Justin Morgan, founder of his race : $b the romantic history of a horseBurnham, Eleanor Waring
History
Justin Morgan, founder of his race : $b the romantic history of a horse
Burnham, Eleanor Waring
Morgan horse
Morgan passed the remainder of his life in the kind care of Mr. Bean,
of Chelsea. He died from the effects of a kick from another horse, in
1821, at the advanced age of thirty-two years.
[Illustration:
Painted from life by Ford Attwood, N. Y.
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FOOTNOTES:
[14] Editor American Horse Breeder:--I am an old
man, eighty-three, this month, and seeing an article
in your last in praise of the Morgan Horse, I want
to add a word of gratitude for their noble service
done me as a stage-proprietor on the Fourth New
Hampshire Town-pike; as livery man and farmer…. For
endurance, intelligence and as trappy drivers, the
Morgans have no equals. To handle six or eight horses
on a stage-coach over hills--without accident--looks
to me wonderful now, for brakes were not known in
those days. I sometimes think it could not have
been done without the Morgan horses, for their
superior intelligence was often displayed in cases
of danger--like running on icy, sidling roads, where
every tug was needed, and the horses on the run, to
prevent the coach from falling off the bank! I have
often done this and seen others do it, and accidents
were few. These horses seemed to know what was wanted
and understood the danger as well as the driver.
It was sometimes no easy matter to carry the mails
through blinding sleet and heavy drifts, but I never
had a Morgan horse look back to refuse me. They always
faced the blast. If a double trip had to be made
the _Morgans_ always did it and the long-jointed,
over-reaching, interfering span of some other breed
was kept in the barn.
Yours,
J. C. CREMER, Hanover, N. H.
_American Horse Breeder_, 1892.
[15] “I see horses every day with, perhaps, a
thirty-second part of the blood of Old Justin Morgan,
but there it is, still predominating; there is the
_Morgan_ still to be seen plainly. Every close
observer, every discerning judge of horses always
admits this tendency of his blood.”--_From an article
by James D. Ladd, Wallace’s Monthly, July, 1882._
POSTWORD.
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