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in a recent horse paper. His conclusion carefully lead np to and 

 logically explained is : the Saddle Horse of today is an improve- 

 ment on Gaines Denmark only in step. This is due to careful, 

 painstaking, arithmetically correct breeding by selection ; by the 



Fig. is. Quicksilver by Boyd Lynx, Tracing to Grey Eagle ox His 



Dam's Side. 



judicious infusion of the blood of the descendants of the incom- 

 parably beautiful Imp. Hedgeford, and of the descendants of 

 Imp. Messenger — the race horse with the unusual trot — and of 

 Eclipse — the race horse of indomitable courage and splendid 

 bone and substance. 



So much for the derivation of the American Saddle Horse. 



