The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-12


WHERE We GIT ouR uLooDEu srOcN ?.
TURN AMONG THE ruRf-NEN AT LoN'
BRANCH
Gath" has been az Long Brancl
amOng the ;uri-men and writes 10 th
Chicago Tribune an interesting "essa.
on the horse This racing business i
mot new thing in America. 1t bcgaI
before the Revolution, aud Washington
lhmse self was patron of it, and from
Ilsl5, we had what we called the palm,
days Of the American turf. After thos'
loud thirty years, racing became more
and more local and spasmodic. and th'
ltrottng track grew into favor, until nea'
lthe close Of the War. when people. tire,
iOf the trickcrv of the trof. the sciiin.
out of matches and the division OF gate
money. and purses made pethoric and
sensibilities diseased by the War. fell
into the mood for galloping squadron'
again. The revival OF the turf at the
Paterson On. j. Park was followed 10y
, the opening of the celebrated Jerome
Park, New York City, in the fall Of 1860
just prior 10 this, the Saratoga Park
was made: and these two Parks the
most successful in the cOuntry-have led
to several others. none OF which are said
to be profitable 70 the breeders and
i-tablomen. however, this revival Of the
Turf is a sweet boon. bankers and Gov
Icrnors. and railroad men, and their
hopeful sons just coming into their in
Iheritance, aspire TO be the patrons OF
1.-The national races. and 30 around. fol-
llowed by Jockeys, hostcrs. and trainers.
talking leainedly of horse-points. 1t is
the cheapest way 10 become notorious.
and the easiest TO spend money. As
racers. our American u'thorOughbredS are
hot excelcd in The world: they carry
less weight. but make better time. than
the English racers. And our trotters are
not equaled in any country. owing per-
lhaps, in some degree, TO our country
road system. something also TO our eli
inate, but most 10 the crossing of seve-
lral different breeds and the admixture
lof the lest English-Oriental blood. =
1.-THE general horse of America says
m English authority, is superior. not
En blood ~ beauty, but decidedly in
lhardihood o do. TO endure, III powers
of travel. 81 eed. dociliiy. aud good tenn
per, 10 any iher race of general horses
in the world
THE AMERICAN HORSE.
The Ameri, All horse j. as mixed in
stock. and as veil defined a a type. as
the American nation, and, like the ma
ion. the Emgli h blood fixes the type
In the year l4s 8. the first horses were
let loose in the Western World by CO.
lumbus. The M iinland was first trod-
den by the stet DIS of DeSoto and Dc
Naca. at time when the Spanish horse
was perfected anil most formidable for
cavalry purposes. At the deserton OF
Buenos Ayres in 1858. the stock was set
loose. which filled the Continent with
wild horse ~ far a. Texas and the
Plains and in 1901 Acadia was stocked
with Norman and Flemish nags. which.
four y ars later. w ne carried To Canada
East. whence. by he year 1850, they
were made compa ttivcly numerous in
Illinois Thence. probably spring Indi-
ln ponies and mustangs Spanish and
French castaway modified by climate
md food. and It lntcd by savage sever
~. In 1909. six mares and horse
we're landed al jamestown. Virginia.
md ,Glty years later expectation of
lorses was forbid len by law. In 1625.
he Dutch brouglu horse To- New York
md. in 1929. Lciccstcrshire man
brought them 10 Massachusetts, Bay.
From these small beginnings. sec the
Increase, There ar to-day in the Uni
ed States nearly eigi millions of horses,
showing Il growth a pon the stock inn
ported more marvellous than mans.
There are also nearly 100000 Of asses
md mules. although New England had
Dut 800 in all twenty years ago. Yer
mont has more stock than any other
state in the East; the South passes tile
y orth in mules; aud the Old Territory
Df New Mexico had. twenty years ago,
more mules than all the Pacific coast put
together and doubled. In 1850. we hal
a horse to every five inhabitau uts: in 1870
one 10 every fivc-anl-a-third | do not
possess the census OF 1870 to give fuller
details. During the war we sacrificed
ls many four-tootcd beasts rs men. and
still the negro was not happy without
his mule. Emancipation to him was an
idle achievement without his mule
thrown in. This teaches us that free
dom without transportation is mockery.
WHERE DID THE BLOOD COME FROM!
The above horses were merely the
wild growth aud common transpanta-
tion. on which to cngrait the perfected
breeds OF England The race
of horses was not fully perfected in
England till the reign of Queen Anne.
AZ which time we received our most
copious Immigration of men and stock
The English monarchy had been import
ing and improving the breed, more or
less, from the time Of Alfred the Great;
bat il was not until Queen Anne's time
that il was demonstrated that Arabic
and Barbary stock could accomplish no