Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-09


precautions, and the thing was done.
The theory looked very beautiful on pa
per, and it was only to those who hap
pened to know that the literary gentle
man had been breeding extensively upon
that same formula for many years and
had vet to produce his first , 80 trotter,
that it seemed in any wise fallacious.
There was fallacy somewhere, how
shrewd reasoners suggested that it lay in
this; that the gentleman's horse, al
though the result of one of the most pop
ular crosses, was not, himself, a trotter,
nor had any ancestor of his on either side
ever been a trotter or engaged in trot-
ting contest; the only ground for sup
posing that this horse would sire trotters
being that. in several instances, trotters
and sires of trotters had been produced
by similar breeding; an argument which,
if presented to Il practical breeder of
running horses, would be met with as
constituent and derision; for he, with
the experience of three hundred years be-
hind him, would tell you that the only
true rule in breeding race horses is to
breed to the winning strains, and the
idea of breeding with a purpose to pro-
duce winner from sire never on the
turf and none of whose ancestors were
ever on the turf, would seem to him to be
the sheerest lunacy.
And here is the key to the puzzle of
how such a mob of worthless animals are
standard. In their anxiety to take in all
the happy accidents, like Blue Bull and
Hambletonian. the trainers of these rules
have let the bars down so completely that
it is possible to breed any description of
equine animal under the sun from pony
the size of goat to a Percheron like a
rhinoceros and have him foaled eligible
to registration as a standard trotting-bred
animal; moreover,h e may be a bundle of
deformities, he may have but three legs,
his neck may be bottom side up, his head
on the wrong end of the body-he is still
standard and entitled to registry as such
Take. for instance, two stations which
characteristics and no particular breed
ing; such nonentities as will beget foal'
like the dam if she is strongly bred; lie
them mate with trotting mares of higl
merit and positive breeding. and through
the virtue of these dams Gas has offer
happened let each find to his credit il
the , 80 list the two performers requisite
under Rule 3 to confer standard RAM
upon A. and b.. neither of which has il
himself drop of trotting blood or Il scin
tilla of trotting instinct. Let Us furthe
suppose that in the meantime theS
horses have got from pure bred Pcrcher
on mares some tillicS which in the cir
cumStances would he apt to be much lill
their dams. Now let these half -Percher
ON daughters of \. he bred to b. an,
vice versa, and all the produce is stand
ard under Rule $; absolutely Standar
trotting-bred stock. fountain head. stal
lions from which may start new familie
cheron blood until in very few genera
tionS the process being repeated time
enough the Perchcron is reproduced i
his original size and type, as Il standar
trotting-bred horse. And of course an
other kind of horse may be bred in lil>
manner.
Thus we may find the draft horse tina
can not trot mile in ten minutes bearn
} standard rank as IA trotting-bred horS'
while such an animal as Blood'S Blac
Hawk, distinguished for beauty, able t
, trot close to 80, sired by Vernon
Z Black Hawk one of the greatest of a
D trottng sires. and himself the sire
1 Blood Chief and Indian Chief, and of II
: dams of Won Arnim (2:l9 ~, Blacl
wood.jr. @ % l-2) and Almont ,ir. @ :2G)
Blood Chief being sire of Fanny Robil
/ son @ 20 ~ and Chief, PAGER, g :23 -
il Indian Chief being sire of Warrior q ~
: and the peerless Lady de Jarnette, bree
e er's record 2:24 II; Blackwood jr. BEN
e sire of Hardwood G. "a 80 and Lift
b; Tommy (2:30) and Almont ir. being
II twelve yeas old sire of four in the , {:
l. list; BloodS Black Hawk, with such
II lineage and such Il progeny finds no pla
l. in the standard, but stays out among Il
II plebians.
Is The fair conclusion is that these rul
l. are about as well calculated to "eStabli
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y Knights of Pythias is to establish II I'll
II of gentlemen.
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