The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-12
AMERICAN EOAD5TRRs.
The Trotter. the Hackney and the
Show Carriage Horse.

(Copvri0ht.)
NEW YORK, July 11.-America owes a
big debt of gratitude TO the men who have
developed the roadster type of horse in this
country. The farmers of Orange county
can we'll afford to build the proposed monu-
ment to Rysdyks Hambletonian at Chester,
where the old horse lies buried.
In England, for generations, rich men
have raised hunters. The very term
thoroughbred" speaks Of long years of
breeding. The ability TO jump teIce and
to carry a heavy weight stoutly across
meadow, pasture and plowed land in the
wake of fox, has been developed in this
long-legged animal at the expense Of the
more practical qualities Of the roadster.
Except for the hackney horses, the big
gap between the hunter and the cart horse
is not very well filed in England, or
France or Germany either, for that matter.
When, once in a while, a pair of we'll
matched American rOadsters, light, per-
fectly broken to the pole, kind, tractable
and we'll under control, is seen on an En-
glish road pulling a light wagon at q 2:30
or even 2:40 gait, the eyes of our trans
atlantic cousins bulge out with astonish-
meu6.
The fact is, the Americans, the most
practical people in the world, have evolved
practical horse. The Improvement Of
trotting stack has been worth millions of
dollars to the country, worth many times
its utmost cost in time and money.
The successful trotter is more than q
mere money-making machine. The unsuc-
cessfuI trotter is a first-rate roadster and
the descendants Of both ia the third and
fourth generation are the best general
purpose horses in the world. The great
Percheron and Clydesdale horses are ad-
mirable for heavy trucking, but heavy
trucking grows relatively less important
with the multiplication of railway and the
perfection OF docks, elevators and canals.
The general purpose hor;e, on the contrary,
grows more valuable. The farmer
pulled out OF his fields has no
more use for oxen. but wants lively, handy
team of medium weight, equally clever at
pulling a moving machine over a big field
in a reasonable time or aking quick trip
to market. Nine out of ten farming OPERA
tions depend more upon horses docility
and quickness than upon msin strength.
The doctor. the minister, the grocer the
butcher and the baker all want horses of
medium weight and reasonably quick pace.
The thoroughbred is a magnificent ami
NAL. Primarily only gambling tool in q
country where but little riding to hounds is
done, he yet has qualities which, when
crossed with trotting stock. help to produce
an animal of unrivaled beauty, speed, bot
tom and value
Industrial America owes big debt to the
men who have developed IFS trotter and
roadster stock, and to none more than to
Robert Bonner.
Mr. Bonner is the ideal of the horseman.
He has never raced horse for money or
won dollar on track in his life, vet there
has not been a time in twenty-five years
when no has not owned the best trotting
stock in America, intellectually, and vet his
efforts in this direction are due to an acct
dent. II Mr.. Bonner had not, in the prime
of life, been advised by his physician to
drive twenty miles day for the benefit Of
his health, Dexter might have died a cart
horse, Maud S. have been bought from Mr.
Vanderbilt by some Of the racing men who
so pestered him to sell, and the great B n
ner stable might Dever have been heard of.
For when Mr.. Bonner once began taking
his twenty-nile rides. he could not bear to
see another man pass him on the road. The
rest followed naturally.
Frank Work is another famous owner
and user of fast roadstsrs. 10 was Mr..
Work who chafed Mr. Vanderbilt for a
race when the latter owned Maud S. aud
Aldine. 1t was Mr. Work, too, who took
tue Duke OF Marlborough up the road on
the occasion of his first visit to this country
behind Dick Swiveller. As the pair fairly
flew along the level road the dukes eyes
bulged cut with excitement and he
grasped the buggy seat with both hands,
fearing every moment that the whole affair
seeming SO fragile to an Englishman's
eyes-would be smashed into kindhng wood.
That was some years ago. This summer it
is announced that the duke has purchased
a lot Of Kentucky trotting stock to take TO
England. Evidently he liked the sensation
after he got used to it.