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five-gaited horses to be marketed with the 

 three gaits only. In fact the five-gaited horse 

 has never been popular in the East. The West 

 and South have been his strongholds and Ken- 

 tucky and Missouri and to some extent Illinois 

 are his chief nurseries. The eastern prejudice 

 lagainst the five-gaited horse is against his 

 *^easy gaits," not against the horse. Kentucky- 

 bred five-gaited horses divested of their extra 

 gaits have been sold in the East for record- 

 breaking prices and won many firsts and 

 championships at the leading shows. The five- 

 gaited horse is fairly popular in Boston. 



It is not altogether easy to describe the con- 

 formation of the five-gaited horse. The reader 

 is referred to the illustrations. It is still hard- 

 er to describe the gaits. One man only — W. R. 

 Goodwin, of The Beeeder's Gazette — has ever 

 succeeded in setting down on paper what 

 happens as the horse goes through his five- 

 gaits, and I present in full a descriptive article 

 by him which appeared in that paper and which 

 is accepted as standard authority on the sub- 

 ject. 



"One of the present encouragements to horse breeding 

 is the keen and widespread interest in saddle horses. 

 The report of the seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association in our last 

 issue gave proof sufficient of the stability of this branch 

 of American horse breeding. That association has sought 

 to establish types through the concentration of blood and 

 allow the user to select the gaits to which his mount 

 shall be educated. Whether the five-gaited or the three- 

 gaited horse, whether the horse that racks or the horse 



