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It seems to me that any one except an incurable 

 enthusiast would have anticipated exactly what 

 happened. If Mr. Richards had waited several 

 generations and then injected the new infusions 

 of the Arab blood, the result probably would have 

 been quite diflferent. The Civil War came along 

 about this time, however, and the experiment 

 ended in what was considered a failure. But that 

 blood taken to Kentucky at that time by Mr. 

 Richards has been valuable in an unexpected way, 

 for it has been preserved in the half-bred horses in 

 the horse-breeding section, and it crops out all the 

 time in those wonderful saddle-horses of the Den- 

 mark strain, which are sent all over the country 

 to delight the lovers of horseback exercise as well 

 as to monopolize the ribbons in the horse shows. 

 Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, in England, has had experi- 

 ences similar to Mr. Richard's. But he has gone 

 the same wrong road, and has been in too much 

 of a hurry. Continuity in breeding is something 

 beyond the capacity of an individual; his life is 

 not long enough. That is why every government 

 should have a stud to keep up the standard of the 

 horses. In the United States the interests are so 



