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class of animals produced on the farm ; yet draft horses pay well. 

 However, to ignore or to depise the Standardbred is to deny de- 

 served recognition to the horse which has, at least until we have 

 been shown a better way, tilled our fields, furnished our chief 

 means of transportation, mounted our troops, and been the central 

 figure in one of our most popular and liberally patronized sports. 

 And there are yet farmers who find the Standardbred of the riglit 

 type to be of greater usefulness to them than horses of any other 

 type or breed. 



NOTABLE STRAINS 



The history of the Standardbred is very well known and little 

 need be said of it here. Every Xew York farmer knows the 



Fig. 4. Hambletoxiax 10 at Twexty.-Three Years of Age. 



(From " Productive Horse Husbandry" — Courtesy of J. B. Lippincott, Publishers.) 



Hambletonian, the Abdallahs, the Mambrinos, the Wilkes and a 

 score of others. However, that these farmers do not fully under- 

 stand how the fabric of the breed is woven in these lines is ex- 

 posed in their frequent reference to a Wilkes or a Hambletonian. 

 There was a time when to be a Wilkes or Hambletonian was some 

 distinction, but the different branches of the family tree have 



