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VERSATILITY OF THE THOROUGHBRED The average person thinks of the thoroughbred as a race horse alone and lit for little else than displays of supreme speed. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Anything that any other horse can Jo, the. thoroughbred, can jo and. do. it well. The most intelligent of alhoef, ,jt-is, a .mere matter of training To make aim tlie besfc and most willing of work horses, and, in fact, he Is the most versatile of all. A striking illustration of his varied capabilities was displayed at the recent New York horse show, when ir. thoroughbred but recently in successful action on the" race- track swept all prizes as the highest .type of a saddle horse. Of this feature of the horse how Sports of the Times says: "Possibly the sensation of the show was the continuous victory of that good saddle horse, Brigand. He won in the Thoroughbred Saddle Horses, class 10, well shown by William Collier, and he won the Holland House Challenge Cup under Uying colors. Then he was brought out for the jChampIon Saddler class open only to horses not exceeding fifteen two, taking prizes at this or previous association shows, and in the Champion class SO he was ridden by his owner, James G. Marshall, who does not. very often take the trouble to ride in the ring. Brigand won in good style, fulfilling his bright promise of 190C, when he won in ladies saddlers, in saddle horses not exceeding fifteen two but over fifteen hands, also winning the Saddle Championship for 1900. Brigand is a thoroughbred horse by Belvidere, which has sired a number of very good horses, the dam being Livonia, which was by the great Longfellow, a horse whose middle mile still stands unsurpassed. It is interesting to recall that it was si saddler type son . of Longfellow which Adam Beck, the Canadian, In the long ago, sold to the Honorable Perry Belmont for a heavy price, to be presented by that gentleman to the Duke of Marlboro. Brigand was bred at the Preakness Farm of James Galway, an old-time ex-fire commissioner, and he ran to victory several times under Mr. Galways colors. Late in 1005, after winning at Sheepshead Bay, he was sold and next spring won at a mile in mud in 1:43, and later at a mile and a quarter short measure in 2:03 at Los Angeles. Soon after that William A. McGibbon saw his saddler possibilities and bought him, developed him as apparently only McGibbon can develop a thoroughbred horse, and sold him to Mr. Marshall. The amusing part of his history is that when shown at the Garden, his breeder, Mr. Galway, came to see him, and the horse had improved so Mr. Galway utterly decliued to recognize him. It was only by catalogue number and pedigree printed that he was at last convinced it was his one-time colt."
