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standing the fact that the bicycle, the auto and even the airship 

 have been developed to a successful working stage, the saddle horse 

 maintains his position in the hearts of men and women who desire 

 outdoor exercise, and never did the market look better, and never 

 were the horses more scarce than at the present time. 



The saddle horse as a pleasure horse has no peer, and not only 

 the men and women of the farms and villages in his native district 

 are using him as a source of pastime, but buyers from the cities 

 of the east and west, and even of the old world and other foreign 

 countries, are coming to his native home to seek out and purchase 

 the better specimens of the breed to be used for the pleasure of the 

 inhabitants of American cities and foreign countries. With the 

 increased knowledge of the saddle horse is bound to come an in- 

 creased demand for him, because with the saddle horse, as with 

 other good things, "knowing is believing," and he is bound to in- 

 crease in his usefulness to mankind. 



It ought therefore to be, to all who are interested in the saddle 

 horse in, any of his various estates, a pleasure to know him as he 

 is, to know his habits and his moods, his courage and his intelli- 

 gence. In his production the average man may know that he is 

 producing a profit not only to himself, but a source of pleasure to 

 others, and that he is thereby doing the world a service. In the 

 riding of a saddle horse every man or woman with average intelli- 

 gence absorbs admirable characteristics and traits, which, if more 

 prevailing in the human race, would make that race of people 

 better. We may, in fact, say, without fear of criticism, that if 

 more of the characteristics of the American saddle horse were 

 prevalent in the human race that this would be even a better 

 world. 



