Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-17


pected from the natural laws of heredity
as understood them. Well when the
facts have finally come about to prove
my position the true one, why should
"fall back?" On the contrary, can af-
ford to take it easy and-"let the other
man walk"
But will not say any more in reply
to his badinage, nor be out-done by his
overlooking what he considers flaws in
some of the thoroughbred animals that
pertained to my list. For the purposes
of this discussion we will admit that he
has ten animals against my six, which,
though he cannot show it, we will call
trotting-bred, and also admit the SUI
preme fallacy that they owe nothing
to the thoroughbred for their compos-
ition. We will go back to the principle
on which constructed my original list,
and discount him all the thoroughbred
blood in the question except what comes
to my horses through half-bred parent.
So it finally results in this: Every intelli-
have been bred and trained for every
one of my kind; and yet with fifty
chances in the way of numbers to my
one, he only shows ten to my six in
results. If what he calls the trottng-
bred kind were equally as good
material to make 2 :l5 and better trotters
of as those which have half-bred
parent. instead of only showing ten
horses to my six he should have shown
three hundred to my six, to have kept
pace with his opportunities. If any
breeder, because he is afraid of TIE par
rot-like cry, "no running foolishness,"
wishes to hamper himself with course
of breeding that requires him to breed
fifty times as many horses to get ten
with an average record of 2 ;l34, as he
would have to breed by using selected
thoroughbred cross to get six with an
average record of PAPA, let him go
tight on ignoring the thoroughbred
cross by all means.
At one point the editor asserts that
Electioneer is the only stallion that has
any influence on running blood. At
another he shows how little he has ac-
complished in the 2 20 list on running
blood. Well, think l have shown that
good deal has been accomplished in
the faster classes with running blood;
therefore. it would look as though some
other horses than Electoneer had been
able to control action. In ten years
from now every breeder of ambition
will be ashamed to own, as test
question. that his stallion is so deficient
in influence that he cannot impart true
frictionless trotting action accompanied
by % per cent of running blood, and
will be proud to show that lie can fire.
quently do it with 30 per cent. And in
fifteen years the public will look upon
horse that cannot do it accompanied by
% per cent of running blood as a failure,
and unfit to breed even an all-trotting-
bred mare to.
There is not one-tenth the trouble in
getting speed in these days, as every
breeder knows, that there was twenty
years ago. Colts are born a-trotting. so
to speak. There is only passive and
not "A resisting deficiency in the DISPOSE
ton of the thoroughbred to trot. and
some animals and strains have positive
tendency to do so, though their practi-
cal mission rests mainly in the vitalizing
power. 1t is more than a mere coinci
dence that thoroughbred EXchequer,
355l, should have got two with records
of 2:22i and better, and that his full
brother Planet, should have got tho
roughbred Dame Winnie, that not only
had Palo Alto, , :20t, and Gertrude Rus
sci, :23t, but also gelding by Gen.
Benton, that trotted trial to cart in
2:24, quarter in 34s., and five repeats
all better than 2;29. EXchequer and
Planet were by Revenue, son of imp.
Trustee, and out of Nina, by Boston. 1t
always did aggravate Mr.. Wallace to
think that 20-mile Trustee should reflect
any credit on his sire, imp. Trustee, be-
cause his dam, Fanny Pullen, was trot-
of thoroughbred resistance" if he had
rather swallow it that end first; and
what she did, surely the prepotent trot-
ting-breds of today can do better. Old
George NJ. Patchen, so glibly counted in
AS trotting-bred in pedigrees, was out of
a mare by thoroughbred son of imp.
Trustee. Boston, a we have shown, APP
pears in Maud s., Jay-eye-see, Cling
stone and others: but when Mr.. Wallace
asks me for Boston's own trOtters, | can
only say never heard of his having got
anything but thoroughbred foals, of
which it is improbable that any were
broken to harness, but would not have
expected them to trot very fast if they
had been, because | never advocated
pure thoroughbreds for trotting pur-
poses, though the editor kindly and per-