Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-10

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be ascertaned from the groom. who
could go no further than to designate
them by their sires, as he understood the
case. WaXy was called a Lexington
mare. but | did not give her any pedi-
gree in my article last month, beyond
placing her granddaughter Sunol among
trotters whose dams were half thorough
bred. Well, Waxy and the other mares
being presumed to be thoroughbred by
all the circumstances, were bought as
such and trained as such and successfully
raced as such and afterwards WaXy was
bred to thoroughbred sires and produced
winners, one of which was an extra good
race mare, winning at all distances and
defeating several of the cracks of her
day. Such was represented to be the his
tory of the mare Waxy when she was
purchased Ly Governor Stanford. But
Mr.. Wallace's exception on the ground
of lost pedigree is we'll taken. We will
strike her out of this argument. reducing
the list to "a. want to call the readers
attention to the fact that in making my
list of animals that had parent on one
side or other that was known to have 80
per cent or more of running blood | did
not pretend to say that the animals
themselves had IS per cent of trotting
blood. Nor did / say that all the other
animals in the 2 30 list carry more than
10 per cent of trotting blood That
preposterous assumption was Mr.. wal
lac's own, in order to belttle my position.
Plenty of , 20 and better horses left out
of that list are known to have more than
% per cent of running blood, if you con-
slider what they received from both pa
rents. The point | tried To illustrate in
making that list was whether or no a
breeder would be as foolish as has been
pictured if he chose a stallion or a brood
mare that was half thoroughbred. So
made the list exclusively of animals that
had thoroughbred grand-parent, i'll or
der to show what had come of doing thai
very thing-i.e., breeding from an ami
nal that was half thoroughbred There
fore when the editor says of the 2:2O lis
that only twenty-five do not carry more
than 10 per cent of trOtting blood IL
their veins he assumes most remark
able position, as | vii show later on.
Again the editor says: "lf the 20
list is not severe enough. let us try The
2 Is list. Hank musters six trotters tina
have, or for the purposes of this argu
ment are supposed to have, sires or dam
that were half bred. Against that 81,
we marshal this free-for-all field st. Ju
lien, 2:l14; Guy, PAP; Rarus, 2;l34
Maxev Cobb, :l3i: Harry Wilkes, , :l3l
Phallas. 2:133; Belle Hamlin, 2:l3$
Goldsmith Maid. 2:l4: Patron. 2:l44
Rosalind Wilkes, 2;l4t: Prince Wilkes
2:llf; STEAMBOAT, 2:l4f: Hopeful. :l44
Maiolica, 2:l5: Arab, , 10. Here agains
his six trotters of extreme speed we al
To- ray fifteen in the same class that ar
trotting bred" Well. well, well. Al
ter crushing poor Sunol under the weigh
of lost pedigree, this is a most astoniSl
ing list to offer. And then after putting
upon me the ignonny of being able t
muster only % horses in the = 20 lis
''that do not carry more than % per cen
of trotting blood in their veins. an
claiming that position from which to al
que, is it now ruleable to change bac
and ask me to show against it - per Gel
of running blood through one parent OF
"? | do not wonder that sense of il
security of his position prompted the eC
itOr to want very much to get back on
safer ground, but he would have his fin
of ridicule, and we cannot excuse hi
from the consequences of the position
has taken in order to treat himself to it
/ 1t is proverb that it is a mighty poo
rule that don't work both ways. Whe
an advocate of IA thoroughbred cross f,
improving the trotter cites given an
nal as an illustration. the "authoritie'
Immediately call him to IA strict accoun
Y ability to prove the existence of the tn
1 roughbred blood in the animal, and tina
too, under very rigid Surveillance
\, That is all right and proper, and und
that rule the editor has thrown Oliver
and Sunol out of my list, one of which
have replaced with Belle Brasfield. I'll
i rule restricts me from presenting amy II
i ima that is not known to possess p p
r cent or more of running blood. But t
editor seems to have forgotten that. u
r. der every recognized rule of evidenC
the opposition, in citing animals stan
Ing against the thoroughbred theory, IA
It bound to present only such as are know
to be without that amount of thoroug
, bred blood. When he threw out sun
he said lost pedigrees do not count, a
exclaimed with great JUNCTION, regardi
her second dam, WaXy, "Who bred he
What horse was her sire? What ma
s. was her dam: What is the use of sayi
-. WaXy was by Lexington in one brea
r and admitting in the next that her pc