Thos. E. Wilson, 

 Director 



Chairman, 

 Organization and 

 Building Committee 



The Joys and Benefits of 

 Horseback Riding 



By Herbert J. Krum 

 Editor: The Show Horse Chronicle, Lexington, Ky. 



HORSEBACK exercise is enjoying an unprecedented 

 popularity at the present time in all parts of this 

 countiy. It is not an over-statement to say that 

 never before have so many people been drawn to this par- 

 ticular form of outdoor sport as is true just now. All of 

 our great cities bear testimony to this fact, and in count- 

 less thousands of relatively small cities and towns there 

 are numerous addicts to equestrianism in striking com- 

 parison with what was true only a few years ago. This 

 statement seems to carry an inherent and necessary con- 

 tradiction in turn, and to reconcile these seeming incon- 

 sistencies may afford a very engaging form of mental 

 specidation. 



Perhaps at no previous period in the history of this 

 country have really good saddle horses been as scarce, as 

 hard to find and acquire, or as costly to purchase when 

 found, as is true now. It is well realized by all who are 

 conversant with the suljject that saddle horse breeding 

 operations have reached within the past two or three years 

 the lowest ebb in their history. 



In Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and the other South- 

 ern states, from whence in the past time have come the 

 greatest numbers of the saddle horses distributed in all 

 parts of the land, production of fine saddle horses has 

 reached an almost negligible stage. It formerly was true 

 that any person desiring to purchase a fine saddle horse 

 could go, or could send, to any one of hundreds of breeders 



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