St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-14
Hints as to What Horsemen Of Minnesota
Must Do if They Expect to Ac-
complish Much.
What Mr.. Finkle Did and How He Did it.
Others Must Go and Do likewise
With Their Stock.
Some Reference to the Minnesota
Breeders Meeting-The Rule in Re-
gard to the Nativity of FoaIs.
What Alden Goldsmith Has to Say
About the World Renowned Vol
unteer and How He Trotted.
What Must be Done.

1t is always satisfaction to hear II. G.
Finkle express himself in meeting of
hOrsemen. OF course, he makes no claim
to being public speaker. but he has such a
fixed and immovable confidence in Mime
sofa, and manifests such a willingness to
put his stock on the track and back up his
theories with actions, that one cannot but
listen to him with admiration. He wants
no theorizing. On the contrary, he wants
to see the thing itself done, and in this he
is correct. We will never have fast trOt-
tiers in Minnesota, especially fast young
horses, until breeders take their stock in
hand early, train it properly. and bring the
animals to the post in suitable condition.
and then drive them to win. In short, the
trials must be contests for blood, the same
as they are in Kentucky, and this cannot
be unless the animals are first properly pre-
pared and brought to the struggle in condi-
ton. The breeders of trotting horses in
Minnesota have great object in view. and
that is, to improve the trOtting stock of the
state by addition and tuition. When, last
summer, Mr.. Finkle took his grand three
year-old colt, Lord Nelson. down to Chicago
and showed them 1864. he did that which
attracted very large degree of attention to
the state of Minnesota. 1t placed the name
of the state of Minnesota in the mouths
of thousands and thousands of peo-
pie, and how did he do it? He
did it by having good colt, by
driving it all winter and thus getting it
well-seasOned so that when the weather be-
came warm enough it was ready for fast
work, of which he had plenty. The con-
sequence was that when the time came
Lord Nelson was ready to trot fast and did
it to the surprise of thousands of people.
Breeders must bear in mind that if they eX-
pect to succeed in the great object they
have in view they must above all things
produce speed. Without it they are moth
ing and will accomplish nothing. To get
speed much money and more patience will
be required. The colt that wins in this
climate will have to be driven in the win
ter. Mr.. Finkle has set the example and
other breeders will do well to take the mint.
and act upon it, too. 1t is not very agree
able to give horse exercise with the Their
mometer ten or fifteen degrees below zero.
but that is just what Mr.. Finkle did, and
the result was that his three-year-old colt
in the spring went upon the track in good
condition to take right hold of pretty fast
work. Lord Nelson is not the only fast
colt in Minnesota. Those who were at the
meeting OF the breeders last Wednesday
evening will remember that Mr.. Finkle
stated that Mr.. Sherwoods two-year-old
last year trotted as fast as Lord Nelson did
in his two-year-old form, and he could not
see why it should not trot as fast in
its three ear-old form next spring. The
result will depend. in some measure. on what
is done with it this winter. Mr.. Finkle
claims to have good two-year-oldc now
from which he expects as much as he did from
Lord Nelson at the same age, but it may be
relied upon that this winter that animal
will receive great deal of tuition, and
such degree of exercise as will put it in
proper condition to take fast work when
spring opens.