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Subject: Lippitts (Was Do Morgans Come In Grey?)
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Date: 1993-05-15 08:32:58 PST


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>One question: What are Lippitts?


Lippitt Morgans are the direct descendents of the herd kept by Robert
Knight and dispersed upon his death in 1962. Robert Knight objected
to the Morgan registry changes in the 1930s, which permitted Saddlebreds
and Standardbreds to be registered as Morgans. He strongly opposed
inundating the registry with 'alien' blood. He line bred his herd
from Ashbrook, the 'crowning glory' of the breeding program started
by A. Fullerton Phillips, who systematically searched the Vermont
and New Hampshire country roads and farms for 'the few purely bred
Morgans that still survived after the turn of the century'.
Ken Telford writes that 'no less than 30 of the first 55 horses in
the Lippitt register were owned or bred by this one man (Phillips).'

Phillips produced 43 foals with not 'a single drop of saddlebred blood'.
Knight's breeding program was intended to preserve and perpetuate
the original Morgan type. Knight's herd was dispersed on his death,
but the Lippitt club breeders continue to work toward the same goal.

Lippitt Morgans are smallish (14.1 to 15.2h), upheaded with
a ve"