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the established heavy draft breeds, if crossed with a thorough- 

 bred, would produce a type of horse for which there is now a 

 demand, not only from wealthy sportsmen of the United States 

 and Canada, but by the governments of every important nation 

 in the world. 



I asked Mr. August Belmont, Chairman of the Jockey Club, 

 what he thought of my theory of crossing the thoroughbred with 

 heavy draft mares and he said that a number of years ago he had 

 bred a mare of draft type from upstate to the thoroughbred 

 stallion Count D'Orsay, a son of Kentucky and Lady Blessington, 

 the result being a gray mare 16.1, which he bred to the thorough- 

 bred stallion Konesuch by the Illused out of a ISTewminster mare 

 and produced a filly foal that could do three-quarters miles in 

 1.16 and was a most admirable type of weight-carrying hunter. 



I next appealed to Mr. John E. Madden, the well-known 

 thoroughbred breeder of Kentucky, who sent me the following: 



" For the army remount the tlioroughbred stallion is un- 

 doubtedly the horse to use as a sire. This horse should bo of 

 medium size and of powerful mould, one whose size should bo 

 gauged by the scales rather than by the tape line. This type of 

 stallion, bred to the mares that are available, be they trotters, 

 hackneys, Morgans, saddlers or half-breeds, should give good 

 results. 



" For artillery purposes my selection of a stallion would bo 

 the standard-bred trotter of powerful conformation, if possible a 

 big horse on short legs. This type of stallion will cross well on 

 mares of various breeds, and especially on the many half-bred 

 Percheron mares to be found in the possession of farmers nearly 

 everywhere. 



" In selecting the thoroughbred and standard-bred trotting 

 stallions I have been guided by the fact that racing has given to 

 these breeds a power of endurance and gameness unattainable to 

 others that have not been put to the same supreme test." 



Major P. P. Johnson, President of the National Trotting 

 Horse Association, I am informed, has been crossing trotting 

 stallions on heavy-draft mares, with a view to producing artillery 

 and general-utility harness horses with satisfactory results. 



The same letter that I sent to Professor Osborne was for- 



