St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

fact, and shows the prize offered that
person who can successfully breed the
thoroughbred. A detractor may say
this was simply the dispersal of fash
ionable stud, from which it was
considered the correct thing for
representatives. Not at all. Less than
a year ago MIR. Belmont's racing stable,
comprising twenty-eight head, were
sold at auction. These horses since
then having won 100000, the high
prices obtained for his brood mares and
colts seem most natural consequence.
Charles Reed did not buy st. BlaIse as
some millionaire would famous paint
ing. l understand that gentleman had
to make no little sacrifice to enable
him to secure
This Great Horse,
which he accomplished in spirit Of
enterprise, entirely as business vent
ure. The apparently high price, $780,
600, brought by St. Blaise, was not ex-
ceptional; forty-eight brood mares
brought S203, 525, an average per head Of
1920. Twenty-seVeu head of sucking
colts and FLIES, sold separate from their
dams, brought S72,325, an average of
S2,678 for each one. Twenty-four
yearlingS sold for $124,55O, an aver
age of 50, 1S0 apiece. In what way
could the farmer obtain larger re.
turns for his labor than here? How
could he secure better recOmpense for
his timothy and oats? What domestic
animal would it pay him better to keep
IN his shaded pastures than the thor
Oughbred brood mare and her gazelle-
like fOal? Only partially blessed can
that land be which, for any reason. Is
unsuitable to the rearing of the highest
types of the no6leSt species of animal
over which man has domination.
The claim, advanced by many, that
owing to her latitude, Minnesota is not
adapted for growing the thoroughbred,
L will never admit. My own want of
success in this direction. far from indi-
eating any local CT climatic deficiency,
only conyinces me Of my own stupidity
and lack of the knack of good manage
ment. 1t is unbroken faith in our
matchlesS Minnesota air and water and
Marlborough experience that urge me
onward, and promise in the near future
the reward due perseverance. The
IDEA that only warm climate can pro-
duce superior horses is cOntradicted by
the performances of the trOtterS Aller-
ton, Nelson and Axtel. That the moose.
the largest of our fauna, should be
denZen of latitude still further north /;
than Minnesota, shows the error Of
thinking that warm
Climate Is Essential
to the attainment of physical perfection
in animals. That this is not the case
with man is shown by the Swedes, who.
the lOngest-lived members of the HUI
man family, have possessed a military
supremacy in Europe oftener than any
other nation, and that in the face of the
fact that there are more people in the
city of London than in the whole of
Sweden.
The Clydes, raised by Mr.. Clarke in
bred anywhere else in the world. L
think the day near at hand when some
trOtterS reared in our midst will receive
the very highest laurels. But
granted" some one may contend,
this is not the case with
the thoroughbred. He takes his origin
directly from family of horses that for
ages have lived in an extremely dry, hot
climate. One cannot successfully re-
produce him IN region where the erec-
ton OF ice palaces is the winter amuse-
ment." Indeed. let us see, that high
class race mare, Fleur de Lis, was never
IN barn, or under roof, until she was
six. In 1884 this mare won every race
ID
put i'll training the spring of 1885, she
won twenty-one races before she was
run into and cut down by Kiohba, the
following winter at New Orleans, her
other legs at this time being as sound
and
Free From BIemish
as in colthOod. At no time since has
there been nearly so high class of race
horses at New Orleans as were present
there that winter. Centennial Maid,
Fleur de Lis full sister, was raised in
the ordinary manner, and while good,
useful mare sin the Brush" as the say
ing is, iii no way compares with her
sister. who was never in a stable or
barn, but passed each Minnesota winter
out doors until she was six. Could there
be higher Endorsement of any climate
than this? To my own deficiency alone
must L attribute my failure in not hav-
ing long ago demonstrated beyond ques-
ton the deSlrability of Minnesota as a
home for the thoroughbred.
What success can person expect, so
jncautiOuS as to receive into his stable
boy about whom he knew nothing
farther than that, while he was living
on HIM, he was daily exercising the
horses of rivals, whom he knew to be
unprincipied, INSCRIPTIONS men? 1t
has long been matter of wonder to
me that racing studs have not been
formed more extensively in the North.
l expect to see the day when they will;
and, if in the North, what state is better
than our own for such enterprises? Col.
King, than whom there is no more in
telligent breeder, always claimed that
thOrOughbredS could be successfully
bred and
Raised in Minnesota.
The conditions surrounding the thor
oughbIed i'll the dry, pure atmosphere
Of Minnesota most nearly approach
those of his progenitors in Arabia than
they possibly could In England, or our
Atlantic states. which are damp, wet
and afflicted with numerous diseases
affecting the wind, from which we are
happily exempt.
Beyond the reach or the baleful eff
forts of the prOtectionist, once estab-
lished, the breeding of the thorough
bred in Minnesota could not fail to be a
great industry in our midst. The yearly
meetings given at Hamline by the Twin
City Jockey club are q long stride in
this direction and must contribute i'm
mensely to the improvement of our
horses. All honor to Frank Shaw, to
whom we owe their introduction. To
few individuals is the state more in
debted than to that gentleman, whose
labOrs, both directly and indi-
rectly, will for years to come
be the cause Of bringing millions
OF dollars into our commonwealth. But
one thing, the race for Minnesota bred
horses run at our summer meetings is,
in effects, the most important of all.
This should not be purse race. 1t
should be fixed event, a stake race.
In what way could some of our wealthy
citizens, advocating true sport, bring
more deserved gratitude on their
heads, and accomplish more good
for the state, than inaugural
ing the minnesota Breeders Stake"
and making it a fixed event, to SUBJ
scribe enough to it to make it an object
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