Missouri Saddle Horse Breeders' Association. 505 



declare our independence and get in the game ourselves and see 

 who dominates at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915 — Ken- 

 tucky or Missouri. 



Professor Trowbridge is turning out a class of young men 

 each year who have proved themselves the most capable judges 

 in the land. Don't you think it time for us to recognize the 

 merits of these young men? Now what we want is a clear 

 working basis among the saddle horse men of our State. Stand 

 up for our State as long as it is honorable to do so. Go into the 

 show ring with the spirit of true sports — do our best, and if we 

 meet with defeat accept it with a spirit that should be character- 

 istic of true sports and loyal Missourians. 



The man who because he cannot win, who goes around hob- 

 nobbing with and lending aid and comfort to some fellow out 

 of the State, is a Tory and should be excommunicated without 

 benefit of the clergy. What we want now is all to pull together 

 and, with Rufus Jackson in the lead, make the year 1914 high 

 tide in the saddle horse business in our State. 



RECENT SADDLE HORSE HISTORY IN MISSOURI. 



(E. A. Trowbridge in bulletin, "The Missouri Saddle Horse," issued by Missouri State 



Board of Agriculture October. 1913.) 



The saddle horses of the present are but the saddle horses 

 of the past, modified to some extent by the infusion of some new 

 blood and the ideas and demands of present conditions. The 

 American saddle horse as a breed exists upon the same founda- 

 tion stock now as it did in years past. Some new blood has been 

 introduced because it has served as a means of improving certain 

 characters and features of the horses. More systematic efforts 

 have been made in breeding horses because experience has 

 proved that system in breeding would more certainly and quickly 

 accomplish results. 



In the days of the early saddle horse there was less of a de- 

 mand for horses for city use, either as five-gaited horses or as 

 individuals of the three-gaited variety. Today many of the 

 highest priced saddle horses sold go to our cities as pleasure 

 horses. They are sold either as three-gaited or five-gaited 

 horses and their function is that of pleasure horses to be ridden 



Note. — This bvilletin, "Tlie Missouri Saddle Horse," is really a history and ahnost a 

 textbook. Prom practically every state in the Union have come requests for it — from some 

 states calls for hundreds of copies. Quite a number of copies have also gone to foreign 

 countries. 



