36 THE HORSE 



the only one that was developed directly from the 

 Arabian. But indirectly, through thoroughbred 

 crosses, Arabian blood has had an important part 

 in the development of all our best types and breeds 

 of roadsters. In all breeds thus formed the thor- 

 oughbred strain — whether late or remote — is un- 

 mistakable; most interesting of all, perhaps, is 

 the part it has played in the development of the 

 American trotter. 



Any one who will take the trouble to study care- 

 fully the pedigrees of our early trotters will be 

 struck by the frequency with which thorough- 

 bred crosses appear. Again and again they re- 

 cur. And yet the history of the trotter was, in 

 some respects, like that of the thoroughbred ; men 

 did not seem to grasp the true significance of this 

 fact, and it was not till Leland Stanford bought 

 Electioneer and bred him to strictly thoroughbred 

 mares that the full value of thoroughbred blood 

 in developing the American trotter as a breed was 

 clearly recognized. Ever since then its effect has 

 been increasingly apparent, and if there were 

 some cold-blooded trotters in the old days, the 

 trotter of the present is a clean and blood-like 

 animal, as game in every way as the thoroughbred 

 of whose blood he so largely partakes. 



In thus showing the way in which Arabian blood 

 has come down to our finest modern horses I must 



