About the Morgan Breed .The ancestry of this American breed of light
horse has caused a great amount of controversy over many years,
but a measure of agreement has now been reached and it seems
that the horse ‘Justin Morgan’, owned by Thomas
Justin Morgan, was foaled in 1789 in the Green mountain country
of Vermont, USA. This bay, standing 14.2 hands, reproduced to
type, character and conformation with extreme exactness, and
won great fame and popularity, resulting in the service of large
numbers of mares. The horse died in 1821, having established
one of America’s most famous general-purpose breeds. The
defined height is 14 to 15 hands.