The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01

WORK, 1t required only few hours
time to make the compilation, without
it weeks would have been occupied. if,
indeed, the task would not have been
impossible. We are aware that the
pu0licati II of such u table may excite
ioulousies, but owners of stations kept
for service, aud idolizers of certain
strains of blood, must be content to
face the music of facts, aud this com-
pilatiOn deals with nothing else. 1t
may be, of course, that in a few cases
the slres of obscure performers have
not been ascertalned, but it is our in-
tcution hereafter, through the cO-opera-
ton of MIR. Chester, to let none escape
us. 1t requires great labor and much
correspondence, but it is possible, and
worth while, and it will be done.
The great merit of such table is
that it deals with what may be con-
sidered the present of trotting and pac.
ing. 1t shows what the sires of the
day are doing and how those of the
past are dropping out. Its chief claim
to value is based upon the axiom
that animals with speed enough to COM
pete in races with chances of success
will, as a rule, be started for the purses
In individual cases the best of reasons
may, no doubt, be urged to show that
certain stations are not represented as
they should be. Perhaps the owners
of some of the best of their get were
consci 1ntiously or on business grounds
averse to public races. Perhaps the
get of one horse were "pulled" more
than the get of another. Perhaps sick
ness bore down more heavily in some
quarters than the average, but such
considerations rs these are about equal
lied in the long run, and at the last
there is no better nor more common
sense method OF properly estimating
the merits of a sire than by the public
performances of his colts. The prob
lens Of breeding may be viewed as
mutifariously as the problems of theol-
ogy, and almost anything may be
pIausibly demonstrated by a special
pIeader; but when all is said, good
works remain the surest road to heaven
and good speed the only track to trot-
ting fame.
In considering the details of the fore
going table, that obstinate Blue Bull
who is law to himself alone, stands
out the most prominent feature. He
is veritabe ghost of Banquo to the
advocates of the more fashionable
strains and families with richer ances-
try. In the presence of his thirty win
ners, fifty-two performers and eighteen
in the , 80 rank, the glories of Almont
Daniel Lambert, George Wilkes,
Happy Medium, Mambrino Patchen,
Swigert and other great ones pale their
Intellectual fires, at least as far as the
bare showing of this particular table is
concerned. He is really most incon.
venient fact, and forces lovers of bluer
blood-if there is bluer than Blue Bulls
to console themselves with the refiec-
tons that he is dead; that his stock
does not seem TO breed on, and that
''this thing must stop some time" At
present, under this special test, he GER
tainly rules the roast. We leave to
our readers the task of noting the
&C comparative achievements of the sires
as exhibited in this table, which is
really full of surprises and fuller still
of instruction. 1t is worthy of com
ment that such old sires as Green's
Bashaw, Daniel Lambert, Edward
Everett, General Knox and Rysdyk' 5
| Hambletonian have yet so many of
their sons and daughters battling to
sustain their fame. 1t is no less worthy
of note than many Younger horses, of
great reputation, seem to be losing
their grip, but in these cases we prefer
not to mention names. Again, other
great horses are conspicuous by their
absence from list to which the terms
OF admission appear quite easy. For
instance, as Gen. Tracy proved so con-
clusively i'll our co umns last week that
WoOdtOrd Mamhrino was the greatest
of trotting proge nitors-and our own
mind. directed in its course by his
irresistible logic, still flows with him
it will be in order for him to explain
why the name of the great son OF Nam
| brino Chief and Woodbine is SO mega
| lively prominent in this table. We
| could make a satisfactory brief on The
subject ourselves. we think, but prefer
to leave it to his ADLER hands. Another
most interesting point in the table is
the number OF comparatively new sires,
like Brigadier, Capoul, Doctor Herr,
General Grant, lIospur, Jr., King
Rene, Milton Medium, New York, Red
Wilkes, Robert McGregor and War
wick Boy whose noses are beginning to
show in the front in the great race for
breeding glory. The table furnishes
food tor many an able article, and it is
intended to mark the Inauguration of a
system by which the doings of the get
of the more prominent sires of trotters
in each season will be as carefully
chronicled as are those of the get OF
sires of runners, and of this system
the TUTf, Field and Farm will be the
prophet.
! Costiveness IS the primary cause ofmuch dis
| ease. DIR. Henry BaXtcr's Mandrake Bitters will
| permanentIy cure costiYcness. Every bottle war