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6--Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, September 8th, 1976 Adanac Bonfire, a two year old Morgan Mare will become the centre of attention attention late Saturday afternoon at the Orono Fair. She is the prize for a draw being sponsored by the Orono and Area Chamber of Commerce from which proceeds are to be used to assist in defraying the cost of the new lights at tfie Orono Ball Park and Tennis Club. . Adanac. Bonfire is sired by the 1976 Ontario Grand Champion Champion and has been donated to the Chamber of Commerce by Adanac Horse Farms north of Elizabethville. In speaking with the man ager and trainer at the farm, Mr. David Dew, he said that Adanac Bonfire had been chosen because of her easy and quite temperment. The horse is well fitted with the Morgan characteristics and is a fine prize for someone.. Draw tickets will be avail able at the . fair and Adanac Bonfire will be on display at MacDonald's farm imme'd* iately South of the Arena building. She is a fine speciman of a Morgan horse so be sure to see her during the course of the fair. Adanac Farms Canada's largest Morgan breeder from the farm are shown over most of the continent. In speaking with the Dews it was pointed out that some individual owners owners of Morgan horses are ' beginning to show up in the area but as yet most are keeping the horses for their . own pleasure and have not been showing them in onp capacity or another at any of the local exhibitions. It has been stated that no other horse can offer the range of uses within itself that the Morgan horse can. The Morgan can be shown as a roadster, a stock horse, a pleasure horse, an equitation horse, a fine harness horse or even as a jumper. "It was never a breed trait to be second best at anything, " it has' been claimed. The horses at Adanac are trained for riding and driving. The Morgan horse is also noted for its gentleness and easy temperment. Present day Morgans differ remarkably little from their mighty progenitor. progenitor. Some, selection has been made over the past century in order to adapt the hfped moderately to modern usage. Its major use; wag at one time, naturally, a harness horse. Today, it is under saddle and this has caused some selection of horses with a little added size and some what sharper withers. Its substance, courage and disposition has remained remained as in the past. . The Morgan breed dates back,-to the 1780s when a colt was born of thorough- breed and Arabian ancestry ancestry showing straight clean legs, deep musculing over quarters and shoulders and with a short, fine head with its large expressive eyes and short, pricked ears. The owner of the colt became Justin Morgan, a quiet spoken school teacher who in 1789 left Springfield, • Mass, to earn his fame and fortune in Vermont. Here, and for a number of owners, this horse built a reputation for strength, show and speed. He was a small horse, barely over fourteen- hands and never weighed much over one thou'sand pounds. Justin Morgan lived to be almost thirty years of age and worked continually for twenty-eight of these years It was from this horse that it is found today that the Morgan horse is showing showing up in showrings over all the continent competing within their own breed and almost as ably, outside the breed. An entry from the Adanac Adanac Farm will make its appearance at the Orono fair this Saturday in the Westa-n class. Nestled in the beautiful dins of the Ganaraska some two miles north, of Elizabethville is one of Canada's largest breeding stables for Morgan horses, Adanac Farms. The farm spreads over ' some 800 acres through hills an.d valleys in the rolling terrain. terrain. . Within the past six to seven years Adanac has developed its Morgan stock 1 from imports from all parts of the United States "and the facilities now house * some forty Morgan horses.. The farm is owned by Ralph D. Parker and managed by Mr. and Mrs. David Dew who also are trainers and showpeople. The farm has a beautiful large stable as well as a large « indoor show ring which is used in preparing the horses for exhibition. The show season according to Mrs. Dew extends from May to October and horses ...C. -^^***^ GOULD PHOTO GOING TO THE FAIR? Don't Forget Your Camera and Film from Gould Photo Shop! BINOCULARS ' from Bushnell Custom 7x35' . with Case Regular $152.55 Only $122 J> 4 Other Models from $49.95 HANIMEX 118 POCKET CAMERA USes Flip-Flash ONLY $19-50 Kodacolor Film for Color Prints 20 EXPOSURES 110 - 126 - 135 Size ONLY $1.89 COMPLETE PROCESSING SERVICE . Free Parker Album Page with Films Processed" for Prints Adanac Bonnie Prince is a show piece at the Adanac Horse Farms and is the sire of Adanac Bonfire. 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