St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-01
DIOMED BLOOD
Has About Run Out, and Other
Stock Has Taken Its Place.

Stock Has Taken Its Place.
A writer in Wallace's Monthly says
there is very little trace of the blood of
the great sire. Diomed, to be found any
where in any very distinct or valuable
shape now, as the cross of that. blood
went on for years so prOmiScuOuSIy as to
leave very little distinctive trace of it.
He uses the following illustration of this
point:
Take the state of Kentucky for ex-
ample. The great majority of the
horses that were brought into that state
until within the last few years were
thoroughbred horses. The stock that
preceded them were, in the main, saddle
| horses, which were pacing bred, the
roads at that era having been unfit for
driving to any great extent. These
| thoroughbred horses were bred largely
| to pacing and pacing-bred mares, with
view to improving the quality of the
saddle stock of the country, and the
animals resulting from the Informing
| ling of the thorough blood with pacing
| blood was the Kentucky horse until the
| importation of trottiDg strains from New
| York and other Eastern states. When
| the blood of Hambletonian, MambrinO
| Chief, Black Hawk and other Eastern
sires was brought into Kentucky, the
| blood that was commlngled with il was
this mixed pacing and thorough blood,
and the evolution of what we now call
the trotting horse has been largely due
| to this ''tripartite alliance" 1t would
probably be difficult to find mare in
Kentucky, not exclusively of draft or
| thorough blood, whose ancestors have
been in the state half dozen genera
tons. that is not to greater or less eX-
tent the result of crosses between the
thoroughbred and the PAGER.
am very far from asserting that this
blood combination did not furnish an
excellent foundation upon which to
build great breed of trotting horses.
In fact, believe that when sufficient
number of crosses of stout trOtting blood
are added to mares of this breeding the
perfection of the trotter will be reached;
nor do deny that it is more than prob
able that valuable qualities were de-
rived from both sources, the PAGER and
the thoroughbred. am of the opinion.
however, that In this cross the PAGER
was the prolific source of speed-and,
indeed, without pacing blood I do
not believe either the highest rate of
speed at the trOt or the greatest degree
of prepotency to be possible. The won
der-wOrking influence of the blood of
Sucl nOrSeS as 1llOC, OdVy CTOckcI, OUT
rel Tom, Tom Hal and others is con-
elusive evidence that there was some
element in the PAGER supplementing the
qualities derived from the thorough
bred, and from what we call pure trot-
ting strains. that was necessary to the
perfection of the trotting horse.
John Stetson, of theatrical fame, came
near going to the bottom of Boston har-
Dor the other day through his yacht
colliding with coal barge. John doubt
didon former occasion, as feeling safer
when he was on terra Gotta"
Joaquin Miller, who gave the incipi-
ent state of Idaho its name, says that it
is written and spelled improperly. The
correct form Is 1dahoho, with the accent
on the third syllable. The name means
the light on the mountains.