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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lers, and were sentfor at much trouble and expense by some breeders who werechoice in their selections. A chestnut mare of this breed having been taken to Ver-mont, U. S., in 1807, and bred to that most wonderful horse,Justin Morgan, the result was his most celebrated son, ShermanMorgan, foaled in 1809, who took the trotting gait of his sireand the color and beauty of his dam. Such finally became the demand for these horses for exportthat the breeders killed the goose that laid the golden eggby disposing of not only their surplus but most of their breed-ing stock, as w^ell. By this time, however, the country having been suppliedwith better roads and the people wdth carriages, the saddlehorse was less sought for at home, and horses that could trotbecame more popular and in better demand than those of thepacing gait, and horses of this breed were then trained to trotin harness and pace under the saddle. I can well rememberdescendants of this breed of horses, crossed, with other l^reeds,
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p^ ^ C3 ^ S? s o < ^ rt <f1 c3 Iw* c3 <i o THE NARRAGANSETT PACER. 55 perhaps, that would pace all day under the saddle, and othersthat would both trot and pace, frequently changing from onegait to the other. This breed of horses goes into history as the only onefounded on the results of a single importation and becoming indemand for export within twenty years after the importationof its founder. I still recollect descendants of this breed that were greatroadsters and tough as leather. I recall to mind two blackmares, both raised and owned in Kingston, Rhode Island,— oneby George Allen and the other by Nathaniel Reynolds — thatwould go from Quidnessett, near Wickford, R. I., to Brighton,Mass., about sixty miles, in a half day without stopping on thethe road for feeding. I once owned a sorrel gelding, a descendant of this breed,that paced and would not trot at all, but would pace, if put toit, I think nearly, or quite, one hundred miles in a day on agood road. In conclusio

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