124 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



son mare 43, a brown saddle mare by Cockspur, the latter 

 a saddler of one-half or three-fourths Thoroughbred blood. 

 In 1850, Games' Denmark 61 was foaled, out of the Steven- 

 son mare. He was the greatest of the sons of Denmark. 

 He served through the Civil war, along with John Dillard, 

 another famous saddler. Nine-tenths of the successful 

 modern sires trace directly to Games' Denmark. Follow- 

 ing the war there came a craze for speed horses, and many 

 of the best saddle mares were stinted to trotting stallions, 

 much to the detriment of the saddle horse. 



In 1891, the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Associa- 

 tion was organized. In its stud-book were inserted the 

 names of the " foundation stock." In most of these foun- 

 dation stallions there was a strong admixture of Thorough- 

 bred blood, and many of them trace their lineage through 

 Denmark's dam. In 1901, after ten years of careful work, 

 the list of foundation stallions was revised to include the 

 following ten horses : Denmark, John Dillard, Tom Hal, 

 Cabell's Lexington, Coleman's Eureka, Van Meter's Waxy, 

 Stump-the-dealer, Peter's Halcorn, Davy Crockett and 

 Pat Cleburne. 



138. Notable sires and dams. John Dillard was by 

 Canada Chief out of Lady Jackson, which was a daughter 

 of Blackburn's Whip, which was by Imp. Whip, and he was 

 by Imp. Saltram. Imp. Saltram got the Saltram mare, and 

 she was the dam of Jenny Cockracy, which produced 

 Betsey Harrison, the dam of Denmark; Jenny Cockracy 

 also produced Susette, the dam of Berthune, the sire of 

 Van Meter's Waxy, another of the foundation list. This 

 illustrates the constant interweaving of the same Thorough- 

 bred blood that characterized the early breeding efforts. 

 The same intricate interrelationship could be traced for 

 the other foundation stallions if space permitted. 



