THE KENTUCKY SADDLE-HORSE 163 



The planters in the South, as a general thing, go 

 about their places on horseback, also visiting the 

 village and their neighbors in the same way. In 

 that generally warm climate a Thoroughbred or 

 trotting horse would get the rider so warm that a 

 change of clothes would be necessary; but these 

 Southern gentlemen do not find such a need. In- 

 deed, I have been told that one accustomed to the 

 saddle and the climate can attend to business and 

 social duties, plus two or three mint juleps, with- 

 out any great inconvenience. 



When I was asked last year by the Civil Gov- 

 ernment of the Philippines to select some mares 

 and stallions for transportation there for breeding 

 and the improvement of the ponies in the Islands, 

 I bought as many Denmark mares as the con- 

 ditions of my commission permitted. As my time 

 was limited I had to scour several counties very 

 thoroughly. The gentlemen I first consulted were 

 rather discouraging, but I got in a few weeks as 

 fine a lot as ever left Kentucky, and the picture 

 that is in this book shows a group of them 

 at pasture just before they were started on 

 their long journey to the other side of the world. 



