CHAPTER EIGHT 



THE DENMARK, OR KENTUCKY SADDLE-HORSE 



THE assessed value of horses tabulated by States 

 would make it appear that Kentucky horse-flesh 

 was not more precious than in other parts of the 

 Union. And yet Kentucky horses have a fame 

 that is not approached by those of any other 

 state. This is due to the fact that in a small sec- 

 tion of the state, none but horses of high breeding 

 are reared. A few counties give to the whole state 

 a reputation which, I am afraid, the whole state 

 does not deserve. But in the famous Blue Grass 

 region the noblest horses of several types and kinds 

 have been bred for more than a hundred years. 

 It is distinctively the breeding place in America 

 of the English Thoroughbred, and comparatively 

 few men who have gone into the reproduction of 

 these interesting and fleet animals have refrained 

 sooner of later from buying or renting farms in 



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