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ROBERTS HORSE FARM Hi-Pass, San Diego County, California

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BLACKMAN 8622 Senior Stallion in Service

BLACKMAN 8622 Black

Foaled 1942

Redman 8065

Goiea 04610

Mountcrest Sellman 7289

Red Dot 04577

Go Hawk 7457

Jeanne 04140

Joe Bailey 7119 Kitty E. 03308

Pongee Morgan 7427

Rodota 04185

Sunny Hawk 7456 Bombo 04379

Knox Reade 7089 Jean Ann 03250

Our fifty broadmares have been 02051 carefully selected. We have at all times Morgans of all ages and both sexes for sale.

MR. AND MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, OWNERS Address correspondence to:

236 West 15th Si. Los Angeles, California Tel. Richmond 7-0658

Introducing to the East . .

TWO MORGAN CHAMPIONS

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DENNIS K 9561 Chestnut stallion foaled 1946.

Sire: Flyhawk 7526 Dam: Kathleen C. 05754

This stallion has distinguished himself by winning the Morgan national breed championship at the National Stallion Show, Waterloo, Iowa, in both 1949 and 1950. He will be shown in the major Morgan competitions of 195 1 by his new owners.

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ROYAL ZEPHYR 10363 Chestnut stallion, foaled 1938.

Sire: Jubel 7709 Dam: Ishawooa x 05494

Champion parade horse for Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota in 1950, this high-moving stallion will con-tinue to campaign under the reining of Mrs. Willard K. Denton at the major shows.

We will offer a few selected colts each season.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard K. Denton

Ardencaple Acres Mt. Kisko, New York

Stabled at BOULDER BROOK CLUB,

Scarsdale, N. Y., until October 1.

Table of Contents

Special Articles Operation Morgan 7 Standard of Perfection for Morgan Horses 19 Together Again 20 Directors Meeting 22 Brilliant Columbus Show 30 Vermont Acquires Farm 31 Light Horse Judging School 38 Earl Krantz Retires 26

Regular Features Names in Pedigrees 18 Northern California Club 23 The Vet Says 27 New England News and Notes 28 Young Enthusiasts 32 Breeze from the Great Lakes 33 Stable Hints 46

Officers of the Mor gan Horse Club President MERLE D. EVANS

Ohio Merchants Bank Building, Massillon, Ohio

Vice.President FREDERICK 0. DAVIS Windsor, Vermont

Secretary

FRANK B. HILLS

90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y .

Treasurer

WHITNEY STONE

90 Broad Street, New York 4, N. Y.

The Mor gan Horse Magazine vol. xr August, 1951 No. 4

fetteitai to the editot4

Thank you, too Dear Sir:

This is just a short note from a Mor-gan lover to let you know what a fine magazine I think you have. I really look forward to each magazine and when I get it I read it from cover to cover. One thing I like the best are the wonderful pictures that you put in. Upwey King Ben is one of my favorite stallions. I liked that picture of him in the last (April) issue very much.

Thank you again for a wonderful magazine.

Miss Anne Bent Stoney Brook Farms

Arlington, Vermont Buss along little .. .

Dear Sir: I sure like your magazine on Mor-

gans. I have not as yet received your March issue. Hope you will send me one. Thank you.

We are having lovely spring weather up here. There are many ponds of water around. Guess field work will be started before long. Well, guess must buss along for this time.

Miss Mildred White Viking, Alberta

Likes and dislikes Dear Sir:

I wish to congratulate you on the fine job you are doing with the Mor-gan Horse Magazine. It seems to get better with each issue and with the colored photos in the April issue, it is really fine.

I do enjoy the stories. Are they true, based on truth or are they fiction?

Miss Owen's series is most interest-ing and the pictorial is fine. I hope all these features continue with more added.

I see in the magazine many fine Morgans and others I wouldn't care to have in my stable. Though as you know there are only a few Morgans in Canada and at that my wee lad is only three-quarter but I sure go for the small ones looking closest to the statue of Justin. It is my desire to take him to the Morgan Horse Show and the Vermont Trail Ride to see how he'd stand in with his own kind. These things come at the time when we are at a Canadian show and it would

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Copyright 1951 by The Morgan Horse Magazine.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage.

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The Editor's CommenUs What's the difference?

Morgan breeders in both the East and the West ask the same questions.

In the East breeders believe that the westerner wants a heavy, short-pasterned animal capable of doing a terrific day's work.

In the West, Morgan men are of the opinion that the easterner wants a flighty, over-trained show animal which, of necessity is short on manners and stamina.

Both are wrong. We've seen the New England horses as well as those in Washington, Oregon and California. There are some bad ones, some top ones in both places. And in both places there are an awful lot of good solid-type Morgans anyone would be glad to own.

Morgan owners, the country over have a pretty well-established idea of what constitutes a good Morgan. They want good dis-position, strong, well set legs, a good typey head, big eyes and small ears.. They want a short well-ribbed barrel capable of supporting a good-size rider.

True, the easterner prefers the classic, ground-sweeping tail and long flowing mane. In that he differs from the westerner, who, using his Morgans to work cattle in rough country prefers to pull the mane to a couple of handsbreadths and the tail even with the hocks. This is not because he differs on style ideas but because it is handier.

The westerner puts "cow savvy" above all else when he picks a horse. One noted breeder was wont to mount a three-year-old mare and turn her into a bunch of cattle. If she showed an interest in them she was bred. If her son, gelded, showed the same interest he was kept for a working horse. If not—out.

However, your western Morgan man likes a goocl head and Morgan type body and insists on good disposition. He doesn't want to bother with a rattle-head nor does he want to waste time fighting a bunch of bad manners. Sure, he can ride a tough one but he sees no point in making a habit of it. True, he seems to seek strength and shortness beyond actual need in the pasterns of his mounts. We have seen eastern Morgans with slightly more slender slightly more sloping pasterns still tough enough to give the 40 to 50 miles a day that the cowboy sometimes demands on roundup.

Your cowboy fights shy of a high-headed mount. He wants him to carry his head in a normal position so he can see what's going on in front of him. This however does not mean he wants him low-headed.

He wants an animal with good quarters, quarters on which he can turn quickly while working cattle. That accounts for the rather low-set tails on some of the western horses for their big quarters are often sloped.

We recounted some of this to a prominent Vermont breeder who quickly replied, "But that's just what we want in the east. We don't want 'show stuff' that's so hot it's nervous and irritable. We want manners and brains, good bodies, quarters and legs. True, we want looks but Morgan looks are not obtainable without substance. Morgans aren't Morgans unless they've got stuff."

Well put. Let's not have any ideas that there's one breed of Mor-gans in the East and another in the West.

They're all Morgans.

OUR COVER

Pinehill, 12-day-old son of Abbott and Blossom Gates is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Anderson of Mos-cow, Idaho. Early habits, in addition to eating and sleeping, include steal-ing. The young thief is shown "lifting" the cap of John Cushman while the two Anderson children, Susan and Jerry, look on. Pinehill comes natur-ally by his love for children. The Anderson Morgans are beautifully mannered and the children play in the fields with all of them.

Letters (Continuedfro in Page 4)

mean too long and fast a drive to attend them both. Though he is a wonderful traveller, I don't know if he could stand that kind of a trip.

The show in Michigan sounds most interesting. I like the idea of natural horses.

Do you know that here in Canada I show Rambling Ace X-07305 in saddle horse classes and at the same show can turn around and show him in a western class and get top ribbons in the western class and place in the English class, always with horses be-hind us, sometimes even saddle breds in ladies classes. Rambling Ace can earn his way at the shows and he gets admired too. He has never been in harness but I'm sure he could do there also.

Looking forward to the next issue of the Morgan Horse Magazine and hoping that perhaps in the future you may become a monthly.

Mrs. Wm. C. Hewitt Box 173, Brownsburg, Que.

You're welcome Dear Sir: We of the Animal Husbandry Club

of the University of Massachusetts, wish to thank you for your donation to our Little International Livestock Show. We feel that your three cornpli-

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TOP I to r: JUST BUTTONS, PLAINS BEAUTY and FLYAWAY QUEEN at the Milo Measel stable is Farmington, Mich.; stud colt by Lippitt Moro Ash out of Ruthven's Beatrice Anne. CENTER: A likely youngster and his ma, part of the big mare band at Roy Brunk's, Rochester, Ill.: DON HUDSON, owned by R. L. Brachear, Waggoner, Ill. BOTTOM: PLAINS KING owned by Milo

Measel; JENNIE LAKE and JUBILEE JOY owned by Mrs. Helen Greenwalt, Pawnee. III.

Operation Morgan • • ID

They have ridden the low moon out of the sk y

Their hoofs drum up the dawn. — Ballad of East and West

W HAT A HANDY quotation that is. I have ridden many a low

moon out of the sky and heard num-erous hoofs drum up the dawn—Ed Robert's Imperial valley herd for one—in the short-long month just spent fly-ing, driving and walking for the privilege of seeing most of this coun-try's Morgan horses.

It was a grand trip—one I'll never forget. Even as I write, memories of wonderful Morgan people, mind pic-tures of beautiful Morgan horses, in-describable vistas of vast western distances attempt to cram through prodding expression, stiff fingers and awkward typewriter for preference in this crude presentation of the present day status of Justin's children and their place in today's American way of life.

Never have I been so sure of the place those self-same children occupy in today's atom-feared world. Never before had I seen the whole picture, the demands, the uses, the satisfactions that Morgans can bring to a people spread over a continent 3000 miles across and, in some ways, many times more divergent. No, opinion is less assured, judgment is more tolerant, appreciation and understanding far greater when you've flown 14,000 miles, driven 2500 and walked—I hate

By SUMNER KEAN

to guess how many—to gaze at more than 800 Morgans in widely scattered corners of this land. Sure, this one's blood may contain the highest per-centage of the Morgan strain; the grandmother of that one may have tangled with an Arab; a more obscure may mar the pedigree of another. But, take them by and large their cocky ears their compact bodies, their big bold eyes and their marvelous, marvelous dispositions—they're Morgans, and I've never admired them so much.

You find them in the lush farmland of Michigan; the fertile black-soil farms of Illinois; the almost barren grassland of Montana, the apple coun-try of Washington and the cattle lands or Oregon. They thrive in the al-most-desert of Utah, the fruit belts of California and the searing heat of the Mexican border. You find hard-used bands in Kansas and Oklahoma and stall-fed beauties in equally beauti-ful Ohio. They're all over New Eng-land. They are show, farm, range and pleasure animals—the great American horse.

The trip started in a hurry on the 21st of May when, at noon, I caught the only plane flying out of Boston—a DC-3—with enough spunk to dare

the lowering overcast. I felt pretty sure of myself in conversation with my seat-mate, sales manager of a big eastern shirt company. No horse owner he, his quick interest and world-painted pic-tures of horses in America if properly promoted lent strength to my mission. There must be Morgans in America, I assured myself. I'd seen the regis-trations, transfers, edited news items of this one and that.

But when I sat across the desk from Frank Hills at Morgan head-quarters in New York and heard that experienced traveler hazard doubt that I could make the national go-round in four weeks I began to have doubts. Could I visit all those people? Would they be so scattered that I'd never reach them? Would I flop this assign-ment that the club had given me? Did I know anything about Morgans, or any type of horse or people or, or, or, . . . ? In that low frame of mind I grabbed a quick sandwich at the bleak Newark airport, first meal since a 6 o'clock breakfast and boarded the sleek Convair for Detroit.

But the evening was beautiful. At 14,000 feet the plane flew into the sunset and bright pink rays tinted white cloud mountains, piled mile high in perpendicular array above the dirty

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TOP 1 lo r: ha Cochrane of Walla Walla, Wash., on his COLONEL BATTEL: RED LASS, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Brauns of Wenatchee. Wash. Center: STAR GATES. owned by Miss Gladys Koehne of Boihel, Wash..; Marvin Teppesen on his 21- year-old stallion, ABBOTT. BOTTOM: How foolish can an editor Get?: Trailer race at Pullman, Wash., unload, saddle, twice around

ring, unsaddle, load.

gray of the lower cloud floor. In the distance the odd cumulus formation seemed a walled city with ghostly towers. The ethereal display lasted for less than half the flight but it lulled my fears which disappeared entirely at the sight of bluff, genial Gerald Taft, whose manner was unruffled despite an hour's wait at the Detroit airport terminal. A fast ride to North-ville, a pleasant evening chatting of this and that with my host and his soft-voiced wife and then bed. You've never slept until youve spent the night in a Taft bed—especially after an 18-hour day.

Up early to keep a 6 o'clock riding date with Taft I fell a victim of my trip-long argument with daylight-standard time and had both horses groomed before the "lord of the Manor" put in his appearance. He kidded about my daylight rising but I was so loud in my praise of Quizkid that I never heard him. This handsome stallion was standing like a statue when I entered the stable accompanied by the Taft Dalmation—a quick lad with a loose horse, by the way. Like a statue he continued to stand as I carefully removed his blanket and brushed him, combed his long mane and tail and ragged him to a gloss. He was a pic-ture horse. Later on the two hour ride I had an opportunity to watch his every move as, mounted on Sam, another Morgan stud, we walked, trotted and galloped through the wooded countryside of beautiful North-ville. The former Morgan Horse Farm stud never made a false move. He out-trotted Sam, raced him for a mile at a stretch and then dropped back quietly into the fastest, springiest walk I'd ever seen.

Jack Appling, the Taft farm boss, was waiting for us on our return but so was a huge breakfast and I think Jack got the small end of that deal. Then the day really started. With Taft at the wheel•—first of many Bar-ney Oldfields I was to meet— we toured the Michigan breeders and owners. First there was Milo Measel and his brood all the way from Plains King to a yearling. There we met numerous youngsters who stable their Morgans at the Measel farm and spend weekends on long radiating rides. He accompanied us to the home of Robert Beal where we saw a young filly and a handsome big stud, Beau Gallant out of Lucky by Highview King.

Lunched on Michigan perch and then drove on through beautiful Ann

Arbor to the farm of Dr. Ruthven whose successor as president of the University of Michigan was announced that day.

The Ruthven stables and grounds constitute a show place in which little Lippitt Moro Ash is a perfect center of attraction. This stylish wanderer from Randolph, Vt., moves like a cat, has a world of expression and is a fit head for the Ruthven breeding estab-lishment.

More, much more, but later, about genial Dr. Ruthven, his sound judg-ment, his excellent horse sense, his to!erance and understanding. If he is a fair sample then I here and now advise all would-be authorities on Mor-gan horses first serve a term as head of one of our greater universities. It was inspiring to talk to him in the confines of his comfortable tack room with his horseman, Tex, seated nearby, a silent but confirming authority for the doctor's opinions. It was equally pleasant to make the acquaintance of C. Fred Austin and his wife and to talk with him of the Morgan Horse magazine, for which we labor, but, up to that time, without knowing each other...

Then we visited the Milo Dugan farm and made the acquaintance of the oft-pictured Verran's Laddie, a hand-some chestnut horse in the pink of condition.. There too, we watched Eddie Earhart, without benefit of saddle or bridle, put through its paces a Morgan, aged two, Verran's Michael —a nice show. There is a boy with a lot on the ball—a real horseman. We also saw a nice mare and her foal by Laddie, Lady Pat Marlowe. The Dugans are in the process of rebuild-ing their barns which will be heated with gas—from their own well!

Back in the car again and off to Vaughn Groom's farm and a look at Shady Lawn's Mister. How that lad has grown!

Dinner at the Taft's and in the evening a few people dropped in-25 to be exact. We talked Morgans and Morgan promises and problems. A great bunch, interesting, alive and real rooters for the cause. Earlier in the evening, although it was still raining as it had intermittently all day, I had a chance to see the Taft mares, a small, select group, carefully culled from many acquisitions. We talked with their owner about bloodlines, what he was striving for, his constantly elevated sights on Morgan standards.

With Taft at the head of this Great Lakes group there is little doubt of its future.

Breakfasted with him at the airport and caught an early plane for Spring-field, Ill. Hesitant to encroach on a midwest farmer during this, the busiest season of the year, I hired a car and drove out to Rochester. The mile-square sections of farm land with their exactly-square corners and deep-ditched dirt roads, nearly threw me but I found Roy Brunk just where a neighbor said he'd be—on his tractor, plowing rich bottom land. No greater tribute could be paid to his enthusiasm for Morgans than that he cut the engine, leaving the plows in the fur-rows and accompanied me to his farm with its old limestone house built by his grandfather where the great J. C. Brunk did so much for the Morgan breed. Roy's sister, Helen Greenwalt came hurrying over from her adjacent place and together we inspected and photographed the Brunk senior stud, Congo, his three-year-old bay son, Trinango and numerous mares and colts. We visited the Brunk burying ground, on a wooded bluff of the farm where former Brunks and their neigh-bors rest, and spent half a day with the Morgan director and his sister, jotting down the great and detailed Brunk story. I learned in passing that an ancestor, a Dutchman, settled first in New York City. The designation of his upper island farm—Brunk's—was later contracted into the name of that beehive of humanity, the Bronx.

The next day Loy and Helen Green-walt showed me Flyhawk, well into his 20's but every inch a horse. His blood is spread over so many states, and so indelibly that descendants of his, in distant places, came to be no surprise to me. They showed me their handsome team of mares, a liver chest-nut youngster with flaxen mane and tail and a stylish little bay, every inch a horse. The Greenwalt's took me to the farm of her brother, Torn Brunk with its big band of mares headed by King Mick, lively despite an oddly-knit broken hind leg. There we met a son, Bob, and his wife, both Morgan enthusiasts and good riders.

Then in rapid order we saw the two studs of George Brunk, a cousin; an Illinois champion mare, Seneta own-ed by James Stout; some mares and colts of Byron Carruthers at Waverly where we had to pass up a fried chicken ■ tnooning" because time lacked; Don

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TOP 1 to r: Stables and show ring of the Appleatchee Riders at Wenatchee, Wash.: Yearling stud by Nemaha Herod out of Ella Gates, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Anderson of Moscow. Idaho. CENTER H. MONTE, KENO. 3 with owner, George M. Hinckley of Provo. Utah; Joel C. Jackson of Harrison, Mont.. on MAJOR R. M. This stud was fatally injured two weeks after photo was taken. BOTTOM: STELLER awned by J. Holman Waters of Salt Lake City: Ira Mosher of Sandy, Utah, on KEN CARMEN.

Hudson, a stylish bay stud owned by R. L. Brachear of Waggoner. This last animal from the Sutter ranch is by Romanesque out of Mary R. M. and will be used on the small band of Brachear mares.

It was touch and go to nab the Springfield plane for Chicago and there make connections with the huge stratocruiser for Spokane, Wash. The first leg of that night-long hop over the "top" of the United States was made lively by my seat-mate, a burly over-dressed man who was the 75th passenger aboard. He squeezed into the only vacant chair—next to mine—and we made talk about his close squeak catching the plane. After some chit-chat he remarked "Ah's in the tavern business."

I showed proper interest in his acu-men at selecting this profitable field of endeavor and when he in turn asked my "line" I replied, "Horses."

He mulled this over for a bit and then said: "Ah's not really in the tavern business. But so long as you don't mind admitting you're a bookie Ah'11 be frank too. Ah's a policy man maself."

From Chicago to Minneapolis I learned in great detail the workings of that business which was so interest-ing to the Kefauver committee. It was interesting to me, too.

But he changed places with another passenger at the rain-lashed first stop and I fell asleep not to wake until we were over the Continental divide. Extinct volcanoes, the humble begin-nings of the Missouri river, tiny lakes and rock, rock, rock, gradually were supplanted by the alternated wheat crop-pings of Montana and Idaho, beautiful Coeur D'Alene and then Spokane. There's some awfully nice country in this country—and so is Washington

Changed at Spokane from the luxur-ious liner to a tiny puddle-jumper which followed the Idaho border to Pullman and the light horse judging school. That is a treat for horsemen.

