CHAPTER XXIII 



WALNUT HALL AND CRUICKSTON PARK 



EVERY thoughtful visitor to the Blue Grass section 

 of Kentucky carries home pleasant recollections of 

 Walnut Hall Farm, six and one-half miles from Lex- 

 ington. There are 2000 acres of woodland and 

 meadow, and every acre bespeaks the care of trained 

 workmen. No dead branches disfigure the wood- 

 land carpets, and no weeds choke the grass of mead- 

 ows. Cleanliness is the order of the spacious build- 

 ings, and the animals which are sheltered by them 

 are healthy looking, the reward of intelligent super- 

 vision. Mr. L. V. Harkness was not one of the 

 foundation breeders of Kentucky, but at Walnut 

 Hall Farm he has adhered to the established laws 

 of evolution, and produced horses which have suc- 

 cessfully battled for the great prizes of the trotting 

 track. 



There was a disposition to question his judg- 

 ment when he selected a brother of the fast pacer, 

 Bumps, 2.03^, for his premier stallion, but Moko 

 had the trotting form of his ancestors, and his ability 

 to transmit this form was demonstrated by expe- 

 rience. Moko is a brown horse of substance, foaled 

 in 1893, and by Baron Wilkes, dam Queen Ethel 

 by Strathmore; second dam Princess Ethel by Vot 



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