TROTTING HORSES 



The trotting stallions 



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have been used to a great many Welsh mares. Silk 

 Twist has been accepted for registration in the Welsh 

 Stud Book, so many of his stock being so true to the 

 Welsh type. 



I remember a friend buying a beautiful cob from 

 Wales. I admired it so much, that I persuaded him to 

 write to the farmer and ask, for curiosity, how she was 

 bred. My friend insisted that she was a Welsh mare, 

 but the farmer's reply proved that what I had thought 

 was correct. The mare was by Silk Twist ; dam, a Welsh 

 mare. 



A great many Welsh farmers have improved their 

 own particular strain of Welsh trotters by using the 



