Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-08-03
WHERE THE yR0T COMES FRoM.

A Missouri correspondent writes the Shirt
as follows: ::
Two full seasons of trotting have elapsed
since our able correspondent, Hank Com
stock, favored your readers with a review of
the breeding of all the trotters that had
made records in 1928 or better. in which he
showed that one-half of the entire number
were descended in the male line from Rvs
dyk's Hambletonian. Now, will you please
inform us, through your editorial columns.
how the records of the last two seasons and
OF the present one, have affected this ratio?
Has the number of 1923 trotters increased
materially since that time and does the
Hambletonian family maintain its suprem-
acy
The pedigrees of winning trotters is al
ways a matter of paramount interest to the
thousands of our readers who are studying
the problem of how to breed the %trotting.
borse; and, with this point In view. the
Spirit has, for several years past, published,
at the close of each seasons ~trotting, a tabu-
lar list OF all the trotters that have beaten
$3.50, with the sire and dan of each, SO far as
known. During the present season we have,
at the close Of each of the great trotting
meetings, given a list of the winners, with
their pedigreed, so far as known, so that our
readers may, with a little care, institute
these comparisons for themselves. Since the
article by Hank Comstock. above alluded to.
was published, the humble of horses with a
record of 1928 or better, has been largely in
creased. A t. thof fiYoa op1y fuyop+rr l,orza~
were entitled to this classification but du-
ring the folloWin season it was increased to-
twenty. AT the close of 1874 it had reached
thlrty-seven, and the present season has al
ready sWelled the number to fifty-eight. AS
the list now stands, nineteen of the number
are descendants of Rysdyk's Hambletonian
in the male line, being a little less thar one
h1ru'of the entire number, instead of one
halt, as the ratio stood three years ago.
These are divided between the old horse and
his sons as follows: Rysdyk's Hambleton-
IAN, seven; Volunteer, five; Aleyander's
ADdallaE; two Edward Everett, two; Mid
dletoWn,. one; S. A. Douglas, one, and
Woods Hambletonian (son of A~lexander,s
Abdallah), one. Among the twenty-one
added to the 1928 class, during the present
season, Hambletonian counts only five des-
cendants. h increase, while it does NOT
keep the ratio which obtained at the time
Hark Comstock's comparison was first in
stltuted, ought to be very gratifying to the
breeders of Hambletonians. The great at
tentlon that has been paid to trottine con-
tests during the past three years, has result
edan the training of perhaps five times as
many horses as Were ever before handled
"lthln the same number of years, and this
framing has been distributed among all the
inherent families of horses that can Law claim
10 trottlng blood, as well as to very many
ina are OF utterly unknown lineage. Great
progress has been made in the art of trainino
horses TO trot fast, the tracks are of more.
approved form, with easier grades, longer
stretches, and turns better Laid I'M - than
mile tracks have largely super
seaed those OF only a half. mile in length.
ana all OF these circumstances have LARGELY
.on.rlousea 40 bring about the result shown
III Tie great increase of horses with a record
u 40 OF better, which the last three sea-
sons have produced. But Notwithstanding
dbl tflis, we are unquestionably making great
in the improvement of our .~trottino 5,
noIses, and the intermingling of the. blood |
~ ehe 1alnbletonians, the Clays, the Nam
oiiho Chiefs, the Morgans, the Bashaws.
, IS rapidly bringingus to the point when
slaii nave established a breed of horses {
worthy to be called the =