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ers were of Morgan breeding: Jo Patchen, 

 Dan Patch, Sweet Marie, Major Delmar, and 

 Lou Dillon, while the only trotting inheritance of 

 Rarus, Fearnaught, and Lord Clinton was from 

 Morgan forebears. The Morgans can go fast 

 enough. There is no doubt about that. But that is 

 not their chief value or their highest merit. Prob- 

 ably not a much greater percentage of Morgans 

 would go phenomenally fast than of Standard 

 Bred Trotters with no Morgan strain, though such 

 a proposition has not been proved; but the Mor- 

 gans are what the Standard Bred Trotters are 

 not the Morgans are of a definite reproducing 

 type, and whether they trot in 3.30, 2.30, or 2.00 

 minutes, they have their typical excellences to 

 recommend them and to give them a value, 

 which no other horse type in America can ap- 

 proach, because they are the best, most symmet- 

 rical, most elegant and most docile harness horses 

 in the world, with a stamina and a courage that 

 none but Thoroughbreds approach. 



So much importance has been attached to this 

 matter of speed with track records, that I felt 

 obliged to dwell on it somewhat in my discussion 



