156 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



frowned upon. So really the question has become 

 the highly absurd one of tail or no tail. It is about 

 as absurd as to deny the place to an applicant for 

 a position where knowledge of French was re- 

 quired because he also knew Italian and Spanish. 

 The breeders and trainers of Denmarks are too 

 practical, however, to shed tears over such fool- 

 ishness. They breed their horses the same as 

 before, but they train this one for the East and 

 that one for the West and South. The quality 

 tells wherever they go, and a horse in any section 

 that takes a blue ribbon away from a Denmark is 

 more than lucky, he is almost unique. 



For several years past, however, at the Horse 

 Show in New York, a gentleman from England 

 has come over to judge the saddle classes. In 

 England he is, no doubt, as good a judge of such 

 classes as may be had, for there the Thoroughbred 

 is the one type, except the cob, that is considered 

 as filling the requirements for the saddle. Before 

 the advent of this gentleman, a great master in 

 training, exhibiting and judging saddle-horses, 

 had acted for a good many years. He had, by his 

 awards, established a standard that made it al- 



