In a 2016 installment of the Conformation Insights series (“The Registered Morgan,” EQUUS 471, by Deb Bennett, PhD), inaccurate pedigree information was presented for the horse Statesman’s Eclipse.
The caption with his picture should have read: “The Morgan and the American Saddlebred are the American equivalents of the European sporthorse, and in this writer’s opinion, far too little appreciated for this kind of use. This is Statesman’s Eclipse (1995), by Caduceus Montour who is of Flyhawk, Senator Knox and government breeding, out of Statesman’s Manzanita, who descends from Lippitt Mandate and government breeding. The rider is Ange Bean of Straight Forward Dressage.”…
