Sealect - American Morgan Horse Association

T
he story of the stallion Sealect is a rich and fascinating
one, steeped in the early roots of the Morgan breed,
and intertwined with the historic Townshend Farm
breeding program which has produced more than
340 Morgans with the Townshend prefix to date, most of which
carry Sealect blood. Townshend has also played a significant role in
spreading the Sealect influence throughout the breed. Descendants
of Sealect have excelled in virtually all disciplines, as sport and
Western working horses, and in all areas of the show ring, across
the U.S. as well as other countries. The prepotency of Sealect has
continued to dominate and produce champions, decade after
decade with an unbroken line of national and world champions
every year for more than 60 years. It is impossible, within the
scope of this article, to mention all the worthy horses and breeding
programs that have played an important role, but here we will offer
some of the history, including rare pictures, which have never been
published before, provided by Nancy Ela Caisse of Townshend
Farm. And, we will attempt to introduce just a few examples
from some of the various disciplines to illustrate the tremendous
versatility of this powerful bloodline.
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C.C. STILLMAN,
BREEDER OF SEALECT
. C. Stillman, the breeder of Sealect, was born in 1877 in New
York, a descendant of Colonial New England ancestors. He
attended Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1898, and
went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1902, retiring as the
company’s vice president in 1918. His first exposure to Morgans came
when he accompanied Col. Spencer Borden to the Vermont State
Fair, held in White River Junction, in 1908. Deeply impressed with
the breed and its unique history, he determined to begin breeding
himself, and was among the founding members of The Morgan
Horse Club that was established at the next year’s fair in White River
Junction in 1909. Stillman was chosen as secretary-treasurer.
When Joseph Battell, founder of the Morgan Register, died in
1915, it was Stillman who came to the rescue. He purchased the
TMH thanks Nancy Caisse for many of the historic pictures appearing with this article.
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Sealect
Left page: Sealect and
Anna Ela attend a parade;
and under saddle.
This page, clockwise from
top: Sealect and Anna Ela,
The Morgan Horse Show,
Upwey Oval, 1939; Sealect,
headshot; Sealect, again in
1939, pulling a stone boat.
Register from Middlebury College, which had received it as part of
Battell’s estate, and he took on the responsibility of sponsoring it as
Battell had done. Stillman had the foresight to form a corporation,
and also provided space for The Morgan Horse Club in his New
York offices where the work of the Register was carried on.
Several members of The Morgan Horse Club were concerned
with the Government Farm’s use of some Saddlebred and
Thoroughbred strains to try to increase size and improve the
Morgan as a saddle horse type. They believed this could be done
without the outcrosses, and wrote the U.S. Government Farm a
letter which expressed their disappointment, and encouraged them
to weed these horses out and focus on the original type with a high
percentage of pure Morgan blood. Stillman, feeling a diplomatic
approach was best, commissioned the life-sized bronze statue of
Justin Morgan on a pedestal of Vermont granite to be made by
Frederick H. Roth, Englewood, New Jersey, one of the foremost
animal sculptors of the world. He bore the entire $18,000 cost
himself, and had it presented by the Morgan Horse Club to the U.S.
Morgan Horse Farm on the centennial of Justin Morgan’s death,
October 1, 1921. Stillman believed the statue would serve as a silent
but persistent reminder of the original Morgan horse type and
character. The statue was accepted by Dr. John R. Mohler, Chief of
Bureau of Animal Industry, and still stands on the grounds of the
farm today, now owned by the University of Vermont.
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BIRTH OF SEALECT
uring this same period, Stillman was diligently working on
his own breeding program to illustrate what could be done
with the pure old Morgan bloodlines, and resolved to produce the
best and most versatile Morgans from these lines that could be
bred. He chose the mare Bell Marea (Knox Morgan x Underwood
Mare by Ned Norton) then owned by H. R. C. Watson, another of
the original founders of the Morgan Horse Club known for his
adherence to type, and inbred early Morgan bloodlines. Stillman
sent Bell Marea to the popular stallion Sir Ethan Allen (Ethan
Allen 3d x Walter Russell mare by Corbett), then standing at the
Mountain View Farm of Elmer Darling, president of The Morgan
Horse Club. The result was Sealect.
Foaled April 6, 1921, at Stillman’s farm on his inherited Kenridge
estate at Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York, Sealect 7266 is recorded
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Sealect
Left to right: As a yearling; and in his twenties in the early 1940s.
in Volume V of the Morgan Register as a solid dark chestnut with
a tiny white spot in his forehead. He stood about 15 hands and
was of excellent old type Morgan conformation with good bone
and substance, well-muscled with powerful hindquarters, round
barrel, deep laid back shoulder, with good length of neck perfectly
positioned for a fine upheaded appearance. He had an abundance
of flowing mane and tail, with expressive head and large intelligent
eye. Like his ancestor, the original Justin Morgan, his abundance of
energy and bright attitude always showed off his beauty, yet with
a tractable pleasant disposition and strong willingness to work.
To his foals he passed on his beauty, up-headedness and correct
conformation, style and action, stamping his image on descendants
through both his sons and daughters for generations.
At the time of Sealect’s birth, the country was still struggling to
recover from the effects of World War I which had ended in 1918.
The U.S. sent over a million horses in support of the Allied Forces
and American troops, including many from the U.S. Remount
program which carried Morgan blood. Few returned. Additionally,
the number of automobiles in the U.S. increased from 8,000 in
1900 to more than eight million by 1920, wiping out the need for
Morgans as family driving horses. Sealect was one of barely over a
hundred Morgan foals registered in 1921, and one of four that year
bred by Stillman.
Stillman was pleased with him and kept the colt, hoping to
cross him with daughters of his favorite stallion Donald (Bob
Morgan x Fanny by Ethan Allen 3d). Sealect’s first foal was the
chestnut filly Seadon, bred by Stillman, and out of the mare
Donola (Donald x Lady Roberts by Billy Roberts), foaled March 26,
1926. Stillman liked this filly enough to repeat the cross and bred
Donola back to Sealect for the following year. Sealina, a chestnut
filly marked with a star, was foaled March 29, 1927. Stillman would
have had two valuable mares for his breeding program but never
lived to see the second foal. When The Morgan Horse Club met
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for their annual meeting at White River Junction on August 25,
1926, Stillman was not present. They were dismayed to learn he
had unexpectedly suffered a fatal heart attack just a few days earlier
on August 16th while aboard the S.S. Aquitana, traveling back to
the U.S. from England in order to return in time for the meeting.
The future of The Morgan Horse Club was, for a time, uncertain.
His brother, Dr. Ernest Stillman, agreed to carry on the Registry
for a time until other arrangements could be made, but he had no
particular interest in the Morgan breed.
