The horse : his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease . PERCHERON STALLION, DRAGON. PERCHERON GRADE GELDING (Sixteen Years Old) THE TROTTING-BRED HORSE 187 When Messenger charged dawn the gang-plank,Hiram Woodruff declared, the value of not less thanone hundred million dollars struck our soil. ^ The dam of Rysdyks Hambletonian was a fast roadmare, sired by Bellfounder, a Norfolk trotter importedfrom England in 1822, by James Boott, a rich merchantof Boston. The Norfolk trotters, by the way, werethe progenitors of the modern hackney, but possessingmuch more endurance and vim. They
The horse : his breeding, care, and treatment in health and disease . PERCHERON STALLION, DRAGON. PERCHERON GRADE GELDING (Sixteen Years Old) THE TROTTING-BRED HORSE 187 When Messenger charged dawn the gang-plank,Hiram Woodruff declared, the value of not less thanone hundred million dollars struck our soil. ^ The dam of Rysdyks Hambletonian was a fast roadmare, sired by Bellfounder, a Norfolk trotter importedfrom England in 1822, by James Boott, a rich merchantof Boston. The Norfolk trotters, by the way, werethe progenitors of the modern hackney, but possessingmuch more endurance and vim. They were greatroadsters, both under saddle and in harness, and Bell-founder is described as having a fine slashing gait. Rysdyks Hambletonian was a plain horse, but nota coarse one. He was of a rich bay color, with blackpoints, and stood at the withers, and at therump. Hamilton Busbey, who knew the horse well,describes him as having a large, expressive head, withsplendid eyes, a rather short neck, massive shouldersand quarters, and legs broad, flat and clean. Histail was well set on, b
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