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A great triumph have the American breed- 

 ers scored in the formation of their harness 

 racing breed. In less than a century they have 

 succeeded in developing speed at the trot and 

 pace but little inferior to that of the Thorough- 

 bred at the gallop. They have developed a 

 breed of horses that has no equal for work on 

 the road, a breed which for endurance in long 

 journeys in harness is unsurpassed and a breed 

 which for elegance of conformation, quality, 

 style, courage, docility and general suitability 

 for the purposes intended stands in a class by 

 itself. 



Large numbers of high-class heavy harness 

 horses have come from within the ranks of the 

 trotting breed, but they were misfits -horses 

 that accidentally developed heavy harness 

 excellence in spite of the fact that they were 

 bred with a different object in view. It will be 

 unnecessary, once more, to enter into the peren- 

 nial controversy as ito the relative merits of the 

 standard-bred and coach or Hackney-bred 

 heavy harness horse. It must suffice to say that 

 while magnificent specimens have appeared 

 from time to 'time in the heavy harness classes 

 at the great shows no man has yet succeeded in 

 turning out consistently high-class animals of 

 the 'sort from standard-bred or trotting-bred 

 parents. 



With the lapse of time and the increase of 

 wealth in this country the qualifications re- 