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SEALECT: EARLY LIFE –
CHARLES STONE
ost of Stillman’s horses were purchased from his estate by
Charles Stone, who was not a charter member of The Morgan
Horse Club, but an early and influential one, having served as vice
president since 1913. He was the one assigned to make plans for
carrying on the Register, and he also took on the responsibility of
providing offices for the club as had Stillman before him. Among
the horses transferred to Stone after Stillman’s death were Sealect,
the mare Donola with her weanling foal, Sealina, and her yearling
filly, Seadon. During the Stone years, Sealect was shown extensively
by Charles’s son, Whitney Stone.
The first Sealect foal to be used for breeding was Sea-Lass, a
chestnut filly with a strip foaled in May 1928, out of Cornwall Lass.
This filly was a full sister of the well-known stallion Cornwallis.
Stone sold her as a two-year-old and she changed hands, but went
on to produce several foals. There are a few descendants from this
line, among them the bay mare Chipewa Milady (Casland Grand
Knight x Chippewa Belle) who won several Pleasure Driving
Championships at the Morgan Gold Cup and Buckeye Morgan
Challenge shows from 1994-99.
One foal from Sealect’s 1928 crop would prove to be particularly
influential, the mare Lady Sealect out of My Lady Knox who, like
SEALECT SON
Cornwallis
Left to right: Cornwallis (Sealect x Cornwall Lass) and Anna Ela; Cornwallis at Charles E. Allen’s in New York.
Sealect’s dam, was a daughter of the outstanding Knox Morgan
(Mountainer Morgan x Augustus Dunlap mare by Sagadhoc, 2d
dam by Ethan Allen 50). Stone sold Lady Sealect as a two-yearold filly to the U.S. Government Farm. She stood up to their rigid
culling standards, and the Government not only retained her,
but went on to breed ten foals from her, three from Bennington,
four from Mansfield, and three from Goldfield. Several of her
lines bred on and have appeared repeatedly through decades of
national and world champions and top stars among performance
Morgans. Most commonly seen are lines through the mare Ceres
by Bennington; Glady and Hermina, full sisters by Mansfield, and
the stallion Knickerbocker by Goldfield.
Ceres produced a total of 14 foals, including three bred by the
U.S. Government Farm before she was sold to Merle D. Evans for his
Devan breeding program. Gaylad by Mansfield produced several
descendants including the stallion Time After Time (Serenity
Flight Time x Jason’s Lizette), winner of the 1980 Grand National
Two-Year-Old Park Harness Stallion Stake. The yearling filly, Roz,
and weanling filly Tippy Tin, both by Delmont, were sold to Evans
along with the dam. Roz produced eight foals, most notably the
stallion O C R, by Captor, who is a factor in many pedigrees. Evans
retained most of the Ceres daughters, as well as the stallion Devan
Comet by Captor.
Glady, foaled in 1936, was also a dominant line, producing a
total of 14 foals and appearing most often through the Government
bred Meade (x Goldfield), 30 foals; Payday (x Mansfield), 36 foals;
Quizkid (x Ulysses), 86 foals; and 1965 Eastern National Champion
Stallion Gladgay’s Pride (x Orcland Leader), 29 foals.
Glady’s full sister Hermina produced a total of 11 foals, several
for the U.S. Government Farm and later for the University of
Connecticut. Her line appears most often through the Government
bred stallion Topfield (x Panfield).
Knickerbocker sired 16 foals, including Ethan B (x Betty Ross),
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Annfield (x Salley Ann), and Jean B (x Berry’s Eunice). Ethan B
was bred to his half-sister Annfield, dam of nine foals, to produce
the mare Wind-Crest Annfield, dam of ten foals including the full
brothers by Upwey Ben Don, Oldwick Crusader and Windcrest
Splendor. Jean B was dam of six foals including 1966 Eastern
National Grand Champion Stallion Kadenvale Don. Don sired a
total of 75 offspring among them Fiddler’s Majesta, dam of Tug
Hill Whamunition, 1990 World Champion Stallion and holder
of nine world titles, and of the great breeding stallion Tug Hill
Commando.
Cornwallis (x Cornwall Lass), foaled in 1930, was sold by Stone
as a yearling and would later prove to be the premier son of Sealect
who would carry on the direct sire line. Sealect Lass, another full
sister to Cornwallis, was foaled the next year in 1931. She produced
five foals, among them Sealect Lady Jane, dam of 11 foals, and was
sold to Margaret Rice for her Meredith Morgans breeding program.
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ANNA DICKSON ELA AND
TOWNSHEND FARM
ealect was then owned for a short time by Phillip McMorrow.
Nancy relates the story of how Sealect finally came into the
hands of her mother, Anna Dickson Ela. “The family had a farm in
Weston, Massachusetts known as Ivey Abbey. They raised all their
own livestock, vegetables, everything, but her father had a family
rule, they would not have any stallions on this farm. However, in
1929, grandfather bought another farm property to raise Morgan
horses in Townshend, Vermont, a little over 100 miles away. Mom
was 20 years old then, but more and more began to take a hand
in the horse-breeding at the Townshend farm. She had a beloved
Morgan mare, Gladwin (Ethan Allen 3d x Delight by Result)
who was given to her when she was child, ten or 11 years old,
and that mare would do anything, and she thought it would be
good to breed foals from her. The foals she bred from Gladwin
were Sadloss (x Vigilant) in 1928, then three by John A. Darling:
Sadwin in 1930, Gladloss in 1931 and Townshend Lass in 1932.
Later in the fall of 1932, Mom heard that Sealect was being offered
for sale in Boston at an auction to close out an estate. She wanted
him for breeding because of the bloodlines, he was a grandson of
Ethan Allen 3d who was the sire of Gladwin. So she went to the
auction and bought Sealect for $300. To keep peace in the family,
Sealect was registered at first in my grandma’s name (Ruth Bennett
Dickson) and during this time mom made arrangements to keep
him in the neighboring town of Wayland, Massachusetts until she
could get the Townshend farm going.”
Anna would commute the 108 miles from Weston to
Townshend during the summers and on weekends. She married
Roger Ela in 1936, and May 22 that year, the filly Selection (Sealect
x Gladloss) was foaled. This was the first Sealect foal Anna bred,
and was the first of 12 foals produced by Gladloss. During this
same period, Frances Bryant sent her mare Lucy (Troubadour
Of Willowmoor x Frank Smith Mare by Allendorf) to Sealect,
producing the mares Delight Marea in 1936 and Lusealect in 1937
as foundation for her Meeting Waters Farm. Meanwhile, the farm
flourished, with more Morgan horses and a nationally respected
herd of registered Holsteins. In 1958, the farm was moved back to
Bolton, Massachusetts to be near Roger’s law offices, but kept the
name Townshend Farm as it is today.
