to a non-profit. Why is the 1930 date used instead of the AMHA closing date of 1948?
If we use the 1948 cut off date, then we would have the same horses as the present AMHA registry. By using 1930 as a cut off date thus eliminates the ‘modern’ Saddlebred returning the original sireline to Figure (Justin Morgan). The Lippitt family used a cutoff too, that only horses tracing entirely to the first volumes of the Register would qualify. In order to save the other ‘families’ in the breed we need to also have strict guidlines or they will continue to be outcrossed and then lost to the breed forever. We need to preserve all of the ‘original’ families be it ‘western’, ‘government’,’Lippitts’ etc. and do it now while there are still Morgans without the embedded and extreme linebreeding of the Saddlebred lines or there will no longer be any Morgans of the ‘original’ founding sire…Figure (Justin Morgan). I can’t find my horse on the database. It may not have been registered in the time frame that the data was collected. Look for the sire and dam of your horse, then if you stil
