The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-18


Senator Leland Stanford, Of Califor-
Mo, was sitting In the lobby OF the
Windsor Hotel In New York one day
recently talking TO a representative OF
the Times on the subject of horses.
He was enthusiastic, as he always is
when talking of horses and he was
telling OF his success both with trot-
tiers and runners. The FLY, Sunol, had
been disappointment to him as a
four-year-old, but he had hopes that
she would come around all right
again now that she had been taken
back to California. The Senator Is a
thorough believer In the GLORIOUS
climate OF California; as a PRODUCER
bles. w ''s'''"
He was also interested in the well
lare OF the fast Splinter, Racine, the
Ilrst morse to break the long-standing
mile record OF the famous Ten Broeck,
and in the career of the beautiful and
high class Gorge. Both of those
norses are the property of Senator
STANFORD, although they have been
trained in the stables and run In the
colors OF other men.
DID you ever hear how I became in
Lerested In horses? suddenly asked the
senator No! Wei, III tell you. IL
was several years ago. and i had been
Worklng Very hard, in fact, my physi-
GUN ssiu That unless / took rest /
Mo4la break down altogether. My
pueii'ess interests were so great and so
Dressing at that time that I could not
think OF following this advice. told
my physician that he must prescribe
something else. He thought awhile,
and then said that the next best thing
was to occupy my mind some other
way, and to obtain the relief and rest
that Is TO be found in diversion. He
suggested driving. / had at that time
ono pretty good horse, a roadster, and
followed his advice. lquiclkly became
80 interested in the animal possessed
that / bought another and better
horse. i drove these and watched them
carefully. soon found myself trying
to develop them into something better
than they were. and ! succeeded SO
well that bought others and devel-
oped them. Almost before l realized
it l had got together u fair stable and
was deeply interested in the develop
ment of the horse. II was but quick
and natural step to breeding, and /
| made it with enthusiasm.
In the old days when we washed gold
in the mines there was n certain sort
OF dust that could not be separated
from the sand except with the use
of magnet. We used to put the
magnet in the dirt and the gold would
stic! TO 1t. In my leisure moments
from mining ] was wont toumuse my
self by experimenting with my mag
net. II was the common horseshoe
kind, and would dip it into a head OF
| iron tacks and keep adding to its bur-
/ den Until the limit of its strength was
reached. Then would strip away the
tacks and load up tho magnet again. i
repeated this again and again until
found that the power of the magnet
was seriously impaired. succeeded
In reducing that power to one-third of
what 1t was originally, and l think /
could hive destroyed il altogether by
! simply overtaxing il. although never
experimental that far. When | be-
came Interested in the Develop
ment of the horse | recalled
these idle moments with the
magnet. and reasoned that the power
OF horse could 10 destroyed just a.
that OF tho mngnet. At that limo it
/ WIS the custom in training horses to
tax their endurance TO the utmost
1 They We're given miles of Jogging, and
were worked until they were exhaust
ed. This seemed 10 me to he all
wrong. 1t was Just what had done
with my old magnet, and l was con
WINGED that IL left III, horse with inn
paired strength aud endurance every
lime it WAS done. The more thought
about the mattoc tho more | became
convinced that the proper way to de-
| yelop the horse WAS to keep every ef-
| fort demanded of him well within his
powers. He should not DO worked
until he was exhausted, but he should
/ be trained to make ono supreme effort
when his powers were at theiI, boat.
1npplied this theory, and have not
only had remarkable success myself,
but | have lived To SEQ the whole sys-
tenn of training trotting horses revo-
luiionzed. There was a Tins when Il
/ trotter was supposed to he immature
/ until he was o or 10 yeers old. Now
we have Band 4-year-olds trotting close
+ down to record time, and even year
liIgs are trained. Personally / am
not little proud of holding the two,
three and fodr-yeaF-old records, and |
attribute that success entirely to the
system OF training suggested to me
| by the mining magnet ard inaugu-
rated by Inc as relief from business
cares.
From developing the horse by TRIM
ing it was but another step TO develop
ing him by feeding, and my interest in
50 great that 1 was impelled to add
breeding to training. Now, ! had seen
that the horse possessed Il power HnnlD-
Rous TO that OF n magnet. / reasoned
that this WAS an unintelligent though
active force.
Any kind of horse will trot until he
Is urged to a point beyond his trotting
powers and then ne will break into
gallOp. This Is true of anything from
Percheron to ath0roushbred. ] con-
cluded that ii could develop in the
horse the intelligence necessary to
make him trot instead of run | had
the problem solved. This had to be
done by breeding as we'll as training,
and SO understood the task.
bred thoroughbred mares to stand
ardbred trotters that / might get the
speed and gumeness of the ono
and the cooln35s and endurance of
the other, and then bred again with
view To developing the trot as
natural galt am satisilcd with the
progress | have made so far, and | am
convinced that eventually horses will
be bred so that they Will prefer trot-
ing 10 running, and that their greatest
speed will be brought out in trottins.
IN other words, the horse will he SO
bred that the trot will lie his natural
gait and consequently the easiest for
him.
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