THE AMERICAN SADDLE HORSE 



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Volume I of the studbook contained Thoroughbred blood as 

 follows : 



Of pure Thoroughbred breeding . . . . 

 Containing 50 per cent Thoroughbred blood 



25 " " 



Total 



horses 



50 

 296 



343 

 152 



36 



202 



loSi 



Investigation in subsequent studbooks showed no material 

 change in the percentages above given. 



The foundation stock of the American saddle horse as agreed 

 upon by the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, after 

 years of careful investigation, and as revised in 1902, consists of 

 the ten stallions : 



Denmark (Thoroughbred) by Imp. Hedgeford. 

 John Dillard, by Indian Chief (Canadian). 

 Tom Hal (imported from Canada). 

 CabelVs Lexington, by Gist's Black Hawk (Morgan). 

 Coleinaii's Eui-eka (Thoroughbred and Morgan). 

 Van Meter^s Waxy (Thoroughbred). 

 Stump -The-Dealer (Thoroughbred). 

 Peter^s Halcorn. 

 Davy Crockett. 

 Pat Cleburne, by Benton's Gray Diomed. 



Denmark is the most distinguished animal in this list. His 

 sire, Hedgeford, was foaled in England in 1825, brought over 

 to New York in 1832, and later taken to Kentucky, where he 

 died in 1840. His son, Denmark, was bred to what is known as 

 "Stevenson's mare," from which came unusually good results 

 in saddle-horse lines, she producing to him Gaines's Denmark, 

 Muir's Denmark, and Rob Roy. The former proved a great 

 breeding stallion, and from him are descended many of the best 

 saddle horses of to-day. The Denmark horses of the earlier 

 days, bred to the pacing stock from the North, produced excel- 

 lent results. Then Thoroughbred and so-called native mares 



