The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-07-11

IcSDCCluliN III puICl llVi s'o, bNt ava
see it. When was in Kentucky this spring
| found that the finest show horse there IN
that great horse growing state was sired by a
three.yeai. old colt that was at work on MT
Masan F. Barclays farm, and his dam was
also a farm mare And this same show horse
(Troian) was trotter as well, for he pulled a
l50.pound wagon, at years old, in 24o, IN
show.horsc condition. You may possibly
dream that am in favor OF lOw-brcd STOCK
for trotters, but you never dreamed greater
absurdity in your life, for many OF the horses
I have cited you to are exceedingly well.Dreu'
The sire of Trojan was by Brgnoli, out OF "a
mare by Alexandcr's Edwin Forrest anu iro'
ian's dam was by Tom Crowder. American
Girl is wei! bred beyond doubt; so is Gold
smith Maid, Flora Temple, Clemenllnc,
Dutchman, Logan, &c. 1t takes something
besides blood to make a perfect horse ana
fast trotter
II is an old and, presume, a true axiom,
that like begets like, or the likeness OF an
ancestor" and acting upon this principle,
would choose horse endowed by inheritance
with leve! head, fast walk, pure gait,
with plenty of blood to back 1t up, and SIZE
enough to be useful in any place, so that II l
fail to get trotter, should be amply paid
for raising the colt; and would make the
mare useful, and the colt too, for that matter
and by sucn management can haraiy see
| how a man can lall to make horse raising
profitable.
Neither can | sec any good reason for so
many failures at the great breeding studs.
Where the most failures are you may be sure
to find man ruling the roost :" Who is to.
tally ignorant Of the laws Of procreation, and
stubbornly dogmatc; man married to the
theories of some minister of the gospel, brief
less advocate of his own stock--a man WHO
has not sense enough to judge :bctwecn a
horse and a kangaroo; who believes that a
single drop Of Messenger blood is of more
value than any amount of good conformation
who is always on the lookout for the spinal
column. With such we may expect failures,
they deserve nothing better. But there Is still
another great drawback to success in these
costly breeding studs. The world is full OF
theoretical fools who are ready to jump into
any gap where they can make dollar by
their pen, not by Their hands, and they are
generally found in the employment ofmcn as
brainless and corrupt as themselves bolster
ing up some family of trotters who have no
deserved merit or if they have it is so cXag
geratcd that their most intimate friends
would never know them by the false colors
under which they sail Here is Il case in
| point. There is living evidence that Old
Morrill, was bought, when Il sucking, OF
band of gypsies who knew nothing OF his
breeding whatever, neither gave any. Mr..
Morrill, bought him at three years old for a
common, coarse farm horse, and not for
speed, Smith Morrill,, his rattle-headed son,
found one day that lie was trotter, and soon
thereafter this big coarse, lop-eared, rat-taied
horse was nearly related to a family as unlike
himself rs could possibly be, bearing no re-.
semblancc to them whatever.
First he was the offspring of the then most
popular family-thc Morgan. When TIE
Messengers came on he was found training
in their company. This is not an isolated
case; there are thousands Of others. would
not undcrvaluc the Morrills; on the other
hand, / regard them better family, if the
truth could be known, than what ialsitiers
have ever made them. This | would do: if
found family sailing under false colors,
would send them adriit without oar or rud,
der and would have no fellowship whatever
with the man who knowingly, willfully, ma
liciously, financially and deliberately makes
false pedigrees for his animals. Until we all
do this, there will be no faith in our pedi-
gees, and the men seeking blood stock will
abandon their pursuit in disgust, and failure
will continue to occur.
AS would not attempt to raise trotter
without a prospect, and something like "A
CcTthlUlN VI GOOu SlIt CDlpI anu IL -
but natural that | should have or ought TO
have made up my mind where such a one
would most likely be found. This am con
tident--if know myself-that l have done.
The Morrills have some of this sort; so have
the Clays The Hamblctonians have few
only few, in comparison to :hcir number;
the Morgans very few, the Pilots a few. Then,
in the name of common sense, somebody asks,
where can they be found with any degree of
certainty May be that somebody-or no
body-has heard Ola family OF trotterS called
the Mambrino Chiefs, If he has, and knows
anything Of them, he knows that they are the
largest, best colorcd best naturcd, best TEN.
pcrcd, purest gated trotters on the face of
the earth, and that they are backed up with
the blood of the best thoroughbreds OF Ken
lucky have read somewhere, quite recent
", the claim that Mambrino Chiefs pedigree
was defective; but the writer who made that
feeble stab should remember that the par er.
celtet Hero of Chester" lives in glass
house, and that all the newspaper talk and
In Christendom Will never clear
the mystery that hangs about his pedigree.
The principal newspaper advocates OF trotterS
have been pulled into the rank and file Of
IIamblctonian recruits, and the man who
dares to oppose them subjects himself TO the
odium of that very select class of knights of
the quill. l notice these very learned writers
deal largely in figures; let us also use them,
and what is better, facts.
And rs $50 is the rule that measures all
horseiesll, let us indulge In these charming |
decmals, and draw the magic tapc-line across
the history Of the two great sires OF America,
Hamblctonian, the beautiful tigurehead, and
Mambrlno Chief great prototype. Ham
bletonian has been in the stud twenty.one
years; MambrinO Chief virtually but pirht
and to the time If his death produced the
following horses that dropped within the
charmed circle;
Foaled. Name. Best time
1850 -. Brignoll Mambrino Prince. 2:29
1856 80. Lady Thorn.
| 1857. Darkness (doublcl.. a:27I,
1859 BE-. Mambrino Pilot o.27i[
! 1860 -. North Star Mambrino :26i,
1861. Mambrino Star o.osI;
1861 :. Mambrino Chief, DR.. 2.o9
1861 -. Strldcway ........ ...........2:2SI,