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Flashlight by Eureka Lad; Poetry of Motion by Montrose; The 

 Cardinal by Forrest Denmark; Xickel Plate by King Lee Rose; 

 Margaret Tate by Highland Denmark; Beechwold Bab by a son 

 of Highland Denmark ; Gossip by King Chieftain and he by 

 Bonrbon Chief. On her dam's side, too, Gossip goes back to Imp. 

 Messenger, for she is a great-granddanghter of Harrison Chief. 



From this list, dating from the first Madison Square Garden 

 champion to the present day, the show horses that are most firmly 

 impressed on one's memory are American Saddle Horses. They 

 have a uniformity of type, beautiful head, eye and ear, long neck, 

 oblique shoulders, sharp withers, short back, smooth quarters and 

 the best of legs and feet. In size they vary scarcely an inch. 

 From Oriflamme to Gossip the height is from fifteen hands, one 

 and one-half inches, to fifteen hands, two and one-half inches ; 

 the weight from a thousand pounds to a thousand and fifty. 



UTILITY 



The utility of the American Saddle Horse is without limit — to 

 ride for pleasure, in the show ring, to drive either for speed or 

 " step,'' and as a cavalry mount. 



The peerless I'hlan is a great-grandson of Black Squirrel on 

 Lis dam's side. Uhlan, in his markings, his color, his conforma- 

 tion, and the way in which he carries his tail, is the ideal Saddle 

 Horse. 



A daughter of Roosevelt recently made a record of 2:16 on 

 the Lexington Trotting Track, after a few weeks' work. 



CARE 



From his colthood the American Saddle Horse is associated 

 daily with man. He is taught to eat grain before he is weaned. 

 After he is weaned, during severe weather he is fed grain daily. 

 Receiving the greatest care and daily handling from man develops, 

 to a high degree, his intelligence, and, having no fear of man, he is 

 wonderfully quick to learn. Having blue grass to eat and pure 

 running limestonp water to drink, his blood is pure and his bone 

 strong. There is a quality either in the soil or in the water, or 

 in both, which is of incalculable benefit to our horses' feet. What- 



