The Newtown bee., 1892-04-29

most breeders have their mares already ! on hand, and the only question to be decided is what horse to breed them to- | 1t will not pay to breed to horse whose l service fee is too high, no matter how good an animal he may be. Assuming good ? 80 horse to be worth $1 ,000 and | 2:20 racehorse worth 5000 to $10,- 900, breeder patronizing a horse at ser vice fee of $1,000 stands about one chance in ten of getting a colt worth the service fee and about one chance in fifty of getting one worth five to ten times the service fee. In other words, the patrons of such a horse pay about 10000 for each $1 ,000 colt, and $50,000 to $lO0,000 for each $10, ,000 colt. On the other hand, it is equally foolish to breed any good mare to an inferior horse; but there are many good yonng stallions available at $25 to $50, well bred, sound, handsome, fast and game, whose colts are as likely to make racehorses as those of almost any of the older horses charging much higher fees, because their owners can point to a long list of ? 80 performers. A horse with q fast record himself, if he is a racehorse and his ancestors were race horses, is sure to beget racehorses if given a chance. Breed to what you want to get. It is desirable to find a horse possessing all the good points of the mare, so as to make sure that the colt will be at least as good as his dam; then, if the mare has any particularly weak point, she should be bred to horse strong in that respect, and one not closely related to her, writes A. L. Sardy in an exchange.
 When bred Fanny s. to Thomas lief ferson, I selected him because dead game racehorse and a winner, his sire, his grandsire and his dam, as we'll as himself, all having fast race records; !; and he had all the good points of my
 mare, was not related to her, was partic-
 ularly strong in her weakest points, he
 having a remarkably level head, while she was little too high strung. The result was that l got a horse faster than either parent, and the fastetS that either ever produced, although Thomas Jetfer- son has three with racerecords under 30
 It should be remembered that one 2:2O horse is worth as much as ten with records around 80. It is surprising to see how the great sires change places
 ,f sl.(n
 list as basis of comparison; thus
 Happy Medium, 7l , 80 performers, has only two under 20, while Red Wilkes,
 sire 68 :30. or better, has II undcr2 20, one of them as two-year-old; Harold
 has 39 ? 80 performers, only one under
 } 20; Hambletonian 10 has 45 in the ? 3C list, with only two under , 20, while the pacer Blue Bull, that lived at the same , time with nothing like the same oppor- , tunities, has six under 20. Another } pacer, Sidney, } l9 3-4, although only ten years old, has seven with records ) under 20, besides the fastest yearling - trotter and the fastest yearling pacel which have yet appeared, and is the f only horse having two yearlings in the t 2 80 list which gives some plausibility tc
 the claim made by some well posted - horsemen that all the speed of the trO , came originally from the pacer,it being 6 well authenticated fact that there were
 fast pacers and pacing records in this country a century before such thing as
 trotter was thought of. The progress
 eI, chnn1I find Y the ? 20, not the ? 80 list.
 Never breed to horse without good 7 pedigree, nor to pedigree without 3 good horse at the end of it. Pedigrees = alone are becoming very cheap, and re . member that the colt is much more likely 3 to resemble the immediate than the re- = mote ancestors.
 3 Size, within certain limit, seems tc = have nothing to do with horses speed f although a majority of the great cam : paigners and many great sires have beer : small. Goldsmith Maid, the winner o1 [ 332 heats under , 80 and of far more
 money than any other trotter, who
 made her record of H when IS years old, and equaled it when 20, weighed only $50 pounds; Nancy Hanks, "the nnbeaten.n whose race records for three
 heats is 2:l2, 2:l2 3-4 and 2:12, weighs 86O; Direct 2:06, weighs about the
 same; Dictator, sire of Jay -Eye-See' 2:1O, and Phallas, 2:l3 3-4, is only a
 pony; so is Dauntless, the sire of Gene Smith, 2:15 1-2; Ed Amman, 2:16 l-4 a : nd
 2:16 IA, yet few sires have four such
 winners; Harry Wilkes, winner of 169
 heats under 2 80; Driver, winner of l67,
 and Hopeful, winner of l39, are all very
 small, and Arion, , :lO 3-4, the champion two-year-old, is only 15 hands high; yet there are many first class race horses ot
 large size. Al1erton weighed, last Sum- :. mer, 1,O50 pounds; St Julien, 2:ll 3-4, :, weighed in racing condition 975, so did
 Maud $. Thus it will be seen that the
 greatest performers have varied in
 weight. from S20 to 1,050 pounds, and in
 height from 15 to 16 hands; but very
 little calculation can be made before hand as to the size of the colt, two full
 brothers or sisters often differing greatly
 in size. Kentucky Prince is large horse, yet his fastest colt is little Guy, 2:lO 3-4, and one of little Dictators best is Phallas, a large horse. Breed good
 mare to a racehorse that comes Of a family of racehorses and you have at least a fair chance of getting a trotter, while, failing that, you will get a good roadster worth more than any scrub or hnrcn