Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-20

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cultural Park Able Address by Col. God
frey-Two Capital Racss-Oapt. Johnson
Mare Wins the Running Raco-Bullet tn
Victor iu the Trot.
A large and fashionable audienc,
gathered yesterday at Agriculture
Park to enjoy the last day of thu
races. In this connection it is vel
that we should give voice to tn,
general judgment that the man
agement of the Southern Distric
Agricultural Society are entitled tt
great praise for the admirable
manner in which every detail o.
the programme of the week was
arranged and carried out. Fol
some time past the affairs Of the
Society have languished, but they
have this year shown marked and
encouraging revival which will, in
all probability, next year blossom
into a notable success. We are
glad TO be able to say, judging
merely from what we have seen,
that, Notwithstanding the liberal.
ity of the purses and the thorough
ness of the incidents of the pro-
gramme, the Agricultural Society
is pecuniarily ahead as a result d
their enterprise.
COL. GoDFREY's ADDRESS.
Prior to the races Col. John F.
Godfrey, by request of the officers
OF the Society, delivered an elo.
quent and happy address which
was replete with useful suggestions
and opposite phiIosophizing. After
showing what had been done for
the human race by physical and in
tellectual culture and selection, as
instanced in the states of Greece +,
Col. Godfrey said:
But comparatively few years
ago trotting horse was almost an
unknown thing; horses jagged
along.
Ifyou wanted speed you ran your
horse.
But horses were found who trot-
ted faster than other horses, and
horses were produced who trotted
faster than their sires.
Here then stock commenced.
You now commence TO engage in
an aristocratic business opposed to
all the leveling principles of the
Republic. You are trying to see
what blood can do and what inher-
tied qualities will accomplish.
In your minds eye YOU design
your horse
Round hoof'd. short jointed, fetlosks
shag and long,
Broad-breast, full eye, small head and
nostril Wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and
passing strong,
Thin name, thick tail, broad ,buttock,
tender hide.
Look what horse should have lie did
not lack.
Save proud rider on his back.
You have found your horse. He
is already famous and his descend
ants will reap the reward of their
Inheritance. His stock is valua-
bile; a colt is valuable; his powers
are yet untried but he sells for
high price because of the blood
which runs in his veins.
If 1t be mare and grown up and
proves an ordinary brute, she is
still valuable, valuable to breed
from because she has the true
blood in her.
By judicious crosses with other
breeds you get better horse, the
fastest Lrotting horse.
Men have bIen making the study
Of the trotting horse science. You
finally have blooded horse. He
is perfect horse for the work you
have for him. But there are other
kinds of horses besides trotting
horses which mankind want; they
want good strong road horses and
large, strong work horses. Fifteen
years ago we wanted saddle horses.
The country was deficient in suita-
BILE cavalry horses. The breeding
of all these classes requires study
and experiment. The government
of France is endeavoriug to estab-
lish national breed of horses.
The French cavalry were deficient
a year or two ago to the extent of
ten thousand horses. Americans
will find an ample market for horse
flesh when next France goes to
war. There is grand chance now
to breed thorough-going cavalry
horse.
A correspondent of the New
York Times, writing from the Paris
of horses, says, "The
Arabs are wretched looking brutes,
understood, barely standing four
teen hands, with bad quarters and
very small below the knee, prov
Ing how the races of the desert de-
generate when reproduced else.
where. Experiments of crossing
Arabs with animals Of more bone
and substance have been tried in
Austria and Italy as we'll as in
France for the last twenty years,
but without much success, the off
spring being mongrel brute with
none of the good qualities but all
the defects of its sire and dam.
There was at this horse show an
exhibition of trotting horses. The
distances were about two miles.
The fastest time was only 5:13, but
the course was on turf and the
wagons weighed two or three times
as much as ours, and these horses
could do their fifteen miles an hour
and keep it up. Query, whether
these roadsters are not on the
whole more valuable than our
trotters
It is a question in my mind
whether we are not sacrificing too
much to speed; whether, now we
have yOt the trOttinp horse down