Washington State is a big, fast-grow-ing college. But the horse end of the animal husbandry division under the inspired leadership of Dr. E. M. Ensminger is covering ground with equal strides. An account of the show will be found elsewhere in this edition but neither it nor this account can catch the flavor of friendliness, the goodwill and the genuine education of the school and the horse show held in conjunction with it. Prof. I. E Howell of Davis, University of Califor-

nia was the presiding judge and his keen observations on the animals judged following individual score-card-ing by the hundreds of interested "students" was illuminating. He is a great guy, a great horseman.

At the judging school I sat next to a courteous, low-voiced man with whom I compared judging notes. He turned out to be Marvin Jeppesen of Keating, Ore., with whom I had had much enjoyable correspondence. His wife, suffering from a cold was forced to keep to her hotel room and Jeppesen and I were much in each other's com-pany. It was fascinating to hear him tell of his Morgans, his 250 head of Angus, his ranch, ranges. From him I learned much about Oregon and the desert country where he was raised. An agricultural school graduate, he kidded me about my Bostonese—espec-ially "hosses" and I came back at him for some of his dialectal economies-"scarpin" for instance, a quickie for scorpion.

He introduced me to old Abbott, now 21, who is siring some good stuff, and Abbott's son, Kimberly Abbott, a four-year-old he was breaking as a cow horse. Jeppesen, like so many men and women I met at Pullman is an excellent rider, straight, yet relaxed in the saddle, "with" his mount at every step."

At the school and show I also met: Nicholas Jerns of Bellingham, Wash.,

who copped a second in the Morgan judging with his mare, Ramona Jekell.

Barclay Brauns, his charming wife and two daughters of Wenatchee, Wash., and hooted with delight with the family when the youngest girl, Karin, rode her pretty mare, Red Bess, to a second ribbon in the pole-bending contest against a field of professionals.

Ira Cochrane and his wife of Walla Walla. This former 'professional bronc rider is the owner of a great little stud, Col. Battel and a rapidly growing band of mares. I tried my best to accept his very kind invitation to visit him but time and the vagaries of air travel did not permit. It was one of the disappointments of the trip. Cochrane, unless I miss my guess, will be heard from as a breeder in the Northwest.

Walter E. Fraser of Edgemer, Idaho and his little black stud, Winter Star which annexed its share of performance prizes despite its three years.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Ander-son of Moscow, Idaho, who drove me to their nearby ranch one afternoon

and showed me their two flaxen-maned mares, yearlings and a pair of colts, one by Abbott and the other by Hale Quibley's Nemaha Herod, which won the stallion judging class.

Miss Gladys Koehne of Bothell, Wash., whose mare, Star Gates won the mare judging class as well as a performance class.

I met many more Morgan people and found so much enthusiasm that a breakfast meeting resulted. There, over mountain trout, was organized the Pacific Northwest Morgan Horse club embracing membership front Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon-tana. President of the new group is Barclay Brauns. Marvin Jeppesen is vice-president, Miss Gladys Koehne is treasurer and R. W. Van Pelt, Jr., a veterinary student at State is secretary and correspondent. When not at school his address is Route 4, Box 146, Kirkland, Wash., and if you write him keep a volume of the registry handy for he's a walking encyclopedia on Morgan pedigrees.

The Brauns family finally enveigled me onto a Morgan with western saddle and they split their sides while I made a fool of myself with a medium which to say the least was strange. I got my revenge shortly afterward when one of the girls asked for instruction on an English saddle and a double bridle. Say I, to each his own!

I had promised Brauns I would go to Wenatchee with him and the 250-mile ride in a six-horse truck was a small price in inconvenience to pay for the introduction to the Columbia gorge and its rich fruit ranches. Up in that dry section of Eastern Wash-ington where wheat is the only thing that will grow, the great river, in its deep-cut gorge provides life and wealth to trees and men. Sparkling Wenatchee with smart new buildings lining its wide streets is the center of some real horse country. On its out-skirts in a peak-skirted little valley is located the Appleatchee Riders' home. A cooperative venture with a share of stock permits members to erect their own stables, made by taking sections of old labor camps and removing them to a barn row. The large work build-ing has been converted into a club house where barbecues and square dances are the highlights of the social life. Riding country, along the river or over the mountains beggars descrip• tion. , A group, with their horses and pack horses often go off in trips of

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TOP I to r: MAJOR MONTE, just broken, shown by his owner Frank W. Weare of Costa Mesa, Cal.; JUBILEE HAWK owned by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Thorn of Clements, Cal; CENTER: CAVENDISH, stud aged two with his owner, Mrs. Larry Oakley of Stock- ton, Cal. I E. Haile' of Modesto gets a facial from his big stud, TRILAN. BOTTOM: DON MELODY by Sivler Dan owned by

Wilbur White of Folsom, Cal.: Mrs. Anna Wurz of Napa with her great performing half-Morgan. SALLY RAND

several days duration or even truck farther north to ride in almost virgin country. There riders feed on big trout and horses on rich wild grass. On these excursions a local cowboy Babe Russell, is a must. If Babe is shy a horse he goes out and ropes a wild one. An expert with a pack saddle he showed me one with angle iron exten-sions on which he has packed as many as a dozen fence posts and led the pack animal up grades you'd say only goats could travel.

A day with the Brauns and their horses, a band of mares including many top ones and some very good young stock, slightly upset the itinerary but it would have been upset still :urther had I not used a lot of will-power to tear myself away from that beautiful valley and its swell people.

Brauns drove me to Yakima to catch a plane and his sister and mother went along. They said they went for the ride and that was understandable for the scenery was exalting. But I think they feared that Brauns, who was as low on sleep as I, would doze off on the way home. He was wide enough awake to answer my many questions and explain the source of the city's wealth—the vast productive Yakima valley.

The plane to Butte landed me in that famed gambling and copper center at 3 a.m. and I was still groggy when Mrs. J. C. Jackson phoned me at 7 that her husband was on his way in from Harrison to pick me up. We stopped on the way out at a lonely desert ranch near a butte skirted by an irrigation ditch at which a bunch of burros were drinking. The ranch housed several horses, among them Silver Rockwood, a buckskin with light mane and tail, a very good looking horse owned by Mrs. Rose Liggett, an Indian woman, and very well-known rodeo rider.

The Jackson ranch with its thou-sands of acres of wheat and grazing land, is the home of 125 Morgans. Most of the mares had foals and there were literally horses everywhere. "Well-mounted" in an "Olds" Rocket, we rounded up a band of young stock and another group of yearling studs, many of which were about to be gelded. Mr. Jackson wants horses to qualify as working stock animals and many of his have won open competitions. His stud, Major R. M. was a fine looking animal of great power. With the silvery-haired slender. owner on his back he made a proud picture, and

Jackson had great hopes for him as the animal's first crop looked good. All this is ended, however, for since I have returned I heard from him that Major had caught his leg in a fence and was destroyed.

May 30, Memorial day dawned cold and cloudy in Butte and the clouds were so low at the airport no plane dared land. I waited for the evening plane but when it began to snow I caught a train for Salt Lake City just ahead of a 16-inch fall. I arrived in bright, hot sunshine the next morning in Utah's biggest city. The great width of the streets, laid out by Brigham Young so three oxcarts abreast could pass three other oxcarts, give Salt Lake its spaciousness.

J. Holman Waters, one of the club directors, who met me, drove first to the home of Hugh Patrick where we were shown a nice young mare, Julie B. and a big gelding, Star Line. She is by Haven out of Julie De Jarnette and he by Benayr out of Belayr. Patrick was fretting because important busi-ness would keep him from accompany-ing Waters and me on a tour of the area. He fretted more when Waters outlined our plans for the day. Finally just as we were about to leave, he tossed his business to the wind and climbed into the car with us. Then we picked up Bob Woolley (who ad-mitted he should have been a sheep-man instead of a Morgan enthusiast) and headed for Waters' new home with its hilltop house and pool and valley stables and corrals.

Stellar, 1950 National show cham-pion stallion, formerly of the U. S. Farm, is in the pink of condition. He is getting a lot of work under a professional rider and has filled out into a magnificent stud. The breeders in Utah are tickled pink that he's in their country and Waters generously plans to use him as much as possible to improve the breed in that area. He made the trip from Vermont in a tight crate but alighted from the rail-road car in Salt Lake onto slippery pavement with all the manners of a well-schooled lady's hack. Other studs of light color so highly favored in the West are Golden Jubilee by Jubilee King out of Goldhug and Milholm Prince by Golden Jubilee out of Deuce. Waters, another breeder who is de-manding greater quality in his stock, has culled his mare band down to a single horse and is on the constant lookout for some good ones.

The four of us then drove out to

Provo and the big dairy ranch of George M. Hinckley whose friendli-ness and interest put him on a par with all the other great Morgan people we met. Hinckley first treated us to quite a sight—a 70-year-old man, F. H. Abbott on a two-year-old stud. Hinckley's Red. Mr. Abbott has broken this youngster to ride and drive and spends a good part of every day on his back. Red, proud-stepping and youthful was as clever as a kitten.

Then Hinckley showed us his hand of 25 mares and his young stud, H. Monte Keno, a flashy three-year-old and a good-looking mother-daughter combination, Belayr and Frena. The Hinckley horses enjoy excellent pas-ture despite the owner's deprecation that "all they get is salt grass." The Hinckley farm is a paradox. Although as flat as your hand part of it is under irrigation and the rest is deeply drained to prevent salt water from rising and killing the crops. He raises wonderful grass and hay crops and seems to be a leader in the Provo agricultural life.

From Provo we drove to Sandy where we met the Mosher brothers, a pair of cutups if we ever saw any. Inseparable pals they are in the poultry business and own Morgans strictly for fun. Their idea of fun is a 50-mile day racing up and down mountains after wild horses. Fearless riders they chuckle happily at their own mishaps but take a deep pride in the per-formance of their horses. One of them is a big liver-colored stud, Ken Carmen, by Jubilee King, 16 hands of power and as many years old.

Dinner that evening as guest of Mr. and Mrs. Waters was a deluxe buffet at the Salt Lake City country club, a Spanish motif beauty nestled close to the city's encompassing foothills of the Rockies. In the evening a group met at the Waters home and there formed the Utah Morgan horse club with Waters as president and Patrick, Wool-ley and Mosher, the other officers.

Spent the next morning with Waters and Mr. Lund, Mormon historian who patiently aided me in obtaining in account of Morgans used in the great trek to Salk Lake. He became to in-terested that he finally located the spring wagon which they drew over tortuous going in that epochal march. It was fas-cinating to listen to Mr. Lund's fill-in, drawing as he did from his vast knowledge of Mormon history with only occasional reference to old diaries.

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TOP I to r: Oklahoma sage. sometimes gray, sometimes green, sometimes purple; Mona Lisa ,weanlinq filly hunts in a bucket held by owner Mrs. Frank W. Weare of Costa Mesa, Cal. CENTER: Optimist and Pesimist; Roland Hill ranch in Rocklin, Cal., grass and live oak clumps. . BOTTOM: Ed. Roberts' mares in the dawn light, Imperial valley near the Mexican border, well fed on

irrigated alfalfa; Waterhole gone dry, Roberts ranch at High Pass. Cal.

No trip to Salt Lake City would be complete without a run out to the great lake, 30 miles distant from the city. More than 75 miles long and with towering mountains on some of its islands the lake, 27 per cent salt is grey-brown and uninviting. No one drowns in great Salt Lake, one can't even sink. But a gulp of that noxious water will cause death by strangulation.

Waters, a very well-informed man talked entertainingly of beef-raising, irrigation, salt flats, the history of the Morgan horse in the state and its grow-ing popularity. There is a solid core of enthusiasts there and the importa-tion of more good mares, as planned, should make it an interesting breed-ing center.

The evening plane hop to San Fran-cisco was made pleasant by talk with a Hawaiian surgeon, returning to his island after study at Pennsylvania. He told of modern surgery for stomach ulcers consisting of taking out the stomach and tossing it away. Non-plussed, I countered with the story of deep X-ray therapy at Wkshington State where ringbones and spavins are removed. He was politely interested but I think he thought me nuts for being so impressed with a cure for a horse disease. That plane ride on a DC-6 stands out in my memory for the stewardess, a comely lass, met death with 49 others on the same run a few weeks later when the big plane crashed a mountain.

San Francisco was a night in a good hotel and a 7 a.m. departure, sans breakfast, to catch a bus for Napa where Mrs. Anna Wurz awaited me. She had driven all the way into town the night before but the loud speaker at the terminal failed to page me and we missed connections. Mr. and Mrs. Wurz have but recently purchased the ranch where their horses are kept and were having a great time in a magni-ficent restoration of house and barns. She is an excellent horsewoman, trainer and show rider and has owned horses all her life. She still owns a tie to the past in a handsome gaited mare but plans to sell her now that she has be-come devoted to Morgans. She learned to love them through her ownership of Sally Rand a black half-Morgan known up and down the coast for her brilliance as a perform-ance and trick horse. The mare has a world of sense and with Mrs. Wurz riding her atop a $12,000 silver mounted saddle she is a picture horse. Sally sold Mrs. Wurz on the breed so she pur-

chased another black, but this time a registered mare, Sheik F's Rose Ann. This good-looking mild-tempered ani-mal will also be schooled but will in the end become a broodmare along with others Mrs. Wurz plans to purchase.

Mr. and Mrs. Wurz operate large prune orchards and dehydrating and packing plants and although they are grandparents get as much fun out of life as a pair of kids. The Wurz tack room is walled with ribbons and cases bulge with trophies she and her horse have won. She drove me through the beautiful and highly productive Napa valley, its vast vineyards, orchards and nut groves. We saw some Morgans in backyards and others on vast estates.

The meeting of the Northern Cali-fornia Morgan Horse club in a classic motel outside Pasadena was a very pleasant affair. More than 50 attended. It was a pleasure to meet the president, Mel Lawrence, a director of the nation-al club, and Mrs. Larry Oakley, its petite and marvelously efficient secre-tary. Members expressed a vast interest in Morgan doings in the East and it was fun comparing notes with them. They are a keen bunch, up to their ears in the breed and interested in shows, parades and rides. That talk was interesting and prone to make "tempus fugit" at headlong speed as attested to by the fact the meeting ad-journed sometime after 1 a. m.

The next day, in company with Mrs. Wurz and Mrs. Oakley, I spent one of the most interesting days of the trip. We visited first the Wilbur White place in Folsom where we saw the popular Silver Dan by Sparbeau and his two sons, Tinkle and Don Melody. The latter is out of Shawnee, a handsome light bay mare by Sunfield. Mr. White's stock is in top shape.

Then we hit out for the range country and the tremendous Horse-shoe Cattle Co., ranch of Roland Hill in Rocklin, Cal. We drove for miles across rolling grazing lands, studded with oak clumps until we came to the ranch buildings. To our great dis-appointment we were unable to see Mr. Hill whose name is magic in western Morgan circles. We had lunch with his charming daughter, Mrs. Jean Hill Borrelli, and his grandson, eight-year-old, Larry, a horseman par excellence if we ever saw one. Mounted on a big range horse he spends most of his time poking into this or that distant corner of the place and travels between them at a fast lope, a serious-eyed, wide-mouthed little fellow with a

wealth of inherited savvy. He rates well at the top of the list of nice guys met on the trip.

Horses on the Hill ranch are now under the supervision of Mrs. Borrelli and she's keen for a good Morgan stal-lion to mate with her good , ,, young mares, a large and fine-lookirit band. It was pleasant to relax in her dining room after an excellent lunch and hear the answers to our questions about the past and present of the big ranch. There is a place all three of us would have liked to spend more time but the rigours of the schedule lopped the visit short in mid-afternoon because of the long ride back.

On the way we stopped at a show grounds where Mel Lawrence and others were putting on a junior show. As I was from the East it was only natural for Mel to sock me with the job of judging English equitation and jumping. It was fun, a great bunch of youngsters and a couple of real jump-ing jocks.

Mrs. Wurz would have liked to con-tinue with us but was forced to head back for Napa despite our invitations. The next morning Mrs. Oakley showed up bright and early and we put in a big day of getting around the country, my tiny hostess developing into an iron driver. We visited Gene Davis at Lodi and talked to him in his bed-room where he was still confined with a badly fractured leg. He told us of Red Vermont, which we later saw, and of a three-year-old Morgan with such a fast trot he planned to race him in harness events.

Another long ride to the distant ranch of Phil and Una Thorn was rewarded with pleasant conversation with two very swell people and a view of their four-year-old stud, Jubilee Hawk by Flyhawk out of Julara, a fine well set up youngster. There, too, we were treated with something new. Standing in the pasture with them among a group of mares, one of them started to move off. Una Thorn, a top horsewoman, casually reached down and grabbed it by the gaskin. The horse stopped and stood.

Then we stopped at the ranch where the Oakleys keep their Morgans and saw two very handsome flaxen-maned youngsters, two-year-olds. The stud Cavendish is by Jubilee's Courage out of Paragraph and the filly by Jubilee King out of Townshend Lass. Both were procured from Mrs. Bryant in Springfield, Vt.

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TOP 1 to r: "Ride and drive mares," DOROTHY BAR and ELLEN BAR with the latter's stud colt at Cilocco Indian school, Oklahoma; "For Evans' sake, Merle, watch your step." CENTER: Alvin A. Kivett and a likely yearling stud by Felix Lee out of Aberta Linsley: BRET ALLEN by Blackman, Roberts ranch. BOTTOM: Has LaRose with KING CAPTOR owned by Merle Evans, Massilon, Ohio:

FLEETWING by Captor owned by Mr. and Mrs. Basil Aman of Navarer. Ohio.

we reached the beautful new home of Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hottel in Mo-desto. After we had inspected a spacious new barn—cement block with a roof of cast tiles—we drove with them to their ranch where we saw a big gelding, beloved by Mr. Hottel for mountain work, and three studs, big handsome horses, Trilan, Prince Kat-rilan and Prince Rambler. At the risk of offending Mr. Hottel, I would here and now state that good-looking as they are, a mare, Hacienda Kitty from the Hearst ranch, tops them. She is something! Both Mr. and Mrs. Hottel are riders and showmen and very enthusiastic.

They drove us to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Linn in Turlock where we missed Linden Sonfield but saw his son, Sunden out of Brown Knox Lou, a great brood mare. Mr. Linn, a semi-retired cattle commission man is a worshipper at the feet of Roland Hill and traces most of his best stock to the Hill Ranch.

It was nearly dark when we reached the Stockton stables of Chester F. Hin-shaw and despite a dust storm from adjacent asparagus fields were able to get a peek at Sheik F. This solidly built horse, clever and kind, last year carried 200-pound Hinshaw, 50 pounds of equipment and a 175-pound deer out of the mountains a distance of more than 15 miles during a hunting trip. Sheik weighs about 1050. Who says they're not tough?

Dinner that night with Mrs. Oakley and her sprightly young son was late. We'd had no lunch and the little side-arm joint was modest to say the least but you who have gone hungry just picture a basket full of fried chicken and your last meal 16 hours back.

Larry Oakley and wife have done a lot for the Northern California group. They are moving to Chicago at year's end and the group will miss them and their tireless work of promoting the Morgan horse.

