Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-10

and work double by the side of a gentle
horse, say five or six times. During this
time they are fed grain Cracked barley
and alfalfa hay. This takes about two
months, when they are turned out on
green alfalfa and left to run for one year,
or to the first of January, and when two
years old. While they run out on pas
ture neither the colts nor dams are fed
any grain, both remaining sleek and fat
on green pasture, generally alfalfa.
When taken up in January, in their
two-year-old form, they are broken to
single harness, and given short but lively
work, and we get as much trot into them
as possible. This takes about four
months, when they are ready for sale,
and if not sold, again turned out to pas
ture. | do not, however, intend to keep
over any colts, except for racing pur-
poses, after they are two years old, and
expect to have yearly auction sales.
probably in New York city, and sell all
the two-year-olds on hand and will begin
by having my first sale in the spring
of 1889.
This formula of raising and training |
do not give as perhaps the best way, al
though it has my approval, and gives the
best results with the minimum of ex-
pense and work.
If this is done with judgment, not
working the colts too long at a time, al
ways stopping before they feel tired or
dull, then it is a benefit to them, and gets
them gentle and develops a desire to trot
which is never forgotten, and will be
found in each succeeding year with in
tensified desire and speed.
This also fits in with the work of a
breeding and training farm in California,
such as mine, and makes continual en-
ployment for the men.
Gentling the weanlings takes from Oc-
tober to the first of January; training
two-year-olds until the first of May, and
training the older horses and attending
the fairs and race meetings until October.
This is my first catalogue, and even
now and for a year yet l would not re-
quire any but, as there is much inquiry,
| indulge myself in the luxury in order
to meet the wishes Of the public. The
reason, though none is required by me,
is that | am making a new beginning,
with two new stations, and / have moth
ing yet to show of their get, simply their
W records, and although records are a
very large factor in gaining the favor of
the public, yet to have the greatest bene-
fit the performance of their offspring
must be shown. / have some small pros
poets of doing this the coming year, for
| have one three-year-old and two two
year-olds by Stamboul, and all are trot-
tiers, but this is a small number to rely
on in this colt-record breaking country.
| have fourteen weanling StambOuls and
nine weanling Alcazars, and, as | wish
to be prepared in the future, will not
therefore offer n of these for sale until
a year hence. There are some half q
dozen Sultans. and these are what | re.
served as the best for race horses that
would sell but | am so far from the mar.
ket that there are but few horsemen who
even see them, which makes it difficult tC
sell, for description and writing are very
unsatisfactory. For this reason | will
have to rely on annual auction sales, and
although | may not get the highest posi-
ket as breeders in Kentucky, yet will rely
on the fact that can raise them cheaper
and, by trying for the best, will hope tC
both make reputation and profit.
Formerly | was much engaged in fruit
growing and wine-making. This l have
sold, and now | can give more time to the
horse, which has never been a task but
labor of love. l now have added largely
to my brood-mares, and sold some tina
were not tashionably bred. and a lool
through my catalogue will convince ont
of what may claim-that | am keeping
fully abreast in the most fashionabl,
blood for my mares. FOR my two stall
lions, Alcazar with three-year-old recorl
of 2:23), out of that remarkable mar,
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and more coming, and with her daughter
Beautiful Bells, the most remarkabl,
%brood-mare for her years, makes Alcaza,
without a better.
Then Stamboul with his royal breed
ing and his five-year-old record of 2;17,
under adverse conditions, this being tn,
second best record for a five-year-olC
stallion ever made, and both of thes
stations are sound, kind, stylish, ant
both will better their records this year.
Then, too, both of these stations ar
from producing lines, with each genera
ton being an improvement on the former
Who a say that he has two better o
even their equal.
In order to show their true form an,
looks, and to make this a certainty | hav
taken their photographs. and these cuts
or rather artotypes, are printed from