St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-03

! with mud adhering to them, or allow
ing them to stand in filthy stalls, is the
principal cause of scratches, grease
heel and similar complications. Better
care in keeping not only the animals
but the quarters clean would-prevent
and save, in addition, considerable
trouble. Mud should be washed of
and the legs dried with cloth.
A distinguished veterinarian has ex-
| pressed himself as decidedly opposed tC
all sudden weaving of foals, as likely tC
produce digestive irregularities, and
check growth. the latter not always
easy to make up for. He recommends
the weaving not to take place before
six months, at which time first molar
teeth are developed. Gradual or pro
gressive weaving is best for both dam
and colt.
Old Bill DAILY was asked by Alfred
Morris to enter some of his horses in
handicap at jerome and Morris parks.
II never got place but once in any OF
the handicapS up here" said Bill, land
| guess I'll stay where l can pick up
$1,000 or IS, 600 a week. Brighton IS
good enough for me. The scenery is
not quite so attractive, but the money is
! what I'm after"
IL 10 CoIluldlCQ lldl LuIhE DdlQWlu
farm at Santa Anita is worth a cool
S10,000,000. A gentleman who recently
visited the spot describes it as the finest
place in the world. He says he has
travelled through all parts of this coun-
try and Europe, and he has never seen
a place that is so beautifully laid out.
The farm comprises about 10000 acres.
1t is claimed for Solomon that he sin
trOduced the horse into Greece and
Phoenicia, thus extending his commerce
and adding to the volume of his curren-
cy. From JOSephuS we learn that his
merchants supplied the horse in great
numbers to the Hittite kings. The fixed
price waS'150 shekels for one horse, and
600 Shekels for set of chariot horses"
The breeder of trotterS of to-day, who
is well up in his business. thoroughly
appreciates the prestige carried by a
pedigree Teplete with performing and
producing ancestors. The more great
brood mares and Sires he can show up
in the lineage of his horse the greater
the value of the animal.
Howard Cunningham, Knoxville, To-,
has sold to John F. Mutual, for SOS, 900,
the eight-year-old bay trotting stallion
Advance, 1912, record 2:2415, by On
ward, dam Mist, by King Rene; second
dam SnOwbird, by Steele's Snowstorm.
OF the horse colts sired by Elecuoneer
in the first three years of his stud service
in California only ten were left entire.
Nine out of the ten have sired 80 per-
formers, and the tenth, Clay, 1925, may
enter at an early day.
Electioneer is to be credited with
eleven 80 or better trotters in the list
this season, and now has grand total
of seventy-three, a showing thus far ap-
preached by no other stallion living or
dead.-Breeders Gazette.
The bay mare Lightning, that made a
record of 2:2411l down East not long ago,
is another instance of the value of de-
yeloped parents, her sire being Alcan-
tara, 1923, and her dam Portia, $685.
by Startle.
"It cannot" says the Breeders Ga
zette, treating of Maud S. and Ansil,
fairly be claimed that any of the sons
of Electioneer that are out OF thorough
bred mares have made reputation in
the stud"
Chifney, the famous old-time English
jockey, embodied the chief secrets of
good riding in these four lines:
Your head and your heart keep boldly up;
c Your hands and your heels keep down
And your elbows close to your own
1t is said that progressive breeding
consists in getting as faraway from the
foundation stock as possible, keeping
performing and producing sires and
dams in the direct line of ancestry"
Guido, who broke the mile-heat record
at Washington park, was purchased by
c. Y. Upper when yearling for $95
at all auction sale at Bay District track,
San Francisco.
The Monmouth Park officials are de-
lighted with the agreeable reception ac-
corded their first renewal of steeple-
chasing.
Mambrino Chief heads the list as the
sire of the dams of speed-producing
stations.
The bOokmakers made enough at Nor
ris Park Saturday to carry them over
the week.