St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-08
MINNESOTA HORSE STOCK.
Some that a Globe Correspondent
Saw in lie Sueur County.

saw Hn lie Sueur County
To the Horse Editor of the Globe:
The majority of mankind have hobbies.
Breeders and theorizers of the science of
breeding the trotting horse are no exception
to the rule. One has theory that only
the thoroughbred blood either in sire or
dam can produce trotters of the highest
type. Another that you have to breed eX-
clusively to trotting blood and the sire and
dam must be descendants from those who
have made records within the magic circle.
While others confidently assert that from
pacing strains only do breeds find all of the
results they have hope for in breeding the
tTOtting horse. Each advocate, however. is
forced to admit that the other has strong
claims that cannot be ignored. and we think
those are most nearly in the straight and
narrow way who recognizing the merits of
each believe the true solution of breeding
the highest type of the trotting horse lies
in carefully studying the best points in each
prominent trotting family. and seeking to
unite these judiciOuS crosses. The season
of 1885 has drawn TO a close, the statistics
have been compiled, and it is now in order
to review what has been accomplished, and
how the leading trotting Sres stand as COM
pared with the roll call at one year ago.
THE BLUE BULLS.
The once despiSed PAGER. Blue Bull. still
leads all others with fOrty-siX representa-
tives in the $50 list. Blue Belle, 2:26X.
having now beyond doubt been traced
correctly to his paternity. We think the
showing SIMPLY wonderful. Taking into
consideration the class of mares that Blue
Bail was mated to, as in looking over the
list Of 2;30 performers credited to him we
ma the DANES of seventeen are of I'M
traced or Of unknown breeding. and the
query arises what would have been the
result had he have been stinted to the class
OF mares that Hambletonian or his son.
George Wilkes had. Desiring to see a
Blue Bull stallion, visited on Wednesday
the breeding stud of Cosgrove Bros. 10
Gated at LIE Seuer, and as many Of the
readers OF the GLOBE are ignorant as re-
gards the breeding studs mentioned, will
give Drlet description Of it. The farm
proper consists of 500 acres adjoining the
city of LIE Seuer. The mammoth stock
barn is only three minutes walk from Main
street and is model stock barn, with all
modern Improvements even to conveniences
for watering stock in their stalls. One-half
of the barn is devoted TO his Hereford herd
of which he has seventy head, with an i'm
ported Lord Wilton at the head. Two
thirds of his cows are imported and are of
fashionable breeding. The other half of
the barn we find devoted to his breeding
stud. at the lead of the trotting stud we find
the young stallion Eyehim, a fine, upheaded
bay stallion, fOaled June, 1881, got by
Bashaw Drury, etc., ETC., first dam Elsie
ID by Wilson's Blue Bull. This horse
stands 1871 hands, a fine, open-gaite6,
handsome horse. Never has been trained
for speed, but from his movements on the
road daily, while being exercised, promises
well. Cosgrove Bros. have several young
bred stations that from their breeding
ought to make their mark in the future. OF