The Stable and Kennel 
Edited by JOHN GILMER SPEED 
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and treatment of horses, cows, dogs, poultry, etc. Careful attention will be given each inquiry, the letter and answer 
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MR. VANDERBILT’S “DOCTOR SELWONK” 
T his large chestnut gig horse that Mr. Reginald 
Vanderbilt has been showing with great suc¬ 
cess for four years past is very handsome in 
appearance and brilliant in action. And his win¬ 
nings at the various shows from Brookline in Massa¬ 
chusetts to Kansas City have been most remarkable 
footing up in the aggregate sixteen championships, 
five reserve championships, forty firsts, ten seconds 
and five thirds. This means that this horse has been 
in the ribbons, as the saying is, seventy-six times since 
Mr. Vanderbilt introduced him in the show ring. 
I do not know what “Doctor Selwonk’s” breeding 
is and I could not find out—but I guess (I will not say 
I judge) it to be a mixture of hackney and trotting 
blood. It is a queer thing about these horse show 
devotees—they seem to care next to nothing about 
the breeding of a horse they exhibit. If he can do the 
trick and carry ofi' the blue ribbon that satisfies the 
aspiring soul of the exhibitor to overflowing, that 
shows that he can select and pay for a horse, that he 
can hire a man to condition and train him so that he 
may have the glory of driving the best horse in the ring. 
In this picture Mr. Vanderbilt is himself driving. 
THE KENTUCKY SADDLE HORSE 
E very few years there appears on the turf or in 
the show ring some horse that in his or her 
class so outranks competitors that it is a 
repetition of the old experience when it was “ Eclipse 
first, the rest nowhere.” On the running turf last 
year Mr. Keene’s Commando colt, “Colin,” occupied 
such a position and won every race in which he 
started. 
So also was the case in the Kentucky shows 
where in the five-gaited saddle horse rings Mr. Shelby 
T. Harbison’s chestnut mare, “ Edna Mae,” carried 
everything before her and so won the admiration of 
those qualified to judge of this class of horses 
that I have heard many of them say that she is 
the best saddle horse seen on the tan-bark in a 
generation. 
T he gratifying thing about this mare’s perfor¬ 
mance is the fact that she is not a mere acci¬ 
dental happening, but the happy result of careful, 
scientific breeding. In her is mingled the best 
blood of the foundation stock recognized by the 
American Saddle Horse Association. This mare 
is a dark chestnut, 15-3 in height, and five years 
