St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-21
VOTE IN FORMER YEARS.
THE TRoTTING HORSE.
Dudley Miller Speaks of the Profit
Made in Kentucky.

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Breeding trotting horses has SO rap
idly and successfully developed in Ken
lucky that it has become one of the
most prominent and profitable Occupa-
tons of the live stock breeders. The
amount received for trotting stock in
Kentucky has been gradually increas-
ing year by year, until it has to be
counted by the millions. Last year the
sales in this state amounted to between
s., 10000 and S4,000000. This seems
rather surprising when we consider that
breeding trotting horses is yet compare
lively in its infancy.
The first record of trotting match IN
America dates back only to 1918. The
breeding of trotters as business may
be said to have hardly commenced be-
fore 1887, the year Andrew Jack5on'S
two sons, Henry Clay and Long Island
Black Hawk were foaled, and perhaps it
is better to say 1919, the date of the
birth of Hambletonian 10, and that game
race horse, George NJ. Patchen.
With the advent of Hambletonian 10.
the greatest of all trotting horse progen-
itorS, unless that honor is due his grand
sire, Imp. Messenger, the business be-
gan in earnest. Thus it is hardly fifty
years that horses have been bred for
the purpose of racing at the trotting
gait, and already we have 1851 trotters
that to Jan. l, 1890, had made recorps OF
a mile in 2:30 and better,
There is quite difference of opinion
as to the blood best adapted for the
foundation from which to breed trot-
tiers.
Certain breeders say that we must
breed them from PAGERS; others from
thoroughbreds. and still others say this
is all boSh-"breed trOtterS from trOt-
terS."
Well, we were obliged to start with
something before we had the trotter,
the same as Adam had to give up rib
in order that wife might be provided
for him. The pedigrees of our trotters
indicate that, instead of having sprung
from rib like Eve, they are indebted
to both PAGERS and thoroughbreds for
that combination of blood which has
achieved the greatest trium pins in the
trotting world.
Kentucky owes its wonderful success
in breeding trOtters to its favorable
temperate climate, pure air due to its
elevation of about 1000 feet above the
sea-, to its limestone water, nutritious
bluegrass, and other products of lime
soil, which has a happy influence on
the growth and development of the
bone and muscle of live stock; and,
lastly, but perhaps not least, to the in
telligence of its people, who have
availed themselves of these natural adj
vantages.
To the year 1890 seven stations and
each sired thirty-two or more trotters in
the 2:30 list, and one of them, Almont,
was foaled in Kentucky and sired by
Abdallah Is, New York-bred son of
Hambletonian 10.
Of the fifteen gamest trotters that by
the records have made 100 or more heats
in 2 80 or better three were bred in
Kentucky: Lady Thorn with LOG, Jew
EFT with Isl, and Harry Wilkes, $50
heats.
There are fourteen trotters that have
records faster than 2:14. Kentucky di-
vides the honors with New York in
having four each, and California three,
but Kentucky stands first and alone in
having produced the fastest two, Maud
S, 2:0Ssl, and Jay Eye See, 9:lO, both
bred by MI. Alexander, of WOODBURY..