The taxi arrived at the motel so early the next morning it seemed like the middle of the night and I was still half asleep when I caught the plane for Los Angeles. No matter what you have heard of that town, it's not enough. Nearly 60 miles across it is so vast and complicated that natives carry road maps to find their way home from outlying sections. It is spreading so fast that when it comes to a 'small adjacent community it simply flows around it. Consequently you find small towns, incorporated and independent,

inside the confines of Los Angeles My first contact was a telephone call

from the airport to Ed Roberts at his manufacturing plant. Meeting him is an experience all by itself. The call lasted less than three minutes but in that space of time he (a) arranged my goings and comings for the rest of the week; (b) picked out a hotel and arranged a dinner at Mike Lyman's; (c) gave me a thumbnail sketch of the Morgan Horse Club of the West; (d) started to call me Mr. Kean, slid to Sumner in a quick contretemps and then to the profane endearments of 20-year friendships; (e) kidded me about the contents of my wife's letters of which he had received a half dozen un-til I almost believed he had read them, as he insisted he had. He's your typical breezy Westerner—but he was born in New Jersey and it's worth going to California to hear him tell about ship-ping the family Morgan from there to the coast back in—ok, ok, Ed, I won't tell when.

Dinner that night was good food and a sideline seat with Dr. Brunie while Ed Roberts and Merle Little of Duarte indulged in a kidding duel. Later, about 40 members of the club met at the Roberts factory for a chin-chin about Morgans and their place on the West coast. The conversation was give and take, but fun.

The next day was spent with Merle Little. A contractor, he nevertheless runs his horse spread like a profession-al. His equipment is tops, his horses are excellent and his two daughters very smart both in the saddle or at doing chores. When a Little horse goes into the show ring he is ready —and that's why he has such a well-stuffed trophy room. Little is one of the solidest Morgan guys we met, an excellent judge of a Morgan horse and a demanding sort of a guy about get-ting the best. His Lippitt Morman is every inch a fine stud and his Senor-ita Morgan is literally a honey of a mare. His old Sundown Morgan, a son, Midnight Sun and a grandson, Rocky Morgan are an interesting study in how to get a Morgan Palomino.

He took me in tow for a visit to the Brunie ranch where we spotted a very handsome mare in the small herd and to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Walker in Baldwin Park where we were shown a solid looking gelding and a beautiful mare, Nancy Rogers by Will Rogers.

We then stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Morse where an-

other handsome mare, Highview Honey was brought out. There too we saw the studs, Top Flight by Fly-hawk and King Shoshone by Plains King.

Late evening when I returned to LA I toured famed Olvera Street where Mexican commercialism flourishes under a restoration project. The idea is so well carried out that imagination has but to slip a cog and there are Spanish grandees, politicos, General Stockton and the Mexican war. Good show.

The next phase of this business can only be classified under some such title as "My Two Days With Roberts" or "Travails of an Escapee from a New England Graveyard." Roberts has so much bounce that he leaves you on the ground; so much vision and grasp that you flounder behind him! so much brass that he could tickle Queen Elizabeth under the chin—and get away with it. He drives a Ford and when I say drive I mean it in very sense of the word. Eighty is his pet gait and a curve is merely a place in the road where he points out a heart-stopping view—down a mile.

Our first stop was at the fruit farm of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde M. Deardorff. There we saw Jubilee Alexander by Flyhawk and Andy's Skyboy by Andy Pershing. I've shown the mare's pic-ture to friends here at home and they hand her the horseman's accoldae-"Is she for sale?" At the Deardorff place, in their beautifully appointed tack room we saw, in addition to many trophies, a pair of $9000 silver-mounted saddles.

The Costa Mesa home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Weare was seen in an all-too brief visit. But short as it was it was packed full of horses and horse-manship. First we were shown a very nice Goldfield mare, Lana and then of the same mare by Major Monte. by Monte L. Major, three, had been ridden by Weare a half dozen times and after posing proudly for us he quietly submitted to cinching and a hackamore. Weare put him through his paces in an adjoining field and the big chestnut responded beautifully. He has the making of a great working horse. Two other colts were seen, a son of Monte L out of Katherine Anne and a weanling filly, Mona Lisa out of the same mare by Major Monts. The Weares are very interested in this last issue of one of their good mares and their young sire.

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OLD MORRILL 55 (Ninth in the Series - - Names in Pedigrees

By MABEL OWEN

F ASHION IS A strange and peculiar thing, whether it be that of

dress, or custom, or even, strange though it may seem, of horses. Twenty-five years ago sprint races, six to seven furlongs, were extremely popular at the larger tracks and the Toboggan and Fall Highweight were major events in a trainer's year. Then, with an influx of foreign importations of breeding stock, the emphasis was on the distance races, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Saratoga Cup, both races at well over the mile and a half. Laterally, interest has centered on pre-cocity, the two year old which can win his purchase price as soon as possible, and the leading sire of two year old winners today commands a higher stud fee from Thoroughbred breeders than the sire of good handicap horses. Fashion has moved its finicky way among Saddlebreds and even, in their short career of registry, among Quarter-horses. This is no new occurence, and it has cost present-day horse breeders a great deal in the past and without doubt will do so again. Dur-ing the infancy of the Morgan horse as a breed, Sherman and Woodbury were fashion's darlings, while Bulrush, with his great endurance and iron constitution, was forced to make his name the hard way. Fortune's frown continued to plague his entire family, and except for their all too brief day in the sun, the Morrills suffered to the extent of their almost complete absorp-tion into the Standardbred book.

Probably Bulrush's best son was Ran-dolph Morgan, also known as Morgan Bulrush and the Weston Horse. Very like his sire, he was a brown-bay, his only marking a small star, and was nearly the identical height, about 14/. His mane and tail and foretop were nearly as heavy as his sire's and he was like him again in his remarkable endurance. Said to have drawn two men in a two-wheeled chaise eighty miles in one day and still keen as a brier at the end, the only mark of unsoundness at his death was that he was moderately knee-sprung. He had more of a finished appearance, a well-rounded balance which Bulrush lacked. Also, he had a great trot for a horse of that day and was said to be able

to do his mile well within three minutes, extreme speed in 1840. Nothing definite is known concerning his clam, save that she was bred locally, and could well have been a daughter of the old Justin as he left a great many foals in the vicinity of Randolph. She must have ressembled the old Morgan very closely in type if not in blood as Randolph Morgan was Jus-tin's image, even closer than his own sire, the son most like the old horse.

In the Fall of 1839, Abijah Jenni-son in Walden, Vt., purchased from his neighbor Prentice Carr, a large brown mare with a rat tail. Originally from Canada, she had been used solely as a logging horse and occasional mem-ber of a freight hitch plying a regular schedule from Walden to Boston. She was sixteen hands and weighed thir-teen hundred pounds. Mildly lop-eared, she was a dull mare at work, but could be pushed into a speedy pace when her driver found it absolutely necessary. She was very strong, well-remembered in her vicinity for her proclivity for breaking timber chains when hitched to heavy, frozen-in logs. Bred to Ran-dolph Horse, this mare produced, in the early Spring of 1841, the cherry-bay Jennison Colt.

The Jennison horse grew nearly to match his dam in height, but in all else he resembled his sire. He was considered a very beautiful horse, and was the pride and joy of his breeder who always pronounced him "perfect in every way." He weighed twelve hundred pounds as a three-year-old and was a natural, square trotter with a better than average turn of speed. He had his sire's luxuriant mane and tail and small white star, with the same large eyes and keen, alert, little ears. A. F. Putnam of Marshfield, Vt., drove him frequently, but only once in what might have been called a competitive manner. The dark dappled-grey Bachop, himself a Mor-gan grandson of the Bachelder Horse, was in Barnet, Vt., at the time and was reputedly able to trot a consistent three-minute mile. It was only a road brush, no time was taken or estimated, but the Jennison colt totally inexperi-enced at such things, beat him at the go and finished so far ahead that the

grey was distanced. Abijah Jennison was a very poor man and was forced to sell his colt as a three-year-old, man-aged to buy him back two years later, then sold him again. This time, his whereabouts became one of the minor mysteries for Morgan historians. At the time, he was said to have been sold to a New Hampshire stock farm, but no trace of him could ever be found in that state. However, there is some reference to a horse extremely similar in size and color in central Maine, but the records are too insuffi-cient to form a definite link.

The dam of old Morrill was a grey mare. She was a very well-bred mare of that time, seven-eighths or better of what appears to be well-authenticated English breeding. She was 15.2, fairly high-strung, with a long neck, moderately lengthy head and ears, and the thin skin under which the veins always showed prom-inently, a factor generally associated with better breeding. James Heath in Walden, Vt., bought her as a two-year-old, but very shortly after her pur-chase, she suffered a fracture of a hind leg. This did heal, but left her with a crooked, shorter leg and a distinct hitch in her gait, which was a natural trot, despite her pacing dam. She was very good in harness and Heath cleared his original rough hill farm with her. Bred to the Jennison Colt. whose stud fee for the service which was to produce his best-renown son was a pound of tea, she foaled the brown Morrill late in 1843.

Morrill came very close to being a jet black in color, in fact he is so described by Daniel Linsley. Actually he was a brown, as he had a mealy nose and a few tan hairs on his flanks. His only marking was a white right hind sock. 15.3 in height, he weighed about 1225 in his prime. In some ways he was a strange combination of the breeding which produced him. Like his English dam, he was very fine-coated and his mane and the top part of his tail were a bit sparce. His head was excellent, with an especially fine muzzle and large intelligent eyes. His ears were thin and pointed, usually carried alertly, but occasionally they went back in a lop-

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Standard of Perfection for Morgan Horses

14.1 to 15.1.

900 to 1,100 pounds.

Good saddle conformation. In general, the Morgan should length, well-muscled, smooth and stylish in appearance.

The Morgan should have clean, dense bone with sufficient substance, well-developed joints and tendons, and with fine coat.

The Morgan should be tractable but with good spirit.

Head: Medium size, clean cut and tapering slightly from jaw to the muzzle. The pro-

jaw, medium fine muzzle with small and firm lips and large nostrils. Ears should file can be straight or slightly dished, never Roman nosed. Wide, clean cut lower

be small, fine pointed, set wide apart and carried alertly. Eyes should be full, bright and clear.

Neck: Medium length, well-crested, clean-cut at to shoulder and deep at the point of the shoulder.

Mane and foretop good and full.

well-defined, but Shoulders of good length and slope, blending into smooth, too high, withers. The withers should be slightly higher than point of hip.

Forelegs should be short, squarely set, well apart, with short muscular arms. Viewed from the front, the legs should be thin and must be straight; viewed from the side should be wide and sinewy.

The forearm shou!d be wide, flat and muscular. Knees should be wide and flat.

Cannons short, wide, flat and free from meat. Fetlock joint should not be round but rather wide. Pasterns should be clean and strong, of medium length, the slope to correlate with slope of shoulder. The hoofs should be of medium size, nearly round, open at the heel, smooth and dense but not brittle.

The body conformation of the Morgan is distinctive, with chest of good depth and width, and with back short, broad and well-muscled. The loin should be wide and muscular and closely coupled. The barrel, large and rather round, with well sprung, closely joined ribs and deep full flank.

The hind legs of the Morgan should be squarely set and so placed that he turns on his hindquarters with legs well under him. The hips should be well-rounded. Hip bones should not show. Croup should be rounded gently with fairly high-set tail, well carried. The tail to be good and full. Quarters and thighs deep and well-muscled with strong muscular stifles and medium length wide muscular gaskins.

The hocks should be wide, deep and clean. Viewed from the rear, the hind legs should be perpendicular with the hocks neither closer together nor wider apart than the fetlocks.

Cannons: Short, wide, flat with tendons standing well out from bone and well defined.

Pasterns: Strong, medium length, not too sloping. The hind feet should resemble forefeet and should be round, medium in size, smooth and dense.

The walk should be flatfooted, elastic and rapid with a long straight, free stride.

The trot must be square, free-going, collected and balanced.

The canter must be smooth, easy, collected and straight on both leads.

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By BARBARA SHEPARD HURLD

Together • • •

Adain

Barbara Hurld with AUTUMN STAR

Autumn Star, this is the name of the little bay mare who has become so dear to our family as well as all those with whom she has made acquaintance. as far as the name goes, it is inade-quate because, to us she is a "star" all the time.

My first experience with riding came at the age of three and a half. I had a pony named Peggy Anne, and we were great pals for six years. My folks and I used to ride together. Their big horses always fascinated me and I, in those young years, developed that love for horses that makes them still very dear. The searching, finding, having losing, and final return of my mare Autumn Star, is told in this story as it happened to me. The long years are over and my faithful bay mare is again with me.

My family knew Dr. Wallace L. Orcutt for many years and visited him often. During that time, his Morgan stallion, Ulendon had grown from a two-year-old colt into a beautiful creature who made them all "sit up and take notice." After seeing this horse and the many others that Dr. Orcutt raised and trained, a Morgan was the ideal picture of a horse in my mind. I wanted only a pleasure horse, nothing fancy. My family and I looked at all types, not necessarily Morgans. We were shown a "family horse" . . . it took the whole family to ride or drive him. And there were spotted horses, high-class riding school horses, and everything else. Each one had some-thing about him that simply did not suit my needs. After some time, we

heard of Douglas Hayes of Middle-bury, Vt., whose daughter had a Morgan mare. The girl was going away to college and did not want to keep the mare. We drove to Middle-bury and saw Autumn Star. She was just exactly what I wanted. She was 14:3 hands . . . just right for a girl. Her manners, even in mid-winter, were tops. Her color was a rich bay with black points and a large white star. When she was ridden, she looked so pretty. Her action was good, head well set, and lovely natural tail carriage. After making arrangements, Autumn Star joined our family. How tickled I was when she was unloaded from the truck in my yard . . . a dream came true.

We had an "Anniversary" this past March 14th. Autumn Star has been mine for ten years. They have been wonderful years, every one. Through this mare, I have realized many fond hopes. In 1944 I put her in the 100-mile trail ride in Vermont. You can imagine my delight when the judges called Autumn Star for the winner of the third award for the lightweight division. I was mighty proud of her. It was not until Autumn Star was 14 years old that I broke her to drive. There was no trouble with her during the two-month training period. How-ever, even to this day, her eyes nearly pop out with uneasiness when she sees the buggy, or even the harness. She has never done anything mean. The only trouble is, we always start off in quite a hurry. She makes a wonderful roadster.

Her sire, Sir Ethan Allen 6537, and her dam, The Will Martin Mare, both carry blood through their second gene-rations to Corbett 4393. This stallion had a trotting record of 2:21 1/z . His grandsire was Daniel Lambert. So with that for a background, my bright yellow racing buggy sure moves down the dirt roads when the bay mare steps out. When Autumn Star was 15 years old, I showed her for the first time in her life. She was in competition with some real Morgan show horses. In this particular class there were five entries and we took home the third prize. She really surprised us that time. It wasn't because of a "blind judge" either, for everybody—even the de-feated gathered around to say nice things about my "pride and joy."

As our story unwinds, many years have passed. The little girl, who started riding at three and a half, grew up. She graduated from high school and went to work. After a few more years, she married a fellow who shared her enthusiasm for horses and all ani-mals. Talking over plans for the future, this husband and wife decided it would be helpful for him to study animal husbandry at college. This was to bring about a lot of changes.

When we moved from home to go to college at the University of Massa-chusetts in Amherst, we had an apartment on the campus. During the four years of school we had two wonderful additions to our family .. . little Linda and Nancy. At three and two respectively, they are already very much acquainted with horses. Funds

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were limited and Dan, my husband, had to work evenings and weekends to make ends meet. We couldn't afford to keep the mare so the next best thing we could do was to find a temporary home for her. This new home was with Meredith Griffin of Merrimac, Mass. She has long known and loved the mare and gave her ex-cellent care during the years that Autumn Star stayed at her barn. At local shows, Meredith exhibited the mare and has many ribbons and tro-phies to keep for years to come, as the permanent reminder of lots of fun and good times.

During the time that Autumn Star was at this temporary home, I rode her during vacations. On one occasion, my friend Meredith and I rode our horses 35 miles, round trip, to partici-pate in a centennial parade. When we arrived at the meeting place, we were asked to ride our horses in a large circle with other horses, so that the judges might select a leader. I rode around with the group once and was called to the center. The judges had chosen Autumn Star on manners and appearance, from 52 horses to lead the parade. I believe she was the only registered Morgan in the group. I led the parade for two miles with a band right behind me and two flag-bearers on horseback beside me. The mare paraded, tossing her head to show the red, white, and blue braids in her mane and foretop. We finished the parade and were awarded a ribbon to take home for our efforts.

Last fall, Miss Griffin informed me that a very prominent and enthusiastic Morgan lover was giving her a colt. Meredith has a small barn and there would not be room for Autumn Star and the colt. It was then November and winter was well on its way. Find-ing a home from then until June pre-sented us with quite a problem. No-body wanted her just for the winter and early spring. We were going to finish school in June and wanted her back with us then. There seemed to he no solution to our problem when I called on Ruth Orcutt who is a neighbor at home in West Newbury, Mass. She knows many nice people who love horses and helped me immensely. Only a short drive from home there was a family who wanted her. ,A more perfect home could not exist for any horse. Autumn Star was exercised every day either under saddle or by being turned out in a small past-ure. They kept her fat and sleek at all

times. There are three young girls in this family who are well on their way to becoming fine horsewomen. I hope to hear more about the Lords, from Box ford, Mass. and their future Mor-gans. Incidentally, the girls proved their horsemanship unquestionably to me before getting the mare.

The home of the Lord girls is surrounded by some of the finest bridle trails anywhere. A great num-ber of these are in a bird sanctuary just down the street. One lovely after-noon this past spring, I went to ride Autumn Star.

This particular ride is one I shall remember as being very pleasant, how-ever, not outstanding. It will illustrate my idea of a good trail horse. I entered the bird sanctuary on an un-familiar path. Parts of it were flooded with brooks that run throughout the woodland. The mare went through the deepest of these with only a word from me. After winding through the woods for some time, it grew rather dusky and I feared darkness would descend before we found our way back to a homeward road. Progressing further, the path led through dense under-growth, from which a cock pheasant flew up with the usual screeching cry and heavy flutter of wings. That took about 10 years off my life. The mare's head popped up, she paused only to see what had made the noise and then eagerly walked on down the trail. Not long after this episode, which inci-dentally, would have sent many a horse (and rider) "cross country," we came upon another situation. It was an old weather-beaten bridge that arched a good sized brook. I dismounted and stepped onto the warped boards, which, to me, seemed surprisingly strong. I made the next best test I could, that of jumping up and down, landing hard. The bridge was sturdy, regardless of its appearance. Trusting me as I led, the mare followed, and we reached the other side safely. Very soon, thereafter, we came upon a scene I recognized and we found "civilization" once more. Even though Autumn Star will be 19 years old this year, she is still sound. This was evident, for even after the hard going on this ride, she trotted briskly toward home.

Through the years I have made many wonderful friends in connection with horses, Morgan in particular. For example, I met Lucia Brown, who you may remember as the girl who owned the great Morgan mare Friendly. She won the Vermont 100-mile ride for two

consecutive years (1942-1943) with highest ratings. Also, there is Ruth Dickson Orcutt, who has ridden in ten of the 100-mile rides. She and I have enjoyed many wonderful rides to-gether in shows and through the woods near home. There are other fine people. to be sure, that I have met while a Morgan owner, that are still very good friends to me and Autumn Star. The happy times and wonder-ful friends are as numerous as the times I have cinched the girth or hitched the traces.

Now, after four years, we are back together again for good. Autumn Star has had good homes all her life with people who really appreciated and loved her. She is very dear to our hearts, and we hope that she will con-tinue in her present good health for many years to come. At the entrance to the barn, it is wonderful to see her kind eye and hear her friendly nicker. It's like, . . . well, like coming out doors after a bad storm and finding sunshine.

Barre Horse Show The winner of the Morgan Horse

Magazine prize was Frazier Colon of Athol, Mass. Nelson D. White of Winchendon, Mass., won the year's membership in The Morgan Horse Club.

