THE KENTUCKY SADDLE-HOBSE 151 



thing. And, later in the day, when dinner was 

 over at the hospitable Bostonian's home, and the 

 ladies and children were retiring, the Kentuck- 

 ian leaned over to his host and said, with enthu- 

 siam: "By Gad, Colonel, you have outbred 

 yourself. " That was a heartfelt tribute expressed 

 in the natural way in which a Kentuckian should 

 speak. No wonder that they have fine horses 

 when they give so much thought to this subject of 

 breeding. 



But for all this Kentucky has produced only 

 one distinctive reproducing type. Her trotters — 

 if type they be — belong as much elsewhere as to 

 Kentucky; her runners are purely English. Her 

 Denmarks, however, belong to Kentucky. They 

 have been bred there for more than sixty years, 

 and as a distinctive American type, they are sec- 

 ond only in this country to the Morgans of Ver- 

 mont. It is a singular fact and not unworthy of 

 note that only two states have produced distinct 

 American reproducing types, Vermont and Ken- 

 tucky, and those were the first two states admit- 

 ted to the Union after the original thirteen got 

 ready to embrace other sisters. 



