are the thoroughbred race horse, the Clyde, and the Percheron draught horses, and 

 the Orloff trotting horse. Every one of these types is a thoroughbred in its country, 

 based upon the Arabian ; and, exported to any land, will reproduce itself in a credit- 

 able manner to export as our national horse. Our system of breeding is one of great 

 mongrelization, which, as I have repeatedly written, means uncertainty with de- 

 generacy. 



"Our vast territory demands more horses than any other country. Our unlim- 

 ited grass lands invite and encourage the breeding of horses, whether the owner of 

 lands be adapted as a breeder or not. Our varied climates and soil, with everywhere 

 abundant and excellent water, are most favorable to the raising of all kinds of stock 

 for expoit. 



"The producing of specialties in the horse is demanded by our uses, as well as 

 required for general purposes. 



"The demand for coach horses increases as our city people multiply and wealth 

 increases. A high form of coach horse is in constant demand, but exceedingly diffi- 

 cult to find. Such a horse is always a first-class farm horse, and can be a first-class 

 road horse, profitable to every farmer to breed and to raise. 



"Our territory is so great, and our commercial interests so scattered and extend- 

 ed, that the road horse becomes an important feature, so connected with commer- 

 cial and agricultural pursuits that it should be cultivated. Our great national sport 

 is the trotting race, which in England is the running race. The race or running 

 horse is good for the one purpose of running races. The trotting horse can be used 

 for every purpose except running races ; hence to me it seems proper it should become 

 our national horse to come under the intelligent head of blood and breeding with in- 

 stinct to trot. 



"A positive thoroughbred horse is a possibility ; and the independent nature of the 

 American people is such I feel they should take a national pride in creating a national 

 horse, independent of any other nation. The Arabian horse, as we know, is the 

 foundation upon which England established her race horse, Russia her trotting horse, 

 and France her draught horse. 



"We have proven that from the Arabian we can get the highest rates of trotting 

 speed. We know that its blood and instinct are more pliable to man's demands, for 

 molding into different families, than are either of the European types cited. We 

 know that our so-called trotting horse is not a positive reproducer of that ability. We 

 know that each exceptional case of high trotting speed traces to the Arab not far away ; 

 we know that the reunion or bringing together of bloods akin, of close affinity, 

 gives the strongest results. 



"Thus, when the blood of Henry Clay (which was but a third remove from the 

 Arab) is bred to itself, increased speed is a certain result, and when reinforced with 

 fresh Arabian blood, a higher type is the result, with the trotting instinct intensified. 



"The law in animal life as relates to breeding of positive types is once away 

 from a primitive blood, then three times back to it through different channels. 



"As I have said, the horse Henry Clay was but a third remove from an imported 

 Arabian paternal, and more than thrice back upon the maternal side. If his dam. 

 Lady Surry, be discounted by some, they must remember she was far above the old 

 'Vintner mare' which has figured so disparagingly in the English race horse maternal 

 foundation. 



"Through Henry Clay's daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters 

 we enlist the immortal names of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay in dams. As the 

 male since the first of man has given the name and founded the family, what more 

 appropriate start could be made for a laudable and positively independent national 

 horse than by bringing the foundation blood in the Andrew Jackson-Henry Clay 

 daughters to a union with the pure, primitive, unquestioned blood of General Grant's 

 Arabian stallions? 



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