The stable of the late George Houstoun Waring, of Savannah, at Annandale Stock Farm, where the first Georgia Morgans were raised, consisted of four Morgans brought from Vermont and New Hampshire. They were, Enterprise, No. 423, chestnut with flaxen mane and tail; Paragon Black Hawk, the handsomest horse I ever saw, black with white star, very showy in tandem; Clive, beyond compare in Morgan perfection, for whom, at four years of age Mr. Waring refused $4,000; Bay Comet, perfect in form and disposition, dark with black points. There were fifty mares, nearly all Morgans. The finest of these was Rosalie Morgan, from Vermont. She was exhibited many years at the Georgia State Fairs, and at each would take the prizes for the best brood mare, best mare with colt at her side, and best trotting mare. When she appeared in these three classes no other mare stood any chance. Finally she was ruled out. She had nineteen colts, two of which I know sold for $600 each. Rosalie died at thirty-two years of age.

I bought from Mr. Waring a Bay Comet colt, daughter of Amanda Morgan, and named her Jeannie Dean. Jeannie was like a member of my family for thirty-one years. She was the perfect type in character and form.

Frank, a grandson of Enterprise, one of the later and best known Morgans was owned and trotted by William Henry Stiles, in 2:18¼; he inherited all the fine traits of “Old Justin Morgan.”

Annandale had a half-mile track, and every equipment for the care and comfort of this transplanted race.

The farm was situated in Habersham Co., in a luxuriant rolling valley of the beautiful mountainous section of Northeast Georgia; a section almost exclusively occupied by the summer estates of the wealthy rice and cotton planters of the Low Country.

J. W. Bryan.

Dillon, Georgia, September, 1911.

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