Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-09-09

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Julien and Axtell. The first and last
of these have numerous thoroughbred
crosses aggregating goodly volume,
while that of st. Julien received through
known and lost crosses of his pedigree
an abundant thoroughbred current is
beyond reasonable question. In close
succession (but not in supremacy over
the purely kept trotting lines) we have
Palo Alto, the greatest campaigner and
race fighter that has yet appeared, and
finally our new aspirant for first-class
honors, Nancy Hanks, all either bred
up from a thoroughbred foundation or
heavily fortified through collateral lines
with thoroughbred blood.
Now, every one of these animals
named, except Guy and Nancy Hanks,
has proved, IN some sense, greater than
anything of his class. and both of the
exceptions may yet be heard from.
When we step outside of this great
circle nothing can be found of purely
trotting lines unfortiiied by thorough
bred crosses, that equals them; yet the
prejudice against running blood in the
trotter has been such that 80 foals of
purely trotting antecedents Gas far as
such thing is attainable) have been
dropped during the last Is years, to one
that has near thoroughbred infusion.
1t is not by reason of superior num-
bers that trotters that are fortified by
thoroughbred blood have. shown the
highest capacity known to the trotting
world, for they are far in the minority ;
it is by superior physical capacity COIN
cdent with their thoroughbred blood
that they have done it. If not, how is
it to be accounted for?
While Nancy Hanks, according to the
Heralds showing, comes of family
that has produced great runners, trot-
tiers and PAGERS, it will be noticed that
she is herself four removes from the
thoroughbred foundation, instead of two
removes, as Illustrated in Maud S., Jay
Eye-See and Sunol.
The Bertrand Mare, from whom sew
eral great running families diverge, was
bred to Brown Pilot, and the produce, a
mare, was bred to Edwin Forrest, pro-
ducing Sophy, from whom DIVORCES
lines productive of several superior
trotters and PAGERS. Sophy, bred to
Dictator produced Nancy Lee, the dam
of Nancy Hanks.
Opponents of thoroughbred blood
will claim that the merits of Nancy
Hanks are due to her trotting and pac-
ing crosses, and that her thoroughbred
foundation is too remote to be consider.
ed an appreciate element. Nobody car
tell whether the claim is Just or not
Sometimes physical characteristics i'm
part their influence through more gen
erations than this, and at other time:
seem to be lost; but if it is the thorough
bred quality that lifts trotting horses t.
their most extreme capacity, 1t would b.
logical inference that, if two crosses
away from the running foundation hat
been demonstrated in the averages to b.
the best distance at which to secure tn,
most effective balance between the TIVE
great essentials-frictionles trotting &C
ton and superior physical organism
greater number of removes would tent
| to dilute the force of the latter qualifi
cation.
Many breeders contend that trottins
blood at the average is, in its physica
organization, as perfectly adapted t
speed-sustaining effort as the bluest o
running blood. That there is IA grea
difference in it is plain, and in the Die
tator cross that comes in through Name,
Hanks dam she gets one of the great
est of trotting stratus for extreme ca
pacity. liARK CoMsToCK in Spiri
of the Times.