108 THE HORSE. 



rough blood with a strong trotting cross 

 already engrafted." 

 , New " In the past, breeders who built largely 



York, on trot- 



ting strains. U p O n thorough-bred foundations have met 

 little success in producing trotters, and 

 have either given up discouraged or 

 changed their plans ; but already we see 

 occasional instances where they did ex- 

 cellent foundation work, though they 

 finally condemned and discarded it. It 

 is not for a moment to be assumed that 

 all thorough-bred blood has more vital 



Physical or- force and perfect physical organization 



ganization of 



racing than a high quality of trotting blood. 



strains. J 



Indeed, there is plenty of it not to be 

 compared in stamina with the best trot- 

 ting blood. But there is no question that 

 many animals from the best of the great 

 racing strains, such as come from Lex- 



