Daily globe., 1882-04-10
The Table of Brood Mares.

4 ~ odUCt IuOHHy lOr April contains
carefully prepared table of brood mares, tn
dams of 2:S0 trotters, the breeding and merit
of which are briefly outlined in PREDATORY re
marks by the editor, given below The breed
ers of the country owe Mr.. Wallace debt O
gratitude for the preparation of this table
and now, that commencement has beer
made, every breeder should take it upon him
self to assist as far as possible in perfecting
the list, SO that in a few years hence all fact
connected with the breeding of dams may bt
as carefully preserved and as easily traced as il
the case now with standard sires. Mr.. Wal
lace says:
This list, UP to the close OF 1851, includes
2S2 mares, the dams of $50 trotters. Twenty
six of the number are by American Star; theI
follows thirteen by Hambletonian; twelve by
Alexauder's Abdallah; ten by old Abdallah
eleven by Mambrlne Chief; eight by Pilot, Jr.
seven by Witheren Messenger; six each by
Ethan Allen, Harris Hambletonian, Young
Columbus and Henry Clay; five each by Alex
ander's Edwin Forrest and Stubtail.
Four each by American Clay, vt. Black
| Hawk, Capt. Walker. Edwin Everett and ST..
| Clair.
Three each BY Ashland, Belmont, (cAl(,
Blood's Black Hawk, Eaton Horse, Berkley's
hound, Kentucky Clay, Mambrino Pilot,
Morse Horse. Owen Dale. Biggart's Rather,
| Richards Bellfounder, Toronto, Vermont
Hambletonian and Yonng Engineer.
Two each by Hopkins Abdallah, Barney
| Henry, Green's Bashaw, Bay Chief, Black
| Hawk (Conste' natiop), Canada Chief,
Strader's C.. M; Clay, Jr., Daniel
Drinkers Drennon, Gen. Knox, Golddust,
Kavanaugh's Grey Eagle, Henry Clay, Han
ley's Hiatoga, John billiard, Jupiter, Lewis
ton Boy, Mambrino Patchen. Marshal Ney,
Morgan Hunter, Morgan Rattler, State of
Maine, Tom Crowder, Tornado, Toronto
Chief, Volunteer, Wildair, Young Green
Mountain Morgan, and Woodford.
TwentY-three are the sires of one daughter
each, the dams of two or more performers,
and five mares are lIntraced
Six mares, namely, Miunehaha, by Bald
Chief, Old Kate, by Bellaire, Green Mountain
Maid, by Harry Clay, Flora, by Harry Clay,
Dolly, by Mambrino Chief, and Lady Fulton,
by Stubtail, are each the dams of of three
$50 trOtters.
There are thirty-nine mares, the dams of
two $50 trotters each, which have all pro-
duced to the cover of a trotting sire, with the
exception of Scotland, by Bonnie Scotland. 1t
will be noticed that many of these mares have
produced to the cover of single sire; thus:
Clara Julia Machree and Lady Sears, by Amer
ican Star; Old Kate, by Bellaire; Molly, by L.
/. Black Hawk, Trusty, by Marlborough; Jen-
ny, by Saltram to Hambletonian; Black Kate,
by Addison; Jenny, by the Bigelow Horse, and
Fanny Jackson, by Stonewall Jackson to Dan
iel Lambert; Minnehaha, by Bald Chief to
Sultan; Illinois Maid, by Black Donald to Re-
venge; Stone Mare, by Bullock Horse to Hol-
ablrd's Ethan Allen; Ned, by Berkley's Ed
win Forrest to Magic; CIR .en Mountain Maid,
by Henry Clay to Messenger Duroc; Dolly, by
Iowa to Gen. Hatch; Wright Mare, by MIN
rod to Kings Champion; Belle Boyd, by Sher-
man Black Hawk to Happy Medium; Fanny,
to Star of the West: Hacket Mare, to Woods
Hambletonian; Peggy Slender to Volunteer.
