No. 4.] THE HORSE FOR NEW ENGLAND. 121 



that ill " Norfolk Phenoiiienon,"' who wa.s .said to have done 

 twenty miles an hour in En<>:land, was the type of what we 

 wanted in America. But the horses that were brought 

 across the water were not of that type. xVway back in the 

 dark ages there may have been hackneys that were able to 

 go twenty miles an hour, but they have never been landed 

 on this side. In fact, in my opinion, the reason why the 

 hackney as a harness horse has not had the ]iroper justice 

 done to him in America, is because the majority of those 

 who were originally imported were kept hog fat, simply 

 shown at the end of the halter, rather than being put into 

 work, and shown in working condition. 



Widener's " Dorothea," that " Sky High'" defeated at the 

 New York show in 181)3, Avas in hackney show condition 

 rather than heavy harness condition. 



The hackney stallions were not in this country a great 

 time before experiments were tried in crossing them on the 

 leading strains. 



A. J. Cassatt, who imported "Cadet," the champion of 

 England, to this country, crossed him on a thoroughbred 

 mare, and produced " Clipper," who has won a number of 

 blue ribbons in the saddle classes, both in New York and 

 Philadelphia. 



Henry Fairfax, who imported "Matchless Londsboro," 

 a horse who carried all before him at the New York show in 

 1900, 1902 and 1903, and later sold him to W. Seward 

 Webb for $20,000, did a vast amount of experimenting in 

 breeding to the thoroughbred and the trotting mare. 



It was onl}^ last year when in Virginia that I came across 

 a splendid type of the heavy harness horse, 15-3, that was 

 a descendant of his stock, half thoroughbred and half 

 hackney. 



Webb, Cassatt, Widener, Fairfax and all the rest retired 

 from the ring, as their colts were brought to New York year 

 after year from their stock farms and sacriticed at low prices. 

 There was absolutely no call for the hackney, and, as he "svas 

 beaten in show after show in the heavy harness classes, it 

 seemed to many a wonder that he was ever produced. 



It remained for Eben D. Jordan of Boston, with his Pljui- 



