96 BREEDS OF HORSES 



American horses. A great many trotting horse families 

 trace their parentage back to Messenger, and an elaborate 

 pedigree of Dan Patch (i :55i) traces back to Messenger 

 43 times. Some of the leading families are the Clay, 

 Morgan, Hal, Mambrino Chief, Hambletonian, and Pilot. 

 Since most of these families started about the middle of 

 the nineteenth century, the trotting horse is of compara- 

 tively recent development. 



The Morgan family, from which are obtained the Mor- 

 gan horses, is not famous for speed, but for horses that 

 are symmetrical, useful, beautiful, and stylish. 



The Standard Bred trotting horses are most useful for 

 producing roadsters, a class of horses which the auto- 

 mobile is rapidly supplanting. The United States govern- 

 ment is now developing a type of heavy harness horse by 

 mating the heavier and stronger Standard Bred horses. 



THE ARABIAN HORSE 



The Arabian horse deserves study because its blood 

 has had much to do in developing practically aU of our 

 modern breeds. 



History. — ■ The breed of Arabian horses was well estab- 

 lished before the time of Mohammed, who lived about 

 seven hundred years after the birth of Christ, and the 

 history of this breed is definitely known back to about 

 1500 A.D. The blood of the Arabian horse is distributed 

 over practically the entire world in the breeds of hght 

 horses. Arabian horses were first imported into England 

 early in the seventeenth century, and helped to develop the 

 Hackney and Thoroughbred. They were introduced very 

 early into America and had a marked influence upon our 

 Kght horses. 