The first offspring of Sealect to bear the Townshend prefix
was Townshend West River in 1938, the second of Gladloss’s foals,
and an exceptional show horse. Eight foals were from the golden
cross to Sealect, including the mare Townshend Sealecta, dam of
14 Townshend foals, Townshend Gladalect, dam of nine, and the
glamorous Townshend Harryet, dam of four. Townshend Farm
regularly entered their horses in the Vermont 100 mile rides with
consistent winners through the 1960s, Gladalect winning third
at least five times, while Harryet was National Champion Mare
in 1958 (Note: the term “national champion” is used in this article
to denote wins at the “Eastern National” in the years before 1973
when Grand National was established). Two other Sealect daughters
which often appear in the pedigrees of show and performance
Morgans today are Tinkerbell (x Friendly by Mansfield) bred by
Mrs. D. L. Brown and foaled in 1941, and Clistie, the second foal
Anna bred from Townshend Lass (John A. Darling x Gladwin).
Clistie, dam of ten foals, was a foundation mare for the Gliddens
of Ashland Morgans in New Hampshire.
When Anna was asked to describe Sealect and why she liked him
so much, she responded, “Sealect was a favorite because he could do
it all. He had charisma. He was proud and strong. A smart horse
with a great disposition. I rode him, drove him, used him in parades
and often won the famous “paper chases” through the woods and
fields—in those days classes were often open to everyone—I even
showed him at Boston Garden—then too he could pull the stoneboat—he would try and do most anything—he had the pedigree I
knew and wanted to continue that look and disposition.”
Nancy Caisse recalls another son of Sealect, Townshend
Donlecto, out of Donaldis (John A. Darling x Manomet Dondinah
by Donald). “Donaldis was a beautiful mare. She was bred to
Sealect and produced Donlecto in 1939. He was a hot little pistol,
rode, drove, jumped, and showed extensively. He would have
made a breeding stallion, but they already had Sealect and another
stallion did not fit in the family picture at the time. He was very
smart, well-trained and everyone wanted to ride him because
he went so beautifully. But, he became grandma’s riding horse.
Although losing her eyesight, she continued riding every day. She
was in her 60s and rode him up until she died in 1957, when she
was 78. Donlecto just took care of her. One day she went riding and
didn’t come back. When someone went to check, they found a tree
had fallen across the trail. Donlecto could have gone under it, but
was smart enough to know grandma would have been knocked off,
so he refused to move and just wouldn’t go.”
Sealect’s last, and 38th registered foal, born after his death,
was the Gladloss daughter Townshend Sealois foaled in August
1944. Later, with the formation of the Lippitt Club formed in 1973
by a group of individuals dedicated to preserving old Vermont
bloodlines, Sealect was designated as one of the 25 Lippitt
foundation horses, due to his strong sire line through Peter’s Ethan
Allen 2d, and solid blend of other pure old New England lines.
CORNWALLIS (Sealect x Cornwall Lass by Donald,
2d dam Bonnie Jean by Peter’s Ethan Allen 2d)
arly in the summer of 1944, Anna began looking for a worthy
stallion son to carry on the Sealect line. She saw an ad in the
Green Mountain Bulletin that Cornwallis was for sale in New York,
drove up there, and bought him on the spot. Registry volume VI
records the transfer from C. E. Allen of New York to Anna Dickson
Ela on June 23, 1944.
Nancy remembers Cornwallis well. “He was the first horse I
got to ride that was not a pony, back when I was five or six years
old. Cornwallis was ahead of his time—a little taller than his sire,
about 15.1, and a little stretchier. A blend of Cornwallis with a little
Government and a little Upwey Ben Don was a golden cross for us
and many others, and a surefire recipe for producing winners.”
Chestnut with no white markings, and an elegant upright
neck and refined head, Cornwallis had presence, energy and power,
leaving an indelible mark upon the breed.
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KEY LINES THROUGH CORNWALLIS
CORISOR OF UPWEY: (x Arissa by Mansfield), was bred by
Charles E. Allen of Indian Spring Stock Farm, Baldwinsville, New
York, and foaled in 1942. He was owned briefly by Owen Moon,
then sold to Martha Van Buskirk. His daughter Corene (x Upwey
Cliene) was the dam of Bar-T Invader (x Orcland Leader), 1969
Western National Grand Champion stallion owned by Arthur
Perry. Krinisor (x Krinkle) was the dam of Bar-T Regina, who
produced 14 foals, including the great Apollo’s Reflection, 1981
World Champion Stallion. Windrush High Hope produced seven
foals including Austin Flying Cloud (x Mad River Sailor), dam of
11 foals, among them 1990 World Champion Mare Liberation
Starbrite (x Wham Bam Command). The stallion Corisham
(x Petersham Fitzie), bred by Martha Van Buskirk at her Holly
Farm in Pemaquid, Maine, sired 80 offspring, including many
competitive show horses in Maine, as well as the notable trail mare
U C Charisma (x U C Charity). Foaled in 1979, she was a regular
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MAJOR SIRES OF THE
contender in trail rides of various lengths
including winning all three divisions of the
GMHA 100 mile rides.
Top to bottom, left to right: Pecos (Cornwallis x Hepatica); Sealect Of Wind-Crest (Pecos x Janee); Parade (Cornwallis x Mansphyllis) and Broadwall Drum Major (Parade x Debutansque);
Elm Hill Charter Oak (Pecos x Bar-T Coredor); Empyrean Apollo (Pecos x Windcrest Nancy
C); Corisham (Corisor Of Upwey x Petersham Fitzey); Corisor Of Upwey (Cornwallis x Arissa).
PECOS: (x Hepatica by Monterey), also
bred by C.E. Allen, was a legend in his own
right, siring 104 registered offspring. His
first foal was the great stallion Sealect Of
Wind-Crest (x Janee), bred by Phillip and
Alice Hess, Akron, New York, and foaled in
1950. Originally registered as Ledgewood
Select, he was sold to Ted Davis and reregistered as Sealect Of Wind-Crest. He
went on to sire 70 foals including the
stallion Applevale Cadence (x Harmony
Brook), winner of the 1970 and 1972 Circle
J Grand Champion Stallion National titles
and sire of 81 foals. These included Taryall
Gene Thiery (x Michele’s Desiree) who was
among the first shipment of Morgans sent
to England for Angela Connor Bulmer’s
Monnington Morgans, where he was known
as Tarryall Maestro, serving as a foundation
sire for the Morgan breed in that country.
