St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
AMONG THE HORSES.
A Plea for Minnesota-Bred
Animals on Their Merits,
by "Ivanhoe."
Interesting Glance Backward
at the Work OF Pioneer
Horsemen. f.
Some Of the Best Blood Of
the Land Planted in Rice
County.
Encouraging Results of the
Far-Seeing Enterprise Of
Early Days.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
FARIBAULT, Mimi. July AS early
as the summer Of 1855 Daniel Faribault
bought pair of very fast jet black.
pacing stations, imported from Canada.
We had no way of timing them, but l
have no doubt they could go tOgetherin
$3.50, and one of them as low as 2:25 or
2:22 single. They were full brothers,
but of course their pedigree was uh-
known.
In the same year J.W. Cowan brought
from Indiana a mare descended OH
4he side of the sire from BIackburn's
Imported Kentucky Whip, and from
Imported William Nv. and the ccle-
brated PAGER Snap OH the dam side.
Later, in 1856, Mr.. Faribault purchased
a Canadian square-trotting black STALL
ion, large and powerful, standing SIX
teen hands, weighing i'll moderate con-
dltion 1850. He could trot below $50
with no training that would be termed
such today.
About the year 1862 Mr.Way, of North
field, brought in Mowell-M0rgan
stallion, tamiliarly known as the way
horse" The get of this horse were fast
and strong. and two of them could go
below 40. and were sold for 81 900 each
in, think, 1864. Later we had f. N.
Saters' Morgan stallion by Stockbridge
Chief, and j. &. Clark's Clifford Morgan,
a very powerful, large horse. whose
colts turned out fast for that time when
they had a chance.
Edwin Dixie, once our state treasurer,
brought in very hlgh-bred Black
Hawk mare.
This mare was bred to the once-re-
nowned Archer horse. a Moweil-Mor-
gan, their produce being Minnesota
Chief, who could trot in .:32 at four
years old, and after standing here two
or three seasons was sold for $4,000 to
Mir. Oeshon. of Minneapolis. There
he trotted in double team ace and
won the fifth heat i'll 2:39.
About '62 a very high-bred Morgan
stallion and mare were brought to this
city from ' ermont or Massachusetts by
Bradley brought. about '63, two high
bred Morgan mares direct from Yer
mont. In '61 or '62 George Kenyon
brought from Mobile, Ala. Mobile, a
thoroughbred stallion. by imported Sow
erelgu, who was fast and stout, being
plump 16 hands. He stood two seasons
here. and this writer owned one OF his
get from Kentucky bIooded mare that
could run down in the ''fortieS."
With these and their get we thought
ourselves we'll up i'll the matter of good
horses. But 10! A. Post landed among
us with four stations by sons of HAM
bletonian, and Allen c. Patchen, 10y
George Nj Patchen. than whom stouter
and gamer trotter never faced the
starter. Also ten OF twelve mares de-
III II ~ ntn Inn nrfn h
TruSter, Mambrino, Irons Cadmus, etc.
AS it has turned out the stock on hand
''nicked" remarkably we'll with Posts
stations, and we have today and have
sent out from here very tine roadsterS
and fast horses, amongst them Isaac
Newton, by Posts Taylor dam, mare
by Clark's Clifford Morgan; Nelly ID.
by Taylor dam, by Allen Z Patchin,
etc, ETC. Both of these trOt close to
2:20. There are others gone East, by
Posts Volunteer Chief, very fast, whose
names don't remember. Nelly ID was
sold to Horace Pratt two years ago for
5000.
Before MIR. POSTS arrival we believed
we possessed very fine and very fast
stock. We pounded away at them and
when some happened to strike three
minutes. its owner was pufTed up with
exceeding great pride. Our horses
"hitched," "hobbled" and scratched"
and got there, and we were satisfied.
But with the advent of Posts stock
came his mode of handling. He showed
us how to drive and fit for track, or
round up for market.
l thought l was horse man. but soon
discovered l knew nothing. We owe so
much to Post that | don't know how to
express, it. And the cross of what we
had, Canadians, Morgans. Blackbawks,
thoroughbreds, with Posts Hambieton-
ianS, leaves us in possession of horses
second to none in the country. Alex
aDder;S Abdallah was no better bred
than any of Posts four Hambletonian
stations.
Why do Minnesotans go to Kentucky
for unacclimated horses when they can
get at home native bred horses Injured
to this climate. and OF as good breeding
as the country affords?
Gentlemen who have money to invest
and wish hardy high-bred trotrers and
roadsters. be sensible; don't take your
money out of the state. Buy your stock
at home. Help your neighbors. They
need your help. Surely horse brought
from a warm climate can neither be as
healthy nor enduring as one raised in
the healthy, bracirg climate of Mime
sofa. Give MinnesOta-bred stock a fair
trial. and my word for it they will come
to the front. Kentuckians may surpass
us in blowing. We can equal them IN
breeding and beat them in strong North
ern constitutions, endurance and health.
lvANHOE.