38 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE 



Promiaent American saddle-horse sires additional to those men- 

 tioned under the preceding families are the following, the date 

 of foaling, which is given in parenthesis, indicating the period 

 when service began: Wilson's Chief; Harrison's Chief 1606 

 (1872); Black Squirrel 58 (1876); Chester Dare 10(1882); 

 Bourbon Chief 976 (1883); Forest Squirrel 801 (1890); High- 

 land Denmark 730 (1890) ; Rex McDonald 883 (1890) ; Mont- 

 gomery Chief 1361 (1897); Dandy Jim 2d 1531 (1900); My 

 Dare 2642 (1901) ; My Own Kentucky 3764 (1901) ; Kentucky 

 Choice 3765 (1905); and Astral King 2808 (1906). The above 

 fourteen horses cover a period of thirty-four years of foaling, from 

 that of Harrison's Chief. In the studbook Wilson's Chief is given 

 no registry number or date of foaling, being an early foundation 

 sire. Rex McDonald 833, by Rex Denmark 840, who died at 

 twenty-three years of age in 191 3, was regarded not only as almost 

 a perfect specimen of a gaited saddle horse but as the most 

 impressive sire of his time. 



Noteworthy American saddle-horse mares are Mollie, dam of 

 Black Squirrel 58 ; Amelia 1354, by Red Eagle 28 ; Patsy McCord 

 1600, by Black Squirrel; Highland Maid 1270, by Highland 

 Denmark; Emily 855, by Bourbon Chief, by Harrison's Chief 

 3841 ; Rowena 1362, by Chester Dare 10, by Black Squirrel 58 ; 

 Miss Rex 820, by Rex Denmark; and Little Kate 5851, by 

 Prince of Denmark 423. 



The prices paid for American saddle horses often run into 

 high figures, $500 to ^1000 not being uncommon. There is but 

 a limited supply of gaited saddlers, and these are always in 

 demand by a class of patrons who are willing to pay a price con- 

 sistent with merit. In 1906 Major David Castleman sold the 

 stallion The Moor 1907, by Cecil Palmer, for ;^7Soo to General 

 William Palmer of Colorado Springs. This same year General 

 John B. Castleman of Kentucky sold the mares Eugenia (by 

 Highland Denmark, out of Emily) and Magna (by Cromwell, Jr., 

 out of Maria) to J. A. Davis of Massachusetts for ^5000. Rex 

 McDonald sold for ^2500 as a six-year-old and later for ^5000. 

 In 1907 the mare Miss Flirtation sold for ^6318. Kentucky 

 Choice 3765 sold in 1909 for $6000 and later changed hands 

 at ^7500, In 1913 My Major Dare 4424 sold for ^10,000, the 



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