Veterinary Heritage July 2025
- skw285
- Aug 11, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 25, 2025
CONTENTS:
On the front cover: Lithograph reproduced on a vintage postcard showing Dan Patch (right) 1:55, “The Pacing King” and Cresceus (left) 2:02 ¼, “The Trotting King.” Both Standardbred horses were owned by M.W. Savage of Minneapolis who toured the country with them to fairs, exhibitions, and other events. At the turn off the 20th century, they were “the two most valuable harness horse stallions and champions of the world.” The illustration shows the gait difference between pacer and trotter. Postcard printed in Germany advertising the Great Allentown Fair, Allentown, Pennsylvania, early 1900.
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Second Prize in the 2024 J. Fred Smithcors Student Veterinary History Essay Contest.
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Fourth Prize in the 2024 J. Fred Smithcors Student Veterinary History Essay Contest.
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On the back cover: First cloned mules - a theriogenologic achievement. Plate of Poitou Mule Brunette (height 16.1). From: Tegelmeier, W.B. and C.L. Sutherland. Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules and Mule Breeding. London: H. Cox, 1895; p. 88. HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924000350235 Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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