56 The Horse Industry in New York State 



ever the reasons may he it is a fact that no country in the world 

 SO develops a horse in mind and body, bone and endurance, as 

 this Blue-Grass country. Proof of this statement is found in the 

 fact that seventy per cent of the g:reat horses in this country — 

 runners, trotters, and saddle horses — are reared within a radius 

 of thirty miles of Lexington, the capital of the Blue Grass. 



