HORSE SENSE. 



IDEAL LIGHT HARNESS HORSE. 



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W'liile the cut No. 8'/^ gives a good idea of the type, it does not do 

 the individual justice. This house was owned by the author until more 

 th?.n twenty-five years old, and a more perfect or ideal form for the 

 purpose, better, more intelligent and safer individual would be almost 

 impossible to find. He is registered in Wallace's first volume of the 

 American Trotting Register, under the name of Security, and he was 

 rightly named. Like David Harum's horse, a "woman could drive 

 him as well as a man." But unlike his horse, he never balked. The 



Cut No. 814. 



SECURITY. 



Beauty, quality and character combined. 



wife of the author preferred to drive him to any other of fifty or more 

 horses on the farm, as he w^as absolutely safe, day or night. He was 

 all that could be desired in ideal form, road qualities and character; but 

 he was not bred right to be able to perpetuate these very meritorious 

 qualities. He was the result of two very different prepotent types of 

 horses, and he had taken on the good qualities of both, but was un- 

 able to transmit to his progeny, what he himself had inherited. He 

 was a cross of the Morgan and thoroughbred types and his colts were 

 never equal to the sire. Out of fifty or more of our own raising, 