Applevale Donalect (x Windcrest Dona
Lee) sired 51 foals, including the mare
Springervale Pecora (x Ledgewood Pecora)
who also went to Monnington Morgans,
and the memorable Trijas Mr Pepperlect
(x Little Miss Pepper), sire of 104 including
Sherry Cole’s Tedwin Touch O’ Class, 1984
winner of Grand National Two-Year-Old
Park Harness Stallion Stake and 1985 ThreeYear-Old Park Harness Stallion. Other
sons were Applevale Challenger (x Valatie)
owned by Saddleback Farms and winner of
the 1974 Grand National Americana Pairs
Championship; Petalbrook Sigmalect, sire
of 109 foals including UVM Watchman
(x UVM Kris). Watchman was the sire of
133 foals, which included UVM Mystic (x
UVM Teatime) dam of 1993 and 1996 WC
mare UVM Unity (x UVM Lash).
Daughters of Sealect Of WindCrest included Wind Crest Showgirl (x
Windcrest’s Delight), the 1964 and 1965
National Champion mare, and Applevale
Cassandra (x Townshend Tally) 1972
Grand Champion mare at the Circle J
National show. Cassandra carried two
additional crosses to Sealect through
Townshend Sealois and the Cornwallis
daughter Townshend Starlet, also out of
Gladloss, and was the dam of five foals.
One of the best-known sons of Pecos
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was Empyrean Apollo (x Windcrest Nancy C), bred by Gordon
Voorhis and foaled in 1970. This legendary stallion lived just four
short years. He won the Two-Year-Old Park Harness Championship
at the New England Regional show in 1972, and left 24 offspring in
his short career, including 1980 WC mare, Van Lu Love Story (x
Westwold Dona Resa); Apollo’s Merry Don (x Barbara Dee), sire of
46 foals including 1984 World Champion Stallion Van Lu Starbuck,
also out of Westwold Dona Resa and sire of 84 foals; Tara’s Hallmark
(x Bar-T Regina), winner of the 1980 Grand National Open Western
Pleasure Stallion Stake and sire of 28 foals; and Apollo’s Reflection,
sire of 96 foals including Tara’s Rebecca (x Southerly Maria), dam
of ten foals, among them 1989 World Champion Junior Stallion
Tug Hill Celebrity (x Wham Bam Command), himself the sire of
World Champion Stallion Man About Town LPS.
Other noted sons of Pecos included Elm Hill Charter Oak (x
Bar-T Coredor out of Corene), owned by Saddleback Farms, sire
of 156 foals; Lippitt Pecos (x Lippit Tilly), owned by W. Robert
Morgan’s Triton Farms and sire of 89 foals; and Applevale Red Fox
(x Windcrest Dona Lee), also owned by W. Robert Morgan and sire
of 87 foals.
Pecos was also sire of the outstanding mare Sweet Pepper (x
Little Miss Pepper). Bred by Mrs. Ayelin Richards and originally
registered as R.R. Tracy-Mansfield, she was sold to Waseeka
Farm and produced five foals including the well-known stallion
Waseeka Peter Piper (x Waseeka Here Tiz), who left his mark on
the West Coast for the Bowers’s Mantic Morgans, and was sire of
171 with many exceptional Morgans tracing through this line.
Sweet Pepper was also the dam of 1974 World Champion Mare
Trijas Vigilpepper (x Orcland Vigildon), who carried a line back to
the Cornwallis daughter Seneca Lady Esther through her second
dam, Little Miss Pepper (Brown Pepper x Golden River Dona).
Another Pecos daughter was Ledgewood Pecora (x Janee), dam
of seven foals including Applevale Boy King (x Kingston), Grand
Champion Stallion at the 1972 Gold Cup National show. Boy King,
bred by Gordon Voorhis, went on to sire 299 progeny, among them
the mare Schenectady (x Springbrook Quizella) who was Grand
Champion mare of the 1972 Jubilee National Show, as well as 1976
World Champion Mare and winner of other national titles.
Corisham
AND OFFSPRING
Top to bottom, left to right: Corisham; Weatherwell Celsius
and Murray Gibson; Shananigan, owned by Ron & Sandra Johnson,
Hermitage Farm; Highover Independence and Chris Cassenti.
Photos © Bob Moseder; Jan Lynick; Pheneuf
PARADE: Among the best known sons of Cornwallis was the
stallion Parade bred by Mr. and Mrs. J. Cecil Ferguson in 1948 at
their Broadwall Farm in Rhode Island. Parade’s dam, Mansphyllis
(x Mansfield), was the first Morgan owned by the Fergusons, which
they purchased from her breeder, Frances Bryant. They chose to
breed her to Cornwallis, then standing at Townshend Farm. Parade
was National Champion Stallion in 1955 and major contender at
many shows. While traveling in Europe, the Fergusons visited the
famous Lippizan Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, which
was under the direction of the great horseman Colonel Alois
Podhajsky. The Fergusons became friends with Podhajsky and his
wife, inviting them to visit their Morgan horse farm when they
brought the Lippizans to America for the 1964 tour of the U.S.
and Canada. The Podhajskys then had an opportunity to ride
Parade. Podhajsky was so impressed he asked the Fergusons to
allow Parade and his son Broadwall Drum Major (x Debutansque)
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Parade
AND OFFSPRING
Top to bottom, left to right: Parade and Col. Alois Podhajsky;
Easter Parade; Broadway Drum Major; Panorama and Bob Baker;
Broadwall Brigadier; Waseeka Thisizit; Broadwall St Pat.
to participate in the tour across North America. Parade and his
sons were also part of Ferguson’s internationally acclaimed fourin-hand coaching turnout.
Another son of Parade was Broadwall St Pat (x Lippitt Georgia)
who spent time at the famous Jackson Ranch in Montana, siring
several ranch horses before going to Leo and Louise Beckley of
Beckridge Farms in Washington. Among foals sired at the Jackson
ranch was the mare Lisa (x Felicity) who became the dam of
champion cutting stallion Mortana Pat (x Senatefield).
Broadwall St Pat went on to sire many foals for the Beckridge
program, among them the mare Beckridge Patora (x Orafield). Patora
became the dam of the famous dressage gelding, Beckridge Patrex.
Broadwall St Pat spent his final years as a ranch horse and
sire for Windswept Land & Livestock company in Baker City, OR,
siring a total 102 foals.
OTHER KEY CORNWALLIS LINES
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any trace through Allen’s Seneca Chief, a full brother
of Pecos, and Allen’s Major (x Nubbin), sire of 45 foals.
