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march both have to go great distances in the sad- 

 dle, the running-walk is about as great an excel- 

 lence as a horse can be endowed with. It came 

 into being in this country when most journeys 

 were made on horseback. In those days, when 

 about to take the long road from Lexington to 

 Washington and Philadelphia, a man would have 

 been considered lacking in intelligence who ex- 

 pressed contempt for either the amble or the fox- 

 trot. And when Morgan's men, during the Civil 

 War, were making those wonderful raids — now 

 here, now there, and the next day out of sight — 

 they were generally mounted on these Kentucky- 

 bred horses — not Thoroughbreds, but Den- 

 marks and others of the saddle-class type, the 

 one type that particularly belongs to Kentucky, 

 and one of the very few types that we can call 

 American. 



Long before Denmark came to Kentucky — 

 fifty years and more — there had been good 

 saddle-horses there. There was an urgent need 

 for them, and men of enterprise usually get what 

 they need. They had been brought from Virginia 

 by the early settlers, they had come from Canada 