and Silverella to Blue Bull. The inevitable
conclusion is that, in general, the propensity
to trot comes from the sire, but in the case of
the dam being trottiDg bred also, the produce
inherits the extreme limit of speed, as ia
stsnced by st. julien, 2:11a 4 dam Flora, by
Harry Clay; Maud S, 2:104, and Nutwood,
2:1S3, dam Miss Russell by Pilot. Jr.; Dex-
ter, 2:l7X, dam Clara, by American Star;
Belle Brasfeld, 2:20, and Proteire, 21S, dam
Sally Chorister, by Mambrino Chorister; Trou-
badour, 2:19, dam Illinois Maid, by Black
Green Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay.
41ed Trotttng Mares for breeding Fur
poses.
The National Lire Stock Journal for April
continues it's review of the subject of aged
trotting mares for breeding purposes complies
a table giving the ages Of dams, as far as rec
orded, of horses who have scored records
ranging from go to 2:25, showing the fol-
lowing: Syears, |; years, 4; 5-years, 8: g.
years, Z; 7-years; s; S-years, 5; 9years, 4; TO-
years, 5; ll-years, 8; II years, s.; 13years, 8;
14-years, 4; 15-years, 5; 16-years, 2; Is years,
|; 19-years, 3.
From this table, and the one published in
the March number, given in the GLOBE last
week, the writer arrives at the conclusion
that the most successful periods of fruition of
celebrated trotting mares is from four to fif-
teen years. Five performers in the list were
produced when their dams were fifteen years
old. The average of performers within the
list from dams varying in ages, from four to
fifteen years inclusive, would be somewhat
over five, SO that dams fifteen years
of age would be nearly up to
the average in successful foals. But
beyond that age, the percentage shows an as
tonishing dimInition.
Continuing, the Journal writer says.
Corroborative Instances can be multiplied in this
line of illustration to enforcs the truth, that even
successful brood mares only successful in the
period of their prime, which ranges, with very rare
exceptions, from to Is years of age.
Now, We can vary the Illustration to reach the
same important conclusion, by referring to the ages
of the dams when they produced the most success
full stock horses. The Charles Kent Mare was 16
when she dropped the emperor of sres, Rysdyk's
Hambetonian. After that she had six foals but they
all came to naught. We have mentioned that Lady
Patriot was when she produced the next best sire,
Volunteer, and 13 when she gave birth to his
worthy brother; and then her nine subsequent
foais did nothing to perpetuste her fame in the
harem.
Fanny Cook, the famous daughter of Col. j.
Treadwells AbdalIah, when she was eleven years
old, foaled Daniel Lambert who has sired twenty
two in the 2:30 list and when she was IL years DID,
Woodwards Ethan Allen, who has presented five
winners in the same list After that she had seven
foals, but they even without name much less a
record.
Dolly Spanker produced George Wilkes (the sire of
eleven in the 2:3o list aud that too in his extreme
old age), when she was years old. If she had any
other issue, their performances have entitled
them to recognition.
Dolly Mills, when she was years old, produced
Waikiki Chief, the sire of Dick Swiveller and Great
Eastern, with tie record of 2:18; and when she was
8 wears old, Ajax the sire of Columbus Hambleton-
ian whose record is 2:26. After them she produced
seven foals, but none. after Orange GiIl in her
twelfth year, have won distinction.
and of six other representatives in the 2:30 list
when she was fifteen years old; but her three sub
sequent foals have, yet, their reputation to make.
Little Nora the dam of CLARK Chief, the sire Of
even with records in 2:31, better, produced him
before she was ten years Of age.
Occasionally mare beyond the limits we have
noted produces grest stock horse, but these in
stances are very rare.
Princess produced Happy Medium, her single is
sue of great excellence, when she was seventeen
years old. aud Widow Mschree, the valuable Aber-
deem, the sire of Hattie Woodward, whose record is
2:l5%, when she was nine years old and Wood
bine, her celebrated son Woodford Mamorno, when