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and has given us all our great trotters and pacers. It includes 
several important families, such as the Hambletonians, Clays, 
Mambrinos, and Morgans. The last of these is probably our 
must useful horse for general purposes. 
Grades and Scrubs. — Most of the horses in ordinary use 
that are spoken of as Percherons, Clydesdales, Morgans, etc., 
SPEED TyPE: STANDARD-BRED HORSE 
are, of course, not pure-bred but merely grade animals. Large 
numbers of others that we see have no trace of blood from 
standard breeds and may be called scrubs. 
The small horses raised in large bands on the Northwestern 
ranges are called bronchos. They have at least one valuable 
characteristic, namely their remarkable endurance. Their 
