128 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



DeBusigney "Pierrot" is a wonderful example of the high 

 school horse. 



That there must be something to the mouth and bitting 

 goes from the fact that there has been no way yet brought 

 out that would teach a horse to do this or that at command. 

 Of course we have all seen horses go down the crowded 

 streets with no bit, guided by a whip ; but that is simply 

 a trick, consequently of no value. 



The " Presidential four at Worcester*' shows clearly four 

 horses all in touch, excited by a vast multitude, behind them 

 our strenuous President, and he whom every New England 

 farmer loves best and honors most, — George F. Hoar, — 

 with a brake weighing 1,800 pounds; yet all with their 

 chins in the proper place, and under proper control. 



To give you a little idea of the breeding of the four 

 horses, I would state that the oft' wheeler, " Sapolio," came 

 off* a milk wagon in "Worcester ; the nigh wheeler, "Rubdry," 

 was wheeler on the "Red Jacket" four from Buffalo to 

 Niao-ara Falls, and Avas one of a carload of ranch horses, 

 half thoroughbred and half Percheron ; the off* leader, ' ' Stop 

 Not," is a grandson on one side by "Gallopin," winner of 

 the English Derby^ and on the other side by " Barrett," the 

 best thoroughbred that Pierre Lorillard ever owned, — in 

 fact, "Stop Not" is fifteen-sixteenths thoroughbred; the 

 nio-h leader, " Ting-a-ling," was by $75 ex a street car, but 

 the pick of the basket, the flower of the flock ; there was 

 no doubt a large proportion of Arab in him, as the mottled 

 Belton ticklings on his skin showed. These were horses all 

 of dift'erent breedings, all tremendously excited, yet all under 

 control because they were properly bitted. 



" The Cad," winner of the $10,000 championship in 1900, 

 is perhaps the best illustration one can get of a thorough- 

 bred under control. He was a horse who, in the hands of 

 McLaughlin the trainer (who Avas the premier jockey of 

 America for years), was found more or less unmanageable 

 and impossible to bring up to his field of horses, and was 

 continually breaking at the wrong time. 



I got him from Mr. Wadsworth of Genesee valley for 

 $150, and I can distinctly remember that it was three days 



