Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-17

lard's Mistake, and FIVE others being unplaced.
On the afternoon of the Wednesday race, a ".
Y. Herald telegram says: A bet Of G2, 200 to
e400. was accepted about Gerald for the Chi
meas, and as $500 to se100 was simultaneously
offered against the long standing favorlte
Dutch Oven, it would appear as though
very short price will be taken about Gerald,
who did fine gallop with Iroquois this morn
ing. Wallenstein and Mistake are reserved for
the the City and Suburban. Both are sup
ported by the best judges of public form at 16
to and Is to respectively. The City and
Suburban is to be run Wednesday of this week.
and the Two Thousand Guineas Wednesday
of next week. Gerald also divides honors
with Pursebearer as second choice for the
Derby (won last year by Iroquois) at 100 to
s. One of these three events may give Ameri-
cans something to rejoice over, but the pros
poets do not appear particularly promising.
Develop ing The Speed of the Trotttng Brood
Mare.
In last Mondays issue of the GLOBE we
gave considerable space to extracts from the
April number Of the National Liuc Stock
Journal upon the subject of the most success
full periods of fruition of brood mares, the
conclusion reached Icing that that period was
between the ages of and II. AS natural
sequence the Journal writer took up in the
same article the inquiry, "Should trotting
brood mares be developed in speed before they
are put to breeding?" AS foundation for
his argument the writer lays down the maxim
that if you desire speed, the wise conclusion
would be to breed speed to speed to accom-
plish that result. But the speed in both
parents, when developed in the highest de-
gree, must not be rendered imperative by I'M
healthful conditions or physical disabilities.
"After stallion or mare has been fully de-
velOped, it requires the rest OF one or two
seasons to enable the system to relax from
the tension of training into that healthful
state of nature which is most conducive to
successful reproduction. That rest should
come before old age has rendered the organs
of reproduction comparatively imperative.
This is the case with the thoroughbred race
horse. Both in this country and England 1t
has been the practice to breed winners
to winners in order to secure
winners. The parents are trained
and raced even beyond their capacity, as the
universally of their early breaking down in
the fexor-tendons abundantly proves. But
they are retired from the turf when four or
five years of age. Then their prime-fully
matured and deVeloped-is devoted to repro
duction, with such splendid results, as to
justify the hopes Of the most sanguine breed
ers.
Notwithstanding the destructive practice
of not breeding fast trotting mares till they
have advanced in age many years beyond these
merical phase is not in disparagment OF these
aged trotting brood mares. One hundred and
seventy.slx brood mares have produced sons
and daughters that have made records in 2:30,
or better. OF these, fifteen have been deyel-
oped as trotters, making the came records Of
$50, or better.
"Now to make the comparison perfectly fair,
the number of non-developed trotting brood
mares, and the full complement Of developed
1t is safe to estimate that 100 non.developed
mares are bred every year to one who
has secured record of 2:3O, or lower. This
is much within the comparative limit. If
non-developed brood mares that produce $50
trotters are more successful, then the record
should show that they outnumber
the successful, developed trotting
brood mares at least 100 per cent. But
the tabular statement really makes far differ
ent exhibit. They outnumber the developed
mares only eleven to one. The showing,
therefore, when fairly analysed upon the nu-
merical basis, decidedly favors both develop.
ing and campaigning the trottiDg brood mare.
"But all these so-called non developed brood
mares do not properly belong to that classic
cation. Scores of them were fast-trotting
road mares, that had been developed up to
GuelT GREATEST capacity Oh Spttu. udrHcSetu "
the heavier draft of the road wagon-such as
the dams of the great campaigners George
Wilkes and Lucy. Scores, too, of famous
brood mares were themselves the daughters of
swift-trotting mares famous for years, in
their prime for their speed and endurance On
the road, such as the dams of Green Mountain
Maid and Lady Patriot. Scores-twofold
more in number probably than the fast-trot-
ting road mares-were swift-pacing mares,
that have been-used on the road to defeat
the swiftest-trotting roadsters, and then have
been converted into so many successful dams
of trotting celebrities, that the student of
trotting pedigrees is simply bewildered with
the fre9uen cy of the pacing lineage interwo-
ven with the texture of the trottlng perform
ers. In this category must be included such
turf notables as Lucille, Katie jackson, Scot
land, Monarch Jr., Dan Donaldson, and a vast
array of brilliant performers. Upon full
and fair estimate of developed brood mares,
therefore, it is manifest that complete statis-
tics would largely favor the development of
the trotting. brood mare"
In support of the argument the Journal
gives table of fifteen developed mares with
records below 2:3O, dams Of foals also in the
list. OF the number only four "were less than
IL years old when they enriched trotting annals
with representatives in the ESQ list. Take,
for instance, the four Oldest mares-Lady
Lightfoot was 80, Flora Temple was "a, and
Lady Vernon and Lady Franklin each % years
of age when they produced their issue that
have beaten 2:30!. Nothing comparable to
this success at such extreme ages can be
found in the entire range of successful non
developed brood mares. The list from 2:25 to
210L nprfOrmerS does NOT nrpspnt a simple