The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-17

down into rapid walking, for experience
has taught him that 1t is the easiet."
The Americdn Cultipdtor SAYS ''Three
points should never be lost sight Of by the
Northern breeder in selecting mares for
brood purposes. The first is soundness,
both in the individual and her ancestors
on both sides for several generations back.
The second is quality, and the third size.
1t is true that first class trotters have
sometimes come from unsound mares, but
the man who breeds only on a limited
scale will find that he can get much better
prices, as rule, for stock whose an
cestors were noted for soundness. Quality
must always be observed. size is a
valuable attribute, butquality always COM
mands much more money than size. Some
OF the highest priced trotting brood mares
that have ever sold in this country have
stood only about fifteen handsor fraction
over. Get good sized animals, but be
sure they are not lacking in quality. II
will prove more profitable in the end to
pay 81, 900 for one first class brood mare,
which possesses breeding, quality and
size, and an abundance of nerve force,
than to buy six ordinary animals at $3.50
apiece. Whatever the brood mare lacks,
she should possess plenty of vim and
nerve force. The latter is the most valu-
able quality of all, for the rate
OF speed depends more upon that
than upon any other attribute that
can he named. Nerve force is to the
horse what steam is to the engine, and is
found in higher degree in the thorough
bred racer than in any other family OF
horses II is doubtless this quality that
has given the daughters OF Mambrino
Patchen and American Star such promi-
hence as dams Of first-class trottes Seely's
American Star possessed very nearly the
same combination OF blood lines ms the
dam of Lady Thornc, 2lSl, and her dis
tinguished brother, Mambrino Pachen.
Seely's American Star, however, lacked
trotting inheritance, and but very few
trotters have come from him or his de-
scendants in the male line. Mambrino
Patchen inherited the trotting instinct
from Mambrino Chief, and has proved lar
more successful rs sire Of trotters than
| Seely's American Star. Breeders who have
access TO stations with strong tro,tng in
heritance on both sides, particularly such
as are descendants Of Rysdyk's Hambleto-
nian, need have no hesitancy in buying a
mare for brood purposes whose second or
third dam is adesccndant of the thorough.
bred race horses, Glencoe, Imported Trus-
tee, Australian, Margrave, Planet, Reye-
nue., Lexington, Boston. Grey Eagle, Du-
roc, or any other descendantof the noted
old Derby winner, imported Diomed."
Trainer William Lakeland has returned
the three year old FLY Goldic Cad TO her
owner, George II. Clay, her temper hay
ing become such rs to unfit her for future
racing She will be bred to imp. Zerilla in
the spring. At one time this season Lake
land considered her even superior TO his
crack filly Peg Wellington.
J. V. Stryker, Jerseyville, ILL.,, has sold
to w. p. Clancy, Louisville, Ky, the iilly
Sylvia, foaled 1887, by Stranger, dam Sybil
by Jay Gould, her dam Lucy, 2:lSl, b!
George NJ. Patchen.
J. Bland 4 Co., Nashville, Tenn, hav,
purchased from +. II. Douglass, Franklin
Tenn, the bay horse Big Three, five year
old by imported Genelg, dam Ems, b.
Liston.