Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-09
The Thereughbred, Horse.
TFrom the American Turf Regis,er.l

horse Is every way superior to the scrub:
and more particularly in the South and
Southwest, where the heat of the eli
mate makes good wind and endurance
an almost indispensable requisite. Ex-
perience has convinced all the, owners
of stage and express lines that it is good
economy to pay higher prices for horses
of some blood than to buy the common
horses at even comparatively low rates.
All our livery and stable keepers will
agree in this opinion. 1 can well re-
member the racehorse Buford by imp.
Non Plus, dam Too Soon by Sir Leslie,
bred by the late DIR. Elisha ,Warfeld,
the breeder OF Lexington, after winning
some handsome stakes and making
a few seasons in the stud, was sid, and
ran in the lead of the Maysville stage
line daily for seventeen years. s
Take anyof our large farms, and do
not fear to hazard the opinion that if
the horses are inspected at the time
they usually lay by their crops, it will
be found that the best-bred horses are
in the best condition, without
reference to size, and that at all times
ona push, they have been able to do the
most work. Indeed, the thoroughbred
is so superior to every other variety,
that Inequalities of the horses of any
portion of the country will be found to
correspond with their breeding, decline
in proportion as they recede from the
Acknowledged thoroughbred. ]. Blood,
as the English have found, always tells
in. the huntingfieldo When the speed
Of the hound became SO impEoye ed as to
.9atstrip the common English hunter,
recourse was had to well bred and three
quarter bred horses, and now foX-hunt-
ing in England has become a system of
racing under heavy weights, in which
nothing but full blood, or something
nearly approximating it, can carry the
heavy weights across country and the
deep plOughed fields, and maintain. a
place with the hounds. No inferior
bred horse can get through deep, heavy
ground, jump hedges and ditehes,5 like
the full blood, nor finish up and return
home 80 cheerful after hard days
work. They are rarely ridden or driven
off their feed, however severe the eXer-
tions of the day may have been, while
the common horse will refuse his food
and turn from the manger. If from
English experience the full blood or
the hunting field, it must follow that he
is equally so for the road. For all the
lighter kinds of draught, the thorough
bred is most decidedly preferable; and
even for the operations of agriculture,
a copious infusion of what is under
stood by the term blood, would be found
great improvement. A class of ami
mails would thus be produced, not so
bulky as the present draught horse, but
more vigorous and stronger, more ac-
tive, and capable of enduring much
greater and long continued fatigue. In
regard to the term "blOOd," it has ref
erence togthe quality of the animal,
rather than the fluid which circuIates
in his veins; the genuine blood, as it is
called, having reference to the powers
of speed and capacity of supporting
fatigue.
The main and leading principle in
breeding should be to select the sire and
dam of fine form, sound constitution,
free from hereditary diseases and blem-
lshes, and the vigor of life. Avoid the
system of incestu0us breeding, or breed
ing IN and in too much. The first cross
may produce no falling off in beauty,
but in the second twill be found more
marked, and in the third, iInbecflity
and idiOtcy are likely to be the result.
as we frequently see in the human
family. 1 believe in the English theory,
once insand twice out If we look at
vegetable nature, we shall find that our
farmers, from. long experience, have
become well aware that if their seed be
defective, diseased, or of inferior quail
ty, they cannot expect good healthy
crops. Hence, the grain which they
sow is selected with the greatest care.
If this applicable to your grain raising
it need hardly be observed how power
fully this principle applies to the sub
ject Of breeding all kinds of stock.
aoI If like begets like, and you wish to
breed first-class animals, yon must breed
from those who have shown themselves
superior for the particular purpose YOU
are breeding. differ greatly from the
theory and practice on breed
ing trotters, the crossing of the trotting
sire upon the. thoroughbred mare. I'll
is law of physiology and a generally
admitted fact by breeders and all au-
thorities upon the subject of breeding
that to Improve any blood the sire must
be the superior ANIMAL; therefore
think that to produce good trotter, a
pure and superior bred racing sire.
crossed upon the trotting mare of less
blood, would produce a better animal. /
ALI, or nearly all, of our breed of horses
have sufficient speed, but the difficulty
lies in their incapacity to keep up this
rate of speed for any length of time.-l
For beauty of form, symmetry and
style, some of our common horses COM
pare favorably with the thoroughbred:
then what is the difference between
these breeds? 1t is this: The supt riori-
" of a racehorse or thoroughbred con-
;iSts in his wind, which is innate in |
The breed, and degenerates when mixed |
)r crossed with the common horse. We
see the quarter horse of the country 60 |
Is fast as the racehorse; but it is only |
iOr short distance, then they tire from
want of wind, while the eithoroughbred@
'acer, having this peculiar merit, will
)ear the fatigue of four mile heats with
ess distress than the common quarter
horse will his quarter of a mile. The
,asy breathing of the racehorse 1 at
;ribute tothethinne5s and delicacy ofthel
kin, and the increased number of SUI
,erficial veins, than is to be found in
.he common horse.
1t has been proven in the great num-
Der of experiments performed upon
nan and the eold-blood animals, that
me of the chief functions of the skin is
% decarbonize the blood by. separating
md throwing off certain portion Of
arbon. This is proven by the striking
liberation in the color of the blood
The venOuS blood is dark or purple. the