All my life I have been an avid horse lover. So when my Great Aunt Ethel Gardner started our breeding program well over 50 years ago with her great stallion, The Yankee (Whippoorwill Duke X Jenny Lake), Morgan horses became my way of life. I am very blessed to be a third generation Morgan breeder and owner. My Great Aunt and my mother have been some of my greatest mentors and they have instilled a strong sense in me that the Morgan Horse should be a versatile horse. Pick your horse for his correct conformation, intelligence, disposition and versatility; then pick your discipline, change your discipline, use the same horse. With the Morgan this is easy to do as they are known for their quick and flexible minds, calm and steady way of going- along with their BIG loving hearts. My Great Aunt Ethel's stallion The Yankee was a multi Champion in many disciplines from , dressage, western, english, even harness racing as well as being an incredible family horse on the trail and at home. To learn more about my Great Aunt and the contribution she made to the Morgan Horse World, and believing that the Morgan horse is the ultimate versatile horse please read this article about her from the August 2003 issue of The Morgan Horse magazine, titled "Yankee Ingenuity", written by Sue Brander.
UPDATE:
I am honored and blessed that The Morgan Horse magazine wanted to do an article on our farm, MtnTop Morgans. Please click here to open a pdf of the October 2018 issue of The Morgan Horse to read (here).
Our hopes are to produce foals that match or exceed the expectations that we have of their parents. In essence, each foal should be better than the sire and dam. This results in a classic Morgan, with a chiseled head and tippy ears, a full curvy body along with strong sturdy legs and fabulous "Morgan" feet. By carefully selecting and matching mares to stallions, we believe that is what we are accomplishing at our farms. Because of this, sometimes we only produce a few foals each year, but I think it is worth the wait.
Our foundation lines are rich in old blood, with such respected Morgans as Squire Burger, Lippitt, Flyhawk, Ulendon, Blackwood Correll, Mentor, Californio, Winterset, Jubilee King and his full sister Sentola and of course Whippoorwill Duke. We are honored to have some of the closest living relatives to Figure in our herds as a few of these horses will trace to Figure in 11 generations as many as 12 times.
At MtnTop Morgans in Western Tennessee we have been selectively adding a few colorful Morgans that we hope will have a great influence on the foals we produce. Above and beyond, we strive to produce the "perfect foal"; if this foal also happens to be colorful, then that is wonderful too.
Photo credit in the above website header goes to Wendy Peterson for the two dressage photos.
Visitors are always welcome at MtnTop Morgans, as our horses just love visitors. A call in advance is most appreciated.
We have such exciting news !! We are excited to be working with some fantastic breeders in the future to spread and share the best Morgan bloodlines around. Thank you Wendy LeGate of OGO Morgans for getting ths started. We have two mares bred to MtnTop Whippoorwill Tanek for the spring of 2024, MtnTop Goodness Gracious and Spring Lake Calis' Bingo. Only one of these foals will be available so if you are interested, please contact me.
Please watch and enjoy the kind of handling that our foals receive here at MtnTop Morgans as they get ready to start their future human/horse relationships.
