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mares. The stallion used to be known in the 

 horse-show rings as Lawson's Glorious Thunder 

 Cloud. He never struck me as anything at all out 

 of the common and I am astonished at his selec- 

 tion. He was a good wheeler in a four-in-hand, 

 but that was all. In single harness he never won in 

 any ordinary class at any important show. He 

 seemed to me to lack quality and to be lacking in 

 many of the things for which Dr. Salmon gives 

 him praise. I trust, however, he will prove a bet- 

 ter sire than he was a show horse, for the need for 

 carriage horses is great; then it would be a great 

 pity for this first official experiment to turn out 

 badly. It will be watched with peculiar interest. 

 But I wish Dr. Salmon had selected as his stallion 

 a horse that was in blood and conformation simi- 

 lar to Clay-Kismet. 



