Learn to see the horse.
Essays and evidence from the people who bred, measured, studied, and lived with the original Morgan.
Enter the reading roomEight ways into the breed.
All articles are provided for reading and educational purposes only and may not be reproduced. The archive holds many more (inbreeding and outcrossing, disposition, action, judging, the Lippitt stallions, early Morgan descriptions, the Government Morgan Horse Farm), available on request from the registrar.
The latest, from the front door.
Learn to see it.
Comparison plates from the Lyle F. Horton Memorial Ancient Morgan Archive. The lesson in all of them: the Morgan is long and low (short legs, long underline, short back) and round wherever other breeds are flat.
River Riders Rich, 1998–2024.
Some horses argue the breed’s case better than any article. Richey was sold through a stock auction as a colt, found again in Amish harness in Ohio, and brought home by Bruce and Diane Orser. At the 2003 Lippitt Country Show he won the Standard class over two former winners, drawing crowds to his stall all weekend and standing for every one of them like a gentleman. His veterinarians and farriers called him their favorite stallion. In sixteen years at the Orsers’ farm there was never a single incident of any sort of bad behavior.
“A more willing, kinder horse never stood upon this earth. He was perfect. We loved him — and as we have learned, so it is with his new owners.”
Bruce & Diane OrserWinloc Farm