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harness horses. The prices obtained in the market fairly 

 rival those for winners on the track. At one of the large 

 sales held in New York a year or two ago 44 heads realized 

 $65,750, — an average of $1,494. The first 20 of these 

 horses brought more than $50,000 ; a four-in-hand realized 

 $10,750. 



Thomas W. Lawson paid $29,000 for his four-in-hand of 

 prize-winners, " Glorious Flying Cloud," "Whirling Cloud," 

 "Thunder Cloud" and "Red Cloud," and it is generally 

 acknowledged for horse show purposes as a park team their 

 equal has never been seen. Mr. Lawson has always been a 

 firm believer in the American trotter as a heavy harness 

 horse, and from the start has been willing to pay any price 

 so as to obtain animals which would whi the blue ribbon, 

 and be a credit to " Dreamwold." 



His exhibit, at the Grafton Country Club horse show in 

 the spring, of " Red Cloud " and " Bonnie " won the heart 

 of every farmer who attended, from Vermont on the north 

 to Connecticut on the south. 



When C. F. Bates first brought out " Coxey," "Brown 

 Donna," "Hi," "High Tide," " AVhirl of the Town" and 

 others, there were 21 classes exclusively for hackney stal- 

 lions, mares and colts, and 32 breeders made 110 entries; 

 but this has fallen olf year by 3^ear, until now there are less 

 than 30 hackneys shown, and these by only 2 or 3 breeders. 



In the years 1892-93 I showed " Sky High ; " he was by 

 a trotting stallion out of a Morgan mare, bred in New York 

 State. In the high-stepping class at Madison Square Gar- 

 den in 1892 the competition was not especially keen ; but 

 in 1893 he came up against Joseph E. Widener's cham]iion 

 hackney mare "Dorothea," who just carried everything 

 before her at the show in hackney classes. 



Widen er drove "Dorothea" and I drove "Sky High;" 

 it was the American type and breeding against the English 

 type and breeding, from the drop of the flag. After fifteen 

 or twenty minutes the majority of the horses had been called 

 to the middle of the ring or had been sent out, until there 

 were only four or five of us left. I had been carrying 

 "Sky High" carefully and easily, husbanding his strength 



