The Newtown bee., 1893-06-09


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 Good care means much.
 Kind treatment is of big account.
 Fast pacers come high this year. | Like children, horses are uncertain. Good drives mean roads on which horses can be allowed to speed without getting weary from the road being too soft or having their legs driven up through their bodies because of being too hard. An opportunity for speeding Let Newtown ,horsemen organize a driving club and build good half-mile track and every man in town will own a trotter. Brains are quite as importanta factor to success as money in the horse breed ing business.
 A level head is of great value both to trotter and trotting horse breeder. In making speed, yearling should be breezed out every day. Never drive one above three-quarters of mile, and as before described, always send them the final eighth at top speed.
 The longest striders are not always the fastest trotters. It is claimed that the stride of Kremlin (2.07 3-4) when at top speed is 19 1-2 feet. The stride of White Socks (20 1-2) was P feet. Had he lived his record would undoubtedly now have been 2.15 or better.
 $100,000 or more, the two thoroughbreds, St Blaise and Ormond, ,$10O, ,000 and S150,- 900, and the two trotting-bred stallions Axtell and Arion for $l05, ,0O0 and S125,- 900.
 The breeding of fine animals is no- ble business when properly appreciated and followed. Get your boys interested in your breeding and see how quick the vices and vicious attractions will lose their charms. There is nothing more at tractive than horse raising to man of refined tastes.
 
 No trainer or driver is conl etent to break and handle colts until he has first subdued himself. A man who can con- trol himself is greater than the general who can conquer city. The trainer, therefore, who loses his temper in break ing colt is sure to spoil the animal, and such a man needs breaking himself. Aside from the natural instincts inherit- ed from it's ancestors the colt has to be taught all it's knowledge.
 Lyman Patterson of Botsford is breeding his black mare, Nancy Hanks, to Fiber, ,12, All ,and should get something to brush the boys with. Fiber made the last quarter of a trial mile in 34 seconds, a 2.l6 gait, at three years old. Lee Johnson, as we'll as his patrons, should be proud of the get of his horse Birmingham and Hurlingdale. Barring ac- cidents the latter will bring home a mark low in the twenties in '94.
 Green Mountain Maid still leads the list of great brood mares in the number of 2.30 performers, having nine to her credit, which undoubtedly completes her list, as neither of her others are now likely to be given records, though un. doubredly each was capable of entering the list, while one of the others has a record of 2.3e, and was first at the wire in heat which was unjustly given to another in 2.30. Green Mountain Maid has two in 2.20, and her four sons are now all represented in the list, Election ger, the oldest, leading the list, while Lancelot, the youngest, a five-year-old, surpassed all others of that age.
 The farmer who brings out new and improved methods to benefit his class. and cause the tillers of the soil to take step forward in producing better crops and better animals on their farms, is do-H ing more than simply drawing the re- ward of the sssweat of his brow. The breeder who has no love for the animals he raises, beyond that of the dollars he expects to get out Of the business, is so shortsighted that he rarely advances sufficiently to get even the dollars as his return. The breeder who breeds from love Of advancing the breed and building up better type of animals, he it| IS who| is constantly inspecting his stock and spends much Of his time with them TO him every individuai,s desirable or un- .&k I