THE HORSE IN AMERICA [Illustration: 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 [Illustration] _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 INTRODUCTION 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 RIDING AND DRIVING CHAPTER FIFTEEN TRAINING VS. BREAKING CHAPTER SIXTEEN CONFORMATION AND ACTION INDEX INTRODUCTION