Bloodlines / The complete record

Every line
returns here.

Eight stallions. Seventeen mares. A closed foundation carried through every branch of every full Lippitt pedigree.

Archival color photograph of foundation stallion Sealect under saddle — Foundation stallionSealectAmerican Morgan Horse Register · № 7266

25The pedigree
boundary

From Figure to the Foundation Stock

How the Lippitt foundation was formed.

The record begins with Figure, moves through Woodbury Morgan and Peters’ Ethan Allen 2d 406, and arrives at the twenty-five horses that define every full Lippitt pedigree.

011789

The beginning

Figure

Later called Justin Morgan, the small Vermont stallion passed on his size, form, and character with unusual consistency. The breed begins with what he repeatedly placed in his offspring.

02No. 7

The carrying branch

Woodbury Morgan

Figure’s celebrated son became the principal branch through which the old Vermont Morgan reputation—and the later Lippitt story—came forward.

03No. 406

The cornerstone sire

Peters’ Ethan Allen 2d

Closeness to No. 406 became a central test in selecting the Foundation Stock: identify the old ancestry still living, then hold it inside a named boundary.

048 + 17

08 stallions+17 mares

The surviving boundary

The complete twenty-five

Each was a registered Morgan, was selected for close descent to 406, and left a direct line in the living population. Every full Lippitt pedigree remains within this set.

The 25 Foundation Stock

Not merely a list.
A closed boundary.

Select a name to inspect its original register number. Together these horses define the complete documented foundation of the full Lippitt.

08 Foundation stallions

17 Foundation mares

01Registered

A recorded Morgan horse.

02Concentrated

As close a cross to Peters’ Ethan Allen 2d 406 as possible.

03Carried forward

A direct line still represented in the living Lippitt population.

The generations between

The twenty-five are the boundary.
These horses are the bridge.

A pedigree is not preserved by names alone. Between the Foundation Stock and today stand generations of horses—and breeders who chose to carry the same concentrated line forward.

Move through the record

Vintage photograph of Lippitt Billy Ash under saddle — **Lippitt Billy Ash***Ashbrook × Lippitt Sallie*

Vintage photograph of Lippitt Miss Nekomia with handlers — **Lippitt Miss Nekomia***Lippitt Moro × Nekomia*

Dyberry BobLippitt Billy Ash × Lippitt Miss Nekomia

Sam TwilightLippitt Sam Twilight × Lippitt Hannah

Black-and-white photograph of Sweet Success in a field — **Sweet Success***Moro Hill’s Adonis × Moro Hill’s Emelyn*

Archival photograph of Winloc Major Gifford standing at a fence — **Winloc Major Gifford***Winloc Sir Arthur × Ransomvale Mariah*

Black-and-white photograph of Ashwood Jess’s Pride in a field — **Ashwood Jess’s Pride***Ashwood Majestic × Ransomevale Bridget*

AshbrookA name carried through generations

What the record proves

No generation stands alone. Each name receives the line, and each mating decides what the next generation can inherit.

Vermont State Fair1911The preservation argument, stated plainly.

The fixed pattern
“Our pattern is therefore fixed already. That is our standard.”
“We are not groping for something that has never existed… We are united on a clearly defined object.”
H. S. WardnerOn preserving the ancient Morgan type · Vermont State Fair, 1911

Return to the reasonWhy the Lippitt exists Protect the recordRegistration, DNA, and transfers

Open the historical source notes

Foundation definition and criteria: The Lippitt Morgan Horse Registry Foundation Stock record; Jim Alexander, What Is a Lippitt Morgan?

Figure, Woodbury, and the line of descent: Lippitts, Their Conformation and Breeding; Registry archival material.

Wardner statement: H. S. Wardner’s 1911 Vermont State Fair address as preserved in Registry source material.