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where they arrived, I am glad to say, with a loss 

 of only two per cent. It was more difficult to find 

 Denmark stallions. The scarcity of these is due to 

 the efforts of the dealers and trainers to get males 

 for their customers. So many of the most prom- 

 ising are sold as yearlings and gelded. The great- 

 est stallions of the day are, I should judge, Mont- 

 gomery Chief, belonging to the Ball Brothers, 

 Highland Denmark, belonging to the Gay 

 Brothers, and Forest Denmark, belonging to 

 Colonel Woodford. These are all closely-inbred 

 Denmarks, and are most successful as sires, their 

 progeny winning blue ribbons wherever shown. 



These horses have found their way into Ten- 

 nessee, Illinois, and Missouri, where the stock is 

 most highly esteemed; but they flourish most in 

 Kentucky. I have heard army officers say that in 

 the hard riding days, when the Indian was still a 

 frontier menace, that a troop of cavalry mounted 

 on horses from Kentucky would find their 

 horses in first-class condition when other troops 

 on horses say from Iowa, Missouri, or Illinois 

 would be completely worn out and unable to con- 

 tinue. These horses are singularly free from 



