THE HORSE, BREEDING AND RAISING. 



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rtraighteiiing the knee before tiie foot touched the ground. He waa 

 sound, hard}^ and a powerful foal-getter ; and ii cross with such a horso, 

 C4»oQ any well-formed, large and reasonably long-bodied mare, would be 



•pt to produce the beau ideal of a trotter — moderately large, long, yet 

 compact, and with light and clean yet powerful limbs. 



Notice particularly the cut representing ''Gold Dust," a Kentucky 

 uorse, foaled near Lexington, the property of L. L. Dorsey, a few years 

 pnor to the civil war. He was mixed blooded, haWng been sired by 



