Dark chestnut, 14.2, 1000 lbs.
Foaled 6/13/1824, Tunbridge, VT.-Died 10/30/1850 in Walpole, NH.
Said to have sired over 1300 foals (40 registered Morgan offspring).
Style and motion much admired and was a favorite parade horse.
American Stallion Register, Vol. II, pp. 573-4. Fred Weir, Elisha De Wolf Jr., and Ambrose Arnold advertised him in 1845, as dam and granddam by Justin Morgan in Albany Cultivator, page 286, 1846. Linsley gave a wrong breeding, his source is not given.
Category: Pedigree Stallions
All Stallions in the pedigree
Morgan Henry
Major Antoine
Old Jordan
Richwood Morgan
Color: ch
Br. by EW Roberts.
Chestnut, Very Small Star. Foaled: 05-16-1957, Hi Pass, CA. Owned by Richard Mears, Ramona, CA. Registered Morgan progeny: 17 colts, 10 fillies.
Richwood First Class
Richwood Bravado
Color: ch
AMHA # 71101
Chestnut, star, snip, lh coronet white. Foaled 3/30/1977, Placerville, CA. Bred by Marjorie Hazelwood.
Richwood American Brave
Sonfield
AMHA #7952
Dark chestnut, star, strip & snip, rh foot white, 14.3h, 1100 lbs.
Foaled 5/11/1935, Middlebury, VT. Breeder: USDA, VT.
Registered Morgan progeny: 113 colts, 123 fillies, born 1938-1965.
In 1939, Sonfield was sold for $4000 to a Polish buyer. When World War II began, preventing shipment, he was resold to Roland Hill.
