Identifier: ridingdriving00ande (find matches)
Title: Riding and driving
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842-1916 Collier, Price, 1860-1913 Tailer, T. Suffern
Subjects: Horses Driving of horse-drawn vehicles Horsemanship
Publisher: New York London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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us but graceful action, exact paces,and a kind disposition, half-brother to Montgom-ery Chief and to Bourbon King, the two mosthighly admired stallions of their class. Here, too,are Dickens, a beautiful horse of a rich brown coat,and Lexington, both Denmarks on the side of sireand of dam. This breeding is not so usual asmight be supposed, although one of the bestjudges of saddle-horses in the state of Kentuckyspoke the general sentiment when he said that asaddle-horse could not have too much Denmarkblood. About one hundred animals of variousages, all of the best strains, fill up the tale.Colonel Woodford does not break his horses tosaddle until they are in their fourth year, as hedesires that they should have strength and devel-opment before they undergo training; but theirexcellent dispositions and the handling incidentto their care make them quiet and easy to manageand quick to learn. Five miles from Versailles, a short journey fromLexington, one finds the farm of the Ball Brothers.
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FIG. 25. —HIGH LASSIE. TWO YEARS OLD

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