Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-10-13

horses that cannot live out a hard fought
battle on the tracks, such horses should
have no abiding place among true lovers
of the American trotter. What good is
the tin cup. anyway? What is it doing to
improve speed or breed? If arraigned at n
bar of Justice and asked TO give reason
for its existence, would the reason be reas
enable would 1t not be shuflipd words
with hardly grain of supporting truth?
To my mind the tin cup is base subter-
fuge to grind out standard scrub horses
and add to the gains of tracks ill-gotten
dollars.
am forcibly reminded of an incident
of this kind in the East this year.
saw horse go away to beat 23O; he
went to the quarter in rough and tum-
BILE gait of runaway and skiving in :l0i
and cama home under the whip in | :l9i.
a mile in 2;29l We gods! But he
about walked under the wire amid the
jeers of the grand stand, the lash of his
driver and the disgust of all honest low
ers of the sport of racing. He will be
duly entered as standard by perform
to perpetuatc scrubs. Does anybody
dream that such a brute will ever get
yearing or a two-y ear-old to beat 30
in "A race: The horse market is parallz
ed 10y Just such scrubs and their progeny.
but no man attempts the solution of the
problcn lest the hOwls of such breeders
should be heard in the land. We cannot
force castratiOn of such brutes; we can
not beat sense or honesty into the heads
or hearts of their owners. They are us
uallv shallow-pated or the shrewdest of
horse sharks, and as we cannot make an
addition either to their "think tank" Gf
Clark's Horse Review has copyrighted
this phrase apologize. It's "a pity there
are not more "think tanks") or their
moral natures the only plan is to stop
the tin cup business. Well, perhaps
readers will call this depression, but it
came IN naturally with the development
of the colt trOtter and the folly of time
records. Williams followed out the
teachings of the American trotter with
wonderful facilities afforded at the hide
pendence track for the manufacture of
TIN cups and their distribution. Falfa,
that grandest OF all the AllertOns, could
have gone down through the ages with
the Jingle of that base metal ever within
earshot; but Williams is a shrewd horse
man. Falfa is Il race nag of the purest
ray, her sire before her was, aud Will
lams sensibly undertook to prove that
progressive breeding was Il sound doc
trne and that Allerton combined was
better than Alerton alone. Here the
difference between practice and preach
ing needs no comment. How well he
succeeded the records already tell and
the season is but half over. Falfa is
queen of 1893. But my readers will ask
what about colt development: have
given some of the results let me now
come back to the development of colts.
Development of speed and development of
body must be hand in hand. To trot.a colt
must have vital force, stamina and muscu-
lar development as we'll as good breeding.
| There are families of horses that in
late life make race horses that cannot
be developed early, therefore the man
that wants colt trotters must first have
the crosses that are easily developed
early, that mature early and are not
weedy when young. If you want to de-
velop early. the mare should have the
best grass to he had on the farm, be-
sides she should have grain twice daily
with every opportunity for the colt to
acquire taste for it,
Recently | saw a note in the Ameli-
can Trotter recommending combination
of wheat, oats and barley with corn meal
or chop. The combination is good, but
l cannot regard the proportions with
favor: there is too much wheat for the
reason that in the quantity recommended
there is danger of the food balling in the
stomach and causing dyspepsia, or worse
acute Indigestion.
| would therefore suggest that -four
bushels of oats, one of barley, one of
corn and one-half of wheat would bet
ter serve the purpose and be wholly
without danger to colt or dam, but the
average colt will learn to eat oats at it:
mothers side IN the field. and at weaving
tine physically he never feels the shocI
of the loss of milk. \ colt when week
old should have a halter placed on his
head; every time his owner goes out tC
the field that halter should be used; he
should be pulled gently about. handled
Familiarity and be thoroughly accustomed
to handling and submission. Fear is the
principal factor of resistance in colt OF
horse. Familiarity with kindness anC
kind handling is the only master any
colt should have. Horses love human
society when that society is kindly; does
not kick or beat with whip or dog chain