FLYING MORGAN 44

Contributed by Marsha Valance

 From American Morgan Horse Register Volume 1

Blood bay, white hind feet, about 14*4 hands, 900 pounds ; bred by L. D. Livermore, Hartland, Vt.; foaled 1843, the property of R. M. Adams, Bristol, Vt. ; got by the Hackett Horse, son of Gifford Morgan : dam small, owned by Gilbert Allen, a pedler, Granville, Vt., who traded her to Amory Allen, and he to Mr. Livermore, untraced, but said to be Morgan. Half interest sold, when about two years old, to John Daniels, Bristol, Vt., who rented Mr. Adams' farm in Bristol, and kept the horse there until 1849, when he was purchased by Dr. W. P. Russell, Middlebury, Vt., and stood that season at the farm of Harvey Yale in Middlebury. He was repurchased by Mr. Adams, winter or spring of 1850, and was kept in Burlington, afterwards in northwestern New York, and later in New Hampshire. Died, about 1865. Linsley says : " A horse of a great deal of bottom and power ; trots fair and square ; goes smart ; is perfectly sure for all he can do, and generally makes his best time in the last heat. From heating and overwork his eyes have been injured and he can see but little".