improvement in the 

 third generation, and clear evidence also of the 

 prepotency of the blood, together with the value in 

 breeding of the Arab blood when transplanted. 



Sherman Morgan's most famous son was Black 

 Hawk, foaled in 1833, his dam being a large black 

 mare of unknown breeding, but fast and superior 

 in quality. Those who had owned the mare said 

 that she was from New Brunswick or Nova Sco- 

 tia and of English stock. The pedigree manufac- 

 turers — Wallace, particularly — insist that she 

 was a Narragansett pacer, with the evident idea of 

 bolstering up their contention that all fast trotters 

 owe their capacity to trot to the pacing capacity 

 of their ancestors. As not two per cent of Mor- 

 gans ever pace, including the descendants of 

 Black Hawk, this contention is preposterous, to 