The fourteenth Barre, Mass. horse show was very successful with an attendance of about 1500 people. There were about 100 horses displayed with the Morgan horse well repre-sented.

The winners of the Morgan classes were as follows:

Model Class: Won by ORCLAND LEADER S. P. Tompkins, Gloucester, Mass.; 2d, RIVIERA, Nelson D. White, Winchendon, Mass.; 3d, UPWEY COMMANDER, Frazier Colon, Athol. Mass.; 4th, UPWEY KING BEAK., Julie F. Exposito, Windsor, Conn.

Open Class: Won by RIVIERA; 2d, ORCLAND LEADER; 3d, ORC-LAND VIGILANTE, S. P. Tompkins, Gloucester, Mass.; 4th, GLENDE LECT, Charles Collins, Jr.

Combination: Won by ORCLAND LEADER: 2d, RIVIERA; 3d, ORC-LAND VIGILANTE; 4th, GLENDE-LECT.

Stake Class: Won by ORCLAND LEADER; 2d, RIVIERA; 3d, TOWN-SHEND WEST RIVER, Alice Rine-hart; 4th, ORCLAND VIGILANTE.

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Presenting July 1951 snaps]

We have Morgans of all ages

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Stallion at r Top: CAPTOR 7789: center, OCR 9099; bottom, brood mare band.

Directors Meeting It was voted to hold the Annual r .

Crabapple Valley Farms Wilmc

New offcers of the N. E. Morgan Horse Club are pictured above. I. Cecil Fer- guson second from left is the new president and Mrs. Winthrop S. Dakin is the secretary. Flanking them are, Judge Kenneth H. Robinson, vice-president and

Walter J. Hefiron, treasurer.

Directors Meeting

A meeting of the Board of Directors of The Morgan Horse Club, Inc., was held at 90 Broad Street, New York on July 9. The following Directors were present at the meeting:

Mrs. Anna Ela, Messrs. F. 0. Davis, Merle D. Evans, F. B. Hills, Earl B. Krantz, G. F. Taft, Locke Theis.

Comparative financial statements covering the years 1949 and 1950, and for the first six months of 1951 were thoroughly considered and discussed in relation to future prospects.

The Directors have been working on a Standard of Perfection for Morgan Horses for about two years. Nearly all of the Directors submitted their criticisms of the original proposal and these were taken up in detail at Directors' Meetings. The Directors reached almost complete agreement at the meeting held in December 1950. After that meeting, the Standard as revised was again submitted to the in-dividual members and at the July meet-ing the Standard was approved with very minor changes, and was adopted, as published elsewhere in this number of the Magazine. As soon as printed copies become available, they will be

distributed to the membership of the Club.

The problems of the Morgan Horse Magazine were then brought up for discussion, and Mr. Eusey, the Pub-lisher, invited to enter the meeting. He reported in detail on the present situation and the progress of plans which had been approved at the pre-vious Directors' meeting for generally improving the Magazine and increas-ing both circulation and advertising. Some specific proposals were discussed at length and action deferred until the next meeting of the Board.

Sumner Kean then made a detailed report of his observations while on his lengthly tour to many Morgan breed-ing centers in the United States, parti-cularly the West. He had an oppor-tunity to meet a great many of the Morgan breeders and owners, to see their Morgans, and to get their im-pressions of various matters concern-ing the breed. Mr. Kean will prepare stories based on his trip for publica-tion in the Magazine.

Plans for the National Show at Windsor, Vt., to be held September 1, 2 and 3, 1951, were considered.

It was voted to hold the Annual Meeting of the members of The Mor-gan Horse Club on Sunday night, September 2, in the tent on the Show Grounds at Windsor, following an in-formal supper at the same place. The arrangements for the supper will be under the general direction of Seth Armen, Manager of the Show.

The meeting convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 5 p.m.

New England Meeting

The New England Morgan Horse Association held its Annual Dinner Meeting on July 8, at Hartness House in Springfield, Vt. About 80 members and friends gathered to visit together before and during the turkey dinner. Afterwards the president, C. P. Weldon called the meeting to order on the lawn of the Inn. The following new officers and directors were nominated and elected: President J. Cecil Fer-guson; Vice-president, judge Kenneth H. Robinson; Secretary, Mrs. Winthrop S. Dakin; Treasurer, Walter • J. Heff-ron; and five directors, Mrs. William J. Bryant, Dana Wingate Kelley, Lawson W. Glidden, Lyman Orcutt, C. P. Weldon.

The group was much interested to learn from Earl W. Newton, Director of Old Sturbridge Village in Stur-bridge, Mass., of their plans to add some Morgans to the farm as examples of the type of light horse typically seen in old New England villages, the appearance and customs of which Old Sturbridge Village so faithfully pre-serves. Mares and foals as well as Morgans in harness and under saddle will be a new attraction for the many tourists who stop there during the summer months. A committee was appointed to develop the plan with Mr. Newton.

Seth Armen told of the plans for the National Morgan Horse Show to be held in Windsor, Vt., on Sept. 1, 2 and 3. The club acted to provide an advertisement for the program, and a trophy for the children's class. Miss Rosamond Sears, sculptress, spoke of her plan to model the ideal Morgan head and invited suggestions. The meeting ended with some movies shown by Warren E. Patriquin.

.901. oteie,14.4.4.e: The Horseshoe Cattle Co. Ranch of Roland Hill

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Northern California Horse Club By MRS. LARRY OAKLEY

The milestone is quite familiar to those of us from the East and Old South, who grew up to recognize mile-stones for what they actually were. They were landmarks that showed the miles traveled along the deep-rutted roads or pikes that served the steel rimmed wheels of buggies, surries, buckboards, spring wagons and, in-deed, the big two-horse wagons, all animal-drawn.

Today, this same conception of a mile-stone appropriately applies to landmarks or highlights along the experiences of business institutions and especially does it highlight certain events of the Northern California Morgan Horse Club. Our second milestone being the third regional meeting of 1951 Satur-day evening, June 2nd, at the Capitol Inn, Sacramento, Calif., which was held in honor of Sumner Kean, Editor of the Morgan Horse Magazine.

This meeting was the most event-ful one the Club has held to date, for it marked the first time we have had a visiting speaker acquainted with and knowing well the Morgan Horse. And to add to this, we also had another distinguished visitor, whose appear-ance at our meeting came as a com-plete though very pleasant surprise—Jim Draper, publisher of the Horse-Lover Magazine. Mr. Draper had pre-viously requested that his name be placed on our mailing list for the Club Bulletin and upon reading of our meet-ing for Mr. Kean, decided to come and investigate for himself what all the fuss was being created about Morgans.

After a very enjoyable dinner, though a bit late due to all the excite-ment over our two visitors, our Presi-dent, Mel Lawrence, called the meet-ing to order and after the minutes of the last meeting were read, introduced Mr. Kean.

Mr. Kean was very refreshing in that he did not make a speech, he simply talked to us as a friend and acquaintance, giving us much about the Morgans in the East and how they compared with our Western ones. He

gave us much information about the various Morgan breeders in the east and mid-west and told us about many of the Morgans whose names appear frequently. Also, he gave us a short history of the Magazine and what some of their future plans are. He also brought with him, a copy of the new Morgan standard the National Club is setting up for all Morgan judging. Mr. Kean discussed this standard thorough-ly, asking for opinions as to the accept-ance of it. Except for a few minor items, it met with approval by all. Most members present have felt the need of this standard for a long time. It will certainly be a fairer basis on which to judge Morgans in the future. Mr. Kean brought moving pictures in color taken at last year's National Show at Windsor, Vt. These pictures were shown at the end of the evening and were greatly enjoyed for we all were able to see in action, many of the eastern Morgans who have heretofore been just a name to us!

Jim Draper was introduced next. He came primarily to see what was being done about our Morgans here on the Coast and he gave us a very en-lightening talk about what could be done for them through the medium of advertising them (and indirectly for the light horse industry in general, for all breeds must stick together if they are to succeed). Mr. Draper would like to see a great many more of our Morgans in open competition with other breeds to show just how good they are. It seems that too many of these good Morgans have been kept too long in moth balls — it is time to get them out for all to see and know and love.

The meeting adjourned at a late hour and was keenly enjoyed by all present.

The next two days were busy ones for Mr. Kean, I am sure, for the Mor-gans in this area are well scattered and a great deal of time is lost in traveling from one place to another.

The Mother Lode Fair and Horse TRIANE, J. Clark Bromiley, Sonora.

Show at Sonora, Cant., May 10, was the scene of the first Northern Califor-nia Morgan Show of the 1951 season. This is the first time the Sonora Fair board has included a class for Mor-gans in their Light Horse Breeding Classes, which was included at the re-quest of the Northern California Mor-gan Horse Club. The Fair handled the payment of prize money in an un-usual and unique manner, in that all payment of prize money was in silver dollars and were our pockets heavy!

Due to the early date of the Show and illness among some of the Mor-gan breeders in Northern California, many of our top Morgans were not shown, but the Class was well repre-sented by some eighteen excellent Morgans. The Judge for the Light Horse Breeding Classes was Prof. C. Howell, of College of Agriculture, at Davis, Calif.

Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hottel, of Mo-desto, Calif., were the proud owners of both the Champion Morgan Stal-lion, Trilan and the Champion Mor-gan Mare, Hacienda Kitty. Other plac-ings were as follows:

Morgan Stallions, 3 years and over: Won by TRILAN, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hottel, Modesto, Calif.; 2d, JUBILEE HAWK, Una L. Thorns, Clements, 3rd, KENELM MORGAN, Margery Wilson, Niles, and shown by J. Clark Bromiley of Sonora; 4th, TRILSON, J. Clark Bromiley, Sonora.

Morgan Stallions, 2 years: Won by SONDEN, W. L. Linn, Turlock; 2d, CAVENDISH, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Oakley, Stockton; 3d, PRINCE RAMBLER, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hottel, Modesto; 4th, SIERRA SUN, J. Clark Bromiley, Sonora.

Morgan Stallions, Yearlings: Won by ROBELIN, W. L. Linn, Turlock.

Morgan Mares, 3 years and over: Won by HACIENDA KITTY, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hottel, Modesto; 2d, SHEIK F'S ROSE ANN, Mrs. Anna Wurz, Napa; 3d, FLICKA, J. Clark Bromiley, Sonora; 4th, KING'S FELI-CITY, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Oakley, Stockton; 5th, PRINCESS JOAQUIN Florence Breazele, Modesto.

Morgan Mares, 2 years: Won by JUBILEE'S GLORIA, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Oakley, Stockton; 2d, KING'S MELODY, also owned by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Oakley.

Morgan Mares, Yearlings: Won by ANALIN, W. L. Linn, Turlock; 2d,

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Top: KING CAPTOR 9551; center, STAR HAWK 91007 bottom. brood mare band.

t. Ohio Merle D. Evans, owner

Lots of some of our Morgans.

id both sexes for sale at times.

∎ se, Manager

Earl Krantz Retires Earl B. Krantz, veteran horseman of

the U. S. Department of Agriculture and for years animal husbandman in charge of the U. S. Morgan Horse Farm Middlebury, Vt., retired from the department effective June 30, 1951, after more than 25 years of service spent in horse and mule research with the Animal Husbandry Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

A native of Nebraska, Mr. Krantz was graduated in animal husbandry from Iowa State College in 1915 and received the Master of Science degree in animal husbandry from Washington State College the following year. He served as an instructor on the animal husbandry staff of Washington State College from 1915 to 1917. During the first World War he served for two years as a Second Lieutenant in the Remount Service in this country and with the A. E. F.

Mr. Krantz engaged in livestock production work for two years after the war and entered the Bureau of Animal Industry's Animal Husbandry Division

at Washington, D. C., section of horse and mule investigations, in February of 1921 , . He was later placed in charge of the Department's Cooperative horse investigations at the U. S. Wyoming Horse Breeding Station at Laramie, Wyo., and from October 1, 1925. to March 31, 1928, was in charge of the cooperative horse research project at the U. S. Range Livestock Experiment •Station, Miles City, Mont.

Mr. Krantz first took charge of the U. S. Morgan Horse Farm, Middle-bury, Vt., on April 1, 1928, which position he held until transferred to the Washington office as acting in charge of horse and mule investigations on August 16, 1937. He resigned this position on November 6, 1938, to accept that of superintendent of build-ings and grounds for Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. Finding, however, that the pull of his intense interest in horse research could not be denied, he returned to the U. S. Mor-gan Horse Farm at Middlebury on October 1, 1945, where he has con-

tinued in charge of the station until his retirement.

A recognized national authority on horse matters, particularly on light horses, with which so much of his service has been identified, Mr. Krantz is well known in horse circles through-out the country. Under his direction the stud of Morgans at the Middlebury station has been developed to a position of outstanding excellence and has attracted wide attention among Mor-gan breeders. An expert judge and trainer of horses, animals from the stud deve!oped by Mr. Krantz have annually won a major share of top honors at the National Morgan Horse Show. In addition to service as a director of the Morgan Horse Club for many years, Mr. Krantz is the author of numerous articles and reports on the Morgan horse and other horse topics and has appeared on many programs in the interest of the Morgan breed.

Mr. and Mrs. Krantz will continue to make their home on their farm near Middlebury, where the commercial production of high-quality apples is at present the principal activity.

Qaicieit Staiiicw

FOR SALE

U PWEY BEN PRINCE X-9319

By

UPWEY KING BENN UPWEY BESS

Foaled Tune 28. 1945

NELSON D. WHITE

Winchendon Springs, Mass.

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lite Vet Saps Keep records to Insure • • • breeding efficiency

By R. E. SMITH, V. M. D.

Mare's Name Sire & Dam

Year Foaled Year Heat

Onset Cycle Days

Stal- lion

Date Bred

Preg. Exam.

Date Foaled

Sex of Foal Name Remarks

2/26

H 1948 3/17

4/9 X 5/1 7/15 4/5/50 F Adelaide Normal 1949 Y 5/5 8/1 10/14/50 -- Aborted

3/10 5 1950 4/3 6 5/16

4/25 5 Z 5/18 8/8 4/20/51 F Marmalade Normal

Breeding records can be simple or elaborate. Simple records are illus-trated by breeding dates written on the barn door. Elaborate records could consider all available information on sire, dam, and foal right down to color markings and minor blemishes. Let's hit the middle ground and try to de-velop something useful.

A barn book or herd record can be made up of 5" x 8" cards with one card used as a running account of the breeding performance of each indivi-dual mare in the band. Each card might be headed by the mare's name, her sire and dam, and the year she was foaled. A sample card is shown with records on the breeding effiiciency of a mare over a 3-year period.

The heat cycle determines the re-currence and length of heat periods of individual mares. Variations are more common in mares than in other domestic animals and in order to boost their breeding efficiency you must know their peculiarities. The time of breed-ing most likely to result in conception is usually during the latter half of the heat period. In breeding barren mares (those which missed the previous year) or maiden mares (those being bred for the first time) it will be advisable to tease them frequently (every other day) before the breeding season starts in order to determine the average heat cycle.

The accompanying chart shows that the mare in question was teased throughout three heat cycles to deter-mine the length of the cycle and the number of days in heat. From this data the breeding date can be deter-mined.

The next column records the stallion used. If more than one stallion is available, make sure only one is used in any given heat period. Feel free to use another stallion if the mare fails to conceive and returns in heat. Dog breeders have long suffered from the idea that a purebred bitch bred to a

mongrel dog was forever doomed to produce mongrel pups. Let's keep that notion out of the horse business; we've got enough trouble!

Breeding dates aside from giving an estimated foaling date, will be useful in deciding when pregnancy examina-tions should be conducted. Mares who have failed to conceive will not always show conspicuous signs of heat later on. Pregnancy exams on the average can be conducted at 60 days. Rectal examinations and blood tests are popular methods, and the choice should be up to your veterinarian. Barren mares are "boarders." Preg-nancy examinations will help to cut down their numbers.

The foaling date needs no explana-tion, and the other columns identify the foal born in a particular year. Under "remarks " we should like to see one word — "normal."

The opposite side of the record card can be used as a health chart. "Re-marks" from the breeding side of the card can be recorded in more detail on the health record. It should also include disturbances which are unre-lated to breeding. When accurate health records are available, they help your veterinarian to give you more effective service.

Stallions should not be neglected where records are concerned. Accurate records should be kept on service dates, names of mares, foaling dates, and sex and name of foals. The opposite side of his card can be used for his health record and the results of semen examinations. The examinations of se-men with a microscope provides the easiest check on a stallion's fertility. and should be conducted at the be-ginning of each breeding season.

A word about veterinary certificates. Require health certificates on any out-side mares bred. Otherwise most of the benefit from keeping records may be lost from diseases brought into your band. Also, if you buy a brood mare,

ask for a copy of her breeding record as well as her pedigree.

A racing fan told me recently that there must be money in horses, he could account for several thousand that he alone had put into them! If you are in the horse business to lose as little money as possible, you cannot afford to feed non-producing mares and stallions. I once knew a mare that in 25 years had produced 19 con-secutive living foals. Practice breed-ing hygiene and keep accurate breeding records, and you stand some chance of duplicating such a record.

National Show Judges

As this issue of the Morgan Horse Magazine goes to press judges for the national show have just been announced.

They are: Capt. A. G. Wilder. U. S.

Army, Veterinarian. W. A. Cowan, University

of Mass. Don Gaylord, University of

Connecticut.

FOR SALE

MELYSSES 7898 Sire: Ulysses Dam: Melba

Standing at Stud at

University of New Hampshire

Estate of W. L. Orcutt M. D.

JOYCE 0. GADD 213 Main St.

West Newbury, Mass..

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The MORGAN HORSE

New England News and Notes

By DANA WINGATE KELLEY

As I sit down to write this summer's Morgan news my notes look like a City Clerk's birth department, a boy here, a girl there, but for us it's a colt here and a filly there. From Gardiner, Me., comes news that Miss Margaret Gardiner is more than pleased with the beautiful filly sired by Ethan Eldon than her newly acquired mare she bought this spring from my Royalton strain. In the same town, Hugh Smith is also pleased with a beautiful colt by Leah and is joined in his joy by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Little of Rockland, Me., as their nice bay stallion Lippitt Red Moro is the sire, Red's first foal.

Another first foal for a stallion is a colt born to Dr. Sander's mare, Idle-moore in Massachusetts and sired by Dyberry Billy. Our publisher, Otho Eusey reports he has the second foal by Billy, a stud colt out of Varga Girl born on May 29. Mr. Eusey says he is nicely marked with a white strip full length on face and will probably be a dark chestnut, extremely short back with a nice sharp wither. The little fellow was dropped in the back of the or-chard and walked up to the barn under his own power before having his first meal.

Mr. Eusey's mare Glady has by her side a very nice filly with a star, dark chestnut, this filly is sired by Panfield. Her dam is a Mansfield daughter and out of Lady Sealect, she is the dam of several outstanding Morgans including Mead and Quizkid. Glady has been bred back to Dyberry Billy.

While attending the three day con-ference at Amherst, I went to Athol and had breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Broulette. After breakfast Al put Dyberry Billy on the longe line and he went through his gaits. I have not seen this colt of Lippitt Miss Ne-komia's since Dr. Parks his breeder had him at the National Morgan show as a two-year-old at which time he won his class. Billy has developed into a beautiful Morgan with a nice shining dark chestnut coat and black mane and tail. Al has done a splendid job of training and I am certain that when he has him just where he wants him he will be a hard horse to beat. In Dr. Robert Orcutt's article in the April issue of the Morgan magazine he stated that "One of the weaknesses of this

(old type) group is that they have not had experienced showmen to train these horses for the tougher competi-tion. The fault lies not in the horses but in lack of proper training. There are many professionals who'll admit that they would love to get their hands on some of these so-called old type Morgans." Here is a case where Dy-berry Billy's owner, Dr. Ray Fessenden of Athol, Mass., thought on the same lines as Dr. Orcutt and put his stud in capable hands for training.

