Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-27

Oh TWO anu Lures iulle uedts, III ono VI WuiSu
he pulled wagon and beat Lady Thorn two
! mile heats in SOL and 500. A wagon in those
days did not often weigh less than eighty
| pounds, which with weight to rule,
equals my proposed weight for the
three mile dash. He made his
record OF 2:l714, after this as Thorn did hers
of 2:lS4 so it could not have hurt either OF
them much. Fer that matter Flora Temple
trotted ten of her long distance winning races
before scoring her fastest mile record OF
219%. What horse General Butler was at
all distances? His speed for mile was never
impaired by such contests. Nor was that OF
Geo. NJ. Patchen great race horse at all dis
tances. Whoever heard of horse loOsing
speed from two, three or four mile heats.
Huntress had to have them before she conld
or would trot q mile fast. Steve Maxwell
could trot faster mile after his long distance
exploits than ever before. Any good horse
1t don't hurt the soft ones to try 1t and quit.
sBut right here is the milk in the
cocoanut which accounts for the preju-
dice against a distance. Without q
test to mark them down weeds have multiplied
and their owners Conscious of the soft spot
decry distance. 1t is with running as with
trotting and the stout-hearted, powerful race
horse Of the past is fading away.
tAny man who has ever prepared trotter
lion possible Is plenty of road work just such
as common road horse gets. There is no mys.
terry about it and nothing like the skill or care is
required that is needful to screw up the last
atom of speed for mile heats. There is less
danger of break down or injury in preparation
or race at the long than the short distance
while the long distance with good weight
shows what breed or strain is of value for the
road. Mile heats do not showthis. Many O
f-1t a fact mills tbof lie not worth
dollar as a roadster. Is this the summit OF
our ambition? hope not, for love stout
roadster end therefore advocated fair and rea.
sonable test for him.
NJ. T. GRA1lAN.
Mr.. Grattan's argument is well-founded,
and is supported by truly formidable array
of statistics to show that injury is no more
liable to result from such contests than from
mile heat races, and incidentally that such
races are calculated TO result in more care be-
ing given 10 strength aud endurance in breed
ing horses than is the case now when ability
TO do a mile in the shortest time possible is
the great desideratun, Having succeeded in
precipitating The discussion is, il
others of our breeders will follow Mr..
Grat.an's example-we propose to hold aloof
for awhile. We SHOULD. however, say that
We did not intend in our criticism of Mr. Graf
tins proposition, To object to long distance
iGCtS. AtOt at hiSutiJ ISueuSlCu. thCl
can bs no question that they are as little liable
TO iafct injury upon the animal as mile heat
races. The point Of objection we intended TO
make was TO putting ordinary road horses
with inexperienced drivers into such races.
II all owners of driving horses had the expe
rience of Mr. Grattan it would be different.
But the mere feeding of horse so much grain
AID hay, giving him water occasionally and
keeping his coat and limbs clean, is not fitting
&hav,h nlA irrvt t,r
reins and yelling "g'long" is driving in a
race. Both The fitting and the driving require
intelligence and Judgment, the latter factor In
cieasing IN importance as the effort the animal
is required to make is increased.
4sged Trctt,mg .Hures For Breeding Pur-
poses.
The National Lire Stock Journal, Chicago,
for NJ arch, has an instructive and interesting
article under the heading AGED Trotting
Mares for Breeding Purposes" the aim Of
which is to demonstrate that mares after hav-
ing been subjected to long turf career, are
comparatively worthless for breeding purpos
es, and the best results are to be obtained
fIom middle aged mares. After citing
the failures Of Goldsmith Maid, Lady Suffolk,
Lady Thorne, Flora Temple as breeders when
retired to the harem after long and trying turf
careers, the writer says:
'The rationale of their signal failures is, by
this showing, perfectly obvious, Longevity
and the expenditure OF vital energy in long
campaigning, have SO completely exhausted
the provocative capacities that they are physi-
caDy incompetent to reproduce themselves as
they were in their prime. 1t has now become
settled conviction among breeders that nei-
Their sire nor dam can produce the average OF
great fOals while they are being used for rae
m % mr. Tho q nf tho hNrSp
in this climate is said to be - years. TrOtting
mares have generally been put to breeding
when they have nearly reached this extreme
limit of their existence. Then old age, in
connection with many years of exhaustive
trotting campaigns, have rendered them ex-
ceedingly feeble in the productive capacity. If
not, In many instances, absolutely i'm.
potent: = y, But another series of
statistics furnishes an equally powerful
method Of enforcing this exceedingly
valuable conclusion. The compilation of
list OF the dams Of great trotting performers
will show that they were put to breeding in
their early maturity, Take Sally Chorister,
the dam of Proteine, with her record of 2:1S,
and of Belle Brasstield, with her record of $50,
and of Homer, Belle patchen aud Admiration,
all of whom are promising trotters. She was
converted into brood mare when only4 years
old. AT she dropped the splendid mare
Belle Brassfeld and at eight years of age the
more splendid performer Proteine. At the
same early age Green Mountain Maid visited
the harem Of Middleton. At six she foaled
Electioneer, the sire of the most remarkable
trotting youngsters in California within the
entire range of trotting annals. When only
seven years old she produced Prospero, whose
record is 2:20. The next year she en-
riched the trotting world with
Dame Trot, whose record is 2:93, and
when twelve years old she dropr cd Elaine, per-
haps the greatest of her royal family, whose
9 year-old record of $50 was madc ON the
golden shores of the Pacific.
To further illustrate the theory here ad.
vanced the Journal tabulates the results of It's
researches as follows:
Trottcrs Nth records Of 1ge dam acheR said
40 or better trotterS trere fodled.
Fieety aolddust. az, Dam Q years old.
SiDta Claus. 2:i7m
Dick swiveller.. ........2;l3 Dams years old.
Little Fred 80. .......2.s0
Nutweod. -. 80. 2:18a
RarSna- ..d.i9A n,u,, = ola
Flora Temple. ..2:19N De"' 0su'
Belle Brasfeld. .........2:20
Darby 2.1eIa
Great Eastern ........2:l8 Dams years CID
Clngstone. .....,2:i9i4
eo-So. .2:i7A
Monroe Chief ..,.....2.lSL