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at the race tracks as regards the thoroughbred type, as the horses that 

 yrtii have seen go to the barrier are trained so fine that they are nothing 

 but bone and muscle. You might, for instance, draw your conclusions 

 if you have ever seen a trotting horse in training and have seen the 

 same horse when he has been handled for heavy harness purposes, after 

 his tail has been set up and he has been docked and put in show con- 

 dition, with the addition of, at least, from two to three hundred pounds 

 of flesh. Scarcely a man on earth would recognize him as the same 

 horse that was hitched before a sulky. 



I showed four standard bred trotting horses at the New York 

 horse show last fall, and a great many of my friends could not believe 

 but what they were imported coach horses until they had seen them 

 step. In like manner, when the thoroughbred horse is used for other 

 than racing purposes, and put in condition for hunting or riding, he 

 is an entirely different individual, and comes more on the type of the 

 gaited saddle horse with that conformation that is impossible to get 

 from any other source only through the thoroughbred sire. You will 

 find that you have at the foundation of your saddle horse family thor- 

 oughbred blood, and the nearer you get to the thoroughbred the better 

 riding conformation you obtain. 



Do not forget that Aaron Pennington (a thoroughbred stallion) 

 helped to establish the saddle horse family in Missouri, and was also 

 the sire of several on the trotting track with records better than 2:30; 

 among them "Harry Pennington," with a record of 2:15^. Can you 

 take any other breed and do this? "Aaron Pennington" not only sired 

 race horses on the running turf, but he sired race horses on the trotting 

 turf, and also sired show ring winners, and the dam of show ring 

 winners ior your gaited saddle horse family. 



T saw a thoroughbred horse win the saddle class and champion- 

 ship at the Madison Square Garden, New York, last November. He 

 was a three-year old, but had never been trained for the track. He was 

 the best tempered horse I liave seen in a great many years. I am. 

 perfectly satisfied that nearly all thoroughbreds would have just as 

 ■good tempers as he had if they did not have to go through the course of 

 training that enables them to break away and get to running fast from 

 the starting barrier. 



I would further say, in this regard, that there are over forty 

 hunt clubs around New York City, and I believe over thirty around 

 Philadelphia, with several at Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg, and, in fact, 

 all the leading cities tod-ay in the East and middle West. At each 

 of these hunt clubs there aise at least several hundred hunters. I know 

 of seF:$;r^ gentlemen who kfep from twenty to thirty hunters for their 



