Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08

otherwise tnlsrepresented facts. The
honest man, not being well posted in
pedigree, accepts the statements as truth
and when he comes to sell again repeats
the story told him, and states that the
breeding is so and so, when in reality it |
is far different. If every breeder would
make it an inyarable rule not to buy I'M
less the animal is registered or at least |
until the pedig e has been carefully in
vestigated, mu1h pecuniary loss and dis
appointment would be avoided.
The registering of a colt or fllly will
not enable him or her to trot any faster
nor increase his courage and endurance,
yet it will give the animal greater val
ne, because it is guaranty that the ped
igree is as represented. The first ques-
ton that nearly every one asks now
when buying a young horse, or one
whose speed has not been fully devel-
oped, is, "How is he bred? sin the near
future the next question will be, as he
registered?" If not, of course that fact
will create doubt in the mind of the in
tended purchaser as to the correctness of
breeder and owner may be, or how en-
phatic his statement concerning the blood
lines.
Undeveloped animals which are regis
tered will always meet with ready sale,
while unregistered ones of equal merit
will go begging for customers; hence
those who raise horses which they wish
to sell without going to the expense of
having them handled for speed will find
it greatly to their advantage to have
their animals registered, whether they
intend keeping their colts for stock pur-
poses or making geldings of them.
Every animal of the horse kind that is
worth raising is worth registering, and
will bring enough more money when put
upon the market to pay for the trouble
and expense several times over. The
cost of registering now is only 81 in
either the standard or non-standard de-
partment of the "Trotting Horse Breed
ers Registry" Any horse whose breed
ing is known can be registered in the
non-standard department even though
got by a thoroughbred. Following are
the rules which govern admission to the
standard department. Neither standard
nor non-standard animals will be labelled
with numbers, but will appear in the
work in alphabetical order. For this rea-
son each will be registered under differ
ent name, and every man will be allowed
to register under the name which pleases
him best.
We believe that set of rules govern
ing the standard rank should be uniform
and just, and apply alike to all animals,
wherever bred or whenever foaled: such
as shall have tendency to encourage
breeders to improve their stock by breed
ing from the best.
We can but believe that any rule which
would not admit such horses to standard
rank on their breeding as the following,
but would discourage the keeping for
stock purposes of such stations as the
following, is neither just, wise nor for
the best interests of trotting horse breed
ers, viz: George Wilkes. % Election
eer, Daniel Lambert, Belmont. Nutwood.
2:lSa; Red Wilkes, Onward, 2 :25t; AL
cantara, :23; Alcyone, :27; Ambassa-
dor, 2:2li; Jay Gould, 2:2l4; Harold,
Dictator, Mambrino Pilot, Mambrino
Gift, 2:20; Viking, 2:l9i; Louis Napo-
leon, jerome Eddy, 2:l64; DR.. Herr,
Mambrino King, Piedmont, 2:l7t; and
Almont Eagle, 2:27; Hamlin's Almont,
Jr.. Princeps, Tho"ndale, 2 :224 Jay-Eye-
See, 2:lO; st. Julien, 2:1lt; Guy, 2:12;
j. B. Richardson, :l71 Jack, :l91 AK
tell, two-year-old, 2:23; and others of
that class.
We also believe it to be for the best in
terests of all concerned to have the stand
ard animals graded into four distinct
classes, so that even novice in breeding
can distinguish at glance animals and
their immediate offspring which have be-
come standard by their own merit, and
thus aid them, when selecting stock to
breed from, in keeping close in the pro-
ducing channels. To attain this end it
has been decided to grade the standard
into four classes, as follows:
Glass l. This will include only horses
standard under either rule /, 3 or 4, and
mares standard under rules and s..
Every animal in this class will be stand
ard by merit.
Glass ,. This will include only the
produce of mares in class l, when by
stations in class l. Every animal in this
class will be by sire that is standard by
merit, and from dam standard by merit.
Glass 3. This will include only the
produce of mare in class /, when by
any standard stallion in any other class
than l; also the produce of any standard
mare not in class /, when by a stallion
belonging to class l. Animals in this
class must be either by sire or from a