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Title: Herds and flocks and horses
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Waddell, Alexander Henry, 1858-1916
Subjects: Horses Livestock
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Pedigree Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ed to olderchildren than is the Shetland, and will become much soughtafter for that stage of juvenile existence, which comes betweenthe Shetland pony age and the time when they are able to ridesmall horses. He is a hardy, sound constituted animal, beauti-ful to look upon, and will become a prime favourite here astime goes on. 78 Herds and Flocks and Horses. Hackney ponies for fashionable harness work, and particu-larly for ladies to drive on social visits and for pleasure, arethe rage in England; they fetch tremendous prices, and arethe most perfect harness ponies in existence. The breeding ofthese beautiful little animals has been taken up in this coun-try in a small way, but it is modest in the extreme, though itoffers a field in the great breeding industry that will grow andmature into a rich harvest. The Hackney pom^ is an animalthat England is exporting to every country where she is send-ing her Hackney horses. Why should not America profit byher example, enterprise, and success?
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HACKNEY PONY Herds and Flocks and Horses. 79 THE SADDLE HORSE. As to what constitutes a saddle horse in this country is amuch discussed question. The fashionable animal, and the onemost favored, particularly for park use, is the Kentucky-bredtliree-gaited horse. That he fills the part, at least in the eyesof American horsemen, there is no question, and as riding isbecoming extremely fashionable and that young America iscultivating horsemanship from his early years, it goes withoutsaying that tlie breeding of this particular class of horse willbcome a much more important industry than it is today,and like the other l)reeds alluded to, will occupy the attentionof breeders in the future far more than lie does at present.

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