Important daughters were Seneca Sweetheart, a full sister of Pecos
who sold to Wind-Crest Farm and produced eight foals; and
Seneca Lady Esther (x Betsy Ross), dam of three foals including
the well-known stallion Brown Pepper (x Upwey Ben Don) and
his full sister Windcrest’s Debutante, dam of the great show mare
Townshend Debadonna, Grand Champion Mare at 1967 Eastern
National and 1968 Jubilee National Shows; and Townshend Gladys
(x Gladloss) dam of eight notable Townshend foals; and 1957
National Champion Mare Townshend Cornita (x Manzanita), dam
of five Townshend foals. Brown Pepper produced 26 foals and his
line is often an influence through the full sisters Little Miss Pepper,
dam of 17 foals including Sweet Pepper and Trijas Mr Pepperlect
(x Applevale Donalect and Donna Mae Pepper, who was dam
of Fiddler’s Contender (x Red Pepper), sire of Tedwin Topic (x
Waseeka’s Cajun Queen), who in turn sired 307 foals (Note: The
article “Legacy Mares: The Daughters of Tedwin Topic” by Renee
Page appears in the February 2013 issue of The Morgan Horse).
SEALECT LINES – PERFORMING
HORSES FOR ALL DISCIPLINES
CARRIAGE DRIVING AND CDE: Margaret “Peggy”
Gardiner’s Kennebec Count (Kennebec King x Helen May), tracing
through Lusealect, 3d dam of his sire, was one of the first Morgans
to excel in the sport of Combined Driving Event, or CDE. Peggy
gave Larry Poulin his first driving lessons and introduced him to
the Count in 1975. Poulin began with Count and his son Kennebec
Russel (x Kennebec Cory), sweeping the East Coast CDEs in 1985
and became the first Morgans to win the United States Equestrian
Team National Pairs Championship. Competing later that year
at the World Combined Driving Competition in England, they
won first in dressage and won the National Pairs Championship
again in 1986. At the World Championship Games in Germany
in 1987 they were the highest-scoring American entry, winning
the Cones phase, with second in Dressage. Count won his third
and final United States Equestrian Team (USET) National Pairs
Championship in 1988 at the age of 18, and is among a handful of
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famous Morgans which a Breyer model has been created for.
Lisa Singer won the 1994 U.S. Pairs Championship with
Meadowgreen Molly (Patchwork Lancelot x Penn Boys Patty),
Meadowgreen Treasure (Patchwork Lancelot x Penn Boy Pennie),
and Avalon Avant Guard (See Jay Apollo x Appleton Enchantress).
Molly and Treasure carry two Sealect crosses through their sire
whose 3d dam was Lady Topfield, a double granddaughter of
Topfield (Panfield x Hermina). Avant Guard’s 4th dam is Clistie,
and her dam’s sire, Green Mead’s Squire traces through his 2d dam,
Glady. Lisa also won the 1995 USET World Pairs Competion with
Molly and Treasure in Poland, and her Morgans were high score
U.S Competitor for Dressage World Pairs in 1997.
In 2001, she won U.S. Pairs Champions again with Avant
Guard and two other Morgans, Count On Me (Kennecbec Count
x Nemours Isabella) and LR Ami Bengali (HRM Eye of the Tiger
x LR Ami Allynda). Count On Me carries two additional crosses
to Sealect through his 3d dam Elm Hills Coralinda (Pecos x
Bar-T Coreder.) Bengali traces through his grandsire, whose dam
Roman Empress was a daughter of Oldwick Crusader. Lisa again
won the 2002 US Pairs Championship, using Count On Me and
Avant Guard.
Another great example of a Morgan competing in CDE is
Shelly Temple’s gelding LR Ami B-Line (Tanglewood Trade Wind
x Melissa’s Nora Bea), United States Equestrian Federation (USEF)
Horse of the Year for Combined Driving Single Pony in 2006,
2007, and 2010, as well as the Single Pony National Championship
for 2006, 2010, and 2011, and various championships at major
Morgan shows. “Cooper,” as he is known, carries four crosses to
Sealect, tracing his direct sire line through the Sealect Of WindCrest son Applevale Wayfarer. His sire, Tanglewood Trade Wind,
brings in two crosses through Elm Hill Bay Leader, sire of his dam.
Elm Hill Bay Leader’s 2d dam, Little Sister, traces her sire line to
Cornwallis through Allen’s Seneca Chief, and his 3d dam, Selection,
was another of the golden, Sealect x Gladloss, crosses. Cooper’s
2d dam, Sunrise Melissa, was a daughter of Lucas Ashmore, out
of Lusealect. Shelly drove him to 11th place in September 2011
at the (Federation Equestrian Internationale) FEI Pony World
Driving Championship, and the U.S. team won the bronze medal.
Shelly’s next goal is to qualify for the World Pony Championships
in France, November 2013.
DRESSAGE: Beckridge Patrex (Merry Dexter x Beckridge
Patora) owned by Deb Doughterty has two crosses to Sealect.
Merry Dexter’s dam Merry Bellstar was by Merry Knox by Meade.
In 1994 Deb became the first rider ever to earn a United States
Dressage Federation (USDF) Gold Medal on a Morgan (meaning
she had to earn at least two scores at Intermediare I or 2 and two
scores at Grand Prix with score of 60% or better in front of at least
two different judges at two different USDF competitions). Pattie
is one of only 12 Morgans in the history of the breed who have
successfully competed at Grand Prix level dressage. Nine of these
individuals carry crosses to Sealect.
Big Bend Doc Davis (Green Mt Doc Bird x Big Bend Connie
F) placed second and fourth in Grand Prix Musical Kur under
rider Mona Sansoucy-Gaudet at the 1988 New England Dressage
Empyrean Apollo
AND OFFSPRING
Top to bottom, left to right: Empyrean Apollo; Apollo’s Reflection;
Van Lu Love Story. Photos © J. Beeck; Scott Trees; Jack Schatzberg
Elm Hill Charter Oak
AND OFFSPRING
Left to right:
Elm Hill Charter Oak and
Jeanne Herrick;
Tedwin Top
This and Pat
Blickensderfer.
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Ledgewood Pecora
AND OFFSPRING
Top to bottom, left to right: Ledgewood Pecora and Applevale Boy
King; Applevale Boy King; Applevale Encore and Bob Whitney.
Photos © M. Patriquin; Gloria Axt
Sweet Pepper
AND OFFSPRING
Clockwise from top left: Sweet Pepper;
Waseeka Peter Piper; Trijas Vigilpepper.
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Association (NEDA) Freestyle Sweepstakes, his first Grand Prix
Level show. He was the only American horse on the grounds,
defeating several horses long listed by USET for that year’s Olympics.
