LaLiska is a wonderful representation of what a Morgan Horse should look like. She is from Lippitt bloodlines. She has a wonderful temperament, gentle and sweet. She has excelled in the Western Pleasure arena as well as holding her own in the Justin Morgan classes. She has beautiful type, large expressive eyes, small ears and a willing attitude. She also has that fabulous shoulder layback and lovely neck.

In 1791 Justin Morgan, a singing school master in Randolph, walked home from Springfield, Ma. with a bay 2 year old colt taken as payment of a debt. That colt he called Figure, soon created a legend for his ability to outwork, outrun, out trot, and out walk any horse in the area. As his saga grew over the 30 years he lived in Vermont, countless sons and daughters were produced in his image. For Morgan's horse, now better known by his master's name, was one of the greatest breeding stallions of any time - the only one to establish a breed by himself.

From Vermont the popularity of Morgan blood spread across a growing nation. Every generation added to its luster: Black Hawk, epitome of equine symmetry and perfection at the trot, Ethan Allen, champion trotter of the world, renowned in the Racing Hall of Fame and familiar from Currier and Ives prints, and Green Mountain Morgan, winner of premiums and championships as a blood stallion as far away as Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan.

In harness or under saddle, his marvelous disposition and willing attitude make him an ideal family horse. An amateur can raise and train him with minimal help. An easy keeper, he remains healthy and sound over a life span 10 years longer than most breeds. On a noisy, busy road or a mountain trail, working cattle or accepting the discipline of dressage, teaching children the basics of horsemanship or showing off his brilliant and animated gaits in a Horse Show Park class - Morgan's do it all, with beauty and enjoyment.

Lippitt Morgan's

Of the four family lines, the Lippitt strain has the fewest numbers, though probably the most devoted fanciers. The Lippitt Morgan is a unique horse. It is a member of a group of Morgan's who trace back to the original "Figure," Justin Morgan's stallion, on a maximum number of lines with a minimum of known out crosses to other breeds of horses; no crosses at all to the Saddlebred. Other strains of horses appear of course, when pedigrees are traced back far enough, as is inevitable in the case of a breed descending from a single stallion.

The name "Lippitt" is borrowed from the breeding prefix of Robert Lippitt Knight, a prominent Rhode Island figure, who established and operated the Green Mountain Stock Farm in Randolf, Vermont from 1927 to 1962. With the purchase of the stallions Ashbrook and Moro and the mares Adeline Bundy, Nekomia, Croydon Mary and Green Mountain Twilight from the estate of A. Fullerton Phillips, he reestablished a strain already well known in northern Vermont.

Carrying the blood of Ethan Allen 2nd and the famous old Peters Morgan, they were of a type best described as that of old Green Mountain Morgan 42 and his famous old sire Gifford Morgan 30. Small, shorter body and up-headed with a trappy gait, they were strong harness horses ideally suited to their mountain location. Tracing as they did in numerous lines back to Billy Root, Royal Morgan and the Hubbard Horse, they are often referred to as high percentage Morgan's, carrying numerous crosses back to the original blood.

Robert Lippitt Knight chose almost exclusively from the "Old Vermont" stock, though a few times he did outcross to Government and other lines to produce horses such as Lippitt Mandate, by the government stallion Mansfield.

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