Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-12-06

OF tne size Objection to the Arabian for
hard and fast work, and which is the
only seemingly plausible objection that
can be made to him; and when we con-
slider, as we have shown, that the element
of speed in all our families of trottcrs
came from the Arabian, it must be adj
mitted that his blood produces speed
when united with that of any class of
horses. Now, for the improvements on
the trotter of the present day. They
have not all the same defects; still, most
of them are defective.
We object to the big, coarse head the
narrow forehead, the Roman nose, the
mulish, Hopping ears, the small, sunken
eyes. the lack of intelligence, the con-
tracted throttle, the swinish neck, or
even the eve neck in stallion; the
straight shoulder, the narrow and shall
low chest, the too round and slender
barrel, the long back, and imperfect
coupling; the weak, narrow loin; the
waspish flank, the rat tail, the cat ham,
the light gaskins, the CURLY hooks and
tendency to spawn, the knuckled ankles,
the brittle and contracted hoofs, the
foundered feet, the sweled and puffy
legs, the interfering, knee and elbow
knocking, the quarter and coronet cut
ting gait. Some of these defects in
greater or less degree are noticeable in
most of the trotting bred stations of the
present time. Then, where is the rem
edy? Is it by breeding defective horses
to defective mares, that inherited their
defects from some of the imperfect and
crippled mongrels from which they
sprung, or is it by mating them with the
thoroughbred Arabian, which has no
such defects. Then, when we consider
that it is an established fact in breeding
that the foal is less liable to inherit I'M
/, sOundness from the dam than from the
sire, the decision should certainly be in
favor of breeding to the sire without de-
) fects.
We often see some popular stallion,
: the boosted son of Rysdyk's IIambeton-
: ian, l6 hands high (and this is about the
only plausible point or quality he has
, and about the only one some men know
: or Judge horse by, loaded with boots
: from his elbows to the soles of his feet,
: and from his hooks to the tips of his hind
. toes, his tender feet protected by bar
r shoes or springs in the heels, wearing a
modern Kentucky Unbelievable lever to
2 extend his nose and distend his contract
ed throat so that he may show little
speed without the danger of choking to
l death or of knocking himself dead lame
with his winding and uncertain gait
e Such are the sires that have entailed
= their curses on many of the horses of the
D present day, and now a generation or
= more must pass before these defects car
e be eliminated. a sad and costly eXpe
e rience has Disguised many with rearing
Y crippled, wheeling colts, or knock gait
: ed ones (Which are nearly as wOrthless)
f that would not bring at four years ole
e the price of the service fee of their sires
: and has taught others what experience
i alone could teach them, that they dom
: want any more of that kind of horses
i and that apologies for the defects or un
r soundne>s of stallion does not prevent
Z, his progeny from inherting that same
e defect or unsoundness. They will now
e let the smooth, oily and lying tongues OF
4 the owners or handlers of those stallion.
r wag themselves tired in endeavoring tC
i convince them that the defects were no
h inherited from their horses now these
e men see as plainly from whence these de
5 fects came as they would see the foot
= prints of those same stations in newly
t fallen snow. Then what is the remedy
5 Is it not by breeding to stations that are
!. sound, clean and perfectly-gaited, will
d no weak points, and that sprung from
1 like sound and perfect-gaited ancestry
t although they may not be quite l6 hands
: high. Every good horseman knows tina
i there are many more good road horses
e and fast trOtters between II and l6 hands
l. fact the good road horses and trotters II
y hands and over are exceptions rather
il than the general rule. We have Otter
e seen this illustrated on the road an,
d track. We have seen the big-headed
It mule-eared. thin-quartered, long-legged
y leather-booted, long-backed, rat-taleC
e roadster, driven by driver who evident
:, ly thought he had a daisy turnout tina
n could not be beaten, start up for brusl
g of mile or more on the road, and on,
d might think from the noise of the wheel
d ing breath, pounding feet and booted
S legs commingled that cyclone was APP
IS preaching; but when he gets alongsid,
the well-knit, clean-limbed. powerful
1t muscled and perfect-gaited, bootless, Is
It hand roadster, that glides along a
It smoothly and easily as a toboggan doe
It down a steepside, see how soon the bi!
If horse gets left. If he stays up quartz
a he does well; but after that one hear
a him Wheeling like escaping steam from