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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



hour, carrying about 200 pounds, are of common report. 



The Hackney coach horse in America.— While the first 



importation dates back to 1822, when James Ford of 



Boston introduced Bellfounder (55) (see chart, p. 120), 



FIG. 80— HACKNEY STALLION "SIR HUMPHREY" 



commonly known as Imported Bellfounder, no others of 

 note occurred until 1881, when M. H. Cochrane of Hill- 

 hurst, Canada, imported a fine stallion named Fordham, 

 a son of Denmark (177). A. J. Cassatt of Philadelphia 

 established the first Hackney stud founded in the United 

 States. He imported the noted stallion Little Wonder 

 and the mares Patience and Buttercup in 1883, though 