In 1991, two Morgans, Browns Fiddle Dee (Dobson x Hoosier
Holly) with owner Deborah Gyulay and Ten Penny Action
(Applevale Voyager x Doverdale-Bambi-Jean) with owner Janet
Moulding became the first to win the American Morgan Horse
Association (AMHA) Open Competition Gold Medallions in
Dressage, which requires eight FEI scores including two from
Grand Prix. Browns Fiddle Dee carries four crosses to Sealect. His
sire Dobson is a great-grandson of Pecos out of Tika Tu Pepper by
Brown Pepper. Hoosier Holly is a granddaughter of Devan Cap,
whose 2d dam was Ceres, who was also 2d dam of his sire O.C.R.
In 2011 West Mt. Winston (Far Wells Brooks x West
Mt Santana) became the first Morgan in history to receive a
Performance Certificate for Grand Prix from the USDF and was
named Dressage Horse of the Decade by Horseworld.com. He
also holds three consecutive Dressage FEI Level Morgan World
Championships (2008-2010). He traces to Sealect through his
second dam, Santana Breeze, who was by Bar-T Invader.
ENDURANCE: Chelby (Calliope Jesse James x Small Night
Hawk), traces her sire line directly to Sealect in five generations
through her great-grandsire Allen’s Major. Chelby competed in
the Green Mountain Horse Association 100 mile ride seven times,
placing every single time, and winning grand champion for her
ride of 2000. She also competed in Pony Club, CDEs, trotting
and galloping races, and one, two, and three day competitive trail
drives. Chelby also won the 60 mile VERDA (Vermont Equine
Riding and Driving Association) trail drive 2001.
Fox Brush Custom Design (Funquest Erick x Bowood Elusiv
Dream) or “Rikki,” bred by MaryAnn Schafer and owned by
Wirraway Morgan in Australia, became the first purebred Morgan
to complete the 100 mile Tom Quilty Gold Cup, Australia’s premier
endurance ride, on a par with the Tevis cup in June 2013. She was
19th out of the 111 who finished from 245 starters. Her dam,
Bowood Elusiv Dream (Appleton Town Crier x Topfield’s Sunrise),
owned by MaryAnn, competed and won in Carriage, CDE,
Combined Training, Competitive Trail, and Dressage—she was the
first Morgan mare to win the AMHA Sport Horse Award. MaryAnn
also competed in jumping and many other sporting events with
her dam, Topfield’s Sunrise, who carries two Sealect crosses. Dream
carries three—one through Clistie and two through Lady Sealect.
Clistie was 2d dam of Appleton Town Crier, and Lady Sealect
was 2d dam of Topfield. The 2d dam of Topfield’s Sunrise was
Springbrook Princess by Quizkid. Rikki carries an additional cross
through her sire, Funquest Erick whose grandsire Funquest Talstar
was out of Star Of Cornwall, 2d dam Cornwallis Pat, by Colonel’s
Boy by Cornwallis. Funquest Erick was the second Morgan in the
history of the breed to be named Morgan Sport Horse, and the first
Morgan to be approved as an American Warmblood Sire with a
score of 83 percent placing him in top 10 of all Warmbloods tested.
ROADSTER: One of the most successful World Champion
Roadsters was the mare Greentree Mary Jane (Greentree Bonnie
John x Ashland Dark Mist). Ashland Dark
Mist was by Ashland Grand Slam (Gladgay’s
Grand March out of Glady x Clistie). Mary
Jane’s 2d dam was Ashland Amanda by
Gladgay’s Pride, full brother of Gladgay’s
Grand March. Her 3d dam, Ashland Polly
Darling, was again out of Clistie. Mary Jane
was hard to beat, winning eight world titles
in the Grand National Amateur Roadster
To Bike Finals from 1980-88, with over 20
Grand National wins altogether.
Another great roadster was Trijas Peter
Pepper (Trijas Mr. Peppertime x Citadel
Park Gypsey). Trijas Mr. Peppertime is out
of Little Miss Pepper. Citadel Park Gyspey
is by Whitmorr Sparkler by Kane’s High
Society by Quizkid. Peter Pepper’s 2d dam
is Ruverna Penny Pepper, also by Brown
Pepper. Peter Pepper swept up roadster
championships at major shows all across
New England, East Coast and Southern
States from 1994-2006, when he was 19
years old, as well as winning two world titles
for Roadster under saddle in 2000 and 2001.
OTHER SEALECT
Descendants
Top to bottom, left to right: Townshend Debadonna (Orcland Vigildon x Windcrest’s
Debutante out of Seneca Lady Esther by Cornwallis); Townshend Harryet (Sealect x Gladloss); Townshend Donlecto (Sealect x Donaldis); Glady (Mansfield x Lady Sealect by Sealect)
at 30 years old in winter coat; Townshend Melarry (Melody’s Morgan x Townshend Harryet
by Sealect); Tinkerbell (Sealect x Friendly); Townshend Cornita (Cornwallis x Manzinita);
Townshend Sealecta (Sealect x Gladloss) and Townshend Vigalect by Orcland Vigildon;
Townshend Gladalect (Sealect x Gladloss). Photos © Tarrance; Beverly; Ima Haas
TRAIL: Beckridge Royal Pat (Orcland
Royal Don x Beckridge Papita) was a great
ambassador for the Morgan breed, and was
a dominant factor at shows in the Pacific
Northwest from 1980 – 1990. Owned by
Kristina Hoover, he won the 1983 World
Champion Trail Horse for her when she
was a teenager, as well as many other medals
and championships for both her and her
sister Kasey, who won a 13 & under world
equitation title with him in 1989. Later
he pulled Kristina’s wedding carriage. Pat
traced to Sealect through his dam, Beckridge
Papita (Broadwall St Pat x Lita Field).
UVM Windfall (UVM Tennyson x
Merryweather Annie B) was an outstanding
example of versatility. Known as “Toby,” his
owner, Lora Dunlap, an Orlando attorney
who knew nothing about Morgans
happened to buy a $1 raffle ticket for a foal
while visiting the University of Vermont.
She won. And Toby continued her winning
streak with eight world titles, and at least
15 other national titles. Foaled in 1991, he
began winning championships at major
shows at two years old, winning well over
150 championship titles in everything from
pleasure, carriage, and obstacle driving,
hunter, trail, Western pleasure, sport horse
in hand, dressage 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level tests,
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Sealect Across the
DISCIPLINES
Top to bottom, left to right: Coaching: The Broadwall Four-In-Hand,featuring sons of
Parade; Dressage: Big Bend Doc Davis and Mona Sansoucy-Gaudet; Combined Driving:
Bowood Elusiv Dream, Spring Gladstone CDE; Jumping: Topfield’s Sunrise; Grand Prix Piaffe:
Beckridge Patrex and Deb Dougherty; Cowboy Dressage: Santa Fe Renegade and Eitan Beth
Halachmy; Endurance: Fox Brush Custom Design; Cutting: Mortana Pat and Ray Ellsworth
Jr.; Roadster: Greentree Mary Jane and Danny Williams. Photos © Freudy; Ronni; USEF; Bob Moseder
and many more.
