Re: Morgans in Endurance--Was Endurance Clinic

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@naisp.net>]

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Linda,

 

Do you have enough info on Beau to add him to the following website

 

http://www.dmtc.com/pedigree/allbreed/

 

I would love to compare his lineage with my boys, both of whom are old government lines. Sonny looks like Figure, Wichita looks more like an Arab. I have photos of my boys posted at    http://home.attbi.com/~endurancemorgan/index.html

 

Thanks - Jeanne

Son Beam Sirprize and Triton Wichita

 

I suppose so, but I don't really see the point.  Why add it to

the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club's pedigree database?

Unless you get all Morgan people who do CTR and/or

Endurance with their Morgans to participate along with

some kind of standardized way of recording accomplishments,

I don't see as it really leads anywhere.

 

I'm not so sure terms like "old government" lines are necessarily

even particularly meaningful.  Only about 200 Morgans got

through the "bottleneck" at the end of the 19th century to

breed on into the 20th, and 90% of extant Morgan blood is

descended from only about 40 of those 200 horses (throwing

my figures around rather casually).  Wichita is "old government,"

and also lots of Ben Don (which is, after all, 50% "old government")

with the usual bits of Jubilee King and Flyhawk and Ethan Allen III and

what-not tossed in.  Even "old government" is usually the older strains

mixed in with General Gates (Ethan Allen III--Artemesia; "Brunk"--Troubador

of Willomoor and Florette).  Sheesh, you could look at Nocturne's

papers and call him a Western Working Family/Government cross :-).

 

Linda B. Merims

lbm@naisp.net

Massachusetts, USA