Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-05

The Stable. the Turf and the Bcx-sean
The great interest IN the trotting horse
now being ,ieyelo. ed in Maine is enc,
which. if rightly directed. is sure to place
our State in the front rank asa great horse
breeding state .,ui there should be no H.
titious boom Or Il, aIi.g.ess rage about II.
The breeding of speedy, desirable. good
-tyled horses, for which there is growing
l,.mand, is legitimate business, but it is
one demanding capital, experience and the
best judgment for its successful prosecu-
ton. To SO study the blood lines, the
factors of heredity, the power to transmit
speed or other desirable qualities. the
combinations of particular pedigrees. as TO
produce satisfactory results-is almost
lie work; and even when they are all
mastered and employed in breeding to pro
luce trotter, there must necessarily be
many mistakes, many blanks. many dis
appointments. To provide for these at
tie outset is a safe course for the breeder
to pursue-then the successes will be
greater, and the losses and disappoint-
inents not so hard to be endured. To breed |
trotter is not so easy thing as some
farmers seem to think; it is one of the |
most hazardous and uncertain matters in
the whole line of stock raising. But it is
full of interest, because of the high ex-
pectation in the result. To attain it there
can be no better simple rule than this
Breed always to the best, the souudest,
the speediest, both of sire and dam. The
result in such cases will be that if the
offspring cannot trot in 2.2O, it will be a
good sized, good styled, vigorous colt-one
of class for which there will always be
a lively demand at high prices. They are
good colts to raise.
Here is an instance where the speed
element seems to come through the dam
The wonderful mare Beautiful Bells, is
said To be the most remarkable speed-pro-
ducng mare in the world. Four of the
great ones to her credit are, Kinda Rose,
2.l9 II Cat 3 years.; st. Bel, 2.24 (at 4
years. Bell Boy, 2.26, Cat years., and
Chimes, 2.30 IL. CAT 1 years.. All four
of the above colts were by the great sire
Electioneer, l25, by Rysdyk's Hamble-
tonian. Eight of the foals of Beautiful
Bells have sold for total of Sl07,0
She is now only II years old, and is owned
| by Senator Leland Stanford, Mento Park,
Cal. This instance proves our statement
above-that the best dams as well as the
best sire should be selected in breeding.
Mr.. James Miller, the owner of Bourbon
Wilkes, has refused an offer of Sl2.500
for one half interest in him. He is by
George Wilkes, dam Favorite. by
Alexander's Abdallah.
The best running record in 1887. one
mile, was made by Ten Brock, by Phaeton,
at Louisville, Ky, May "a, 1887, against
time, in l.39 II.
1t cannot be denied that stallion which
is undersize is wanting in one of the most
important and desirable qualities of sire; ;
and yet two of the best bred stations now
owned by Maine parties are light, small
sized horses. One is Daniel Boone,
OBI 3-D by Rysdyk's Hambletonian,
owned by Henry A. Archer of Skowhegan.
Yet he is the sire of Susie Owen. 2.26;
and Nellie NJ, 2.2s ii. The other
is the now much talked of
Lumps, (2.2D, by Geo. Wilkes, CPD
owned by W. F. Todd of Calais. Both
these horses are about II hands, and 925
to $50 lbs. 1t may be said however in
credit of these horses that they are short.
strong and muscular built for bottom and
endurance, and that there is nothing of
the delicate, weak or puny characteristics
to them. If they possessed these last quail
ties in connections with small size, they
wanted to breed good colts.
There is a moment when the fast trot-
tiers are making their best time when not
foot touches the earth, all four being
elevated from the track, but in different
positions-the horse literally flying.
This position is reached in about every
seven seconds.
Recent inquiry has been made about
was bred by Ira ID. Sturgis Esq, of this
city, and was by Gen. Knox. out of a
finely bred English mare. lie was sold
by Mr. Sturgis to Mr.. Monroe of Lexing-
ton, Mass. after which he got record of
IA. Gen. W. $. Tilton, in a note in a
late issue of the American Cultivator says
"He was one of the best sons of Gen.
Knox that have ever seen"
DIR. r. NJ. Drake of Pittsfield. has just
purchased the four year old stallion Green
field, by Eectioneer, of Mr.. G. W. Leavitt
of Boston. Greenfield's dam is Lizzie
Collins, by Stansifer's Woful, by Woful,
son of Long Island Black Hawk. Mr.. Par
lin, in the CutivatOr, says that with the
Stations Greenfield. Action by Onward,
by George Wilkes, owned by Col w. G.
Morrill,, and Harbinger by Almont, owned
by A. W. Bracket. all of Pittsfield,
''Trotters ought to be plenty in that part
of Maine a few years hence And they
will.
Those of our readers who dozen or
fifteen years ago were interested in good
horses. will remember the beautiful roam
mare Belle of Augusta, which has since
become some what noted a. the dam of
Socrates, 2.27 IA. This mare was bred by
the late Rev. W. A. p. Dillingham;, when
living on his 'Fairview" farm in Sidney.
She was by young Indian Chief. by the
Canadian PAGER Indian Chief: dam by
Witherell Messenger. Mr.. Dillingham;