Bill Clarke of New Preston, Conn., owner of Nabob Morgan is happy over the arrival of a real good filly named Bobana. She is out of Diamathus, a daughter of Carl Woodbury, by Phyllis who is by Kenneys Morgan. Nabob has been siring some grand colts in Connecticut.

Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Orcutt of West Newbury, Mass., report the sale of Townshend Moonway, a brood mare to Mrs. Nelson of Boxford, Mass. Also a gelding, Orcland Benn Beau, a son of Upwey King Benn has been sold to Jane Ashley of Westboro, Mass.

In Andover, Mass., Bob Dill has a couple of Walla Walla colts, a two-year-old filly by Ulendon and an eight-months-old filly by Mead. He is get-ting a great kick out of raising them and at Amherst Bob didn't miss a trick.

John T. Kearns of East Hartford, Conn. had the misfortune to lose a nice three-year-old filly by death re-cently, a daughter of Niles and his good old mare, Sealect Lass.

Kristin Gebel of Whitehouse Station New Jersey, is the proud owner of Lippitt Bomber whom she recently purchased from Mr. G. Marchant as a result of an advertisement in this maga-zine. Bomber is a beautiful stallion with lots of action and a wonderful disposition. He is by the late Lippitt Nekoman and out of Lippitt Trilby, a daughter of Lippitt Searchlight. Miss Gebel hopes to show him this summer.

Upwey Anna, a brood mare owned by Mr. and Mrs. Keynith Knapp of Arlington, Vt., has presented her owners with a nice chestnut filly with a white star sired by Hilltop Prince.

This filly has been given to their son Alan who sold his pony and plans to bring his Morgan colt to the national

show. Alan is nine years old. The Knapps sold Bald Mountain School-master, a bay yearling, to Howard MacKubbin of Arlington, Conn. Howard plans to train and show this colt this summer. He is sired by Scott's Hero and is out of the Benning-ton mare, Ambition. They also sold Vega, a Sir Ethan Allen mare out of Fanny Bob to Miss Ann Bent of Arlington. This mare is well-known in harness circles. She has been bred to Black Sambo, Mr. Knapp's young stallion, a son of Magellan and out of Ambition.

Mr. and Mrs. John McManus of Greenwich, Conn., have a filly from their mare Orchid, sired by Mentor. Orchid has been bred to Nabob Morgan.

Mrs. Roger Ela of the Townshend Morgan Horse farm has sold Towns-hend Gladiator, an Osage stud colt out of Gladalect to L. L. Whitney of Ludlow, Mass.

During one of the hot afternoons at Amherst, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Dakin invited me and the Misses Patty and Helen Davis up to enjoy a tall cool glass of gingerale and to see her Morgan mare, Junior Miss whom she purchased from Miss Patty Davis. Junior has the life of Riley if ever I saw a more contented horse I cannot remember where—a grand mistress who really knew how to ride her, a beauti-ful immaculate two-horse stable, box stall opening into a pasture of timothy and clover well fenced in and running cool water. This little mare has been a great pleasure to her owner.

Mrs. Ruth Orcutt of West Newbury, Mass., who has ridden her good Mor-gan mare Townshend Seaselia to many a blue is proud over "Sissie's" first foal, a little stud by Ulendon.

Dr. Oliver S. Hayward of New London, N. H., who purchased from the Royalton Morgan Horse farm last year, Jemima, a daughter of Mansfield is pleased over a light chestnut stud colt with good white face markings, sired by Ethan Eldon. Dr. Hayward would have liked a filly so he is interested in making a trade for one with some Morgan breeder who would like this bloodline as a foundation sire. If you have any to trade, drop him a line.

Elsewhere in this issue will be found a full account of the wonderful three days at Amherst light horse course and field day sponsored in conjunction with the New England Morgan Horse Assn. A great deal of thanks should go to Prof. Al Cowan, Prof. Sy Terrill

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(of the University of New Hampshire) Dr. Stern and Dr. Smith for the in-teresting way they conducted the classes and demonstrations and to Dick Nelson who has charge of the Mor-gans at the university. Last but not least a great deal of credit for the days are rightfully due the students who handled the horses and the students who did such a fine job of directing traffic and visitors around the campus. Well done, thanks a lot.

On May 13th the Smith College stables held a horse show. The Univer-sity of Massachusetts showed three mares and placed as follows: Equita-tion class, 12-16 years, Sue placed third with Wayne Nelson up, twelve entries. Ring and trail, Joyce placed second in a class of 32 entries with Allen Nelson up; equitation, 16 and over, Damsel placed second in a class of 18 entries. She was ridden by Gwen Nelson. In the stock horse class, Allan and Joyce placed fifth while Sue with Wayne up placed fifth in the pleasure class of 35. This was the first horse show for the Nelson children as well as Sue, the little mare coming three. Damsel and Joyce are well-known old timers. Looks like Dick Nelson is really training more than horses down there in Amherst, like father, like son and daughter, I guess.

Arthur T. Winters of Worcester, Mass., who owns the mare, Kitty Hawk and her daughter, Roubikate, which he purchased from Mrs. Frances Bryant has a stud colt from Kitty sired by Jubilee's Courage.

I had a very interesting letter from Mrs. Pearl Hoyte and daughter Carol of Plaistow, N. H. They have a nice three-year-old gelding by Ulendon and Walla Walla named Wallendon. Carol has had fun breaking him and says he has a grand disposition.

Miss Mabel Owen of Dartmouth, Mass., has a nice filly by Niles and out of April Showers, named Merryvale, also a stud colt by her stallion, Bright Star and out of old; Easter Maid. Mabel entered the Sterling horse show in Rhode Island and won first in foals and first with a two-year-old Merry-mist.

My Morgan friend, Mary Mc-Culloch who is working so hard in Old Lyme, Conn., to raise a good band of Morgans has bombarded me with letters about her first crop of colts and good ones they must be too. First arrival was a stud colt from Locket, a mare of Merle Evans breeding, who is by Hawk Jim and Charm, a daughter

of Captor. This little fellow has been named Whippoorwill Medallion. He is sired by Marilyn Carlson's stallion Lippitt Mandate. The second colt, a filly was born on June 2 to Indra, a Mansfield daughter who is, by the way, a full sister to the late trail ride winner, Friendly. This is Indra's third filly in a row sired by Squire Burger. Vivian has a beautiful stud colt sired by Nabob Morgan and marked very much like him. Mary states that gum,. a Lew folks want to enter their foals in the a fter-June-first class.

Miss Donna Vincent of Mendon, Mass., who has made quite a name for herself in equitation classes in Massa-chusetts, has purchased from the Royalton Morgan Horse farm a liver-colored three-year-old filly, Royalton Trilby that carries a cross of Ashbrook and Moro bloodlines.

While in Vermont, Denton C. Lyon of New Jersey spent an afternoon at the Royalton Morgan farm and pur-chased a weanling bay colt, Royalton Magnificent Yankee. His next pur-chase, I understand, will be a farm in New Jersey with nice pastures and barn for Yankee.

Had a nice long letter from a visit'r at the farm last year, Frederick D. Thurston of Guilford, Conn., who says "while visiting, the Morgan "bug" bit me and now I am the owner of a Mor-gan mare, Elf from thee U. S. govern-ment farm and sired by Hudson and out of a Mansfield daughter, Doreen." I hope to see her when I go to Connecticut.

Easter Twilight raised by Mrs. Mar-garet Van D. Rice of Meridith, N. H., who won the yearling colt class is now well situated in his new stable owned by Mr. Harrison of New York. I understand that he will be shown as a yearling at the National Show this September.

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ferguson of Rhode Island have purchased from Mrs. Frances Bryant the good brood mare, Belidale, a daughter of Lippitt Croy-don Ethan and that she has been bred to Jubilee's Courage. The Ferguson's mare, Manphyllis has a Squire Burger filly by her side now.

Two stud colts may be seen in the Green Mountain pastures of the Meeting Waters Farm in Springfield, a very nice brother to Spring Frolic whose dam is Townshend Lass and has Springfield for a daddy. The other little fellow is running beside his dam, Paragraph and boasts Lippitt Ethan Ash as his sire.

At the Townsnend Morgan Farm, one will find a very nice crop of colts by their young stallion, Vigeldon, one being a stud by Townshend Selecta and the other a filly by Manzanita, while good old Osage is proud to show off his filly by Gladloss, I think this make's her 20th foal. She is a full sister to Sadwin.

Running around the oval at Wind-Crest is a little Don stud out of Senaca Sweetheart, a stud beside Ingrid and a filly by Upwey Ben Quietude sired by the young stallion Starfire.

The Green Mountain three-day buggy ride was a grand time, 20 in buggies and 15 on horseback. The days could not have been better, the roads wonderful, thanks to the clever marking of the trails by Nancy Gillett and Dr. Johnston and Mrs. Peggy Gage, efficient secretary. I never had such a grand time nor did my stallion Ethan Eldon, who just made up his mind he had to lead the parade and no matter if others were a mile ahead he wouldn't stop neighing or trotting un-til he had gained his place. There were no accidents of any kind. Mrs. Frances Bryant drove her well-known gelding, Parasam; Nancy Ela and Marcia Robinson drove Sadwin of course; Dr. and Mrs. Newswanger drove their gelding Carphael; Patty and Helen Davis rode Abbington of Shady Lawn and Isabelle, while Mr. and Mrs. Davis drove Upwey Ben Don one day. There will be a foliage ride over Oct. 12 by the Green Mountain Assn., starting from their stables and the New England Morgan Horse Assn. is planning a three-day buggy ride, so if any members or friends would like to attend, please get in touch with any member of the committee which in-cludes Dana W. Kelley, So. Royalton, Vt. chairman; F. 0. Davis, Windsor, Vt. and Mrs. Frances Bryant, Spring-field, Vt.

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A gathering of Morgans from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania competed for major titles at the 1951 Columbus Midwestern Horse Show, Columbus, Ohio, July 4-7. Prof. Don Kays of Ohio State University was the judge.

Grand champion in the performance stake was Kathleen C., a beautiful mahogany bay mare from Carls-Haven farm of Harrisburg, Pa. This mare was also named grand champion Mor-gan mare. Reserve in the performance stake went to Gerald Taft on his stal-lion, Quiz Kid, followd by the stallion Nugget, which had previously won the working western event and the stallion class. Mr. Taft's Springbrook Farm claimed the reserve mare title with Springbrook Peggy after Kath-leen C. and Springbrook Peggy had topped the senior mares as well as mares and geldings under saddle. Springbrook had the winning three-year-old mare.

In the stallion division it was L. U. Colonel, owned by Joe Chase of Milan, Ohio, named champion over Mr. Taft's Quiz Kid. Mr. Chase also won the yearling stallion event. Douglas Ar-thurs had the two-year-old stallion win-ner, Springbrook Justwin, over Mr.

Taft's Springbrook Moroson. Milo Measel's veteran sire, Plains King, was on hand to claim some good rib-bons and made quite an exhibition with his several get and one granddaughter.

Lippitt i's/lout-411, owned by Mere Little of Duarte, Ca:if., and his Baccamanto, won the Aged and three year stallion classes respectively at the San Diego County Fair, and in the final analysis, Lippitt Morman was judged Grand Champion Stallion.

Grand Champion Mare was Sharon Vermont, owned by Hester Otis of Es-condido, Calif.

The following are the results: Aged Stallions: Won by LIPPITT

MORMAN owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.; 2d, ALLEN VER-MONT owned by Hester Otis, Escon-dido, Calif.; 3d, BRET ALLEN owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif.

Stallions 3 years: Won by BAC-CAMANTO owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif. 2d, DR. SHERRILL owned by E. W Roberts, Hipass, Calif.

YEARLING: Won by MASTER VERMONT owned by Leo Harelson, Del Mar, Calif.; 2d, LOE'S CHIEF owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.; 3d, IDES OF MARCH owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif.

KATHLEEN C. sired by Captain Red out of Midnight Beauty, ten-year-old bay mare making her show debut this year, was chosen Grand Champion Morgan more at the Midwestern Horse

Show, Columbus, July 4 -7.

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Stallions 2 years: Won by CORTEZ B owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif.; 2d, ROCKY MORGAN owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.

Grand Champion Stanton: Won by LIPPITT MORMAN owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.

Mares Aged: Won by SHARON VERMONT owned by Hester Otis, Escondido, Calif.; 2d, MEMPHIS BELLE owned by E. W. Roberts, Hi-pass, Calif.; 3d, SENORITA MOR-GAN owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.

3 year mare: Won by BELES ROMANCE owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif: 2d, ALTONA owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.

2 years: Won by MISS VERMONT owned by Leo Harelson, Del Mar, Calif.; 2d, ORPHAN ANNIE owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif.; 3d, LORETTA owned by Merle Little, Duarte, Calif.

Yearling: Won by AUNT LIZZIE owned by E. W. Roberts, Hipass, Calif.: 2d, MORNAQUIN owned by Mare-lene Little, Duarte, Calif.

Grand Champion Mare: SHA RON VERMONT owned by Hester Otis, Escondido, Calif.

Vermont Acquires Farm

On June 22, Secretary of Agricul-ture Charles F. Brannan affixed his signature to the agreement, also signed by Dean J. E. Carrigan of the Ver-mont Agricultural college, Burlington, Vt., turning over the U. S. govern. ment's Morgan horse farm at Wey-bridge, Vt., to the college.

Under the terms of the agreement, which the secretary of agriculture and the dean of the Vermont Agricultural college were authorized to enter into under an act of Congress May 7, 1951.

The college is bound to operate the former government experiment sta-tion "for the benefit of agriculture" for a period of six years. At the end of that time the college of agriculture can technically use the farm for any purpose it chooses or could even dis-pose of the property.

However, as both Senator George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) and E. J. Overby, assistant to the secretary of agriculture, pointed out following announcement of the signing of the agreement.

It is the intention of the contracting

parties that the farm be maintained in-definitely for the benefit of agriculture and "will continue to provide valuable aid in helping solve agricultural prob-lems of the New England area."

"I am certain," Senator Aiken said, "the farm's value to the state for agri-culture will be well worth the state's necessary appropriation to carry it on. The farm also has national impor-tance," he added. "The foundation stock, but not Morgan horse will be maintained there by the college, but not on as elaborate a scale as the fed-eral government has been able to do."

The personal property consists of-943 acres and the farm buildings, 24 Morgan mares and their foals, and 63 head of sheep together with their snring lambs.

The Congress' provision requiring the farm be used for the benefit of agriculture "would be satisfied," accord-ing to the agreement, "by any of the following activities: Research in its broadest sense on animals and animal products, plant, soil and forestry, farm demonstrations, and any phase of agricultural education."

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Supersam 10426 — Dark chestnut, star, yearling stallion. Sire: Lippitt Sam 7857. Dam: Paragraph 04027. A splendid colt with promise of good size like his sire. He has great style and natural action. His dam has long been a producer of outstanding stock which is making success wherever it goes. This colt is a real show as well as breeding prospect. He started well by

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glatu, efriatisdiadtd By PATTY DAVIS

(Guest Columnist Barbara Stimpson)

RITA PERSHING sired by Anndy Pershing and owned by lady Adelmeyer of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Several months ago Pat Hallquist decided to write an article about Mor-gans in foreign countries. However, she received only two letters in answer to her inquiries and has sent one to me. It is from Judy Adelmeyer of Hono-lulu, Hawaii who wrote:

"Dear Miss Hallquist: "I received your letter of March 2

sometime ago and am very happy that you are interested in writing a story about my Morgan horse.

"Last year my father and mother took me on a vacation trip up in Wyoming on a ranch where we did a lot of horseback riding. I like horses and riding very much so my father said he would get me a horse to take back to our home in Honolulu.

"While in southern California, we visited El Rancho Poco and Merle Little had a filly that I fell in love with. Rita Pershing was born at El Rancho Poco and her sire is of motion picture fame known as "Black Jack" whose owner is "Rocky Allen" and with Republic Pictures. The dam is a beautiful mare and is owned by Mr. Little. Rita was not quite two years old and had not been broken to ride but was so gentle that this would seem to be no problem so my father bought her for me.

"We stayed in southern California for a month before returning to Hono-lulu and went over to El Rancho Poco almost every day to see Rita. During these visits my father fell in love with a little yearling Morgan stallion named

Lipman who Mr. Little owned and so that Rita would have company and we could raise and train them together, my father bought Lipman also.

"We returned to Honolulu in Sep-tember and the two horses arrived by boat early in October. Rita was very sea sick but Lipman stood the trip very well. We built a stable and cor-ral at our home for them so that we could have them near as pets and train them.

"Rita has just been broken to ride and she is a lovely saddle horse. Lip-man is too young to ride but I am sure he will also develop into a good saddle horse. We have some nice places here on the island where we can go riding and I can hardly wait for Lipman to grow up so that my father can ride with me.

"There are no other registered Mor-gans on the island that I know of al-though we have several large cattle ranches here where they do use cattle horses and they may have Morgan strains in them. Some of my school chums have saddle horses but I believe they are Thoroughbred.

"I am now 11 years old and have ridden off and on ever since I was seven and a horse is my favorite ani-mal, especially Rita.

"Thank you very much for your interest in my horse and I will be look-ing for your story in the Morgan Horse Magazine.

Very truly yours, Judy Adelmeyer"

by Guest columnist BARBARA STINI ,)SON

The Weston 4-H Club was very pleased with the attendance of young enthusiasts at the Weston Horse Show. This show was put on by a group of 4-H members called the Weston 4-H Horse Club. In previous years we have put on gymkhanas and last year a small show. This year, with a little experi-ence behind us, we decided to put on a larger show. We found out there is a lot of hard work to putting on a show that most people do not realize. The first big thing to think of is your location. Next comes your class list and entry blanks. These have to be mailed quite early. After these two things are taken care of you have to start thinking of your officials—judges, ringmaster, veterinarian, blacksmith and others—and also of ordering your ribbons and numbers. You want to be assured of spectators too, because just exhibitors do not make a show. You should make posters and have an ad-vance sale of tickets. Now you put all the strong people to work by building jumps, painting the ring and clearing the land. Entries are beginning to come in so you have to get them written down and numbers given out. The last few days before the show everyone keeps praying for good weather. Finally the day of the show comes and everyone hopes nothing has been for-gotten. The next week is spent clear-ing up the ground and getting the bills paid.

To come back to the young enthus-iasts at Weston; they placed in almost every class. Betsy Stoddard came through stiff competition to win the Senior Equitation Class with Sally Cox winning the Junior Equitation Class on the good Morgan, Townshend Mac-Arthur. In the colt classes, Bruce Tompkins, ably assisted by his father, came out on top in the yearling divi-sion with Deerfield Challenger. In the special 4-H class we saw Sally Cox again taking the blue ribbon followed by Lesley Field and her half-Morgan colt and Charles Collins and Glenda-lect. In the Pair Class, Sadwin and Delia Volo walked off with the blue ribbon followed by Quorum and Glen-dalect and Townshend Donlecto and Townshend Donnyvonne, all with young enthusiasts riding. In the Mor-gan Championships, Joan Cowie rode her grand gelding Quorum to the Championship ribbon.

Best of luck to all young enthusiasts from the Weston 4-H Horse Club.

