Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1879-08-16
The Demand for Thoroughbreds.


The past and the present season has
clearly demonstrated that the supply Of
thOrOughbreds is wholly unequal to the
demand. There are 547 thoroughbred
foals reported for che year 1878. OF
these 26 died in fOaling, leaving only 52l
head. Kentucky bred 243 and Tennes-
see 81, making 294 head, more than half
of all that were bred III the rest of the
country. 1t is fair to presume that from
rs to 100 head were not returned, which
would make The present crop OF year
lings in the United States some GOO head
There is now an excellent demand for
good yearlngs, but the supply in Ken
tucky and Tennessee is about exhausted,
except few head in the hands Of breed
ers. We know nothing that will pay
our farmers us handsomely us to buy a
few brood mares and sell the produce
as yearlings. Good ycarliugs command
from 5000 to $1,000, depending upon the
fashionable strains of blood in the young
ster, coupled with high form and racing
promise. Our farmers may be certain
chat the racing interest throughout the
country, North, South, East and West,
is on the increase New Associations and
Parks are springing up all over the coun-
try. Here in the West racing is making
rapid progress; the grand circuit cOm-
mencing with Nashville, and including
Lexington, Louisville, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, and ending with Chicago, was
splendid this season and promises to in
crease in value and interest the coming
year.
New Associations are springing up in
the North. The new tracks at Coney
Island and Brighton Beach have just
held meetings, and they are out with
strong programmes for this fall and
next spring. and to keep Jerome Park,
Maryland Jockey Club, Saratoga, Mon
mouth Park, COney Island and Brighton
Beach going will only be a question of
horses, tor there is an abundance of pcO-
pie to patrOniZe them. Kentucky and
Tennessee's fine climate, soil, grass, and
in all respects are better adapted, and
can raise thoroughbrcds cheaper than
any States in the Union, and our farm
erS can not do better than to buy few
head of high class thoroughbred mares
to breed and meet this Increased de-
mand. Many of our leading breeders
and stock farms are fully supplied with
all the mares they can care for properly,
but nearly every farmer has room and
surplus enough to keep and raise two or
three head each year This is a subject
worthy the attention of Kentucky and
Tennessee farmers, for there is nothing
that will pay SO handsomely on the out
lay as high class thoroughbred. All
that is necessary 10 insure success is to
buy good mares of fashionable strains of
blood and breed them to winning and
fashionable sires. A breeder must not
let his own prediction control him in
selecting a sire to breed from, but must
make up his mind to meet the demands
of the public and patronize the best sircs
il he would be reimbursed handsomely.
Buyers of yearlings do not wish to pur-
chase untashIOnably bred ones, while
they will pay almost any price demand
ed ior colts and iillies, bred to their lik-
ing, of winning sires. The road to sue
cess is to meet the demands of the pub
lie through fashionable and successful
strains of bloOd.-Ky. Live Stock Re
cord.