Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-30

combined with nedlt0V outdoor exercise.
The best qualities of the horse for work
and recreation can only be obtained by
careful attention to the qualities of both
sire and dam. l consider the pure thor
oughbred the highest type of the horse.
He has the best constitution, and is the
most intelligent and enduring of all breeds.
the judicious mixture of his blood with
those of colder blood improves his quality
for general utility. Ny experience has
been that the high bred horse is better for
farm and teaming purposes than the one of
colder blood. He is more active, more en-
during, will walk faster and do better
days work. Taking the Clydesdales and
Canistogas as type of what we call cold
blooded horses, l find that our road horses
have very little in common with them and
very much in commo with the thorough
bred, and that as they are further removed
from the form and character of the cold
blooded horse and approach nearer to the
thoroughbred their stamina and general
capacity increases. In the high-bred trot-
ter to-day there is scarcely vestige to re-
mind one that he has the blood of Clydes-
dale or a Canistoga in his veins. The
rapid quarter horse is improved in stam-
ina by a thoroughbred cross, and 1 think
that all the staying qualities of our trotters
can be strengthened in this manner. But
in selecting thoroughbred mares to cross
with trotters, great care should be exer-
cised. Each should be chosen with refer
euce to those qualities so essential in the
trotter-great intelligence and docility, as
we'll as form-for when the spirit of emu
lation is strong in the horse or his driver is
urging him TO his greatest speed, unless he
has great powers of self control he will
naturally go to his fastest gate-t e, the
run. Where have carefully selected thor
oughbred mares to breed to trotters with
reference to their trotling capacity, think
in no single instance has there been a fail
ure to produce an animal that could trot in
2:40 or better. Most of my experiments
have been with the stallion Electioneer,
whose prepotent quality is very strong
This, of course, has had much to do with
his success in producing out of thorough
bred mares. have not experimental suf-
ticiently with other stations in this direc-
ton to enable me to compare the result
with that accomplished by Electioneer. My
observation is that with this class of thor
oughbred mares Electioneer has sired a
better average of trotters than he has pro-
duced out of what we call trotting bred
mares. have observed that when Elec-
tioneer has produced one good trotter out
Vi lAulC sue Ll1o Never ldlleu W
others when given the opportunity.
1 have four Planet mares. They have
been used mostly for thoroughbred pur-
poses, bat two years ago l had them ali
bred to Electioneer, and in each case the
result was promising yearling. Three of
these mares were untried, the other, Dame
Winnie, dam of Palo Alto, had, of course,
been tried before.
So much confidence have l in the trotting
inclination in Planet mares that l feel
quite certain that Pelo Alto, from bis &C.
ton, his temperament and his PERFORM
ances, will get trotters with certainty. |
therefore intend to try him with half breeds
and few pure thoroughbred mares that
have what l consider the proper qualities
to produce trotters. In regard to breeding
TO my mare Gorge, by Isonomy, out of a
Hermit mare, may say that intend to do
so il upon further examination of Cor
COS action | consider it satisfactory
According to my judgment, and after
considerable study OF the anatomy of the
horse, | am of the opinion that the me-
chanical structure most desirable in the
trotter is also most desirable in the runner,
and vice versa. l find that the relative
proportions of the various bones, their DO
sitious and the placing of the muscles are
identical in both runner and trotter.
have been at great expense to discover BY
photography the precise action of horses
both when running and trotting, and the
results of these Investigations have fully
satisfied me that the mechanism which is
best adapted to running is best adapted to
trotting. The same muscles and sets of
muscles used in running are used it trot-
ting the only difference in their use in the
two gaits being in the order or rotation in
which they are used. What l conceive to
be the most advantageous placing of the
bones in q runner corresponds so exactly
with what | would prefer in trotter that
have no objection on that score in selecting
trotting material from thoroughbred stock
What is true of the physical mechanism is
true of the vital organism. There does
not appear to me TO be any logical reason
for supposing that horses heart, lungs.
arteries and veins perform their functions
any differently when he trots than when
be runs, or that the force which expresses
itself through all these in the runner is of
a different quality from that of the trotter.
All these are but the machinery through
which the unseen force finds its expression.
l recognize two forces in animal life.
One the force which may be likened to that
of the magnet the other, the intelligence
which directs that force.
The force akin to that OF the magnet is
the one which, in my mind, we wish to de-
Velop and strengthen by exercise. In de-
velopment it will find its expression in the
muscular system of the animal. When an
animal-whether man or beasts tired. the
mind seems equal to " hat ii was before the
exhausting exercise, and the bodily organ
izatIon is apparently the same, but the
force is gone. Upon the advice of physi-
clans l some years ago began to take drlv-
ing exercise. l purchased horse that
proved to be extraordinary. | became in
terested in him and his development and
what l wanted to develop in him was a
question. | came to the conclusion that
what | wanted was TO develop the unseen
forces which Icould only recognize by their
action. Then there came to my mind rec.
objection of an experiment that | had made
years before with an ordinary horseshoe
magnet, which, oy being oyertaxed. became
exhausted and finally lost one-third of lis
strength From this vague analogy | came
TO The conclusion that in developing horse
| must avoid the period of exhaustion ;
that great speed comes from the supreme
effort. and the greater the effort the greater
the development. My horses are trained
in this way-short work, aud great deal
of it-with results familiar to your readers.
l think that the thoroughbred POSSESSES
in superior degree, through inheritance
and long and careful training in his ances-
tsv, better physical organization, better
lungs, arteries, veins and vital machinery
throughout than any other of his equine
brethren Consequently look TO the thor
oughbred blood for the improvement of
eli classes of horses, from the high-bred
trotter to the cold bloe6ei C,yGesdsle.
:. IL. IL i
the same instinct to trot or easy trotting
action as the fi1ely-bFed lrotter. Fine irot-
ting aciion and willingness TO trot are
largely the result of careful breeding and
selection. l would apply the same practice
# careful selection 10 obtain tro.ter from
: thorore h5reG
By breeding cur srotler to approximate
tie blood Ct our thoroughbred We shall get
lie abiliiy u 50 : greater distance ii not 10