Evolution of the Horse
This means a gradual development from one form to another.
What is evolution?
Figure was this color.
What is bay?
General Sheridan and his famous Rienzi were in what war?
What is the Civil War?
This person donated their 400-acre farm in 1907.
Who is Colonel Joseph Battell?
This is the maximum number of letters and spaces in a registered Morgan's name.
What is 25?
The Dawn horse, also known as this, was the earliest ancestor of the horse.
What is Eohippus?
This person became president the same year Figure was born.
Who is George Washington?
Comanche fought in what battle?
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Where was Colonel Joseph Battell's farm located?
Middlebury, Vermont
The first Grand National Morgan Horse Show was held where in 1973?
What is Detroit, Michigan?
Did the horse change in size from small to large or large to small as it evolved?
Small to large
What is Thoroughbred?
What is the Pony Express?
To what department was the farm donated?
The Morgan breed celebrated its bicentennial in what year?
What is 1989?
He was the first "one-toed" member of the Equidae family.
Who is Piiohippus?
This person acquired Figure for a payment of a debt.
Who is Justin Morgan?
The program provided Morgan
stallions throughout the nation to improve the
native stock for farm, city, and military use.
What is the Remount Program?
Name three breeds the Morgan Horse was used to establish.
The Standardbred, the American
Saddlebred, the American Quarter Horse and the Tennessee Walking Horse
In what year was the First Volume of the Morgan Horse Registry published and by whom?
What is 1894 by Colonel Joseph Battell?
Name the five earliest ancestors of the horse.
Eohippus, Mesohippus, Merychippus, Piiohippus, Equus
Name three of Figure/Justin Morgan's sons.
Sherman, Bulrush, and Woodbury
True or False: The Morgan horse was used in the pioneering of the east.
False - it was used in the pioneering of the west.
Who currently operates the farm?
Name the colors of Justin Morgan's three most famous sons.
What were Sherman (bright red chestnut), Woodbury (dark chestnut) and Bulrush (dark bay)?