Toby’s grandsire, Equinox Benn Adam,
traced to Sealect through his 4th dam,
Seneca Sweetheart. UVM Heidi, the dam
of Windfall’s sire, was by UVM Watchman.
On his dam’s side, Windfall has four more
crosses to Sealect through his 3d dam,
Ironwood Hello Dolly (Devan Robbie x
Devan GlenDeVere). Devan Robbie was
by Devan Comet, who was out of Ceres.
Devan Robbie traces to Sealect again on
his dam’s side, with Ceres as his 3d dam.
Devan GlenDeVere, Windfall’s 4th dam, was
by Devan De Vere, whose 2d dam was also
Ceres, and, Ceres was the 2d dam of his
sire, O C R. Sadly, Lora Dunlap, who had
become a staunch supporter of the Morgan
breed, passed away in 2010 of pulmonary
thrombosis at just 54 years old.
WESTERN – REINING AND
CUTTING: The 2012 World Champion
Reining Horse Heartquest Erin (Funquest
Erick x Shyann) has three crosses to Sealect.
In addition to the cross through his sire,
Heartquest Erin has two additional crosses
through his dam. His 3d dam is Wawayanda
Star Time by Wawayanda Wallington
out of Applevale Lyric, she by Sealect Of
Windcrest. 4th dam is Blair by Sconondoa
Chief out of Seneca Sweetheart.
More Apples Please (Mortana Pat x DJP
Storm Princess), who carries four crosses
to Sealect, won ten times at Oklahoma City
in various reining competitions between
1997-2007, including several world titles.
Black Rock Velvet, the second dam of More
Apples Please, was by Cedarcrest Challenge
out of Cedarcrest Delight, both by Green
Gates Henry J, a son of O C R. The dam
of Cedarcrest Challenge, Big Bend Lady’s
Pal (HyLee’s Lady’s Pal x Hopi Palawaki)
was a great-granddaughter of Quizkid.
More Apples Please was named a blue hen
mare for The Morgan Horse’s “Broodmare
Yearbook of 2010,” having produced two
world titled offspring both of which also
have multiple wins at Grand National.
These are Disco Patricia and Disco Kid CH,
both by Twin Pond Disco Kid.
Mortana Pat was a champion cutting
horse, and sire of many reining and
cutting horse champions. He beat many
top Quarter Horses in open competition
at cutting, as witnessed firsthand by the
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A PARTIAL LIST OF CHAMPIONS TRACING TO SEALECT
To illustrate the ongoing influence of Sealect on the Morgan breed the author traced a line of “national” and world champions over
several decades with strong ties to the stallion. The list is not complete, it is a sampling, of which we are featuring three decades from
1952-1982. Although the bloodline becomes more dilute after that, the influence remains impressive as is illustrated in the author’s
analysis of the pedigrees of LPS The Boogie Man and Long Acres Broadway. The term “National Champion” prior to 1973 refers to titles
won at the “Eastern National” now New England Regional.
1952 - Deerfield Meadson - National Champion Harness
1953 - Wind-Crest Donfield - National Champion Stallion
1954 - Windcrest Sentimental Lady - National Champion Park Saddle
1955 - Parade - National Champion Pleasure
1957 - Wind-Crest Donfield - National Champion Stallion,
National Champion Park Saddle, National Champion Park Harness
1957 - Townshend Cornita - National Champion Mare
1958 - Wind-Crest Donfield - National Champion Stallion,
National Champion Park Saddle, National Champion Park Harness
1958 - Townshend Harryet - National Champion Mare
1959 - Wind-Crest Donfield - National Champion Stallion
1959 - Waseeka’s ThisIzIt - National Champion Mare
1959 - Madalin - National Champion Park Harness
1960 - Wind-Crest Donfield - National Champion Stallion
1960 - Bay State Bonnie - National Champion Mare
1960 - U.C. Torin - National Champion Gelding
1961 – Lord Jeff - National Champion Pleasure Saddle
1962 – Panorama - National Champion Park Harness
1963 – Orcland Ike - National Champion Park Harness
1964 – Gladgay’s Pride - National Champion Stallion
1964 - Windcrest Show Girl - National Champion Mare
1965 - Gladgay’s Pride - Eastern National Champion Stallion
1965 - Windcrest Showgirl - Eastern National Champion Mare
1966 - Kadenvale Don - Eastern National Grand Champion Stallion
1966 - Wind-crest Maytime - Eastern National Grand Champion Mare
1966 - Twilight’s Tinkerbell - Western National Grand Champion Mare
1966 - Kane’s High Society - Jubilee National Grand Champion Stallion
1966 - Gladgay’s Pride - National Champion Park Saddle
1966 - Kadenvale Don - National Champion Park Harness
1967 - Townshend Debadonna - Eastern National Grand Champion Mare
1968 - Townshend Debadonna - Jubilee Grand Champion Mare
1968 - Waseeka’s Skylark - Gold Cup Grand Champion Stallion
1969 - Driggs Night Hawk - Gold Cup Grand Champion Stallion
1969 - Topside Mercedes - Circle J Grand Champion Mare
1969 - Bar-T Invader - Western National Grand Champion Stallion
1970 - Applevale Cadence - National Champion Stallion,
Circle J Grand Champion Stallion
1970 - Applevale Don Juan - Western National Grand Champion Stallion
1971 - Waseeka’s Moonshot - Circle J Grand Champion Stallion
1972 - Applevale Boy King - Gold Cup Grand Champion Stallion
1972 - Applevale Cassandra - Gold Cup Grand Champion Mare
1972 - Schenectady - Jubilee Grand Champion Mare
1972 - Applevale Cadence - National Champion Stallion,
Circle J Grand Champion Stallion
1973 - Prince Omar - World Champion Gelding
1973 - Whitmorr Serenade - Grand National Champion English Pleasure
1974 - Waseeka’s Moonshot - World Champion Stallion
1974 - Trijas Vigilpepper - World Champion Mare
1975 - Topside Firefly - World Champion Mare
1976 - Schenectady - World Champion Mare
1977 - HVK Viceroy - World Champion Stallion
1977 - VF Chiquita - World Champion Mare
1978 - Mair Shakespeare - Grand National Champion Stock Horse
1979 - Windy Hill Symphonee - Grand National Champion Stock Horse
1980 - Van Lu Love Story - World Champion Mare
1981 - Apollo’s Reflection - World Champion Stallion
1982 - HVK Viceroy - World Champion Stallion
World Champions LPS The Boogie Man (top), with eight crosses
to Sealect, and Long Acres Broadway (bottom), with 11,
exemplify the influence of the bloodline many decades later.
