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“KINGFISHER,” SECOND IN LONG DISTANCE TEST 
Kingfisher is three-fourths Arab and one-fourth Thoroughbred. He completed the long distance 
test in 53 hours and 21 minutes and received the condition mark of 48, and 88.8% for total merit. 
It was this horse that Col. Tompkins of the U. S. Army rode into Mexico in the expedition in 1916, 
covering a distance of 575 miles over heated deserts and cold mountains. (Fig. 25.) 
FUTURE OF THE HORSE 
In spite of the general use of the 
automobile, the horse has a place in the 
world, though perhaps a less important 
one. For long distance travel over 
ground that wheels can not follow and 
as a safeguard for the future we must 
preserve the best of the higher types. 
The Arab, more than any other horse 
has the prepotent power to stamp his 
good qualities on his descendants for 
many generations. 
So long as the supply of gasoline 
keeps up we can dispense with many 
uses of the horse, but if for any reason 
that supply falls below the needs, or 
is interrupted, the commerce of the 
world will be in need of horses beyond 
the capacity to supply, and the world 
will recover its horses only slowly. 
