408 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



the National Horse Show, or in the markets where New York 

 society people buy their stub-tailed horses, it is some compensa- 

 tion to know that these experiments have demonstrated the 

 superiority of the American-bred horse even in the field claimed 

 as especially that of the Hackney. And the Hackney "fad" in 

 America,, while it lasted, accomplished a good end in so far as it 

 directed the attention of American breeders more to the impor- 

 tance of form and style, and taught them that in their own trot- 

 ting families they have the material from which may best be 

 produced, in form and style and quality as well as in speed,, 

 pre-eminently the most excellent park horses in the world. 



