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resenting twelve States. Its objects are to advance the inter- 

 ests of the breeders of the saddle or gaited horse, and maintain 

 its purity by the establishment and publication of a stud-book 

 for the registry of animals coming within the recognized stand- 

 ard of the Society. The foundation stallions are : Denmark, 

 by imported Hedgeford ; Brinker's Drennon, by Davy Crockett ; 

 Sam Booker, by Boyd McNary, thoroughbred; John Dillard, 

 by Indian Chief ; Tom Hal, imported Canadian ; Coleman's 

 Eureka ; Vanmeter's Waxy ; Cabell's Lexington, by Gist's 

 Black Hawk ; Copperbottom, pacer ; Stump the Dealer ; Texas, 

 by Comanche ; Prince Albert, by Frank AVolford ; Peter's Hal- 

 corn ; Yarnon's Roebuck, (a Missouri horse) ; Davy Crockett. 

 The Society recognizes the following gaits as required to secure 

 the registry of animals: 1, walk; 2, trot; 3, rack ; 4, canter; 

 5, running-walk, or fox-trot, or slow ]3ace. These gaits consti- 

 tute Rule 1, of the standard for admission to registry. The 

 other rules are : 2. Stallions and mares tracing on both sides to 

 registered or foundation stock. 3. Mares that trace on either 

 sire's or dam's side to registered or foundation stock, and go 

 the gaits required in rule one. 4. Mares that trace on either 

 sire's or dam's side to registered or foundation stock and have 

 produced two performers under rule one. 5. Geldings that go 

 the gaits required by rule one. 6. Progeny of a registered 

 horse when out of a registered mare. The Society has pub- 

 lished two volumes of its stud-book, embracing the pedigrees 

 of about two thousand stallions and mares. 



National Trotting^ Association, The. This associa- 

 tion was organized in February, 1870, under the name of the 

 " iSTational Association for the Promotion of the interests of 

 the American Trotting Turf ; " which name was changed in 

 1878, to the one it now bears. It was chartered by a special 

 act of the Legislature of Connecticut, approved March 18, 1884. 

 It has for its object, the '< improvement of the breed, and the 

 development of horses, by the promotion of the interests of the 

 American trotting turf ; the prevention, detection, and punish- 

 ment of frauds thereon, and uniformity in the government and 

 rules of trotting and pacing." It is managed by a board of offi- 

 cers having a board of appeals and a board of review ; holds a 

 biennial congress on the second Wednesday in February, and 

 to the close of 1893, had a membership of five hundred and 

 fifty-two. 



Natural Gaits. The natural gaits of the horse are the 

 walk, trot, and run, or canter. In the walk one foot is not 

 raised until its fellow is upon the ground ; or in other words, 

 there is always two feet upon the ground while the diagonal 



