About Sport Morgan
Sport Morgan is a reference on the Morgan horse as a sport horse. It covers the four classic families, the historic stallions that shaped them, coat colors and the most common crosses, and what the breed brings to dressage, eventing, combined driving, hunter classes and distance riding.
What the site covers
The pages are written for riders, drivers and breeders who want to understand where a Morgan comes from and what it is likely to be good at. The bloodlines page traces the Government, Lippitt, Brunk and Western Working families. The stallion register lists foundation sires and sport-bred stallions with their pedigrees. The colors and crosses pages answer the questions people ask most often, and the Little Brook Farm profile follows one New England breeding program in detail.
Sport Morgan is an editorial reference. Horses and farms named on these pages are named for their place in the breed's history.
How the facts are handled
Pedigrees, register numbers, colors and heights are taken from breed records and published breed histories, such as the American Morgan Horse Register and the history of the U.S. Morgan Horse Farm at Weybridge, Vermont, now run by the University of Vermont. Where the records used do not give a date, a height or a pedigree, or where two of them disagree, the cell is left empty rather than guessed. Competition results are given as they were recorded at the time.