Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-28

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on either side. The fastest of the get of
Electioneer is in the latter category; the
second in order of speed has the near thor
oughbred cross and the third is purely of
trotting ancestors for two generations.
This analysis does not prove that breed
ing from strictly thoroughbred mares has
at the average increased the capacity of
the Electioneers to train on; nor does it
disprove it. The average speed of the
seven that are from mares known to be
purely of running blood is almost exactly
the same as that from the fourteen that
are from mares known to be purely
Of trotting and pacing blood If the
thoroughbred cross added any in the
way Of training capacity, its effect would
therefore appear to have been offset by
loss in the natural dizziness Of action that
comes of an unbroken inheritance of purely
trotting blood. Where the thoroughbred
is grandparent instead of parent, the
average speed in Electioneer's list is much
higher than in the purely trotting formu-
Ia, but the instances are too few TO gener-
alize from. If the best quality of thor
onghbred blood can improve the physical
organism of the trotting horse, so as to
increase his capacity to maintain high
speed for long distance, it would seem
logical to expect step in this direction
by the addition of twenty-five per cent at
a time. If the addition of thoroughbred
blood has deterrent effect upon trotting
action, it would seem that while the trot-
ting influences might prevail in maintain
ing the action against an introduction of
twenty-five per cent of running blood,
they would be far less apt to do so as per-
fectly against an introduction of fifty per
cent. Speed is the first qualification of
trotter, and speed of the highest order can
only accompany perfectly true action
The next qualification is the ability TO
maintain speed for distance, and this
only comes of a perfect physical organiza-
ton, giving great vital force through clear
wind, perfect arterial circulation and mus
two great qualifications make the trotter.
But hindrance to one of these qualifica-
tions may result from attempting to intro
duce I'M Improvement in the other. The
opponents of the thoroughbred cross say
that it will. But the reward Of securing
both qualifications in equilibrium is worth
striving for say its advocates, who further
say that through 200 years of selection BY
the test Of the turf, the thoroughbred
horse at his best has acquired the most
perfect physical organism in the world for
sustained speed.
As far as introducing thoroughbred
blood to trotting lines has yet succeeded,
the greatest performers have been secured
where no more than twenty-five per cent.
Of running blood is admitted through a
single source. That quantity seems to
have been absorbed to the manifest i'm
provement Of the physical organism with
out disturbing the trotting action. Wheth-
err as trotting stations are bred with still
greater power to impart true action,
larger proportion of running blood can be
successfully absorbed, remains to be seen.
If any trotting stallion has yet appeared
that is capable of the task, it would seem
to be ElectiOneer. Should he, by con-
trolling the current of thoroughbred blood
with which he is being brought in contact,
raise the capacity of his descendants pro-
portionately as Pilot Jr. did, there will
prove to be some rare fields to explore for
those who breed and drive his descendants
in another generation.
The great son of Rysdyk's Hambletonian
and Green Mountain Maid is out in strong
force this year. With Azmoors victory at
Petaluma, Cal, July 4th, when he won the
$50 race in 2;2S3, 2:2422, 225l, the sixth
representative of Electioneer for this sea-
son cutters the go list. Four of these.
including Azmoor, are from thoroughbred
dams. This is 4 great number of per-
formers to have appear so early in the sea-
son, especially as most of his get are in
California, where the larger meetings do
not take place until autumn.