Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-02
Promising Youngsters at Lanesboro,
MInn.-Trotting Blood vs. Thorough
Blood in the Propagation of the Trotter
Notes.
sfeppers at Lanesboro.


Mr.. NJ. WEIGH of Lanesboro, Mimi, favors
MS with the following horse gossip from that
locality;
Editor Horse Department Daily GLOBE:
am constant reader of the GLOBE and one
of the admirers of the horse department every
Monday, l think it very readable to the breeder,
trainer and horse owner in general for the in
formation gained from it. We have
but few trotters here compare
lively, but it takes trotter to down
some of them, and no paper trotter, either
First, | will mention Mr.. Ed. kram's four
wear old FLY, Maggie X, fifteen and three
quarter hands high, got by Star of the West,
dam mare that could trot in three minutes
handy. This FLY was winner of the blue rib
bon in her class at the state fair in September,
and was Justly entitled to it, She is square
gated, a long strider, level headed, and can
trot fast She trotted the last quarter
of full mile on our track (Which
in thirty-eight seconds, showing her to be a
slayer as we'll as fast, and the ive-year-old.
bred and raised in Minnesota, that beats her
the coming season, will think he has been at
4 horse race, or my predictions are no good.
Another good one is the CHI. G., Capt. CaprOn,
owned by Capron & Mcdowell, the livery men.
Capt. Capron is the speediest horse we have
here. He has fine style and finish; is
about 16H hands, and can pull a
a fine road horse. He was got by Straight
Ont, dam by King Herod. Next is the b. g.
Johnnie Bean, owned by M. V. Bean, our har
ness man. This horse has had little or no
training, but can trot quite fast. Heis square
gated and great roadster, and the best five
year old in these parts. Mr. M. Canlan has got
a very promising young mare, got by Iowa
II AZ IL, &c Cto. Sha
is dark chestnut with a fine name and tail.
She has as fine long open stride as one would
wish to see. This mare will make trotter if
she gets half chance. There are O number
of Others here that l shall mention at some
future time. Yours, etc, LANEsBoRo.
Thorough Blood IN the Propagation Of the
Trotter.
Anent the discussion over the elements
necessary to produce trotters, Mr.. J. IL.
Sanders, who pins his faith to trotting blood,
"gets back at" the thorough blood theorists
in this style in an editorial in his new paper,
The Breeders Gazette, taking the recent
dOings of the California youngsters as a text:
cit is too bad! Just as those able and ac-
complished knights of the quill, j. G. Simpson,
III. Busby, "Mambrino," ETC., had almost got
us converted to the theory that the
true way to breed the trotting horse
was by the use of thoroughbred mares, along
comes a whole troop of natural trotters-
colts and fillies, that at one, two, three, and
four years old, knock the old fashioned records
''all to smithereens," and not thoroughbred
dam, or even thoroughbred grandam among
them. Even Palo Alto, that with its great
collection of thoroughbred matrons that was
TO settle the question of breeding trotters once
for all, has won the imperishable honOrs of
1881 out of the produce of mares ont of the
old plebian st. Clair; while the produce of the
thoroughbred mares are yet to be heard from.
We believe, after all, that our old position is
The correct one, Notwithstanding the able pre-
sentation of the other side of the case; and
when we make our nominations for the next
colt stakes we will select the produce of mares
with few trotting crosses on top, rather than
that of mares that have nothing but racing
blood in their veins. These natural trotters--
these baby wonders of 1SS1-have played
the mischief with theorists Of
the Busby Simpson school. We are waiting
particularly to see how they will cipher out
"the magic influence of the thoroughbred'' in
these cases. Brother Simpson, in his glow
ing and elegantly written account of the re-
cent great colt performances on the Pacific
slope, does not even mention the thorough
bred. Can it he that he, too, has forgotten
his first love? But let us wait; they will go
ciphering on the problem when the excite
ment passes away, and then we shall learn
where the trot comes from. Busby found it
for Maud s, after profound investigation, in
the sire of her grandam; and he may find q
remote thoroughbred ancestor in Kinda Rose,
or Wildfower, or Sweetheart, or Eva, or Phil
Thompson, or George Sprague, or Gov.
Sprague, or Santa Clause, or Fred Crocker, or
Bonita. We shall see.''