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For the first time, Morgan horses exhibited at this year's Michigan State Fair—to be held at Detroit, August 31 through September 9—will have Per-formance and Championship Classes, in addition to Breeding Classes. The amount of premiums offered will be $600. With regard to the Performance Classes, each rider will be given the necessary time in which to show his Morgan to the best advantage. The horse will be expected to walk, trot, canter, do a figure 8, a turn in each direction, a stop and back-up. Prof. Don Kays of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio—who is rated very highly as a Light Horse Judge—will judge all the Classes.

1951 can indeed be a memorable year for the Morgan Horse! First, there was the National Stallion Show at Water-loo, Iowa, then the Mid-Western Horse Show and Rodeo at Columbus, Ohio; and yet to come are the three Illinois events: The Illinois Morgan Horse Breeders' Futurity; the Illinois State Fair, to be held August 10 to 19 in-clusive—where this year there will be an added Breeding Class for Morgan mares 4 years and over as well as a Performance Class of Morgans with Western tack; and the American Mor-gan Horse Show, to be held at Monee August 18-19. These shows will be followed by the above mentioned Mich-igan State Fair and the National Mor-gan Horse Show, to be held at Wind-sor, Vt., Sept. 1-3.

I am hoping this issue will contain a reporting of our editor, Sumner Kean's trip to the West coast and like a quota-tion from a speech by the late Theo-dore Roosevelt will tell us "From the very beginning our people have mark-edly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the possession of the other of small value." All who had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Kean appreciate his keen interest in the Mor-gan horse.

Those of us who listen to Baukhage over Mutual radio will be pleased to learn he is a Morgan enthusiast, as attested by the following:

"The first time 1 ever went to Ver-mont I was attracted to these plucky little horses. Later I learned more about the Morgan horse. He weighs less than 1000 pounds, he is not over 14-hands high, round-barrelled, with powerful chest and leg muscles, a proud head and a stout heart. He has done a lot to develop the state of Vermont and his adventures have carried him far afield. Always versa-tile, the Morgan was as chipper when he went to the meeting house on Sun-day pulling the surrey with the fringe on the top as it was weekdays when it could drag a log to the sawmill which often took a team of its big brothers to budge. And where buggies are still used, you'll often find a Mor-gan between the shafts. He is used on the trail, too, for his forte these days seems to be under the saddle. The Morgan horses have found homes far from the shadow of their native Green Mountains and today the stock probably is increasing more rapidly in California than anywhere in the East."

Young Bob Lewis and his beloved Morgan mare, Twinkle (Ruthven's Beatrice Ann) have returned to Michi-gan—where Bob expects to continue his education so that some day he will be a veterinarian—when he assures me he will give extra-special care to any Morgan horse in need of his services.

Miss Marilyn G. Carlson of Carls-Haven Farm, Harrisburg, Penna. now owns Ruthven's Nancy Ann by Lippitt Moro Ash—a full sister to John Geddes. Miss Carlson believes that at last, she has found a successor to her beloved Manitude in the proven dam Kathleen C, who is the dam of the 1949 and 1950 National Stallion Show Breed Cham-pion—Dennis K. We hope to see these two mares as well as their stable-

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mate Lippitt Mandate at some of this year's shows.

At Marlette, Mich. Stanley Herron's Morgan mare Lady Alita presented him with an Archie 0 colt—who is every inch a chip off the old block.

Tex Talley, the Morgan horse owner-manager of Dr. Ruthven's Stanerigg Stables, Ann Arbor, has now settled down to regular routine—in that all their 1951 foals have arrived. All are by Lippitt Moro Ash with the excep-tion of one, which is by Kenney's King Cotton ownd by James G. Kenney of Lapeer.

Speaking of Kenney's King Cotton, I am pleased to advise that the breed-ing of this stallion to Don Davis' Mor-gan mare Nylon has produced a beau-tiful Morgan filly. The ladies es-pecially know that Cotton-and Nylon possesses style and beauty as well as durability. Mr. Davis is searching for a name for this filly that will be a com-bination of her sire and darn's names—that will indicate her breeding.Should you care to suggest one, please send

same directly to Mr. Davis, at Caro, Mich.

Should your vacation travels take you anywhere near Cooperstown, N. Y. be sure to drop in on M. W. Lemkuhl —who now owns the Morgan stallion Silverfield. (There is a splendid pic-ture of Silverfield in the April issue.)

The program governing the 11th Annual Grand Rapids Charity Horse Show, held June 16-17, 1951, at Grand Rapids, Mich., carried the following relative to the Morgan horse:

"The Morgan horse is a horse of great talents. Through the years he has been used as a trotter, a sprinter, a weight-puller, a parade horse, a stock horse, etc. The Morgans are a small breed with heavy shoulders, wide chests, short legs, short backs, and strong hind quarters. They possess great stamina and a gentle disposition. Their gait is smooth and quick-stepping with little elevation. In this Horse Show the Morgan horse is shown under saddle at a walk, trot and can-ter."

Herewith results of the classes: Morgan Horse Halter Class—Mare

Division: Won by SPRINGBROOK

PEGGY, ownd by Springbrook Farm. Northville; 2d, SHADY LAWN'S SPICE, owned by Shady Lawn Farms, Northville; 3d, SPRINGBROOK GO-LADDY, owned by Jack Appling, Northville; 4th, PIXIE'S GIRL, owned by John Baran, Detroit.

Stallion Division: Won by QUIZ KID, shown by Springbrook Farm, Northville; 2d, SHADY LAWN'S MISTER, owned by Shady Lawn Farms, Northville; 3d, VERRAN'S MICHAEL, owned by H. Edwin Eare-hart, Northville.

Morgan Horse Performance: Won by SPRINGBROOK PEGGY, owned by Springbrook Farm, Northville; 2d, QUIZ KID, shown by Springbrook Farm, Northville: 3d, SPRING-BROOK GOLADDY, owned by Jack Appling, Northville: 4th, SHADY LAWN'S SPICE, owned by Shady Lawn Farms, Northville.

Thank you for the extra copies of the June issue of our magazine. Will make good use of them elsewhere, in that they arrived too late for this G. R. Show. I feel I can always count on you.

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eared manner reminiscent of his cart-horse grand-darn. He had some of her other characteristics, too, both good and bad. He was somewhat hairy under the jaw and extremely so about the fet-locks. His feet were frankly big and his pasterns a little short, but he was an enormously strong horse for his weight. Moses E. Cheney, whose ex-cellent memory formed the best con-nection Colonel Battell was able to form with the early Morgan sires, wrote that in no other horse in New England were the traits of great speed and tremendous strength so well com-bined. Although not given to ex-travagant statements, Mr. Cheney al-ways believed that the old Morrill horse could have trotted a four minute mile pulling a ton weight. Morrill had a thick, well-crested neck, lying back to well-sloping shoulders but rather low withers. His back and loins were very strong and level and remained so until he died, with none of the slack-ness there which characterized some of his predecessors. His tail was set on somewhat low, but carried well, and his quarters, while heavy, were ex-tremely well-rounded. He had a definite tendency toward a lightness

and flatness of rib, but his heavy quarters and very deep chest gave him the appearance of a well-turned horse despite that lack. He was very sound and never was lame or even sick until his death at nineteen. This same strength and soundness, the golden thread which went down from Bulrush even through generations of outside breeding, carried on through Morrill's sons and grandsons, and cut of Eeveral hundred of them, only a handful were ever known to have shown an unsound-ness.

James Heath sold Morrill as a wean-ling to Urban Perkins in South Wal-den, Vt., who traded him to French Morrill in nearby Danville as a four-year-old. Mr. Morrill kept him pri-marily for the stud, but used him on the farm as a member of a work team and as a buggy horse, selling him as a seven-year-old to a Massachusetts man for a sum rumored to be about one thousand dollars. Whatever this, the Bay State gentleman was unable to pay for the horse and returned him to Mr. Morrill whose property he re-mained until his death in 1862.

Most of old Morrill's colts were used locally as driving and light farm horses, but he did sire a prolific line of race-horses which made his name a by-word in the earliest records of the

American trotter. His best son was the bay Perkins' Young Morrill, foaled in 1850. He was out of a Morgan-bred mare, she sired by the Lock Goss Horse. a son of Chanticleer and a mare by Justin Morgan. Her dam in turn was got by the Randolph Horse, by Bulrush, making Young Morrill one-eighth Morgan and as intensely bred back to Justin Morgan as any horse of that time. He was a solid dark bay, 15.3 in height and weighing moder-ately over 1100 pounds. Awarded first premium in the Bulrush Morgan class at the Vermont State Fair in Rut-land in 1855, he again won, this time a premium of $200, in the National Horse Show in Boston the same year, the class for best general purpose horse. Sold for $4,400 as a seven-year-old, he later made a season near Philadelphia where he attracted but little attention. Sold to an Iowa stock farm at the age of thirty, he died there several weeks later from the rigors of the winter trip West.

One of the best sires ever to stand in New England, Young Morrill sired Winthrop Morrill and Fearnaught, two of the very best of the century. Win-throp Morrill, bred to common, hard-working farmer's mares, stood an un-believable fifth on the list of sires of

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True Morgan in Looks, Breeding and Action.

fl beautiful dark chestnut with attractive M a r ki ngs. Plenty of spirit with a good disposition.

E. R. HARRISON

FOR SALE

EASTER TWILIGHT SIRE: LIPPITT SAM TWILIGHT 8085

DAM: CONNIEDALE 05985 by Lippitt Croydon Ethan 7929

* * * First in Stallions 1950 Foals class at the National Morgan Horse Show.

This young stallion now 16 months of age should have a chance as a breeder. He has wonderful conformation, a fast snappy walk, a high square trot, an easy canter, a fine head and small ears. If this young stallion should pass his qualities on to his get he will be an invaluable breeder. Sold with commitment to show at 1951 National Morgan Horse Show.

Broadlawn, Clinton, N. Y.

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introduced to abalone steak—swell-and then we made tracks for High Pass near the Mexican border. On the way I fulfilled an obligation for a friend of mine, C. W. Anderson, the artist, by taking a picture of Noor, the famous Howard stallion purchased from the Aga Kahn. A syndicate offer of $500,000 had just been refused for the big, almost black stallion and we gazed at him with respect. Holder of three world's records, he gazed back at me somewhat scornfully and I left the San Ysedro ranch a chastined in-dividual.

Darkness overtook us as we reached the mountains—barren, towerng hills covered with boulders and devoid of any form of vegetation—and we swooped up and down steep pitches like a nighthawk after flies. It was late when we pulled into the Roberts' ranch shed. The Mexican horse handler had retired and the place was in blackness. But we found lights, got into the ranch house and spent hours inspecting the breeding records of most of Roberts 200 head of Mor-gans. I was so tired I briefly debated with myself the wisdom of undressing. I must have won however for it seemed only minutes later when I wakened and I found I had shed shoes, pants and shirt. That awakening was some-thing—still pitch dark and a heavy hand on my shoulder and a deep voice mumbling something about "you up now."

At first I thought it was another Roberts gag until I got a glimpse of the boy in the 10-gallon hat and tumbled to the fact that it was the Mexican horse handler. Mine host and I boiled out of the house and into the car and were in the Imperial Valley at dawn. That particular neck of the woods is some 20 feet below sea level and it reaches 120 degrees in mid-day. Consequently the early visit. It was well worth the trouble. The valley is irrigated from a huge ditch and on 40 acres of rich alfalfa we found 48 Morgan mares, one to four years old most of them by Blackman. Fat and frisky they made a pretty picture as the sun lit the valley floor and glanced off the stone face of Signal Mountain, just over the ditch in Mexico.

When we got back to High Pass we found that my Mexican early morning friend had been sadly remiss

on feeding and Roberts was in a dither about a big herd of mares and their suckling colts. The impasse was finally broken when I pointed out the impor-tance of him remaining and he re-luctantly shipped me to San Diego in his foreman's car where I caught the plane for Los Angeles. The last look I had of him he was tearing off on a hunt for feed. A great guy—a regu-lar powerhouse of a man. If every day were a week long it would suit Roberts to a T.

Before I left I had a peek at the studs. One of them, Bret Allen, a foul-year-old son of Blackman out of Bet-tina Allen, 1950 champion at Bakers-field, is a grand youngster, ample justification of anybody's breeding pro-gram.

The next day, June 9 I had lunch on the Warner lot with James Cagney. It stretched out for two hours and we chinned of Morgans, films, California and Martha's Vineyard where the actor plans to retire this year with his wife and two children and devote himself to horses and sailing. A highly intelligent man, Cagney talks well on any subject and has the trick seldom possessed by actors—he's a good listener. We wound up the visit with a brief tour of Warner Bros. "city within a city" and watched the shoot-ing of a scene in his current picture "Come Fill the Cup."

Roberts, still unable to get away from High Pass had phoned his wife and she and her brother Chuck Harrison, met me at the studio and off we went for Knott's Berry Farm, a huge amusement center outside Los Angeles where thousands gather daily to view Ghost Town and buy a coast-famous chicken dinner. The purpose of the visit was to meet Mark Smith, a great trainer, who, with his two sons and their wives, put on a daily horse show. It's a combination circus and wild west show, excellently staged by the best riders we have ever seen. Smith has eight black registered Mor-gan stallions by Blackman in training for Roberts. Another horse, Tom Dewy a flashy chestnut, gift of Roberts to one of the Smith sons, is in train-ing as a roping horse. Dinner that evening with the Smiths was followed by a quick run out to the Cagney home on Cold Water Canyon where the actor showed us his Morgans and some trotters, he has "souped up" with Mor-gan blood. Some of these are now in training and showing up well. How-

ever, he will sell them all except the registered Morgans when he comes East this fall.

The TWA Constellation ride the next morning to Wichita, Kan., was the roughest ride of the entire trip. No matter what altitude the pilot selected, the big ship roller-coastered along hour after hour. Arizona, New Mexico and Texas "gave their all" to make the journey tough and the air-sick passengers responded in kind. Kansas, from the air looked like Wis-consin with its myriad lakes. But they were merely pond-like puddles, a few inches deep refusing to seep down through the heavy soil. They were an ominous warning of what was to come a month later when floods ravaged that area.

A heavily-tanned man in shirtsleeves bearded me in the airport terminal. "Are you Sumner Kean?" he asked. I admitted the soft impeachment and he grinned. "Father said you were the only one off the plane who looked like an editor—the typewriter—so I chased after you. He'll be along in a minute as soon as he catches his breath." Just them Father—"Paw" to half of Kansas—puffed into the ter-minal and thus I met the Sutters, father and son, Owen and Lawrence—two for the book. I spent the next two days with them, days filled from dawn to way past dark with the deep satis-faction of new and fast-developing friendship. Days of " . . . let's turn here Lawrence so we can show him the statue of Prairie Woman" or ". . . take the next left Lawrence and we'll show him the Dalton's hangout." It mattered not whether it was the sculptor of the famed monument to the women in the covered wagons or details in the pri-vate lives of the bandits who scourged Kansas and Oklahoma in the wake of the James brothers—"Paw" Sutter could talk entertainingly of them. I learned about wheat and oil, cattle and grass, flood, famine, dust and harvest but most of all I learned about horses. Horses, working stock horses, tough enough for roundup, smart enough for cutting and roping, strong and clever enough to topple and hold a big steer, rugged enough to live through a Kan-sas winter.

Although Lawrence Sutter pilots his own plane and had just bought a new one he was itching to demonstrate, the overcast ruled out flying and we started for Oklahoma by car. This was fortunate because a family by-law pre-

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vents Sutter Sr. from flying. Although Lawrence drives almost as fast as he flies, motoring is not taboo and "Paw" came along. Because of early floods many bridges were out and we had chalked up 300 miles before we reached the big Dodge City Kansas ranch of Locke Theis, who, like Sutter, is a Morgan club director. However, we missed connections with Theis but in-spected his big band of excellent mares and got a look at Panfield, the recently acquired U. S. Morgan farm champion. He is in top shape and Theis expects great things of his numerous matings.

It was late afternoon when the Sut-ters and I arrived at their Gage, Okla., ranch, 14,000 acres and 1000 Hereford cows, 80 head of horses, including Mor-gan geldings, 10 mares and a stud, Leon Silver. Their ranch foreman, well over six feet and a former Texas ranger greeted us. "Not much," he replied to Sutter, Sr., when the latter inquired about flood damage. "'Bout 20 miles of fence down, that's all." His drawl minimized the efforts of the crew to replace it but questioning brought out the fact that he had rid-den a Morgan gelding, Powerful, by Chocolate through deep mud sloughs, through flooded rivers, up greasy clay banks, often carrying tools or a roll

of wire. A stallion until a year ago, Powerful is rated one of the ranch's best cowhorses. Yellow Dude, a little 950-pounder is another registered Mm-gan near the top of the roster of work-ing horses on the ranch. To see this smart little bay hold a rope on a downed critter is almost beyond, belief. Lawrence Sutter told me that he sets himself as soon as he sees the rope drop on a cow and "you better be sitting good or you'll leave him." This despite the fact he's 19.

After dinner at Woodward, the town where a tornado killed a hundred people a couple of years ago, we drove back to the ranch and spent the even-ing talking Morgans. Sutter is a great admirer of the late Elmer Brown and credits him for the establishment of the breed in Kansas. Brown's stock in that area is on a par with Hill's on the coast. The Sutters, like Brown and Hill want cowhorses, Morgans with cattle savvy, and, in the main they have achieved their goal. Lawrence Sutter, despite the fact he lives in the residential confines of Wichita, takes active charge of the ranch. He super-vises the roundups, the haying and other major projects and when a horse is a little too tough for the ranch hands

to handle he usually "tops" him and cuts him down to man size. Quite a fellah that Lawrence.

I awakened before dawn to the machinegun drilling of a woodpecker augering a hole in a bunkhouse porch column so we got an early start for Chilocco and the Indian agricultural school, part of the original Cherokee Strip. A federal school, it includes 8600 acres and was established in 1886. There we met Alvin T. Kivett, head of the agricultural department and a good judge of Morgans. He recently cuLe..1 a band of 80 Morgan mares to a couple of dozen and has some nice ones, very good ones, in fact. The senior studs are Colonel's

Allen by Cornwallis and

Felix Lee by Allen Lee, a pair of horses which are getting some good colts. One of these, a yearling stud by Felix Lee out of Viola Linsley is a corker. Horses may be purchased here for a school-establishd price but if an Indian boy wants the animal he gets first chance. Horses at the school generally trace, on the distaff side to Elmer Brown's stock.

We arrived back in Wichita in time for the monthly dinner of the Wichita Farm and Ranch club and heard a

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Hy Lee Farms Choice Morgans

At Stud

SQUIRE SKIMP 9631 A stallion with a high percentage of Justin Morgan blood.

A few excellent fillies and colts for sale.

7414tta, Pkleame

Address inquiries to

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Belding

Cambria, Wis.

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Light Horse Judging Schools

Massachusetts Summer weather, a capable faculty

and 136 horse owners and raisers from eight states in the northeast combined to make for a successful two-day Light Horse Short Course on May 18 and 19 at the Grinnell Arena, University of Massachusetts. Interest and enthus-iasm were at a high pitch all through the two-day session. The short course was sponsored by the Animal Hus-bandry Department of the University in cooperation with the New England Morgan Horse Club. Dr. Russ Smith and Prof. Al Cowan, both on the faculty at the University were the co-directors of the course.

The idea dominant throughout the course was how better breeding, feed-ing and management of horses can affect results from conception to matur-ity. On May 18 breeding better horses was stressed. The structure and func-tion of the male and female organs, proper breeding techniques, artificial insemination, pregnancy examinations and the care of the mare and foal were parts of the program. F. L. Morrow, President of the North and Judd Mfg. Co.. of New Britain, Conn., also gave a very interesting talk on "Bits and Bit-ting." That evening inheritance, breeding systems and selection were the main themes.

