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broken up and he flies into a four-beat gait. The rack is easy for the 

 rider, hard for the horse. It is a showy gait and is performed at great speed 

 sometimes. The trainer who has a fast racking horse will generally keep 

 him on that gait when in the show ring, hoping to dazzle the judge by the 

 flashiness of the performance. . . . This gait has been officially named 

 the rack by the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, and hence 

 the name " single foot " should not be used, as it merely leads to confusion 

 among the uninformed. 



The five gaits recognized by that association are the walk, trot, canter, 

 rack, and the running walk, or slow pace, or fox trot. Any one of these 

 three slow gaits will answer. Some horses can go only one of them, some 

 can show them all. When a horse can show these five gaits he is called a 

 gaited horse. 



The prices paid for superior saddle horses often run into high 

 figures, $500 to $1000 not being uncommon. There is but a 

 limited supply of gaited saddlers, and these are always in demand 

 by a class of patrons who are willing to pay a price consistent 

 with merit. In 1906 Major David Castleman is reported to have 

 sold the stallion, The Moor 1907, by Cecil Palmer, for $7500, to 

 General William Palmer, of Colorado Springs. This same year 

 General John B. Castleman, of Kentucky, sold the mares Eugenia, 

 by Highland Denmark, out of Emily, and Magnet, by Cromwell 

 Jr., out of Maria, to J. A. Davis, of Massachusetts, for $5000. 



The American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association was organ- 

 ized at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1891, as the National Saddle 

 Horse Breeders' Association. In 1899 the name was changed 

 to the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association. Thus far 

 five volumes of the studbook have been published. 



