Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-03
EQUINE GOSSIP.
ELECTI0NEER oUTRAEKs ALL OTHER
TR0TTING sIREs.
Coming Sales of California Colts in the
East = Rare-Bred Foals at
Rancho del Paso.


years, and every year the conviction forces
itself more strongly upon thoughtful breed
ers that his blood is destined to become
one of those factors in the makeup oil
winning pedigrees of the future that to be
without is to be behind. Volunteer in the
hight OF his success could boast the fastest
trotter in the world and the greatest num-
Der in the 2:20 list. To-day Electioneer has
q faster trotter and greater number in the
2:20 list. Harold may still boast the fastest
trotter in the world, but is Maud SIS rec.
ord at seven years of age really as great as
that of Sunol at three years old I? Is Har-
old's Offering as great as that of Election
eer? Dictator is gallant sire, who, with
scant opportunity, interfered with and
thwarted in most discouraging way, has
for some years held the proud distinction
of begettiDg the fastest three trotters ever
credited to single sire. Now Electioneer
holds that honor. George Wilkes was the
first to put more in the 2:20 list than Vol
unteer, but now Electioneer has the most
of any. Wilkes has most in the 2:30 list
still, but is it not foregOne conclusion
that Electioneer will one day surpass him
By what test of merit that has had time
and opportunity to develop can Strath-
more, Happy Medium, Alexander's Abdal-
lab, Egbert, Dauntless or any of the others
be rated by which Electioneer has not sur
passed them
when we take each of the great sons of
HambletoDian upon his strongest point,
and in comparison find that Electioneer, as
years roll on, gradually closes upon and
llrv hot Il
of Electioneer? Will his not prove in the
end to be the greatest line from HANDLE
tonian as Sir Archy's was from Diomed?
''But it is his opportunities that have
been greater, and not himself, some will
contend. grant that in one sense they
have been greater. l do not believe his
progeny have been more thoroughly trained
than the Volunteers, though possibly more
numerous. They are no more numerous
than the Harolds, though perhaps to a
greater extent trained. They are far more
numerous than the Dictators, and more
generally trained. l do not believe they
are as numerous as the get of George
Wilkes. nor more generally trained, for,
although Wilkes was comparatively few
years in the stud, he produced an enormous
crop of foals each year, comprising num-
Der that other stations have required many
more years OF stud service to produce.
Where, then, has been the advantage of
ElectioneeT? In my belief his real ad-
vantage has been one that has quite gener-
ally been regarded as disadvantage. He
has had access to mares that possessed a
greater average degree of thoroughbred
blood than any of the others, and that
thoroughbred blood, too. has been selected
carefully in relation to the specific object in
view. By reason of this fact, very many of
his progeny are possessed of ply steal Or
ganism better adapted to the maintenance
of higher speed than has fallen to the lot of
any other sire His individual prepotency
in the trotting proclivity has decided that
the speed shall be at the trotting gait.
But let not what is wait upon what
might have been. Electioneer has had,
and will still have, that advantage in great
profusion, and its results are destined to be
continually cropping out. The day of the
others is gone by, and in it they have far
less of such advantage. Even though we
admit them to be the equals of Electioneer,
how can they stand as such in the future?
He has fortified his position and they have
not. He was in the hands of man who
knew better how to build up q breed of
trotters, looking to the highest capabilities
of a permanent breed, than they were.
Being higher bred, yet of trotting procliv-
throw out greater capacity in co-mingling
with other strains than those less highly
bred. Capacity is the winning card of the
future. The 230 list no longer pays for
oats. The go list alone keeps the wolf
from the door.
"Call the other sons of Hambletonian as
great as Electioneer if you will. Yes, if it
eases your mind to call them greater. 1t
matters not how that phase of the question
is settled. There yet remains the proba-
bility, based upon a principle Of heredity,
that his line will rise above theirs as time
goes on. Better use has been made of his
powers to absorb thorough blood of high
caste than was made of theirs. The old
adage is proving itself anew: Blood tells"
Through hundreds of channels the power
of Elecioneer, fortified by assimilated
thoroughbred blood, is finding its way over
the country. That means more Sunols and
more Palo Altos. To be without it is to be
behind. If be proves not the Sir Archy of
the trotting stud book who will ~
CALIFORNIA COLT SALES.
There will be a grand aggregation of Cal
ifornia-bred colts sold at auction in New
York this month. Indeed, the advertised
lists, with the names, records, etc., of the
sires and dams of the colts are bewildering
TO all but old turtles The Rancho del Paso
contingent, now al its journeys end, con-
sists of ninety-two head of colts, FLIES and
celdines. which will be sold at auction by
William Easton, under the management OF
Easton's National Horse and Cattle Ex-
change. New York, one week from to-day
March 10Th. The stock is principally
sired by Albert W, 2:20, one of the
best bred and handsomest sons OF the
mighty Electioneer. The other sires repre-
Tf11,r fofr IF Roll nv
Hambletonian, 10; Alaska, By Electionesr
Algona. BY Aimont, and Robert Lee and
Cornelius, sons Of Nutwood.
L. J. Rose, of the Rosemeade Farm, has
sent on a very large number OF his finely
bred colts, as also has G. Vaiensin-
Palo Alto Will forward 8 lot Of colts, by
the best sires on that celebrated farm, TO BIZ
sold on the 18th and Goth of the present
month. This consignment contains ovel
100 head, OF which thirty-one are by the
wonderful sire Electioneer, and nearly
every one of which has his blood through
one parent or the other. In letter &c
kellogg & Co., who are to manage the sale
Senator Stanford writes MANY of thl
flies on the list I part with with great re
luctance on account OF their breeding
There are thirty-one Electioneers, which
is equal to his get in one year. think
the lot is a better one than you have ever
had for sale before. The list, both of mare
and stations, is worthy of the closest at
tention of breeders. There is not an in
ferior one among them all. There are
few whose pedigrees are short, such ss tn
ST. Glars, but they have individual merit
The only reservation have made are SOM
brood mares and geldings and few II
training that we need to develop to prov
The quality of the stock, especially OF the
improved young stations. have also re
served some that are the least valuable. :.
do not intend to have any sent over that d.
not give st the halter indications of beinl
irst-class.
THREE CALIFORNIA CIRCUITS.
Saws the Breeder and Sportsman: zone o
our correspondents pointed out over yea
AGO that there were already two circuits II
this State and that 1t would soon be neces
sarV 10 have three. The time seems to b
close at hand, as / note that Bakersnel!
promises to come into the field. a circui
commencing at San Diego and rgnnin
through Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno
yisalia, MERGED and Stockton; secon'
one commencing at Salinas, thence to Sal
Jose, Napa, Petaluma and Oakland, am
third, through Chico, Msrysyille, ETC., al
meeting at Sacramento, and aoJournlnl
thence to the Breeders meeting az oai
Francisco, is not so far in the future
many may suppose"