. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 26 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE his offspring won a total of $i,i59,32i. Two imported horses, Leamington and Bonnie Scotland, left a strong impress on run- ning horse blood. Leamington was used in the stud in England and in 1865 was purchased for $7500 by Mr. Cameron and brought to America. Miss Theo, by Leamington, was a noted brood mare, and Parole, a son, was a famous racer. Hanover, by Hindoo, was one of the more recent great American-bred sires, being foaled in 1884. He not only possessed great speed but. Fig. 8. Lamplighter, a Thoroughbred racer
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 26 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE his offspring won a total of $i,i59,32i. Two imported horses, Leamington and Bonnie Scotland, left a strong impress on run- ning horse blood. Leamington was used in the stud in England and in 1865 was purchased for $7500 by Mr. Cameron and brought to America. Miss Theo, by Leamington, was a noted brood mare, and Parole, a son, was a famous racer. Hanover, by Hindoo, was one of the more recent great American-bred sires, being foaled in 1884. He not only possessed great speed but. Fig. 8. Lamplighter, a Thoroughbred racer and sire in the stud of Milton Young, Lexington, Kentucky. One of the leading sires of 1904 and 1905 winners. From photograph by the author transmitted this quality to many sons and daughters. The horse Kingston, that died in 1912 at twenty-nine years of age, raced for nine years and sired many winners. The speed record of the Thoroughbred is faster than that of any other horse. Races with this breed are run under the saddle, with jockeys up. A light, skillful jockey is needed in the saddle. A very satisfactory jockey weight is 110 to 115 pounds, but many great races have been won with weight up to 125 pounds. The fastest record by a Thoroughbred up to 1918 was that of i:3S| by Salvator on a straightaway track of one mile, in 1890, at Monmouth Park, New Jersey. However, on August 21, 1918, the horse Roamer at Saratoga, New York, reduced the record to I ^. On the Harlem standard track, in 1903, Dick Wells ran a mile in i:37|- Only a few days before Alan-a-Dale had passed around Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston, New York, Ginn
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