Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-13
Horse Notes.

Horse Notes.
 Among the likeliest blooded colts in the state to-day is one owned and raised by Ransom Hills, of New Haven, who has long had a reputation for knowing good deal about the noble animal the horse. This one was raised on his stock-breeding farm in East Hartford, where he has, as is well known, raised many speedy animals. This colt has troubled exceedingly some of the acknowledged fast roadsters of New Haven, and has excited @ great deal of notice from it's bursts of speed on our ave- nues. It gives promise of being one of the fastest roadsters in the state.
 The Rochester Driving Park association have undertaken 8 good deal in offering $10,000 purse with only 5 per cent. en- trance, and horsemen should see to their generosity merits. The pay parts of $125 each, the first payment being due April 1, when entries close. These easy payments, together with the fact that subscriptions are transferable and some times at premium, leaves all the advan- tages on the horsemen's side, so we shall expect to see a rousing entry list in the great Flower City guaranteed stake. The association also announces four year-old stake, entrance $100, payable in four equal installments and to which the association will add $500. This should also prove valuable stake and one that will bring fame and shekels to the winner
 The Horse Review for March 10 savS. MT. Bonner has again changed his mind about breeding Maud s., the latest being an authoritative announcement to an Asso- ciated Press reporter that the mare will be mated with Ansel, record 2:20, Q stallion bought by MT. Bonner of Senator Stanford a year or so ago. Ansel is one of two stal- lions with records of 2:20 or better that have for their dams thoroughbred mares The other is Palo Alto, 2:12t, and it is sig niicant that both are by Electioneer, this last named horse being the only trotting stallion that has ever shown the ability to get 2:20 speed from thor oughbred mares. MT. Bonner, as is well known, has long been an advocate of the theory that the blood of the thorough bred horse is valuable, even when close up in trotting pedigrees, and it is his undoubt- ed privilege to try the experiment of breed ing Maud s. (whose second dam was by 8 thoroughbreD to stallion that is half bred It is true that Ansel trots we'll, but to most people this only shows that in his case the blood of the trotting sire Elec- tioneer overcare that of the running mare Annette, daughter of Lexington. It is | the same in the case of Palo Alto, but Palo | Altos sister, Gertrude Russell has so much l of the disposition of the thoroughbred that 1 it is worth a mans life to drive her, and it | was no infrequent thing at Terre Haute ! last spring for Marvin to work with her ! two hours at 0 time and never have her 1 strike trot. In this matter of breeding ! running mares to trotting stallions it all depends on which way the cat jumps. If ! the foal takes after the sire to the exclu- sion of the dam it is trotter. If it takes after the dam to the exclusion of the sire 1t is runner. If it partakes in equal \ measure of the characteristics of both \ parents it will be of no account either for I trotting or running-a mongre1 that had better never been foaled. This is some thing that all the theorizing in the world will not get around, because it rests on the laws of heredity, and they are just az ! immutable as any other natural laws It will do well enough for wealthy men like MT. Bonner and Senator Stanford to make experiments in the matter of sking to make the blood of the trotter | and tho runner commingle in kindly fash ! ion, but there is too much certainty of failure for men who are breeding horses as a business proposition to have anything to do with such schemes But after all per haps MT. Bonner will never get any foal from Maud s. She is now seventeen years old, and the sort of life she has led having been petted and pampered since she was yearling, is not calculated to make her fertile in old age. MT. Bonner l has been unfortunate as to some of his | best mares refusing to breed, Pocahontas May Bird, Molsey and Lady Stout being notable instances, and possibly Maud will be added to this list
 Captain J. B. Smith of the United States army, who was in St. Louis Friday, says the war department has determined to es- tablish stud farms on which cavalry horses will be bred. The first farm will be estab-
 ished at f'ort Riley, Kan, where the Eng fish stallion, Star of Nepaul, recently pur- chased at the London horse show, will be placed.
 Doble, SIlan, McHenry and Blair are the only men who have ridden a mile below 2:10 in a sulky. The first three made their trips bedind pacers.-[ American Sports, 1 man. The silent man from Tennessee must be added to this celebrated list, for he drove Hal Pointer at Terre Haute in 2:O94.
 1 Keno F, 2:17, has been sold by Peter ] Olinger of Dubuque, Iowa, to Everitt L. l Smith of Boston for 5000. Keno F is l by Little Monk, dam untraced, and was l sold for S55O three years ago. The geld ! lngs phenomenal career last season is too l recent to need comment.
 1 Crit Davis of Harrodsburg, Ky, who l three years ago had Prince Wilkes, 2:14a, and the year following drove Repetition, 2:191, will go down the circuit line this year with another large stable. Among them will be the game mare Hattie H., four years old, record 2:24t
 The breeders of Kentucky are already considering what part the American trot- ting horse will be allowed to take in the l Chicago worlds fair. One of the most l prominent breeders of the blue grass sec tion the other day said: "It is highly i'm portant that the trotting horse breeders of the country be permitted to make such display of their stock at the Chicago fair as the importance of this branch of indus try deserves. The trotting horse is the most valuable of peculiarly American pro- ducts. He is to the manner born and neither he nor his ancestors for many l generations back are foreigners. As MT. Fasig well says, he is an American citizen and needs no naturaliza ton papers. In display of the trotting horse our German, Belgian, English and | II ieHou NlslIoIS VIII not see the same animal they are accustomed to see at home, but a class of horses that have thus far only been bred to any extent beneath the stars and stripes. The trotting horse industry dwarfs to almost insignifcance any other horse producing industry of the country. Many millions of dollars are now invested in producing this king of horses The impression made upon the representatives of foreign nations at the Chicago worlds fair may have copsidera- ble influence on the future popularity of the trotting horse in foreign coun- tries. It is therefore important that trot- ting horse brec aers should use every legiti- mate effort to see that all opportunities be accorded to exhibit the trotter to the best advantage. It would be almost national misfortune if the live stock now at the Chicago fair should degenerate into a mere exhibition of equine monsters that weigh 2,000 pounds apiece and are equal to a journey of five or ten miles a day" The duke of Marlborough's recent pur- chase of Kentucky trotters has opened the eyes of American breeders to the fact that our great market for trotters will some day be England.
 Rev. Dr. Chapman,s Illness. l Rev. Dr. Chapman of the First M. E. church, and wife, with MT. and Mrs. H.