Photos © Howard Schatzberg
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author. Garnet Star (Mortana Pat x Snake River Firefly), the first
foal bred by the author, grew to 16h like her mother and was sold
to Earl Henny who had never owned Morgans before, and used her
for riding mountain trails in the wilderness. He claimed she was
the best mountain trail horse he ever had.
Twin Pond Disco Kid (UNH Campus Kid x CS Maid Of
Music), the sire of More Apples Please’s world-titled offspring, was
himself a World Champion Reining Horse, who also carries a cross
to Sealect. His dam, CS Maid of Music is by Windcrest Music Man,
whose second dam is Seneca Sweetheart.
VAQUERO HORSEMANSHIP: Col. John “Hutch”
Hutcheson of Gab Creek Farm in Georgia uses the Vaquero style
of horsemanship. His late foundation stallion, PKR Primavera Brio
(Primavera Valdez x Rose Hill Lapapillon), and his current stallion,
Gab Creek Golden Vaquero (PKR Primavera Brio x LBF Gay
Enchantment) have three crosses to Sealect through Brio’s dam.
Rose Hill Lapapillon is by Dee-Cee Traveler out of Cap’s Com-ette
by Devan Cap. Brio’s 3d dam was Town’s Gay Sallie by Firestone by
Townshend Gaymeade by Meade. Hutch has twice taken a full sister
of Brio, Gab Creek Gay Mashanta, on his wilderness pack trips
to Wyoming. Hutch’s article,“Scaling Mountains on a Morgan,”
The Morgan Horse March 2012, was entered in the prestigious
American Horse Publications 2013 awards and won First Place of
21 entries for Feature, Single Article, Circulation under 10,000. It
features his adventures with horses of this bloodline.
COWBOY DRESSAGE: Eitan Beth Halachmy is known
for his patented Cowboy Dressage, which he made famous with
Holiday Compadre (Carlyle Command x Holiday Temptress),
dancing together to music. Carlyle Command is out of Wawayanda
Bay Maebel who is a great-granddaughter of Parade in direct sire
line. Compadre’s 2d dam was Decatur Magic Touch by Waseeka
Peter Piper. Compadre was also the 1993 and 1996 World
Champion Western Pleasure horse.
Santa Fe Renegade (Gradell’s Vigilante x Sable N Mink) has
six World Champion Western Pleasure titles, and he and Eitan
were asked to represent the U.S. in the closing ceremony of the
World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. They were invited
to represent the U.S. again for the World Equestrian Games at
Lexington, KY in 2010 where they performed Cowboy Dressage
during the opening ceremonies. Santa Fe Renegade in direct sire
line is a great-great grandson of Windcrest Music Man, who
was out of Windcrest Delight, and she out of Seneca Sweetheart.
Renegade’s dam is by Tug Hill Commando who is out of Fiddler’s
Majesta, 2d dam Fiddler’s Cameo. Cameo was a granddaughter of
Waseeka’s Here Tiz, he out of Waseeka’s ThisizIt. Her 2d dam was
Donna Mae Pepper.
SHOW: In addition to the wide variety of performance Morgans
tracing to Sealect, his influence has been a dominant factor in the
breeding of show bloodlines as well. An unbroken line of National
and World Champion Morgans from 1952-2012 all carry crosses
to Sealect—a remarkable span of 61 years. Some more recent
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examples of show lines tracing to Sealect include LPS The Boogie
Man (Man About Town LPS x Honeytree’s Simply Unique) and
Long Acres Broadway (Tug Hill Whamunition x Mantic Mardi
Gras)—who were World Champion Stallion and World Champoin
Mare three years in a row 2003, 2004, 2005, and Boogie Man was
world champion again in 2007. Plus they each have several other
world titles.
Boogie Man’s pedigree shows eight Sealect crosses, with three
coming through Lady Sealect, and five to Cornwallis through two
of his sons and a daughter: two through Pecos, another through
Corisor Of Upwey, and two more through Seneca Sweetheart.
Boogie Man’s grandsire, Tug Hill Celebrity, was out of the lovely
mare Tara’s Rebecca, a daughter of Apollo’s Reflection. The Lady
Sealect crosses all trace back through Devan breeding to Ceres.
Finally, his third dam, UVM Mystic, is a granddaughter in direct
line of Petalbrood Sigmalect.
Long Acres Broadway has, according to her pedigree, 11
crosses to Sealect. These come through Fiddler’s Majesta, Brown
Pepper, Waseeka’s Thisizit, Waseeka Peter Piper, and Ledgemere
Frolic a daughter of Applevale Chieftan by Pecos, and include four
crosses through Lady Sealect—two through her daughter Glady,
one through Ceres, and another through Knickerbocker. The
remaining seven crosses come through Cornwallis—three through
Parade, two through Pecos, and two through Seneca Lady Esther.
TOWNSHEND FARM –
THE SEALECT LEGACY CONTINUES
M
ore than 90 years after the birth of Sealect, Townshend Farm
continues to carry on this remarkable legacy. An excellent
example of Nancy’s favorite golden cross of Cornwallis with a little
Government and Ben Don is the newest 2013 Townshend foal, a
handsome chestnut colt (Call To Order x Townshend Hi Maralyn)
with five crosses to Sealect and already showing promise of the
Sealect type and look. He is the first foal of Townshend Hi Maralyn
(Woodnbrook High-N-Mighty x Townshend Mara Don) and
tracing back to Sealect in five generations direct sire line through
her grandsire Elm Hill Charter Oak. Charter Oak brings in an
additional cross through his 3d dam, Corene. Fiddler’s Viva, 2d
dam of Maralyn’s sire is by Waseeka’s Vivo, a son of Waseeka’s Here
Tiz. On her dam’s side, Marayln carries two crosses back to Lady
Sealect through her 2d dam, Townshend T-Rissa (Green Mt T-Bird
x Bay State Wardissa). T-Bird’s dam, Royalton Twilight, was a
daughter of Knickerbocker. Maralyn’s 4th dam, Bay State Wardissa,
was a daughter of Meade.
“The greatest contribution of Sealect and Cornwallis to the
Morgan breed was their influence on breeding programs all across
the country,” notes Nancy. “They were working and performance
horses, lots of endurance and substance as well as high-headed classic
Morgan type and beauty. They had a great work ethic, pleasant to be
around in the barn—they were hot, not quiet horses, but tractable,
worked well for different age groups. For a breeding stallion, it’s
important that they produce what you expect, characteristics you
believe in and you can see the pedigree come through. The Sealect
and Cornwallis blood did that for many, many programs.”
And it still does. n