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KENTUCKY SADDLE HORSE ANCESTRY Foundation Furnished by the Thoroughbred As in Other Useful Equine Breeds That the cavalry arm is by no means the extinct volcano that H G Wells the aerial novelist assumed it to be has again been shown during the last week or two by the exploits of the cavalry of the allied forces on the western front and tho great value of the thoroughbred sire or dam has over and over again been asserted by the military authorities in the States both before and since the l eginning of the great war It was pointed out six years ago in the report of Lieutenant Danford to the general staff he was then an officer of the United States field artillery that whatever the trotter the pacer and the saddle horse have of quality and endurance is traceable to their thoroughbred an ¬ cestry In connection with the saddle horse Lieu ¬ tenant Danford rightly asserted that the Kentucky saddler breed was founded by the thoroughbred stallion Denmark This is the Denmark by Hedge ford Betsy Harrison by Aratus which was foaled in 1839 and bred by Samuel Davenport ia Ken ¬ tucky Hedgeford was bred by the famous Mr Mytton in 1825 and was by Fillio da Pnta Miss Craigie by Orville winner of the Doncaster St Legcr Marchioness by Lurcher On his dams side Hedgeford traced back to Daphne by Regulus and further to the Surley mare dam of Hultons Spot Hedgefords sire Fillio da Puta likewise won the St Leger the Doncaster Cup and other races but lost his famous match with Sir Joshua in 1810 when giving his conqueror seven pounds he lost several lengths at the start one mile and was beaten by a neck in a heavy fall of snow Fllho da Pnta was a big horse in that period standing fully sixteen hands which was well over the average in the second decade of last century London Sportsman