Prof. L. V. Tirrell, Head of Animal Husbandry at the University of New Hampshire and Prof. Al Cowan of the University of Massachusetts handled this part of the program.

The second day started with several demonstrations. Perry Gebhardt of Storrs, Conn., did an excellent job on trimming and shoeing and his explana-tions were followed closely. Benjamin Pipe of Arlington handled the work on Tack Repair and several students in Animal Husbandry worked on braid-ing and grooming. Dr. Stern of the University Staff worked on Age Deter-mination and Soundness. Mrs. Roger Ela of Wayland, Mass., led an excellent discussion on "Conditioning Trail Horses." In this she used her well-known Morgan mare, Sadwin.

In the afternoon, Richard Nelson, University horseman, spoke and de-monstrated training the foal. Mrs. Roger Ela and Capt. A. G. Wilder

teamed up in demonstrating Training for Harness and Saddle. Dr. Francis Austin of Belchertown, Mass., put on an excellent demonstration with his mare, Lady Denmark, on the ultimate in training and schooling. Steve Tomp-kins of Gloucester, Mass., exhibited under saddle his excellent stallion, Orcland Leader. J. Cecil Ferguson ex-hibited in harness his typey 3-year-old stallion, Parade. The afternoon's pro-gram was concluded with a showman-ship contest with everyone participat-ing.

In the evening Feeding Horses was the center of interest. Dr. Russ Smith of the University staff discussed the structure and function of the digestive system. Prof. Tirrell talked on "Rough-ages and Cocentrates" for horses and Earl Krantz of Middlebury, Vt., spoke on Feeding Sta,lions, Brood Mares and Young Stock. Prof. Ralph Donaldson of the University capably handled the subject of Pastures and Their Improve-ment.

A lively panel discussion followed and concluded the two-day school. On May 20 a field day was conducted

by the New England Morgan Horse Assn. at the University of Massa-chusetts in Amherst.

Approximately 300 interested spec-tators were present and enjoyed a full program. For many it was the climax of three days of intensive horse activi-ties since it followed the two-day light horse breeders' school held on May 18 and 19.

The program started with a parade of University Morgans—two stallions, a four-year-old and a yearling, and four-teen mares and fillies. Many remarked that a finer collection of typey mares would be hard to find. Most of the mares are linebred to Bennington through his sons Mansfield and Can-field, and his grandsons Goldfield and Niles.

Following the parade, Prof. Tirrell, Head of Animal Husbandry at the Universary of New Hampshire, talked on judging Morgans using two mares of contrasting conformation for em-phasis. A score card based on light horses was distributed and discussed.

A judging contest involving a class of stallions, two classes of mares, and

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Washington Breeders and horse enthusiasts from

Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wash-ington by the hundreds attended the third annual light horse judging school and horse show at Washington State college, Pullman, May 25-27.

Classes in the judging school as well as the show were for Morgans, Ameri-can Saddle horses, Tennessee Walking, Apaloose, Arabian, Thoroughbred and Quarterhorses. Classes of the judging school were held in an exhibition hall. "Students" armed with scoring cards occupied the benches while down on the tanbark Prof. C. E. Howell of the University of California at Davis ex-amined the animals. After the judge had scored the animals and the cards were turned in, he explained his pre-fernce. Prof. Howell, a very sound judge whose blunt jaw backs up his words that he "judges to please one person—me" ran the show with the skill of a teacher combined with the knowledge of a horseman.

Hale Quigley's Nemaha Herod was judged best stallion and Miss Gladys Koehne's Star Gates was adjudged best mare. Abbott, owned by Marvin Jeppesen received warm praise as an ideal Morgan stallion but lost the blue because of his age-21.

Star Gates collected another blue in a performance class in the:show and Karin Brauns' pretty mare, Red Lass placed second in a red-hot pole bend-ing contest against professional riders. The 13-year-old girl from Wenatchee, Wash., "was as one" with the little mare and it was a picture' . to see the Morgan shift leads as she twisted back and forth between the close-set poles.

The Pullman event is sparkplugged by Dr. Ensminger and its growth from year to year is a tribute to its excellence.

For two full days the different breeds were paraded, in halters, before the group, who placed the classes on individual cards that were handed in before Prof. Howell and the other judges discussed them.

Best Judge of Horses: When the smoke cleared, 0. S. Ackley, an Ara-bian) breeder from Yakima, Wash., emerged as the top judge of the week He collected 523 points out of a possible 650. Second high was Jane Sutton, Marion, Mont., with 506. She grad-uated from "WSC" last year.

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1950

BONNIE LASS A full sister to Junstar who was 1st in

Mare Class

:

Broadwall Farm

• PARADE 06076 National Winner

1949 Yearling Stallion Class 1950 2 year old driving class

. . with her new addition: i, .

A few selected colts for sale each season.

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talk on the "other side" of the beef price row. It was an excellent talk, well received. But at this writing steaks seem awfully high in New Eng-land and I hope my Kansas friends won't shoot me for saying so.

The hop to Akron, Ohio, was a series of ;limps terminating in a 1:30 a. m. arrival. A 16-mile ride in a jalopy did nothing to ease my worry over my .ost luggage and a cancelled hotel reservation only added coal to the fire. A bathless room in an Akron fleabag, a bum breakfast, a retread shirt and a "bought" shave had me

government farm, to w.ticome us. He is as happy as a woodchuck in a young garden.

Comfortably established in a big farmhouse and with the breeding and training his entire responsibility, Raz is "going to town." The combination of Ohio, Evans, Morgans and Raz is a quartet tough to beat. Keep your eye on it.

In the two years I've known Merle I had never heard him mention his horses. I knew he had about 50 of them but that's all. He has them all right, a beautiful band of brood mares and a half dozen classy stallions.

Raz had a bench built along the farmyard fence and he perched me

OCR by Captor out of Roz. King Captor by Captor out of Tippy. A three-year-old, still unnamed by

Captor out of Ceres. Evans has a breeding program ex-

cellent foundation stock, a man who can go along with him on it and a farm which raises enough to feed the big Morgan band. Our president is well set in this Morgan business.

An outstanding example of what can come from Evans' horses is at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Aman where dwell two sons of Captor, Wingfoot and Fleetwing. The latter is something I'd like to have in my barn if only for the pleasure of looking at him. Other

pretty well soured on Mr. Taft's state. there while he led out the studs. What people like to also for he's captured a But shortly thereafter, Merle Evans, a show! First of them was Captor by roomful of trophies. Ladies and Morgan club president arrived, the Mansfield, a handsome, excellent type gentlemen there is a Morgan! Like sun came out and suddenly everything was swell. The lost luggage turned up, we grove to the Evans' Massi!on home, ha3 a delicious lunch with my host and his charming wife and was in a swell,mood to look at Morgans in the afternoon. And brother, we saw 'em.

All three of us drove out to his farm in the beautiful rolling country of northern Ohio and there was our old friend, Raz LaRose, formerly of the

horse save for rather light bone. I re-marked on it and Evans and Raz winked at each other. Well they might for every son of his they led out had all his good characteristics—plus good bone.

Then in order out came the follow-ing:

Silver Hawk by Hawk Jim out of Gorgeous.

Star Hawk by Hawk Jim out of Gorgeous.

Silver Hawk and Star Hawk he is out of Evans great mare, Gorgeous. If you don't think Merle treasurers her as much as his right eye you're nuts.

Dinner that night was a free-for-all spaghetti race which Evans won by a nose with Mrs. Evans a poor third. I wasn't hungry for three days after-ward. Warning: don't sell Evans short on either Morgans or eating!

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mentary subscriptions of The Morgan Horse Magazine helped immensely in making our show a big success.

An estimated 1500 people interested in livestock and the showmen attended the show. The judges had a difficult task in selecting top place winners, as the competition was keen and the ani-mals uniformly well-fitted and shown.

The winners of The Morgan Horse Magazine subscriptions were:

Henry Waidlich, 58 Mineral Road, Millers Falls, Mass.

Richard Barnicle, 205 Bacon Street, Waltham, Mass.

Alton H. Neal, 150 Maplewood Terr., Northampton, Mass.

Thank you again for your co-operation.

Roscoe H. Bemis, Manager "Little International" There's that sleigh again

Dear Sir: The April issue carried a comment

on Page 38 concerning the cover pic-ture on the February issue. The ob-servation was made that the horse was hitched at one side of center and so was pulled off balance.

This side hitch is undesirable, but in northern Michigan where I was raised this arrangement was used to avoid a greater evil. The snow became quite deep and the two horse teams made well packed paths in each sleigh track, but the space between the tracks were unpacked and made the hardest kind of place in which to walk. When the single horses were hitched in front of the left runner, they could walk in well broken paths which became nearly as hard as the ground itself. The driver invariably rode near the middle of the seat if alone and on the right side if he had a companion. This arrange-ment gave him clear vision and placed him in position to conveniently reach the whip with his right hand. The whip socket was invariably placed in the right front corner of the sleigh for the convenience of right-handed drivers. With very few exceptions, single horses were used on very light rigs and the side pull was seldom ser-ious. If I remember correctly, the one horse dray in town was hitched with the horse directly in front of the sleigh. The loads were heavier and the snow around town was more evenly packed all over the street.

I suspect that horses were hitched directly in front of sleighs in parts of the country where the depth of the

snow had less influence on the lives of the people.

K. Hart Puffer Cement City, Michigan

Half full Dear Sir:

I am sending this picture of my half-Morgan horse. Why I am sending this picture is because I saw a picture of a half-Morgan horse in the February issue.

"Pretty soon" it will be full of half-Morgans.

Jeannine Krause Windsor, Vt. Long lines

Dear Sir: Your magazine is super and I would

sure like to see it being read more out here. Our school library may take a subscription for the use of the students.

I would like to request an article on Morgan bloodlines. I have heard of Lippitt and Archie 0 bloodlines and am interested in others.

I miss the pictorial section) very much because I think it helps you to know other readers and their Morgans. Cindy Asendorf Montebello, Calif.

Time to Judge Dear Sir:

Pleased to advise that the 1951 Michigan State Fair, to be held August 31 through September 9, 1951 will again feature Arabian, Morgan and Quarter Horses in the Light Horse Section.

The amount of premiums offered will be $600.00 for each of the three breeds.

In addition to breeding classes, to be shown in hand, this year's fair will have performance and championship classes, all as listed in the 1951 "Premium Book."

With regard to the performance classes, each rider will be given the necessary time in which to show his horse to the best advantage. The horse will be expected to walk, trot, gallop; do a figure 8, a turn in each direction, a stop and back-up.

Prof. Don Kays of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio — who is rated very highly as a Light Horse judge — will judge the classes.

Michigan State Fair Eldon McLachlan

Board Member in Charge Horse Department

Far afield Dear Sir:

I just finished your article on Mor-gan Horses and I think it's very good. (In Horse Lover Magazine.)

I'm fifteen and very much in love— with horses, that is. I haven't got a

horse yet but from what you've said in your article about them it's going to be a "Morgan for me" when I do get a horse.

would appreciate it very much if you would send me the names of some Morgan breeders in my area.

I go to the State Fair Horse show and this coming year I'll keep my eyes open for some Morgans.

A dude from Ohio, Joellen Stotsbery,

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The next morning was spent re-viewing the trip and taking another look at the good-looking but still name-less son of Captor. That noon I boarded the plane for Boston and home.

Writing this a few weeks later, the typewriter has a tendency :o pause—not for "station identifications," not to recall a name or a face. No—the Mor-gan people and their horses are as clear in my mind's eye as though I had just talked with the one or admired the other.

All over the United States! —a great

breed, Morgan horses, Morgan people.

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Give away blues Dear Sir:

Enclosed you will find $1.00. Owing to circumstances over which I have no control I lost or by order of the powers that be, was compelled to give away the last three magazines April, February and December, and I will never get them. I would like to have those because of Miss Owen's history of the Morgans. They are interesting and I have a friend that likes them too. If she makes a book of those true stories I would like to have it. Of course I may never be able to get it but I can save the magazines. I agree with Bill Lynch of Olyphant, Penna. It seems to me we are governed by a bunch of nitwits at least the most of them are. Seem to be in majority.

T. Temple Pyle Rising Sun, Md. Wants more of us

Dear Sir: As the old saying goes, "A little bit

is good, a whole lot more is better." So, for myself, I would like to see the magazine every month, instead of every two months.

I have enjoyed the "new look" of the Morgan Horse Magazine, also the various stories and especially the articles on "Names in Pedigrees."

The last three months I have been confined in bed with a broken leg caused by a horse accident (not Mor-gan horse) and I have had a great deal of enjoyment going over the back issues of the magazine, thoroughly di-gesting them from cover to cover.

Here's looking forward to the con-tinuance of my subscription. Please start with the June issue as I do not want to miss a single one.

Davis Breeding Farm Lodi, Calif.

Many owners Dear Sir:

I enclose herewith check for $2.50 for one year's subscription to your magazine which should be sent to Miss Paula Hepburn Liberty St., Concord, Mass.

I also enclose a photograph of Miss Hepburn holding my Morgan stallion Rarben 8026. This horse was foaled August 28, 1935, sired by Paragraph. Dam: Benita. He has had many owners, but was purchased by me from Waldo M. Heck, Jr. in August 1950.

Raymond Emerson Boston 8, Mass.

You deserve them Dear Sir:

I shall always remember the kind words you gave me with regard to my riding and assure you • shall strive my very best to live up to your thought of me as so kindly expressed.

My wife, Edie, and I very much enjoyed meeting you and trust you will look us up whenever you happen to be in this locality. I assure you, you will always be most welcome.

I am very pleased to advise you Mr. Kean, with your words ringing in my ears, I returned home with a third place ribbon from the very first Mor-gan "Performance Class" Michael and I ever entered. Have my feet off the ground on the success ladder!

I am of course hoping Michael will fill the footsteps left by his sire who is now a gelding at Golden River Ranch, Aloha, Michigan.

Again thanking you, I am H. Edwin Earehart

Northville, Mich.

Apartment owner Dear Sir:

Now that I have an apartment to take care of I don't have as much time for my Morgan, Redway. (Dam: Up-wey Cleis, Sire: Red Vermont). But I do get a chance to get him exercised about four times a week.

Red is strictly a pleasure horse now as I have never attempted to show him, but he really does give a lot of pleas-ure. He has that wonderful Morgan disposition but plenty of pep, too. He is the biggest baby I ever saw. He thinks everytime anyone at all is in the barn they are there only to pay attention to him.

He has the kind of ears that are always perked up listening to every-thing. The only time he ever gets cross is when we meet riding school horses on the trail. I'm afraid he is a bit of a snob. He is kept in a friend's barn with three other horses and the barn is always beautifully cleaned and really doesn't smell like a barn at all, whereas the school horses are apt to smell pretty strong at times. That is the only objection we can think of that he has to school horses.

Please keep the magazine coming as I really enjoy it.

Miriam F. Phillips Melrose 76, Mass.

Twins? Dear Sir:

I thoroughly enjoy every article and picture in the Morgan Magazine.

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I especially like the stallion, owned by J. Roy Brunk of Rochester, that was on the April cover. As I have been a neighbor of Mr. Brunk's for twelve years you can readily see why I like Congo. You might say I was raised with him as he was foa:ed a couple of years after I became a neighbor of Mr. Brunk's.

As you know, Mr. Brunk breeds a large number of fine Morgans each year and I have seen and noticed all of them, as I am a sincere Morgan enthusiast, but I think Congo is one of the finest examples of Justin Morgan that can be found anywhere. He has the conformation, spirit, and is one of the most docile stallions I have ever seen, as his picture so plainly reveals.

In Mr. Brunk's barn, Congo has a big box stall to run in and when you want to brush him, you never have to tie him up. He just stands there, enjoying every minute of the time that you spend with him. You're never afraid of a hard nip like a lot of stallions will sneak in when you're not watching.

I am seventeen years of age and I have attended quite a few fairs and horse shows with Mr. Brunk's Mor-gans and have seen a lot of good Mor-gans but I haven't seen one yet that will compare with Congo. You're right! He does have everything.

Congo is retired as a champion, but I think Mr. Brunk has one that will soon take his place. He is Trinango, a three-year-old stallion. Trinango is a blood-bay and the picture of Justin Morgan. He was champion two-year old stallion in the Futurity classes of the Illinois State Fair of 1950. I hope Mr. Brunk will send you a picture of him sometime soon so you can see him for yourself.

Miss Pat Downs Southern View Trailer Court

Springfield, Ill.

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Little big horse

Dear Sir: Thank you for the card reminding

me that is is time to renew our sub-scription. We certainly don't want to miss a single copy of the best Maga-zine there is—so enclosed you will find a money order for the $2.50, and we will be eagerly awaiting the arrival of the June copy.

Oh yes! It would be wonderful to see the Morgan Horse corning around each month, so here's high hopes you do make it a monthly—with articles giving examples of that Morgan superb intelligence, and more pictures. I would like to see a column on Wash-ington State Morgans too. It seems that we are getting more and more Morgans into the State but they are scattered around so-o-o far apart we seldom hear about them. So why don't Washington Morgan owners send a note about their horses, descriptions and what they do with their horses to someone who could knit it all together and send the news on to you? 1 would be glad to do all I can to help.

1 notice there has been quite a bit of discussion as to what happened to the Morgans, why don't we hear about them being sold for such fabulous four figure prices as some other breeds are? Can any other horse boast of as many owners who have TURNED DOWN a fabulous price as the Morgans? Once you are owned by a Morgan—there's something about that "little big horse" you just know you couldn't get the pleasure or pride from owning a bank full of money than your Mor-gan gives you! Miss T. Savonen Elma, Washington

Some more sleigh

Dear Sir: In the April issue of The Morgan

Horse Magazine under the caption "Do You Remember When" you printed a letter from Mr. Henry T. Cousins, Middletown, Mass. in which he criticizes the cover picture of your February issue showing Riviera being driven to a sleigh.

Mr. Cousins says "the driver sits off to the right and is pulling horse off balance. You can't get speed that way."

In reply to Mr. Cousins and in de-fense of the picture which I thought unusually fine, I want to say that he is mistaken. That is exactly the way an old time outfit was always hitched for country driving. The shafts are offset so as to put the horse in the sleigh track for easier traveling. The driver is sitting where he should and

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always sat, on the right hand side, and he is not pulling the horse off balance. They were not out for speed anyway, were they? Just ordinary country road travel.

In the old days when they went out for real fast work they used a high built speed sleigh and, of course, the shafts were then centered because the road was level and surplus snow cleared away. If the driver was alone he might have sat in the middle of the seat to lessen the danger of an up-set.

In the not too long ago of the horse and buggy days try driving a horse and sleigh over country roads with the shafts centered and see what kind of a time you would have! I well re-member the misery the horse and I both endured on the very few occa-sions that I was foolish enough to make the attempt.

I not only remember the old days of horse travel vividly but I still drive my Morgan horse Whippet to a run-about in the summer and a sleigh in the winter. He was sired by Mansfield and had his twenty-second birthday April 1st. He is still going strong and has always upheld the best tradi-tions of the breed. Howard F. Tracy Waterbury, Conn.

Appreciation Dear Sir:

You made me very happy with the very complimentary book review which appeared on pages 15 and 36 of the June 1951 issue of The Morgan Horse. I am taking the liberty of forwarding my personal marked copy of this maga-zine on to my publisher. Accordingly, it would be greatly appreciated if you would send me tear sheets covering this review.

I continue to hear many many nice comments on the help and inspiration that you accorded to our May Judging School and Horse Show.

