St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-12

the colts raised here are the descendants of
Hambletonian or George NJ. Patchen, the
Hambletonian predominating Just as
reached the stables his very efficient fore
man, Carrot Moore, who by the way Is uni.
versally popular, was starting toward the city,
two and half miles, with Mr.. POSTS family.
He held the ribbons over pair of Volunteer
colts, From their steadiuess and fine car
rage | thought they must have been handled
several months. Judge of my surprise when
Mr.. Post informed me that they were har-
messed for the first time week ago.
Just think Of It, a pair of colts in
harness week and safe enough to draw a
sleigh load of ladies over bridges and
and through our streets filed with sled loads
of pork, wood, hay, ETC., etc. What other
breed of horses are so tractable and docilei
Standing in the next stall to the king of
the harem ''Volunteer Chief" who we down
here rank very high among the sons of his
far-famed sire Volunteer is stallion colt
coming three, sixteen hands and will weigh
1900 pounds easily, sired by Allen c. Patchen
by George NJ. Patchen, dam a well bred Nor
gan mare. have always been an admirer of
Posts Patchen, believing him by far the best
horse of all works ever saw. Here found
a son Of his coming three, weighing 1900,
with fine turn Of speed and the thought
struck me of team like this making car
rage containing a whole family rattle over
your sanity city pavements at a ''2'50n
clip. This is where their great value would
show itself. 1t is very well to see jay Eye
See'' pull fifty pound sulky in 2:10, but where
would he and mate be before carriage and
its contents weighing a tonl This
young horse is for sale, and whoever gets
him will own a treasure.
Turning to another stall my eye fell on
the graceful figure of 'Priuce Alberto five
years, by ''Volunteer Chief,n dam, Lady
Sill by Harris Hambletonian, second dam
by Imported Trustee. If a perfect horse
were ever formed, here is feast for the gods
to behold. He is a beautiful brown, with
splendid carriage, fine sloping shoulders,
fore legs and arms unexceptiOnable, with
great strength in the latter back aud barrel
perfect, tail well set up, powerful hind quar-
tiers, with such stiles and hooks seldom met
with except in his sire. His legs fine as silk
with fiat shin bones fastened TO as tough and
well formed black hoofs as ever Barb"
handled over his native rugged wastes,
standing 1872 and looking at you with
the fine eye and good natured countenance
Of his distinguished breed. Ii is
unnecessary to say that he is born trotter
with Volunteer his grandsire and Lady Sill
his dam who trotted a mile in 1923 and half
a mile in / 100. The one great excellence of
the get of these horses apart from their fine
!, 4. o;-
prominent horseman here says: Take
Volunteer COLI, throw harness on its back,
lead him around u block. and he is broken.
Go home. hitch to your buggy and take your
wife and baby out for a pleasure ride" So
it is. Your correspondent has raised horses
off and on for twenty-five years, but never
found genuine, level headed horse sense
until be struck the Hambletonian blood, es-
pecially the Volunteers.
Mr.. Post in addition to his horses has
very select herd of Shorthorns, and they
are of the milk and butter strain. A
neighbor of his churned seven pounds and
fourteen ounces of butter from the milk Of
four a. days Of a three-quarter br9d three
year old heller. This beast, as she stands,
giving milk, would turn the beam. at / 200
pounds. How are you Jersey men with your
little handful of bones com pared with this V!
Posts horned stock are like his horses, good
for all purposes. They would fill well Dean
SwiGt's ''beau ideal'' of good COW:
'she's lpe in her bone and silky of skin,
She agraZer' without and butchers Within
On certain level stretch in our city Il do
not like TO name 1t lest the police might learn
the location) can be seen every pleas
ant afternoon and before business hours
in the morning, horses and cutters that are
beginning to tell the tale that A. Post has
brought among ns-''
Volunteer Chief, Goldsmith, Dixie, Taylor,
grandsons Of the old hero Of Chester and
Allen c. Ratchen, the son of George NJ.
Patchen the once stout competitor OF Flora
Temple for the honors Of the turf. We are
SOON TO have some Of the best and fastest
horses In the state.
When again the spirit moves me (presum-
ably the spirit of some noble departed
equine) if the GLOBE will bear with me will
try and let its readers know something of
our Youngsters and their owners fear /
have already trespassed too far on your spscc,
but it Is hard to stop the writer's illusions.
when horses are the subject, and good ones
at that. IvANHoB.