Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-09

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deyise. In shis bssineHs. - svssy b0dy
ksovs, ve have bsea very soeeesseaI- Bob
- kagiish Derby snd shs Gand PFix II
Paris have been vos By Aaefieas hesses.
asd is has besa foasd u Ne compositions q
Nev fosk shAs Ksnsneky hunters en- jump
higher thAa the best inpested horses. and
run equally fasG Ia respect 70 rosd and
tsosiing horses The problem vas much more
diMcult. Before railroads we're built.
and long after many raiiroads had been
bsih, good rod hosse vas . positive ne-
cessisy In Nsv England and in the Middle
States The dfstsnces to be trsversed we're
great, the Highways often hiliy and rossh. 70
thas ssroas. courageous animal vas nseded
to sss over them ~ lhis purpose she Nor
gan horse vas exes1oiauy sdspted. Ii 10
certain fhst be came Of thoroughbred stock
on he siss's side, and is 10 highly probable
that, 10 part u least. be vas Of similar blood
on the dame side. The Morgans are not
only Ane FosdsseYs. bnt good .'sll-found'
hosses. Beside the Morgan stock there we're
many other ssrains Of good road horses fifty
and seventy-Av years ago. The famous
Messenger. an imported gray thoroughbred
horse. With . natural capacity foe trottiug.
land, especially in Maine. Vermont, and New
ported 70 Csnads BY Engl sh olneefs and
oshers, were bfought thence 70 Hew England
and New York. The consequence was that for
the first half Of this century, perhsps even
down to 1860, our road horses we're Of supe-
rior quality. But for. many yeass they have
been going down hill steadily, and since the
var both good road horses and good carriage
horses have been very scarce. For the de-
cline the introduction and general use Of
rsiIways vas partly responsible; partly, slso.
the craze for fast trotters, and partly the
poor stock which were resortsd TO for breed
ing when better horses had been destroyed
BY the war. Nov, however. the indications
are that the tide has turned. The demand
for fine carriage horses has become very
large, and nota few breeders have turned
their attention TO the raising Of good road
horses. More rational theories, also, are
beginning to obtain in respect to the breeding
Of Hotters. A trotfing family ought, o.
course, to be Of such . character that its
members shall be valuable ~ roadsters even
il they fail to be fast enough for the track.
They should have size, intelligence, enduf-
Ance, and style. The raising Of such horses
could scarcely fail TO be profitable. Besides
the large home market for horses. there 10 4
and increasing demand in many
foreign countries for American trotters.
large number have been exported
in the last few years TO Ger
many, Austria. France, Chill, and BRAZIL +;
ZONE to Italy, and some even 10 kussls.
Dur third and perhaps fourth-rate trotters |
are superior to the best that are bred else
where, even the celebrated Orloh horse of
Russia being slow stopper in comparison |
~ith flyers from this country. Fifty years
,go, perhaps even earlier, trOtting- -horses
we're sent from the United States to England,
where they easily distsnced the best native
rotters, and although such expectations have
continued ever since, they have never be-
,ome frequent. nor have they included sin
yle horse Of first or second rate capacity in
he trotting line. Probably, by the exercise
II some tact and ingenuity, = much better
market for trotters could be established in
england, especially If advantage were taken
# the present mania in that country for
hings American. At all events, the demand,
lalive or foreign, for roadsters. trotters, and
arriage horses, is very great and rapidly
and ii might be svxiled of by
mall farmers ia New England to an extent
'hch they do not now imagine. Boston
Teraid. .