Identifier: americanhorsesho00dimo (find matches)
Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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dstylish horse, with great resolution and nervous temperament.He was a good driver and appeared well in harness, butshowed to the best advantage under the saddle and was thebest parade horse of his day. He was sired by Justin Morgan,dam untraced. He finally died in Alabama in 1838 fromexposure in a long and stormy sea voyage, at twelve and one-half years old, perfectly sound. Mr. Lindsley, in ^ Morgan Horses, says : Royal Morgan was foaled in 1821, the property of Mr.Aldrich of St. Johnsbury, Vt., sired by Sherman; dam knownas the Aldrich mare, and sired by Justin Morgan. She was adark bay of remarkably compact form, with great powers ofendurance, having produced and nursed a colt when twenty-nine years old. Royal Morgan was thirteen and three-quartershands high and weighed 975 pounds; color, dark bay with fullblack points and a small star in forehead. This horse wastaken to Maine and had much to do with establishing thenoted roadsters and gentlemens driving horses of that State, (72)
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THE MORGAN HORSE. 73 and was brought back again to Vermont and was owned hy aMr. Crane, and by some known to this day as the Crane horse.Mr. Crane became so much attached to this horse that a shorttime previous to his death he directed that a likeness of thehorse should be carved on his tombstone, which, I believe, hasbeen done. When I last heard of this horse he was thirty-fiveyears old and as sound and limber as a colt. From the same source of information I gather the fol-lowing : * Morgan Caesar was foaled in 1828, the property of H.Smith of Hartland, Yt.; sired by Woodburj^, dam by Quick-silver. He was fifteen hands high and weighed 1,100 pounds,was a fast driver — could go a mile in those times in threeminutes, and was driven twelve miles with two men in a sleighin forty-four minutes. This horse stood several seasons in the State of Maine,and was really the founder of that family, or class, of roadstersfor which Maine has become quite famous. But the Yermont-ers were too shrewd

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