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and defective stamina. Here again we may cite the 

 authority of Mr. Ware. Some years ago the New 

 York Jockey Club placed a number of thoroughbred 

 sires at the service of farmers In different parts of the 

 state. Mr. Ware says: 



An inspection of the 3,000 or 4,000 animals resulting from 

 this line of breeding will well repay any thoroughbred horse 

 fancier, and especially those who are so actively booming the 

 thoroughbred as a progenitor of cavalry horses. I have seen 

 many of these horses sold around three years old at tw^enty to 

 fifty dollars. 



M. T. Grattan, a well-known breeder and user of 

 horses, himself a veteran of the Civil War, relates his 

 experience with the thoroughbred cross as follows : 



Many years ago I bred a lot of tough, hard-bottomed road 

 mares to one of the best thoroughbreds I ever looked at — 

 Le Clair by Lightning, a son of Lexington; dam, Eloise by 

 Ebony. My road work in those days before railroads was long 

 and arduous, both in saddle and harness. The half-breds were 

 in no instance equal to their dams under saddle or in harness, 

 or equal to their dams' produce by Black Hawk and other 

 Morgan sires. In only one quality did they excel — they could 

 sprint a half-mile, and some of them a mile. 



The Kentucky saddle horse has size, beauty, and 

 sufficient speed, but he Is deficient, I think. In the quality 

 most Important for a cavalry horse, namely, tough- 

 ness. He Inclines rather to the long than to the short- 

 legged type. Is, It seems to me, a little light through 

 the loins, and In general appearance suggests a horse 

 Intended rather for pleasure than for hard campaigning 



