The Morgan Horse
and Register, Vol. I, Joseph Battell, Middlebury, VT., 1894.
“…He
was far the best horse I ever had anything to do with…I am pleased to see an effort making, even at this late day,
to preserve some record of him…”
Dan. Baldwin
Rules of Admission to the Morgan Register,
p. xii.
Any animal in either of the following classes is eligible to registry in The Morgan Register.
1. Any meritorious stallion or mare that
traces in direct male line to the original Justin Morgan Horse, and has at least one sixty-fourth of his blood.
2. The produce of a sire and dam both registered
in The Morgan Register.
Quoted from D.C. Linsley, The Morgan Horse and Register, Vol. I, p. 62:
“The original, or Justin Morgan, was about fourteen hands high and weighed about 950 pounds. His color was
dark bay with black legs, mane and tail…His head was good, not extremely small but lean and bony, the face straight,
forehead broad, ears small and very fine…His back and legs were perhaps his most noticeable points. The former was
very short, the shoulder blades and hip bones being very long and oblique, and the loins exceedingly broad and muscular. His
body was rather long, round and deep, close ribbed up; chest deep and wide...he was in every respect perfectly sound... He
was a very fast walker. In trotting his gait was low and smooth...
“Although he raised his feet but
little, he never stumbled. His proud, bold and fearless style of movement, and his vigorous untiring action, have perhaps
never been surpassed.”
