Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-06-16
AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.
GOOD REASONS FOR PosTPoNlNo TIKI
HORSE SHOW.
From the Horseman.l

From the Horseman.l
The Horseman has from time to time
for many months urged the Importance,
indeed the necessity, of the trotting-
horse breeders making an adequate and
worthy showing of the National Ameri-
can horse at the Worlds Columbian ex-
postion-"the greatest show on EARTH"
or that has ever been on earth. 1t is
no injustice to our contemporaries to
say that the turf press as a whole has
not done its duty in the matter, and that
in consequence the breeders, as whole,
have not evinced that active and ener-
getic interest that was to have been eX-
pected in showing to the foreign nations
the typical American horse at his best.
and thus preparing tho way for the ex-
pansion OF the foreign market for trot-
ting horses. OF course, the great trot-
ting meeting to be given by the North
western Breeders association, almos t
under the shadow of the massive dOmes
and shapely minarets of the White City,
will be magnificent exhibition of the
harness horse as race horse, but it is
fitting and desirable as well that within
the walls, when all the other types of
American stock are shown to our own
and the foreign people, the trotting
breed should be adequately represented.
In another part of this paper will be
found an interview with Worlds Fair
Commissioner LaDue, the Minnesota
tlotting-horse breeder, pointing out that
the time selected for the horse show.
August 81 to September 81, will, if ad-
hered to, result disastrously to the
trotting exhibit. Senator LaDue points
out that the month selected for the
show is the very height of the trotting
season, when many of the best speci-
mems of the American trotting horse
will be filling their trottng engagements,
and when thousands of trotting-horse
men will be engaged otherwhere than at
the fair.
The senator very aptly remarks that
"there will undoubtedly be fine display
of draft horses, Percherons, French
coach horses and other stock, but in
this exhibit the American breeder will
not by any means show his own product,
and as it is believed that large num-
Der of foreigners will be at the fair In
the early fall months, they will simply
be shown the livestock that has been
imported from their own land. Many
American dollars have gone to Europe
in exchange for blooded stock, and now
is the opportunity which the American
breeder has to show his European broth
er what he may buy in this country.
and what the latter has thus far failed
to secure in any large amount-the
American trotter."
The Minnesota commissioner believes
that if the date of the opening of the
horse show was changed to October l,
when most of the trotting meeting will
be over, it would enable the breeders to
make an adequate show of trotting stall
lions, mares, etc., and he further be-
heyes that the officers of the Columbian
exposition would consent to change
of date if the breeders In general gave
expression to desire in that direction.
The Horseman is pleased to present
the matter to the consideration of the
trotting-horse breeders, and to urge the
advisability of their giving such an ex-
preston of opinion as will induce Chief
Buchanan to recommend the postr one