St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-11
EQUINE ETCHINGS.

1t is significant and encouraging
fact that many of the best Clydesdale
horses in the world are in the hands of
American owners. In fact it is now
pretty generally expected that when
ClydeSdale achieves any special promi-
nence at show or sale, some enterpris-
ing American will be quite likely to
pick it up. The American Clydesdale
business is largely in the hands of
wideaWake, energetic men, who know
a good horse when they see it. either OH
its native heath or OH the prairie sod.
e. j. Hamlin'S opinion on the two
minute trotter business is thus quantity
expressed: Yes; when the time comes
when man will be able to hold himself
in space by taking hold of his boot
straps, then horse will be able to trot
in two minutes, and not until then. The
great thing to overcome is the weight.
and no horse will be able to draw $50
pounds 500 rods, finishing where he be-
gan, and make mile in two minutes.
1t may be accomplished some day if an
electric motor is attached to a sulky, so
that the horse will draw no weight,
much the same way as fast time is made
with running mate"
An English exchange says: "a stall
lion should be so trained that he can be
taken out in any company or driven on
the road without sQueallng and pranclng
to show that he is stallion. Stable
manners and road manners can be taught
to horse as we'll as to child. What
he needs to be taught is that he is a
horse, and should act like a sensible.
tractable one. This can be done by his
keeper having constantly before his
mind this Idea, that he needs to use all
his faculties or the horse will beat him
thinking"
Bonnie Wilmore, 2:l415, is the only
heat, and that was his first start in
race. The time was 2:28sI, and was in
the race for three-year-Old stake at
Harrodsburg, KY. Nancy won the sec
ond, third and fourth heats.
The breeding of our best pacing and
trOtting families together for the pur-
pose of producing brood mares from
which to raise fast trotting and pacing
horses. has never been carried to that
extent which the success Of previous
experiments would seem to justify.
The yearling filly Bell Bird, 2:26I.
and the two-year-old colt Arion, 2:1OsI,
are regarded among the very greatest
successes of Electioneer. and both are
intensely trotting bred. Advertiser,
ZIG, is another of the great Electioneer
colts, and he likewise has the best of
trOttlng crosses.
Allerton won Sl9,25o in his races last
season, and when to this is added the
comfortable sum that has come to the
horses owner through that animals
services in the stud it will be seen that
the total amount is small fortune, and
shows that it pays to breed when you
can get one that trotS in 2:091l.
Never Gail horse a gutter until he
has had at least two seasons handling
by a thoroughly competent trainer. 1t
often happens that horse can trot so
fast as to exhaust himself before he
goes three quarters of mile, yet by
careful conditioning for a season he has
learned to carry his clip heat after heat.
AS a rule, two years are required to
bring a racehorse to his best form.
One of the greatest anomalies Is the
pedigree of Count Valensin's two fast
yearlings. The yearling filly Frou Frou,
which holds the worlds ycarling record
Of 2:2514, Is from pacing ancestry
straight back on the dams side, while
the fastest pacing record for a yearllng