With continued best wishes, I am M. E. Ensminger, Chairman

Dept. of Animal Husbandry State College of Washington

Pullman, Washington Price: $3.00

Dear Sir: Can you tell me the price of Horse

Husbandry by Dr. M. E. Ensminger and where you can obtain a copy? Also is there anyone who has Morgan Horses in this part of Connecticut? At this time I am looking for a horse for my son—one that will ride and drive but there does not seem to he any Morgans and most of the ones who have horses for sale do not know

very much about the breed. I would like a mare so later I could

have her bred and in this way maybe start an interest in Morgans.

Edwin A. Palmer West Cornwall, Conn. Life begins at 52

Dear Sir: First I am an active old lady 52. I

love horses, I have 3 colts, and owl, a bluejay I took from the cat. Two dogs —a toy terrier and a wool dog. I do not know much about Morgan horses. Only we used to have one on the farm. My father would say take the old Mor-gan mare out to water and I'd hop on her bareback and have a ride. So, I distinctly remember sliding off and round in front. I missed grabbing the mane, I dropped in front, landed on my back and saw the foot coming up and fainted. She pulled me by the dress and dragged me home. We kept her and just let her go in the pasture 'til she died. We fed her good in win-ter. We lived in Maine.

Mrs. Minnie Parieglic Lynn Haven, Fla.

Among hunters Dear Sir:

We are in Maine on a vacation but if I remember correctly, my subscrip-

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Stallions and Mares of all ages for sale.

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Write or call us your wants.

J. ROY R HUNK R. 11. 2, Rochester, Illinois

Phone: Springfield, Ill. 2-5026

PAYDAY 9208 Sire: Mansfield Dam: Glady

Outstanding stallion with excellent disposition whose get have his fine head and white markings.

A few registered Morgans for sale at all times. Visitors Always Welcome

MR. & MRS. R. E. LACASCE Fryeburg, Maine

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tion to The Morgan Horse ended with the June issue. I am enclosing a check for $4.00-two years to be mailed to the same address. I enjoy your maga-zine very much and do not want to miss the August issue.

I haven't any Morgans now, just sold my mare, Echo Bay, sired by the Duke of Windsor, which I had left in Maine when moving to Virginia. But I am looking for an old type mare to start anew down there. As I ant right in the "hunter section," they all laugh at me, do not think much of the Morgans. My father raised them in Iowa forty years ago and I have always had one or more (tried other breeds but go back to the Morgan as the best all around horse) and so am sticking to "my guns" if? I can find one down that way.

Marvel B. Hanscom Box 449

Manassas, Va.

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FOR SALE: "Bunny Hawk" 07143. Foaled April 6, 1947. Chestnut, connected star, narrow strip, snip, light mane and tail, very gentle. Broke to ride. Also "Ruby Hawk" 07624. Foaled May 2. 1948. Chestnut. small star, left hind fetlock white. These two mares are lull sisters to Flicka Hawk who won a great many ribbons in shows last summer. Leo Wilhelm R. D. 2 Sharon. Pa.

FOR SALE: Schoolmaster's Choice 07661. Dk. Chestnut. Foaled May 18. 1948. Sire: Lippitt Moro Ash 8084. Dam: Ruthven's Beatrice Ann 05528. In foal to Kenney's King Cotton 9927. James G. Kenney, 1538 Bowers Road, Lapeer. Michigan.

BEAUTIFUL LIFELIKE PORTRAITS of your favorite horse or dog done in char-coal pastel, watercolor, oils. Professional rendering and satisfaction guaranteed. Also breed pictures. Virginia Geiger, Chatfield. Ohio.

FOR SALE OR LEASE: Red Scout, five-year-old chestnut stallion 15-21/2. Gentle, well-broke, extra good single driver, goes through heavy traffic safely. Would like to see him go east where he would get a look at some shows in harness. Come see what an Arkansas Morgan looks like. George Baler. Rte 2 Mena, Ark.

FOR SALE: "Bomber" seven year old reg. Morgan stallion 9314. Dk. Brown, excellent bloodlines, smooth gaits, very gentle, ridden by children. An outstand-ing example of Morgan versatility. He rides English. Western, drives and jumps. Contact: Riding Club. Princeton, N. J.. Tel. 65.

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2.30 performers, while Fearnaught, sold once for twenty-five thousan'd dollars, was grand champion trotting stallion of the world in 1868. This horse, one of the great racehorses of his time, was a tremendous success in the stud as well, and won whenever shown in the ring. One of his more important placings being a first pre-mium in the stallion class at the great New England Fair in 1872. During the last few years of his life, Fear-naught commanded a stud fee of two hundred and fifty dollars and was probably the best stallion to stand in Massachusetts until the advent of Peter the Great more than fifty years later. Young Morrill was the sire of a host of good ones in addition to his two "cracks," among them Draco 2:28'A and Danville Boy, a hard-hitting little black horse whose trot was said

WE ARE AGENTS for the purchase of a Registered Morgan stallion of not more than seven years. Must be proven stud. well-broken and easily handled. Please write full particulars first letter. Oatka Farms, Box 46, Warsaw, N. Y.

SUBJECT to prior sale, your choice of two brood mares with or without their 1951 foals. Mares reasonably priced. Sorry, no Oatka fillies for sale. Oatka Farms. Warsaw, N. Y.

FOR SALE: Tinder. 3 year old red bay 34 Morgan stallion outstanding in Morgan character, 15 hands, weighs 950. Plenty of spirit, but gentle and tractable. $200. Melvin H. Mandigo, Glover, Vt.

FOR SALE: Two Reg. Morgan dark chestnut .fillies, two and three years old. Started in harness and saddle. Jubilee King and Plains King bloodlines. Mrs. Larry Oakley. 111 No. San Joaquin St., Stockton, Calif. Phone 4-4893.

FOR SALE: Reg. Morgan Stallion, red chestnut, Jubilee King and Flyhawk blood-lines. Being trained for stock horse. Can be seen at Jim McCann's Training Stables, Rte. 1, Box 331, Healdsburg, Calif. Owner Larry Oakley, phone Stockton 4-4893.

FOR SALE: Penny Jubilee, two year old filly, light strawberry roan with black points white blaze, green broke, best dis-position, 15 hands, perfect. Florence C. Friend, on State Route 132, Morrow, Ohio. R. R. 1.

FOR SALE: Beautiul 7 yr. old regis- tered Morgan mare and her yearling colt by Lippitt Sam. Excellent breeding, reasonably priced. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Robertson. So. Royalton. Vt.

YEARLING STUD: Hytone Boy out of Dellaina by Congo:. Registered under Rule I. Second Morgan Breeders Futurity, Reserve Champion Weanling Minois State Fair 1950. Color, Bay. W. A. Dent. Price: 6200.00 Route 1. Caseyville, M.

to have been purely mechanical, as it never varied an iota. The Morrills were larger than the earlier Morgans in most cases, both in height and weight, but they retained the balance and finish of the true Morgan. At a time when Kentucky breeders were ex-perimenting with the line-bred Messen-gers and finding these speedy animals lacking in the much-needed stamina for the races, the Morrills were there to provide it. At the present time, few registered Morgans can trace their pedigrees in tail male to old Morrill 55, but many of the early sires had one or more crosses to him through their dams and were the stronger for them. Few Northern horses have ever attracted the envy of Kentucky horse breeders, but of the Morrills it has been said "They had no equal in the North, no superior in the South." It was a compliment of rare depth, a fit-ting tribute to a great family.

FOR SALE: Two chestnut stud colts, yealing and weanling, full brothers. Sire: Highview King 8339. Dam: Gypsy Darling 08865. Should make nice matched pair. Price $225 for both or will sell separate. Mrs. Ken Durrell, Rt. 2, Corvallis, Oregon.

FOR SALE: Reg. Morgan filly Polite Archer 07687. Sire: Archie 0. 7856. Dam: DyBerry Polly 06059. Foaled July 8. 1948. Bay, no white markings, lovely disposition. D. U. King, Box 57, Hawleyville, Conn.

FOR SALE: Registered Morgan Stud. No. 9199. Sire: Ethan Eldon No. 8447. Dam: Lippitt Mary More No. 04697. Foaled June 21. 1945, and one yearling stud sired by the above stud. One mare 7 years old, now in foal who was the mother of twins, all of excellent disposition. For further information please get in touch with Gerald Semincrtore. Bedford. St., Burlington. Mass.

FOR SALE: Bobana Morgan, an ex-excllent weanling filly with the best in Old type breeding. Sire: Nabob Morgal 9278. Dam: Dianthus 05668. A real nice one and reasonably priced Wm. P. Clark. New Preston, Conn. Phone: Wash. Conn. 2121.

FOR SALE: Two Registered Morga'i stallions, four and six years old-chestnut with flaxen manes and tails. Leigh W. Nickerson, Redlands, Calif.

FOR SALE: A coming champion! Chest-nut weanling filly, sister to Questionnaire, champion Morgan at the 1951 Nat'l. Stal-lion Show and to Red Royal, champion Morgan stallion at the 1950 III. State Fair. This filly is a real show prospect. Also chestnut weanling stud colt, good breed-ing and a promising individual. Marianne R. Mick, Savage. Minn.

REGISTERED MORGAN COLTS, Fillies for sale. Lippitt and Archie 0 blood lines-Mid State Morgan Horse Farm, DeMott Road. Middlebush N. J., phone East Millstone 8-2646.

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A ROYALTON MORGAN AWAITS YOU

* * * I have some of the nicest real old type Morgans that you can find any-

where to offer for sale this spring. Among them is a 16 month old golden chestnut with a real flaxen mane, he is a beauty and one of the nicest dispositions r have ever seen. Priced very reasonable.

Also there is a four months old dark bay colt that would make some little girl or boy mighty happy. His name is Royalton Hob Knob. I have never seen such a cute compact colt and what a personality even from a week old he would come up to you to be petted. Don't overlook "Knobby" as he will mature into something to be real proud of.

Justine Morgan has one of the nicest colts she has ever had, a dark bay with black points, what a head and little ears. There is no mistake about how he arrived as his daddy is John A. Darling. This colt is a double cross of old Bob Morgan with Ashbrook, Moro. Welcome and Ethan Allen 2 all tied up in one. A breeder who wants to improve the percentage of Morgan blood in his band will find this fellow hard to beat.

Several others, run up this fall and look them over.

More Daschund puppies, little beauties for sale.

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Dana Wingate Kelley So. Royalton, Vt.

Letters (Continued from Page 44)

Dear Sir: I own the stud Juskohoma. You see

the government wouldn't sell the stud

to me because I wasn't an Indian, so,

to get the stud, I had to get an Indian

to buy him for me. I always was a

lover of Morgan horses. I have a saddle horse now that is a Morgan. I would

not sell him for no amount of money

and I am a poor boy too. He is not registered but that don't keep him from

being a good horse. I am sending you a

check for $4.00 this year is nearly gone

but if you can send me the old maga-zine for this year I would appreciate it.

I am a member of the Morgan Horse

Club, Inc. Thanking you in advance.

Joe White 2650 North Main P.O. Box 1117

No. McAlester, Okla.

Dear Sir: Although I am not a member of

any local association, being the owner

of two Morgan mares of whom I am

very proud, I had the pleasure of per-

sonally meeting you and hearing your

dissertation during your recent visit

to Michigan. You asked those present to send you

pictures of their Morgans. Therefore, I am very pleased to herewith enclose

one of my 3-year-old Morgan mare

Rubette 07558—who is making her

debut at this season's horse shows.

Rubette is by Verran's Laddie, whose

to introduce me to the Morgan breed,

owner Milo G. Dugan was the first

out of my other Morgan mare 'tubby

x-05238 by Barrymore McDonald (11352 ASHR) — both of whom were

Blue Ribbon winners at the 1949

Michigan State Fair. I would greatly appreciate seeing

this picture of Rubette in the Morgan

Pictorial of The Morgan Horse Maga-

zine," for which favor I now thank

you. Jim Kenney of Lapeer the owner of

a very typey Morgan stallion Kenney's

King Cotton 9927, Don Davis of Caro , the owner of a fine Morgan mare Ny-

lon 06960 and Stanley Herron of Mar-

lette, the owner of an Archie 0 foal

and its dam Lady Aleta are the only ones carrying the Morgan torch in this section. Nylon just foaled a splendid-

type Morgan filly by Jim's Cotton.

Cotton and Nylon! Some combination! Fred E. Hubbard 2360 Seymour Lake Road

R. D. 2, Oxford, Mich.

The October issue of The Morgan Horse Magazine will list the winners of the Junior Writing Con-test.

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Five winners will each receive a Mor-

gan colt.

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Watch for the October issue.

COVER PICTURES

Many have written requesting in-formation regarding selection of pic-tures for our cover.

Now that THE MORGAN HORSE Magazine is sold on news stands some suggestions were made so the magazine will have the greatest appeal to the public.

FIRST: Action pictures are always preferable whether they be in the show ring, on parade, roping cattle. or just a pleasure ride.

SECOND: Children with their Morgans are always appealing. Especially informal shots.

So if you have or can get any clear glossy prints, preferably 5 x 8 or larger, we will be glad to consider these for cover pictures for the magazine.

There is. of course, no charge to you for pictures selected.

May we have your favorite pic-ture?

We are always looking for good pictures for the center-spread pic-torial section. Good-sized glossy snaps, if clear and distinct are suit-able.

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Hay. We have just finished filling our barn with its annual stuffing of timothy and red top. It looks good, smells good and, as far as that goes, it is good. But this year, for the first time, we're not satisfied with it be-cause we've but recently been exposed to roughage the country over and we've learned a lot. Come next season and a different program will prevail on our home place. Here are some of the reasons why:

We saw broom grass and alfalfa growing in a field in Michigan. We saw some of it in a barn, a year old. It was as green and sweet-smelling as though just made and springy enough to make a rope. The yield per acre far exceeds timothy and horses grow fat on it. The value of alfalfa as a feed and conditioner cannot be denied. The threat of bloat is eliminated by its mixture with the stalkier broom grass.

Oat hay is another crop which gave us ideas. There is nothing particularly new in oat hay but its general use in some sections of the country revived our interest. The oats are planted early and cut when the milk in the head is beginning to dry--the "dough" stage. Properly made a mow of, it is green and fresh-looking and if cut at the right stage the heads are so firmly attached you can't beat them off. Horses like it and, what is more in this expensive age, it is a complete ration—hay and grain. If the cost of feed is beginning to worry you, plant a few acres next spring. We saw horses fed nothing else and they were in top shape.

Pasture. Consult your county ex-tension agent for the best grasses to plant. There are a great many of them and among them you'll find a few which will combine to feed your herd in the summer months. Seeded and cared for pastures pay. Keep them small and rotate their use. Good pasture in-stead of a vast amount of runout grass and weeds is more than worth the expense and care of seeding and

occasional fertilization. A suggestion for a small, say 20-acre

farm would be: Keep the best half of it in hay. Plant

five acres in oats. Reseed that five acres in pasture grass in the fall and plant the last five in oats in the spring. With 10 acres in top pasture you can alternate hay and oats on the rest.

For those who have access to the services of a thresher, and also grow some corn here is a grain feed recipe we picked up that utilizes home-grown grains with the addition of outside nutrients:

1000 pounds of oats 600 pounds of shelledcorn 100 pounds of soybean meal or lin-

seed meal 50 pounds of dry molasses or 100

pounds liquid 200 pounds of bran 3 per cent salt (by weight) Ground in a hammer mill, coarse. Horse candy. We are of the old

school who have never favored feeding lump sugar as a reward. Our school-ing, we admit, sterns pretty far back and may be prejudiced but we do know that sugar aids and ahbets some kinds of worms. We have always used apples or carrots and we feed them in a manger, never from the hand as we don't like "nippy" horses and nothing develops them quicker. The latest addition to our meager store of knowledge on this subject was picked up in California. There, on a large fruit ranch we saw horses being rewarded with dried prunes. The prunes were plentiful, raised on the place, and the horses were crazy for them. They chewed them well, crunching the medicinally loaded pits between their grinders. There is really

no end to things which horses will eat. We once saw a hunter, imported from Ireland, starving to death in the presence of hay and grain. An intelli-gent owner tried a half peck of boiled potatoes, skins and all, and the big horse devoured them. He had evident-ly been raised on them.

Posing. We have tried and watched others try to pose a horse for the cam-era. Chaff or dust in the wind, a stick rattled in a pail, a rubrag waved high overhead. Most of these work. But some horses, especially champions which have been photographed ad in-finitum refuse to stand alertly or cock their ears for the camera. Next time you're at wits end try this:

Tie a 10 foot length of cord to an old deflated inner tube.. Drag it through the grass 15 or 20 feet from the horse and across his line of vision. Watch him eye it. He'll even arch his neck to get a better view. I have yet to see it fail. Maybe he thinks it's a snake, I don't know. Speaking of snakes, we saw a big gelding, one of a bunch on range pasture on a big California ranch. He had been bitten by a rattler just above the right nostril. His eyes were swollen shut, his sheath was three times normal size and he was dejected and sick. Some of the cowboys say a horse will recover in a couple of weeks if left alone. But most of the western owners call a vet and get a shot into him as soon as possible. They snap back to life quickly then.

Shoeing. Throughout the west we noticed what we consider a bad shoe-ing fault and one that is often seen in the east. That is the failure to open up the heels sufficiently to let the foot spread out. We saw many "closed" heels with resultant narrowness due to this—a fault sufficient to throw down a horse in the ring. A Morgan foot should be round and big enough to hold him up. Open the heels if the foot is narrow. It will soon round out. Convexing the top of the shoe will increase the spread. A heavy horse on a narrow foot is a bad combination.

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a class of fillies concluded the morn- ing's activities. Winners of the judg- ing contest received medallions donated by the Morgan Horse Club. Al Brouil- let of Athol, Mass., won first prize. followed by Dr. Hugh Tatlock of Northampton, Miss Betty Gambee of Lynnbrook, N. Y., and Stephen Smith

of Pelham, Mass. After the judging of each class, Prof.

Tirrell gave his reasons for placing the animals as he did, and the class placings were then discussed by the group.

In the afternoon, F. B. Hills, secre-tary of the Morgan Horse Club, talked on the place of Morgans in the light horse world, and recent developments

in the registration of Morgan horses. A lively panel discussion on Mor-

gan type concluded the afternoon ses-sion.

Prof. Tirrell performed a masterful job as moderator and took particular pains to point out that there is only one Mor-gan type as proved by the large percen-tage of agreement on the judging con-ducted during the morning.

AUGUST 1951 46

THE GREAT ANNUAL CLASSIC

NATIONAL MORGAN

September I 7:00 to 10:30 p. m.

September 2 1:00 to 5:00 p. m.

September 3 .9:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.

" 471te 2a4ceiii

o4441 Simla

in the Itioitici"

HORSE SHOW WINDSOR, VERMONT

(1 mile south of Windsor U. S. Rte. 5)

200 REGISTERED MORGANS — 42 CLASSES

PERFORMANCE — BREEDING — EXHIBITION

PLAN TO ATTEND ADMISSION

Free General Parking

Adults $1.00

Reserved Ringside Parking

Children 504

Tax Included

$5.00 per day

GREEN MOUNTAIN STOCK FARM Randolph, Vermont

Opportunity to Buy . . .

3 Outstanding Two-Year-Old Stallions

LIPPITT ROYAL 10286 Foaled 7/11'49

Sire: Lippitt Rob Roy 8450 Dam: Lippilt Sadie Ash 05084

LIPPITT ROYAL MAN 10224 Foaled 4/9/49

Sire: Lippitt Rob Roy 8450 Dam: Lippitt Samantha 05181

LIPPITT SPEARHEAD 10291 Foaled 5/3/49

Sire: Lippitt Selassie 8329 Dam: Lippilt Trilby Ash 04731

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Vices getiad- VeI

Address all correspondence to I ROBERT L. KNIGHT, Box 542, PROVIDENCE I, R. I. I