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SADDLEBRED “SPORTHORSE” PERFORMERS OF A CENTURY AGO

ere are Tom Bass’ three champion High School horses. We see in collected trot and the other two horses in passage, all correctly collected, deeply engaged, and very expressive in traces in sireline to Black Squirrel and has four close-up crosses to Queen plus one to Black Hawk. ’ parentage has never been ascertained, but an educated guess makes him a grandson of *Stamboul out of a Black Squirrel mare.

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