Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-11
A Chapter ON colt ch,t.

~ AN@i NHAN soinc VI our entnusizstic IAN
GERS will need to be pulled" little or they
may get on too much speed. The fact 10 there
Is CANCER Of going too fast,sn9 while We allow
no one to 90 ahead Of US in love for fine
horse, and fully realize the value Of the
horse breeding interests to Maine, and our
surprising advantages as a first class horse
State it won't do any harm to say every now
and then, ''go slow boys, 20 slow Why
do you know the West is all filing up with
good horses; while in five years, now mark
what We say, there will not be pair of
horses on any street railway line In all the
country, Yes, chain lightning, or lightning
chained which is just the same, is going to
take the place of these poor, over-worked
horses and they will be turned out to Craze in
the happy pastures. But the good, fine I'm
ished, veil bred horses will sell, won't they.
Sure. And these are the sort We must breed
and no others. Only the best. Now just
see what IDEAS some folks have.
Here is an item which has
been going the rounds. 1t says
that 'Mr. Nelson the famous Wateryille
horseman began business with one old mare
and what success Mr.. Nelson has had -
Nov this is sure to set some fellows wild.
and they are equally sure to be disappointed.
Why Because it gives the idea that any
body who can get an "old mare" and breed
TO good horse is sure to succeed But in
stead, ninety-nine out of every hundred is
sure to be disappointed And this is why
we need to say 90 slow boys"
Now the facts are that without doubt the
foundation of Mr.. Nelson's fortune rests in
his splendid mare Gretchen, the dam of Nell
son, (2.2l IA but it is libel to call her
ian old mare" Look at her breeding by
Gideon, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian dam X ate
by Vermont Black Hawk, by Sherman Nor
gan Why, there is hardly such brood
mare 10 Maine. Then look at her produce
at years old, KnoI Girl, 2.28l she the dam
Of Aubine, 2.27i; at years, Onward the
sire of Ben Butler, 22si; at years, Bur
leigh, 2.334 at 10 years, Susie Owen, 1926
At IA years, Daisy Rolfe; at Is years, Mel
son. 2'2lt and since then five other good
ones ana now IN foai to wilkes oo'l. Talk
about IAN old mare" to begin breeding with,
As though it were nothing for the boys to be-
come successful breeders, but to do this
same, where is there in all New England .
dam with old Gretchen's brood recordt
This accounts for the popularity of Nelson
as sire, iargel, he had good ancestors,
And what is likely to stop the demand for
Nelson colts. Nothing. They go at high
prices. On Friday last Mr.. Will Lowell of
Bangor, bought Nelson colt in that city for
Mr.. Currler of Hallowell; and on the same
lay Morgan & Bishop of New York, were at
the Sunnys'de stables and carried away
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