Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-09
THE STANDARD OF ADMISSION
TO REGISTRATION.
ESTABLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOC,A-
TON or TROTTING-HORSE BREEDERS.

ESTABLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOClA-
TON OF TRoTTlNG-HoRsE BREEDERS.
In order to define what constitutes a trot.
ting. bred horse and to establish breed OF
trotters ON II more intelligent basis, the fol-
lowing rules are adopted to control admission
TO the records of pcdigrees. When an animal
meets the requirements of admission and is
duly registered, il shall be accepted us Il
standard trotting-brcd animal.
First.-Any stallion thatihas, himself, re-
cord OF two minutes and thirty seconds q 300
or better; provided any of his get has a re-
cord of , 40 or better; or provided his sire or
his dam, his gr1lndsire or his grandam is al
ready IL standard animal.
Secondary mare or gelding that has re-
cord of 80 or better
Third.-Any horse that is the sire of two an
finals with record of , 80 or better.
Fourth.-Any horse that is the sire of one
animal with II record OF 80 or better; provid-
ed he has either of the following additional
qualifications:
]. record himself of , 40 or better.
.. Is the sire of two other animals with
record of 40 or better.
3. Has sire or dam, grandsire or grand
dam, that is already "a standard animal.
Fitth.-Any mare that has produced an ami
NAL with record of 80 or better.
sixth.-The progeny of standard horse
when out of n standard mare
Seventh.-The progeny of IA standard horse
out of mare by standard horse.
Eighth.-Thc progeny of II standard horse
when out of Il mare whose dam is II standard
mare.
Ninth.-Any mare that has record of 40
or better, and whose sire or dam, grandsirc or
grandam is standard animal.
Tputh-A record tO wagon of , 81 or better
shall he regarded rs equal To 80 record.
The above rules have now been in OPP
Grafton long enough to test their value,
and to afford opportunity to study their
results. Their object being "to establish
breed of trottcrs." it must be of inter-
est to inquire whether they are adapted
to the accomplishment of that purpose,
and whether the maxim, Breed only to
standard horse" so oft reiterated by
leading stock periodicals. is always sound
and of universal application.
The whole number of trotters that have
won records of , 80 or better is given as
DIGS. of which 2S3 gained their place i'll
the list the past season. The whole num-
Der of standard stations is between foul
and five thousand. and for the past foul
years their number has increased AT the
rate of over five hundred year. So We
have in round numbers two standard
stations for every trotter But yet thi,
multitude of trottcrS by no means spring,
exclusively from standardized horses
On the contrary. throwing out the get OF
those animals which are made. in the re-
markable language of the preamble t'
these rules standard trotting-bred' no
by reason of the blood they inherit bu
by virtue of the performance of their get
and the number of trotters got by thOs'
standard registry at BIRTH will be founC
10 constitute Il very small minority
Rules 3 and 1 are certainly very hand.
and ingenious rules. They enable tn
owner of the standard horse to ieer a
his neighbor who persists in keeping
''plebean." and to deride the simpleton
who patronize him-until at length on
or two of the Simpleton'S colts, got by tn
.'dung-hill" horse, drop into the , 80 list
then everything changes; the doc
swings open, in goes the horse of no pee
igree. astonished to find that he has nc
only changed his condition from a men
Der of the herd to STANDARD rank" bu
also that by some process as mysteriou
to him as it is to US he has become "stanC
ard trotting-bred'' at the same time
while his happy proprietor is cordial
taken into the fraternity of standar
horse owners. and given chance to Il
sist in devising means to check the eyre!
iouS folly of the idiots who are brcedin
to non-Standard SireS. This is no fame
picture. RySdykS IIambletonian, II
greatest of all progenitors of trotter,
Blue Bull the greatest sire of trotte
that ever lived; neither of these, whC
foaled. was entitled to registry as stan
ard under the present rules, and neith
could have helped himself in that dire
ton by his own performance; and
some of the simple ones of earth had n
been good-natured enough to breed
them in their obscurity, lIambletonian
and Blue Bull - would never have be,
heard of.
But, as appears, the name of t
'standard-trotting-br stations is
gion, and it is equally evident that va
majority of them do not produce trotteI
This ought not TO be; the standard hoT
coupled with the standard mare ought
produce fast trotters with nearly as gre
certainty as the thoroughbreds produ
fast runners. 1t is so, in theory, ins
much that not long ago a literary gent
man who owns standard horse witt
stable full of standards of the Oppos
sex, published an elaborate article on
tied GLOW to Breed 2 80 Trotters to {
der;" the formula (abridged) being,
breed such mares as the gentleman hi
l.. I.