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4 unusual facts about Morgan horse


Deane C. Davis

Davis was a noted horseman and proponent of the Morgan horse breed, including service as President of the Morgan Horse Club, Inc.

Joseph Battell

He donated his horse farm to the federal Morgan horse breeding program, and is credited by some as saving the breed.

Sussex Corner, New Brunswick

He also brought in the first Morgan horses to New Brunswick and was a strong promoter of agricultural progress for his community.

Westfall Winery

The farm offers equestrian services, including horse boarding, and specializes in the use of Morgan horses.


Josiah Grout

He returned to Vermont in 1880, where he took up farming, and raised some of the finest Jersey cattle, blooded Morgan horses and Shropshire sheep in Vermont.

Splashed white

Since the original study in the early part of the last century, in addition to the breeds identified as carrying the SW-1, -2 or -3 alleles, splashed white has also been identified, but not mapped, in American Saddlebreds, Morgan horses, the Irish Tinker or Gypsy horse, the Indian Kathiawari and feral Abaco Barbs of the Bahamas.

Splashed white occurs in a variety of geographically divergent breeds, from Morgans in North America to Kathiawari horses in India.

United States Equestrian Federation

The organization also governs breed shows held in the United States for the Andalusian, Lusitano, Arabian, half-Arabian, Anglo-Arabian, Connemara, Friesian, Hackney, Morgan, American Saddlebred, National Show Horse, Paso Fino, Shetland, and Welsh breeds.


see also

Ellen Feld

The 'Morgan Horse' series (reading level ages 9–13) includes Blackjack: Dreaming of a Morgan Horse and its sequel, Frosty: The Adventures of a Morgan Horse. Both books were selected (in different years) as winners of Children's Choices, an award co-sponsored by the International Reading Association and The Children's Book Council.