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The term Chief Family usually means the descendants of 

 Harrison Chief. The sire of Harrison Chief was Clark Chief 

 by Mambrino Chief. Both of the latter horses are in the Trotting 

 Register. They breed back to Imp. ^Messenger, one being his 

 great-grandson, and one his great-great-grandson. Imp. Mes- 

 senger was one of the great Thoroughbreds of his time and is said 

 to have had a trot of unusual action, speed and balance. This 

 he has transmitted with marvelous precision to the eighth 

 generation. 



Young Bill, now o^\^led by the goverimient, was the champion 

 harness horse of Kentucky ; and Golden Flight, who like Young 

 Bill is by Golden King, is just beginning a career. King, the 

 sire of Golden King (therefore the grand-sire of Golden Flight 

 and Young Bill), and Bourbon Chief, the sire of Bourbon King 

 and Montgomery Chief, are the two stallions descended through 

 Harrison Chief from Imp. Messenger, who have had the most 

 far-reaching influence on the Saddle Horse of today. 



Bourbon King is the sire of Astral King, Richlieu King, Roose- 

 velt and Bohemian King, who are world famous. Bourbon Chief 

 sires Emily, the ^^'orld"s Fair champion, who is now in her twenty- 

 eighth year, but is cared for as tits her desserts — lives knee 

 deep in clover and blue grass. Emily in her show days had a 

 world of action at the trot, which conies both through her sire's 

 sire, Harrison Chief, and through John J)illard the grand-sire of 

 Delia, Emily's dam. Dillard Dudley, the sire of Delia, goes back 

 on his dam's side to xlratus, the sire of Betsy Harrison who was 

 the dam of Denmark. 



Bourbon King and Montgomery Chief are full brothers, both 

 being by Bourbon Chief and out of Annie C. iinnie C. is by 

 King; thus she is a granddaughter of Harrison Chief on her 

 sire's side. Her second dam was sired by Kentucky Chief whose 

 dam Betty was by War Dance, a son of Lexington. The second 

 dam of Kentucky Chief was iSJ^ettie by Oceola, and he was a son 

 of Imp. Hedgeford the sire of Demnark, so it can easily be seen 

 that just as all roads lead to Rome, all Saddle Horses lead to 

 Denmark. 



The question that most often confronts the present-day breeder 

 of Saddle Hors^es is. Have we improved on Gaines Denmark ? The 

 answer has been handled in a masterly way by a horseman of note 



