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of us, however, are not so fortunately situated. 

 When a man whose means only enable him to 

 keep a few horses or even one horse and he 

 wants both to ride and drive, the "combination 

 horse" is the only animal that will enable him to 

 go how and when he chooses. The Denmarks 

 make splendid combination horses. They trot in 

 harness with quite reasonable speed and very 

 good action, and the road is seldom too long for 

 them. My personal experience has not shown me 

 that this change from saddle to harness worked 

 any great harm. I once had a Denmark that won 

 first prizes at the same show in the rings for sad- 

 dle-horses, for combination horses and for road- 

 sters; all these winnings in two days. It seems 

 only reasonable that horses with the activity, the 

 adaptability, and the intelligence to acquire the 

 various gaits that are within a Denmark's range 

 would .not necessarily be injured by driving in 

 harness. At any rate, a man who has only a small 

 stable can get more kinds of fun out of a Den- 

 mark than out of any other type of horse. 



This type of horse is bred in five or six coun- 

 ties grouped about Lexington. There are several 



