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THE HORSE IN AMERICA
Original lithograph published by Currier & Ives.
FLORA TEMPLE
This remarkable mare was the first trotter to go a mile better than 2.20. For more than six years she was called “Queen of the Trotting Turf.” Nothing is known as to her breeding, but from 1853 to 1859 she beat all the good horses in the country. She was a light bay, 14⅛ hands in height, and weighed 835 pounds when in training.
The Horse
IN AMERICA
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE VARIOUS TYPES COMMON IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH SOMETHING OF THEIR HISTORY AND VARYING CHARACTERISTICS
BY
JOHN GILMER SPEED
Illustrated
NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMV
Copyright, 1905, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, October, 1905
THIS BOOK
THE AUTHOR DEDICATES TO HIS FRIEND
COLONEL CLARENCE R. EDWARDS, U.S.A.
WHOSE INHERITED LOVE FOR HORSES HAS
BEEN CULTIVATED BY STUDY AND
STRENGTHENED BY PRACTICE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE PREHISTORIC AND EARLY HORSES
CHAPTER TWO ARAB AND BARB HORSES
CHAPTER THREE THE THOROUGHBRED IN AMERICA
CHAPTER FOUR THE MORGAN HORSE
CHAPTER FIVE MESSENGER AND THE EARLY TROTTERS
CHAPTER SIX RYSDYK’S HAMBLETONIAN AND THE STANDARD BRED TROTTERS
CHAPTER SEVEN THE CLAY AND CLAY-ARABIAN
CHAPTER EIGHT THE DENMARK, OR KENTUCKY SADDLE-HORSE
CHAPTER NINE THE GOVERNMENT AS A BREEDER
CHAPTER TEN FOREIGN HORSES OF VARIOUS KINDS
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE BREEDING OF MULES
CHAPTER TWELVE HOW TO BUY A HORSE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE STABLE AND ITS MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER FOURTEEN RIDI
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