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some fine animals shown there, a few that are 

 splendid. But they are of all sorts in conforma- 

 tion and method of going. It cannot be a repro- 

 ducing type under such circumstances. When a 

 hundred colts and fillies are bred we want many 

 more than three of that number to be able to ac- 

 complish the purpose of their creation. At least 

 half of the progeny of the Standard Bred Trotters 

 should be trotters themselves and more than half 

 of the remainder should be good general utility 

 horses. That is the case with the Morgans and the 

 Denmarks, the two true American types, for 

 these types have substance and character, be- 

 sides a systematic method of breeding is pursued 

 where lineage and conformation rather than per- 

 formance count. And even with the Standard Bred 

 Trotters that go fast — the three per cent of them — 

 quite half of them are pacers rather than trotters. 

 Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy said in a letter to the 

 Turf, Field and Farm, February 15, 1901, that 

 the greater proportion of fast Standard Bred Trot- 

 ters are not trotters at all, but pacers. There has 

 been no one to dispute this statement, which was 

 not one merely of opinion, but of compilation. 



