CHAPTER V 



THE THOROUGHBRED; THE TROTTER; THE PACER 



Chapter by ROE KEISINGER 



THE American thoroughbred is descended in all his 

 lines from the English race-horse, and he in turn from 

 Arabian, Turkish and Barb stock. For more than 

 a century and a half the English Stud-book has been 

 maintained, in which has been registered every mare 

 of thorough blood, by name, with her lineage and all 

 her foals; the oldest and most remote of these mares 

 tracing back their eight, nine or more generations to 

 known Oriental horses, or horses known to be largely, 

 if not wholly, Arabian, Turkish or Barb. No animal 

 having an unknown or a cold cross within a hundred 

 and fifty years back in its line could be entered in 

 the English Stud-book, and no American horse can 

 be regarded as thoroughbred that does not meet as 

 high requirements. There have been a number of 

 high -class race -horses whose pedigrees have been short 

 in one or more lines, but never in the history of the 

 turf has a great sire appeared in whose blood was a 

 near cross other than thoroughbred. 



The British horse had a considerable degree of 

 excellence before the Roman conquest and was a good 

 subject for the later crossing with the Oriental breeds. 

 Youatt, in his work on the horse, states that Ca3sar 



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