Re: Morgan blood in QH bloodlines

[connie B Berto <cberto@juno.com>]

Janet, here's what I sent to someone else.   There are more articles on
this subject but this is all I had time to come up with right now.  
Regrds,    Connie B

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From: connie B Berto <cberto@juno.com>
To: SandyDSA@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:32:44 -0700

San, I'm no expert but I do read a lot and collect reference articles.  
Altho the Standardbred, American Saddlebred, and Tennessee Walker
associations acknowledge the role of the Morgan  in forming those breeds,
the QH assn. has never done so.  Some QH people have claimed that their
breed predates the Morgan, but Justin Morgan was foaled in 1789 and the
QH registry was only established in 1941.    QHorses go back to Colonial
times only thru 200 years of Thoroughbred blood.  
    Richard Sellman of Rochelle, (west) Texas,  was primarily responsible
for establishing Morgan blood in the West. He had a 40,000 acre ranch in
the 1880's and imported the finest Morgan stallions (for instance, Major
Gordon, Major Antoine, Gold Medal, The Admiral, Headlight Morgan, Red
Oak).   Before he died in 1925, he had registered 689 Morgans from 273
mares.   He was reportedly ruthless in culling horses that didn't measure
up, and as you know in those days they were proven by hard work, not by
prancing around a show ring.
    Roland Hill's Horseshoe Cattle Co., in Tehachapi, California, bred
Morgans, as did the SMS Ranch in  west Texas in the 1870's.  Army remount
stations bought Sellman horses.   The Burnett ranches (half a million
acres in Texas) used  Morgan  sires (including the famed Jubilee King for
seven years) and dams for ranch horses;  Burnett lines are still
prominent in QH reining and cutting lines.   The Matador ranch (800,000
acres) at Channing Texas used up to seven Morgan stallions.   The
Goodnight ranch used Morgan studs.  
  Other ranches using and breeding Morgans were William Randolph Hearst,
Piedmont Land & Cattle Co., CA; Huniwill Circle H Ranch in Nevada, the
Theis Ranch, KS, Jackson Ranch, Montana, and the LU Sheep Company in
Wyoming (they used Flyhawk for years).   The list of Morgans on Utah
ranches fills another whole article.  The list of transfers in the Morgan
Horse Register shows Morgans from these ranches being sold as using stock
and breeding stock to ranches all over the west from the turn of the
century until the late 1950's.  
   Volume I of the Quarter Horse Register (1951) shows 188 horses with
acknowledged Morgan blood, and these are really the tip of the iceberg
because of the widespread practice of just turning out registered studs
with good mares and their value was in their progeny and not their
papers.  One researcher lists 710 early QH with probable Morgan blood .  
When Sellman died in 1925 and the ranch broken up and the Morgan  horses
dispersed,  the ranks of QHorses swelled with suspiciously similar names.
 Whole bands were swallowed into the QH breed, including many to the
famed King Ranch.   It is a fact that Jack C. Kinney of Tucson, AZ, an
honorary vice president of the Am. QH Assn. in 1941, bought twelve
Morgans -- nine colts and 3 fillies -- from the Sellman estate in 1925. 
Yellow Jacket was Morgan, as was Joe Bailey.
   Unlike the Arabian breed, with its splendid breeding programs in
countries all over the world, the Morgan breed is recent and relatively
localized until lately.   Morgans have been exported to Hawaii,
Australia, Sweden, and England, to name the largest importers.   So, it's
easier to trace in some respects, and some very interesting photographs
exist of these old time famous stallions and mares.     Regards,   
Connie B
      
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