St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-18

some of the finest coach horses in
Europe were imported from the United
States and are of trotting lineage. Some
of our breeders have profited by the
hint conveyed in the information that
the king of Italy rides behind Ameri-
can-bred cOacherS. Some of them have
learned to value the fabulous prices
paid by the French, the Germans, the
AuStrians and the South Americans for
trotting teams and trotting bred coach
teams. Others, however, are attempt
ing to further mOngreliZe the ma
terial we have by introductions
English and the French have recently
begun to build up coaching families out
OF running and draft blood. We have
the same running blood here in abund-
ance, and could make equally as good a
mixture, save the glamour of a foreign
name, if it was desirable. But is it de-
slrable? Is coacher better with an in
fusion of trotting or of running blood?
Which inherits gait, disposition, tenn
permanent, conformation and style
adapted to the collar and wheels? Which
more in keeping with saddle and spur
disposition under excitement to run
at top speed instead of trotting or mind
ing the word of command? Can any
reasonable or sane man question for
moment the superiority of trotting to
running blood in coach horse?
Concerning the other element in
the recently manufactured coach
families draft Dlood-is it desirable for
any other purpose than to secure suffi-
cient size? Certainly draft horse has
not the action or movement that high
priced coachers must have. Then if
tho nnlu ptQmnnf rnnJira1 from
the draft horse, and his other charac-
teristics are determined to the ideal
coach or carriage horse, why should his
blood be used if it can be dispensed
with? Can it be dispensed with? For
an answer let every hOrseman cast
about in his mind for trotting bred stall
lions and mares large enough and suit
able otherwise to breed c0achers.
More OF them would be found among
the Mambrino family, no doubt,
than any. other. Among stall
Empire, George Sprague, Mon
itor Prince, Hamdallah, Archy Nam
brine, Black Flying Cloud and Rhode
Island occur to me at once stations six
teen hands and upward, weighing from
1000 to 400 pounds. Bred accident
ally and without design for size, these,
stations and others have produced the
finest coachers on the globe. They are
harness horses by inheritance from
way back" No running foolishness,
no draft clumsineSS or sluggishnesS
mars their perfection as harness horses.
Fame, fortune and honor await the
breeder who will use the superior ele-
mentS so close at hand in bringing into
prominence the king of all coachers.
He is here among US, yet with strange
fatulty we run after strange gods.
a marked instance has come under
my immediate observation recently. A
miller in neighboring town bred bay
mare of trotting blood to bay Handle
tOnian stallion. Both mare and stallion
are OF good size and come from large
families. The result of the union was
a bay colt, now three years old, with
magnificent feet and legs, short back,
long, hip, good head and neck, large
walker, and natural speed at the trot.
Now as to size: He is 16L hands, and
weighs 1900 pounds in road condition.
He has never been loaded with fat. He
is natural harness horse, and can be
hooked up and driven by children.
though not sluggish nor lacking in res
olution; free driver, bnt willing to
mind, as might be expected
when 1t is considered that
his ancestors for generations, on
both sides, have been noted
for just these characteristics. Not want
ing a stallion, the miller offered his colt
for sale. A miller in town fifteen
miles away, not much familiar with
horses, conceived the notion that he
wanted a coach stallion for his boys to
start breeding establishment with.
He did not buy his neighbours colt. but
paid exactly four times the price asked
for colt of the same age bred over the
ocean. AS this is not an attack Oh any
breed, will simply say that in blood he
comes OF the most recent European at
: tempt to make a family of coachers out
of running and draft blood. OF course,
at four times the price the foreigner
should be better than the native indi-
vidually. Now, let US compare their
points and see. They are alike in age;
the foreigner light bay, the native
brilliant cherry bay. The foreigner,
carrying the most flesh, weighs
1880 pounds; the native, 1900 pounds.
The native has the beSt-formed> feet and
legs and the heaviest bone. The for
eigner is advertised as eighteen hands
and world renowned: bonanza to
breeders, etc. This talk may be the in
experience of his owners; if really
eighteen hands high and only 1880
pounds in weight, he is as badly out of
proportion as could well be. His own
ers insist that he is strong eighteen
hands under the standard. While he
does look as thin as a board, he does
not, to the casual observer, appear SO
enormously high and thin as the
figures given would indicate. But his
length of back, slackness of loin, def
cheney in muscle and lathy appearance
are all evident at glance, and make a
man sorry that so much good Yankee
money m1afy w Should 10 be wasted Hasaa OF on
stead of ."bonanza" to breeders.
The native has big arm, and very
marked muscular development all over.
The foreigner does not act as if he had
ever been in harness, is exercised to
saddle-a symptom of his ancestry
and would beyond question succumb to
the native in walking match, trot-
ting match, or a pulling match. As
gelding, the native would outsell the
foreigner anywhere. To be worth four
times as much as the native, the for
eigner should breed four times as we'll
as the native. Their progeny will re-
semble some of their ancestors. The
foreigners ancestors very recently
were the light, hot-headed runners and
the heavy draft mares. The natives
ancestors, for generations beyond when
the foreign idea was evolved, have been
large, handsome road horses, fit for any
purpose an American needs horse for.
Death OF Waltz.
A letter from Erdenheim brings the
intellige nee of the death of one of the
best known of Americas great thor
oughbred brood mares, the mare Waltz,
in the twenty-second year of her age.
Waltz was chestnut. foaled i'm 1857.