The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-06

farmers are insisting upon having
better and larger horses than former
~. This is an encouraging sign and
one cE eerful to chFOniclP,-FteLdG and
Farm
There is no greater boon to the
farmer than u good brood mare If she
is only managed properly. Farms
have been paid for, mortgages have
been Cancelled and luXuries have
been enjoyed through the faithful,
honest labor of good brood mare or
two that together with doing a full
share of the farm work raised good
colt each year. Good mares on the
farm are bread winners if they are
handled as they should be.
Among the horses that made a
a good showing lastIyear, NutwOod
stands pre-eminent as a sire of race
horses and of early speed. Twenty
of his get entered the 2:30 list during
the season of 1890, among them being
the fastest two-year-Old that has yet
Observation-Disclosures, 2-year pacing
record, 2:1615. Although Alcantara
put one more into the list last year
than did Nutwood, nearly half of his
performers got their records against
time, and not in contested races. nor
had he any either young or aged, so
Nutwood had 81, in the list, so that
he now heads the list of living trot-
Ting sires (having fifty-One in the 80
list) and only four are ahead of him
in total numb n of 2:30 performers,
and three of these were matured
horses before Nuthill was fOaled.
With such a showing as this, it is no
wonder that NutWoOd's get are among
the most sought-after horses of the
day, and that his owners, Messrs
Stout (who are two of the most astute
horsemen in the UniOn) think that
he can serve as many outside mares
as they wish to get at his present
stud-fee OF $1,000. The Messrs.
sense of the word, and their business
vince the shrewd observer of trOtting
matters that the get of EutwOod will
not be retarded in their development.
Therefore he will have no hesitation
in investing in this blood, knowing
that there Will be no chance of its
merits lying hidden. This is, blythe
way, one of the main things to be
locked to by the modern breeder, for
he knows that, though blOo] has
ever so much intrinsic merit, if the
persons mainly interested in it are
unenterpTising, waiting, like Mr..
Micawber for something to turn up"
to the good of their horse, and neith-
er bothering themselves to breed him
t. good mares, nor developing the
poOrIy-bred colts he may have, they
had better breed their mares to a
Jackass than to patrOnize q horse in
such hands, for returns from q mule
will be quicker than from his colts.
That breeders need have no such fears
as to the get of Nutwood, it is I'M
necessary to state.
NutwOod comes honestly by his
great qualities as a sire and as race
morse while he was on the turf. He
is by Belmont, sire by Fred Arthur
(p) 2:121%, and of 80 other 2:30 horses
(and thought by many to be the best
sou of AleXander's Abdallah) and his
dam is that great mare Miss Russell,
dam of Maud S., 2:0S34, and three
others below 2:30, and of four sires
and two dams of 2:30 performers.
Nutw DDS sons and daughters
uphold well his breeding and per-
formances. He has eight sons that
have sired 2;30 performers, among
the latter being Tempest, 2:l9, Chief
Tborne, 1.-TWO year old 2:2013, and
LynwOod, 2:2315 at three years Six
of his daughters have each produced
u 2:3O performer, among Lnem Delng
Caesar, 2:lS14, and NutmOnt, 2:2214.
This is certainly fine showing in the
second generation for a horse only
twenty-One years of age, and when
we look at these facts we cannot but
concur in the following statement of
the Chicago HoFSeH1GH of Dec. 10th,
1890; 1.-The astute reader of the
signs of the times sees the coming
supremacy of NutwOod-his showing
as a sire stands alOne-NO trotting-
sire in history has approached it at
his age"
C. w. Williams seems determined
to make Independence, Ia, the Lex
Ington of the West for trotterS. In
the furtherance of his pet idea he
offers any one who will buy eighty
acres of land in the vicinity of INDIE
pendence 81, 500 in cash. The cOndi-
lions necessary to secure the proffered
cash are that the purchaser shall be-
come a resident, and shall stock his
place with not less than 5000 worth
of high-bred mares.
-"While Alcantara and Nutwood
are being talked about by reason of
their numerous additions to the 2:30
list in $780," remarks a critical horse
writer, sit will not do to overlook
ERbert, who in 1889 put more trotters
and PAGERS into the list than any
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