The Breeds of Horses 11 
to the development of the American Saddle horse. In fact, so 
much of the breeding has been accomplished in Kentucky that 
this breed is often spoken of as the Kentucky Saddle Horse. 
Thoroughbred blood was used extensively in the improvement of 
the breed... By far the most important animal in the foundation 
of the breed: was Denmark, from whom practically all of the noted 
saddlers of: to-daly: are descended. 
12. The American Saddler compared with the Thoroughbred. — 
The Saddler shows more style in the carriage of the head and arch 
of the neck and tail as well as in the general symmetry of form. 
The height and weight exceed that of the Thoroughbred. The 
shoulders and pasterns are sloping and long, the pasterns in par- 
ticular being long, strong, and springy, thus favoring an easy gait. 
The gaits of the Saddler are especially distinctive. Saddlers 
are divided into two classes according to the gaits they can per- 
form: the walk-trot-canter horse, the most usual of saddle horses ; 
and the gaited saddle horse, capable of performing the walk, trot, 
canter, rack, and one or more of the three slow gaits, the running 
walk, or fox trot, or slow pace (Fig. 4). 
13. The Standardbred horse. — This breed includes both trotters 
and pacers, often erroneously considered as two breeds. They have 
a common history and are distinguished only by their gait. This is 
sometimes interchangeable, and the same horse may pace on one 
occasion and trot on another. This breed represents the road type. 
14. History of the Standardbred horse. — This breed is of 
American origin, although traceable to animals imported from 
England, where for many years horses have been both trotted and 
run under the saddle. While the breed is of recent origin, yet 
Norfolk and Yorkshire, England, have been noted for their trotting 
horses for more than a century. The English Thoroughbred, 
however, furnished the major part of the improved blood entering 
into the foundation of the American Standardbred horse. The 
early ancestry can be traced in an unbroken line to Darley Arabian, 
Byerly Turk, and Godolphin Barb. Perhaps the most important 
