170 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



not only the demand for roadsters, but the prin- 

 cipal part of the fine city trade in carriage horses, 

 and are conspicuous winners at the horse shows. 

 The demand for such horses has been so keen 

 that dealers have resorted to the pernicious prac- 

 tice of buying mature stallions, many of them 

 valuable breeders, and castrating them to be sold 

 later as carriage horses. The famous Lord Bril- 

 liant, three times winner of the Waldorf-Astoria 

 gig cup at Madison Square Garden, is a notable 

 instance of this practice ; Lonzie, a noted Chicago 

 show horse, is another, and the horse purchased 

 for the department experiments (Carmon) nar- 

 rowly escaped the same fate. This practice can 

 not be too strongly condemned. There is reason 

 to believe that if these stallions were used as the 

 nucleus of a breed the type would in time become 

 fixed and their blood be saved to the country. 

 On the other hand, if steps are not taken to 

 mould the blood of these horses into one breed, 

 and preserve the blood lines which produce them, 

 an irreparable loss to the industry will result. The 

 first step should be to select foundation stock 

 strictly according to type; the next to study the 



