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confined to men who will make a specialty of speed horses — men 

 who are able to equip their breeding farms with everything neces- 

 sary for the production and development of that racing qualifica- 

 tion. 



While few in numbers, the trotting-bred horses shown were 

 bred in most advanced lines. A. R. Gillis of Syracuse, S. C. 

 Pendergast of Phoenix, Lyndon Farm of Syracuse, John C. 

 AJdrich of Bath and John McMahon of Syracuse were the prin- 

 cipal exhibitors, and the exhibits represented the best trotting 

 families of this period of advanced breeding. 



Fig. 69. Perfection — Winner of Silver Ctjp at New York State 

 Fair. 1914. Best Foal in all Breeds — Belgian Filly Foal 

 Raised at Heart's Delicht Farm, and Sired ry Richelieu 



saddle iior.ses 

 There is another branch of horse breeding, however, to which 

 recognition has not been extended in the breeding classes of the 

 State Fair — one that promises to become a profitable branch of 

 horse breeding. That is the production of saddle horses. 

 Xever during the last quarter of a century have so many busi- 

 ness men taken to riding as during the last three or four years. 



