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The Hokse I>'DrsTKY in Xew Yoek State 



this association, it has been fully demonstrated that no horse was 

 worthy to stand by Denmark's side as a foundation sire. Proof 

 of this statement is conclusively given in the iirst volume of the 

 register, for. of the two thousand nine hundred and eighty-one 

 entries, one thousand six hundred and fifty-three — or practically 

 fifty-five and one-half per cent — have direct male trace to Den- 

 mark by Imp. Hedgeford out of Betsy Harrison by Aratus. 

 The fact that the sire of Denmark was imported makes it im- 



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Daixty Peaxixe by Goldex Kixg (Jut of Betty Hack- 

 ADAY BY Rex Peaxixe. 



possible that the blood lines which produced him should find large 

 repret-entation in the thoroughbred blood which has gone to make 

 the American Saddle Horse. However, that he sired Denmark 

 places us heavily in his debt." 



Imp. Hedgeford was a brown colt foaled in 1825, bred by a 

 Mr. Mytton. He was imported by William Jackson and brought 

 to Kentucky where he died in 1840. It is deplorable that we 

 have no accurate description of him other than that he was very 

 beautiful. Mr, John B. Lentz, who was still living in 190.5, re- 

 membered Imp. Hedgeford, and said of him : "He was a horse of 

 wonderful style and beauty, and a great two-ended one." 



