Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-17
[ Continued from 9th pdge.1

Guy Is his next fastest remaining
horse. He is in the same boat as ST
Julien, except that if you consider both
parents he is known to possess more
than 20 per cent of thorough blood
American Star, who got his dam, runs tc
thoroughbred, in every known line
and if he was not strictly thoroughbred
he impaired the characteristics with
wonderful imitation. The straight knee
action, straight hind leg, the wide gait,
with very little hook action, so often
noted in the efforts of the thoroughbred
to trot, which used to be designated
"Star gaited,' but which of late is called
"Guy gated, came from him. Can any
body who recalls the bloodlike form
and quality of nearly all his daughters,
such as Widow Machree, the dam of
Aberdeen; Lizzie Walker, the dam of
Startle; Peerless, Mary Hulse, Lady
Brown, Lady Sears, the dam of Hun
tress, and score of others, that if they
ran in the WOODBURY. paddocks would
be mistaken for running mares, doubt
that American Star was practically
thoroughbred? But no matter whether
Guy got his 25 per cent of thoroughbred
blood from American Star in one lump
or not he is known to take more than
that amount from American Eclipse,
imp. Brown Highlander, Tippoo Saib,
Henry, Duroc, Blackburn's Whip and
Brimmer, besides other crosses from
Messenger and Mambrino. More than
40 per cent of his blood in the fifth
remove is entirely lost, and how much
more that contained nobody knows.
Harry Wilkes pedigree is too much
unknown to permit Mr.. Wallace or any
body else to show that he has 10 per
cent of trotting blood or that he has not
% per cent of running blood.
Patron, like Guy is known to have
more than % per cent of thoroughbred
blood, though he did not get it directly
from one half-bred parent. But even if
he was not already an instance on my
side of the argument, he could not be
used on Mr.. Wallace's side, for in run
ming out his five crosses we find "a 3-S
per cent of his blood lost, through which
he might still get % per cent.
But we will not pursue further this
yaunted list of instances which show
how not to prove that thoroughbred
blood is of no advantage to trotters of
extreme speed. What we have shown of
st. Julien, Guy, Harry Wilkes and Pa
iron is also true of the remaining six of
his list. They are either known to have
more than 20 per cent of thoroughbred
blood or else their pedigrees are so far
lost that that amount or more may have
been admitted. Taking him on his own
ground he has not leg left to stand on,
or a swallow to cheer his summer.
But never intended to put such a test
until he voluntarily assumed the posi-
ton, with its responsibilities, of claim
ing that all but % horses in the . 20 list
carried - per cent or more of trotting
blood, when it is altogether probable
that no horse ever entered even the , 30
list that could be shown to possess that
amount of blood known to be other than
thoroughbred. But there is principle
in law that you cannot require man to
do an impossibility, even though he con-
tracts to do it, and as it is a practical
certainty that no horse without % per
cent at least of running FLOOD derived
from some eight or more of the thirty
two animals, known or unknown, that
constitute his ancestors in the fifth re-
move ever entered the , :l5 list Cf even
the , 20 list), of course Mr.. Wallace can
not prove the position he has assumed
But that is Just where the trouble is with
those who teach what they don't know
to be true. They jump at a conclusion
that suits their prejudices and assume
whatever suits their theory.
But do not want to be captious, and
would have left the editor with his ten an.
finals to my six and allowed them to pass
for the purposes of this discussion as trot
ting bred, had he not tainted me with hav
ing unwittngly proved position that he
unwarrantably assumed. have not the
least objection to calling the descendant:
of Lady Patriot and Seely's American
Star trotting bred. They trot, that i;
certain, and they train on, and the sour
ces were virtually thoroughbred. Ant
that is Just what it all comes to if you an
alyze any other trotting source that hold,
its own with the times. Take the tho
roughbred out of our trotting stock ant
you take the merit out. Then why be Sc
Mortified if breeder contemplates usins
still more of it, properly selected ol
course. | never pretended that all tho
roughbred blood with no trotting BLOOD
was the thing. Nor that every thorough
bred, promiscuously taken, was suiteC
for crossing successfully with trottins
lines. The editor has always tried DIES
perately to make it appear that hel,