The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-28
EX-MAYOR CLEMENr TALKS.

| The Chicago Inter-Oceau contains the
1 following interview with Ex-Mayor Glenn
| ent of this city:
Tine ideal location for fine breeding
farm, where trottlDg horses can be bred
and developed to the best advantage, has
for years been considered to be the blue
| grass region of Kentucky, but there is a
new claimant to the distinction of being
| the MOTEL location for such purposes and
| that is Southern Kansas. What licking
| ton is TO the horse business of Kentucky
| Wichita promises to be TO the same indus
try now rapidly developing in Kansas"
SO spoke q. W. Clement, formerly Mayor
OF Wichita, yesterday, at the Grea. North
ern: There are" he continued, ALREADY
| several large establishments in our coun-
| try, and their SUCCESS in maturing young
horses in the matter Of speed has attracted
other breeders until we have breeding
| farms around the town which are bound
to make the vicinity famous as the home
| of trotters.
Zone of the farms is owned by Mr. jew
EFT of Buffalo. He has 5, Q00-acre ranch
stocked with hundreds Of horses. among
which are some royalty bred Wilkes trot-
| tiers, and Mr.. Jewett says that there
is no place where speed can be brought
out as quickly rs in the climate of Wichi-
Ia. The colts do not have their growth
retarded by severe winters and their train
Ing is interfered with less days in the year
than in almost any climate heretofore
tried. Kansas roads are nearly always in
fine natural condition, and competent
horsemen say that the tracks of Southern
Kansas are among the fastest in the coun-
try. Ii is Mr.. JewetJ's observation that
colt reared in Kansas sunshine is as well
developed at two years another colt
would be at three if raised in less propi-
tlous climate OF western New York.
X, fayH M - 4 La
has transferred his large breeding estab-
lishmsnt from Lexington, KY, to Wichita,
Kan, and he is already delighted with the
change, for the seventeen young trotters
that he has in training for summer stake
engagements are taking regular daily
track work. while the youngsters around
Lexington can be given nothing better
than jogging on the tan bark or short
spins along some macadamiZed pike.
Another well known breeder who has
selected Wichita as the best climate in
which to breed for speed and endurance is
Il. q. Toller, who has been very successful
in the business. Mr.. Toler has recently
inaugurated what promises to be an i'm
portant addition to the breeding interests
of that region by giving combination
sale, at which not only animals from that
neigh borhood, but also from as far east as
Missouri, were disposed OF at remuuera-
tive prices.
Young as is the trotting horse business
in Kansas, the state has twice had the hon.
or of possessing the fastest trotting stall
lion. Ethan Allen 2:2S (iS5S) WAS taken 10
Kansas and plsced at the head of u breed
ing farm near Topeka during the years of
the civil war. Again there was Smuggler,
kansss bred horse which held the stall
lion championship through many hard
fought battle in 1874, 10 aud 20, closing
the latter season with "a record of 2:I54,
considered at that time to be II miraculous
performance. From this il will be seen
that the fast trotter is not new thing to
Kansas and the effort to make Wichita a
center for the breeding of high-ciass trot-
tiers will no doubt prove a success"