Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-20
HOrse.BrcetiinS and Training.
ONE NOTES oUr OF TIfE LONG EXPERIENCE

| correspondent OF the London Daily Ne,cs
has been talking to the famous English horse
breeder and trainer, Mr.. Matthew Dawson, and
gives the following report OF the converse
| ton. He asked why SO few Englishmen breed
| horses d?
"The answer is very SIMPLE" replied Mr..
Dawson immediately. at does not pay. Ex-
ccpt in the case of thoroushbreds and perhaps
clr'-horses, breeding does not pay, except as an
adjunct to other farming. AS pursuit in itself
it is hopeless You arc kept too Ion. out of your
money. Five or six years Is too long an inter-
! val for one turnover OF capital. You tell me
| that friend of yours is going to breed hunters
on a large scale. am glad he is rich, for he
had better breed cart-horses. In attempting to
| breed chargers. hunters, and carriage horses IT
your young ones will turn out. You cannot say
| that you will breed hunter He is a cross
| bred animal, and may turn out anything you
| please. III Is the same thing with carriage
horses and all crOSs-bred ones. You do not
know what you have got till the animal has
become advanced in life. 1t is entirely different
with thoroughbred"
.iou are probably believer in the doctrine
oil breeding from certain strains and the nick
Not ut all. My view is that the produce of
good animals of any thoroughbred strain has a
| greater importance that sire and dam should be
| good specimens of race horse than that they
should be of any SO-caled fashionable strain of
| blood. Robert the Devil and st. Galien, twOof
/ the best horses of recent years. what is
called untiishionably bred, and many of Lord
Falmouth 5 best animals had not fancy pedi-
gree OH both Sides
You are, gather, inclined to favor big ami
mas:r
"a good big one will assuredly beat a good
little che. But the good big one is rare, SO
great many races fall to smart little horses'
ABLE ey d Of od. We
hear great deal at times about the Beacon
| about modern race horses being bred for speed
atone Do you think them as good as their
forefithers?''
Il think them better. am q believer in the
| improvement of animals by care aud judicious
! attention. Men are bigger than they were
when they were half-starved, exposed to cold
and damp, and lived at hide and seek. OF the
| immense quantity of armOr in the tower of
London, there is not IL suit you could wear. I'm
mensely big men are not at all rare. Look at
| The Soinersets and think OF poor Eurnaby. The
race Eorse has been greatly developed by feed
| than he did, and natures more rapidly. An
| exactly similar experience has been gone
cattle. believe horses to have greatly inn
| proved since the last century. There hangs
Eclipse by Stubs. You can look at him and
jrdSe whether he was a 'slnasber' or not y
| coarse-:leaded, short-nccked horse, rather heavy
in the shoulder, and standing high behind the
| saddle"
"But can the modern race horse st2y?''
Horses rs, stay as they are trained and accord
/ down their field quite as easily at three miles
rs at one. Horses can stay for ever If they 80
J IL. H.,
| YOU what Kind OF Il horse you would expect to
win steeplccilases with?'
Y horse with pace, but not able to stay-in
good conlpany-makes capital steeple-
| chaser.
Precisely. A thoroughbred with q good turn
! Of speed. who has been taught TO jump can
| keep with Il lot of hunters and halfbGeds for
| ever; because he Is always going we'll within
himself While they are .alIopinS their best.
| And when he wants to come away 1T the finish
! he leaves them as ii they were standing still. /
could not give you Il better illustration of the
now. ~ Just said, believe Il vast improve
| ment has taken place, thanks 10 PocahOntas
and greater knowledge OF the means OF develop
| ing the power of young race-horse. This tells
in the long run. DO not believe two better
animals ever trod the turf as two and three
| ycar-Oids than st. Simon and St Gatien.
| .You appear to attach great importance to
| getting youn. animals forward. Do not we race
our colts too young?
| Horses are so rapidly developed and matured
| under thu modern method that they are nearly
a year ahead of the horses of fifty years ago. A
season is nearly good i horse Us he is likely
TO be. In preoi Of this mark the great weights
the Devil, and ST. GatIen, VINO all won that
1 race, run proyerbially at u tremendous pace as
| three-year-oids. Note also the weights of See
| Saw and FoNha!l IN the CambridYeshire. And
! the Importance OF early development in horses
brings me back to the starting point of our con-
| versaton. Everything now depends upon get
not, for instance, wait even year and half or
three-qu9rters to sell your sheep. You would
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much money and get it without delay. In the
same way cattle and pigs are bred to put on
there people who wonder why we race two
/ year-olds, and why We do not breed hunters
and carriage horses and wait five years to turn
our money There is no possible reason
/ why these animals should not be bred, few on
a farm, but the practice would never pay on a
| large scale
rs there any special art in getting young
colts forward early in the season, and generally
/ in assisting nature in developing theme
srp feed nd
! cising young horses are fairly we'll understood,
i but some judgment and discretion are required
/ tutiOns like men, and large animals require
different treatment from small, light-tleshed
ones.
ITO begin with. however, they are treated
much alike, are they not?"
They are very well fed on the best oats that
can be got, beans, hay carefully selected and OF
/ prime quality, occasional bran-mashes and
| roots especia ly carrots. If they seem little
uSed,uP sale or r wea earl we giyG them little
wears We have taken To giving them the arti-
icia. grass, called sainfOin, cut up and mixed
with oats. II Is too strong to be given alOne.'
"A colt gives some anxiety, take it, before
he sees the starters tag?'
''Weaning him from his mother Is very
critical business, seriously affecting bis growth
and often making all the difference between a
gosd and a bad animal. This over, we turn him
! out into a paddock with some young compan-
ions. for 4 colt IS "a social beast, and feed him on
oats and carrots. OF course, he is only turned
into the paddock by day. No r:lce-horse is left
over the yearlings are separated, ind when
about the lst OF September, they are perhaps
! sixteen To eighteen months old, they are taken
| up put into breaking. and used very tenderly
AMI gently until they get used to the bit and go
with boy. Then they are sent short cantcrs
gradually increasing in speed and distance
until they are handy, and learn the use of their
/ legs. About the 1at of January they are tried
| with 4 view to the spring two-yearOld races"
They vary much, of course"
"Ies. And some discrimination Is required
in selecting those To- be pushed ON in trimming
and those TO be left till later before being what
Is called put through the mill AS a gem
eral rule the little ones are pushed on, as it
would be obstruction to the bigger and more
important horses to train and try them too
soon. The great horses likely to grow into
Derby and ST. Le.er winners often do not ap-
pear till late in the season. after the lighter
Trained ones have been running for months. 1t
is this necessity for patience with the bigger
horses which explains the late appearance OF
some of the best racers, which are not started
till the Donc;,ster and Newmarket autumn
meetings. when racing folk look to the Middle
Park Plate and the Dewhurst Plate to tell them
the winner OF the Derby
Radical Change I'm WOmen's Dress.
From the EoStOn Herald.