FOOTNOTES:
[3] Eclipse and O’Kelly, page 88; Theodore Andrea Cook, M. A., F. S. A.
[4] In 1891 President Benj. Harrison attended a meeting of The Association of Road and Trotting Horse Breeders, at White River Junction, Vermont. In the course of his remarks on that occasion he said: “I understand that it was so arranged that after I had seen the flower of manhood and womanhood in Vermont I should be given an exhibition of the next grade in intelligence and worth in the State—your good horses. I had, recently, through the intervention of my Secretary of War, the privilege of coming into possession of a pair of Vermont horses. They are all I could wish for, and, as I said the other day at the little village from which they came, they are of good Morgan stock, of which some one has said, ‘their greatest characteristic is that they enter into consultation with the driver, or rider, whenever there is a difficulty.’”—The Morgan Horse, page 27, Joseph Battell.