120 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



horses from which the French coach has been evolved. 

 They are still called Demi-sang (half-blood) in France. 

 The German Coach horse has less of the Thoroughbred 

 character and foundation, but even here "the trail of the 

 blood " may be traced. The Yorkshire coach horse repre- 

 sents a Thoroughbred-Cleveland Bay cross. The repre- 

 sentative light-harness horse is the American trotter, and 

 the two individuals accredited with being the foundation 

 sires are Imp. Messenger, Thoroughbred, and Justin Mor- 

 gan, said to be of Thoroughbred extraction. The Ameri- 

 can Saddle Horse, as a breed, is descendant from Denmark, 

 Thoroughbred, son of Imp. Hedgeford, and repeated in- 

 fusions of Thoroughbred blood are still admitted. Further- 

 more, the ranks of the hunter, jumper and polo pony 

 classes, not breeds, but market types, are chiefly filled by 

 either full- or part-bred blood horses. 



133. Part-bred horses. In accordance with the idea 

 that the term Thoroughbred implies that a horse is totally 

 of the blood, the term part-bred has become a common 

 means of designating a horse that is not altogether, but 

 only partly, of the blood. It is even customary further to 

 indicate the proportion of hot or Thoroughbred blood, 

 by applying the terms two-parts or half-bred to the get of 

 a Thoroughbred sire out of a common bred mare, and 

 three-parts or three-quarters bred to the individual whose 

 sire was a Thoroughbred, while his dam was two-parts 

 bred, as above. In those sections of the country where 

 Thoroughbred sires have been available, horses of this 

 fractional breeding are common. As a matter of fact, 

 horses produced in this way have such a wide field of use- 

 fulness as to keep them in steady demand ; therefore this 

 is a line of breeding that may be strongly commended to 

 many farmers. While these horses are produced principally 



