Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-11
HORSE BREEDING IN MAINE,

Maine Horse Breeders Monthly
As the trotting season of 1885 has long
been closed and the returns all in. those
that are engaged in the pleasing and pro-
fitable business of horse breeding. should
have learned something by reading the
HorSe Brec1crS' .NoRth1y, and see what has
earned success in regard to producing
trotterS in Maine, and not have to fall
back on blacksmith shop and livery sta
bic talk, and, doing this. can get at facts
in no better way than by taking the adj
bred horses at the three most interesting
events for the year 1SSj, in Maine, viz.
Colt Stakes, Waterville, Aug. 2Gth. New
England Fair, Bangor. Aug. 3lst. State
Fair, Lewiston, sept. 2lst.
At Watcrville the two-year-old race WAS
won by llarcbell. an inbred llamble-
tollall. Time 800 -
The three-ycar-old race was won by Law
renee, an inbred Morgan, Time 2:i7
The fivc-ycar-old race was won by Mel
son @ year old by Young Rolfc.
Time GAG
won by Black Amblc. an inbred Nor
gan. Time , - 81
The 2:3l race was won by surprise:
ll~amblctonian Time , rs
The LAO race was won by Sontag; Nor
gan. Time , 81 81
The , :}G race was won 10y Fanny Knox:
Morgan. Time , :33 -
Stallion race wa, won by Black Rock {;
Morgan, Time } 80 81
, 10 race was Won by McL.ain. Time
1L.a 2:3> II
The two-year-old race was won by Hare
bell. inbred lIambletonian. Time 3 is
At Lewiston. the two-yrar-old race was
won by IIarcbell, an inbred IIamblc-
tonian. Time ID -
The four-year-old-racc was won by Black
Amble, an inbred Morgan. Time } 80 -
The race for green horses was won by
Orator Henley Morgan. Time , rs -
The , - race was won by John Mills 4:
Morgan, Time 81
The 300 race was won by Plumed
Knight. . Time , rs II
The th%ree-year-old race was won by Law
renee. an inbred Morgan, Time , ~ -
The , 80 race was won by Nellie NJ;
Hambletonian, Time , "a II
The , :3G race was won by Gilbreth Maid
HNMorgan, Time , 80 II
The , $50 race vas won by Sancho; Nor
gan, Time , 81 II
The 2:40 race waS won by Harry L..
Time "a -
The 2:2G race was won by Jack Spratt 4;
Patchen, Time 20 -
So we have twelve of these races won
by Morgans and five by IIambletonians
with McLain and Harry L., breeding
not known, quite a showing for breed
without any speed.
BY many of our able writers we We're
promised that, at Lewiston. we should
the IIambletonian stations; several were
in training and entered either in races or
for the stallion cup, and we We're deter
mined to see their wonderful celebrities
t%rotting into the , 80 list. and so went to
Lewiston. But alas. where are they:
And the colts of many of their Sires We're
conspicuous by their absence when the
bell rang calling up the trOtters. After
the races we could but call to mind the
truth of Il statement made in first article
on horse breeding in Maine" that
breeders would pass by Il superior stall
lion bred in Maine, and use an inferior
one of which they had seen some glow
ing newspaper accounts" How plainly
was the truth of that statement verified
in the case of the inbred Morgan stallion,
Irving. He, standing for Il small fee,
for want of patronage was castrated
while the so-called fashionable bred"
stations had the choicest mares in the
double the Maine bred ones, and were
well p%atrOnized. Now, | would like to
ask a few questions. If these fashion
bred stations were so much bet
ter than the Maine bred Morgan stations
were, why did not some of them do as
well as the neglected Joe Irving, who
produced out of a mare by Gen. Knox,
the game t%rOtter, Black Amble, with the
best fo~ur-year-old record, 2;39 II, ever
got on "A Maine track? or, why did not
some of them produce a stallion to beat
Black Rock (by Joe lrving) at the New
Fair, and who afterward obtain
ed a record close to 80, and why did
some of them get Il colt to beat Law
renee, at Lewiston, and afterward got a
record as a three-year-old Of 2;39 l-2,
which is equal to the fastest four-year-
old record of any Maine bred Handle J