Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-05-03
Value of Pedigree in Horse
Breeding.

It Is awell-settled fact that to breed with
profit one must breed only the BEST or
such as the market demands This can
only be done by first ascertaining what
Will sell readily for best prices, and hav-
ing the wherewith and knowledge to Sc
lect and mate the animals to produce foals
that, when mature, will be in fashion and
sell for good money. There is a class OF
horses which will always be in fashion
and sell for large profit on the cost OF
raising. / mean the beautiful bay or
brown, 1873 to 16 hands or more, weight
100 pounds, up-headed and stylish. vet
gentle and easily managed, straight, nice
drivers, which will take along two persons
in buggy at three minute clip or better.
and do twenty miles in two hours in the
morning, and return in same time, and
be nome the worse for the trip.
Now any horse to do this must be in
condition for the work, and the farmer
need not keep the horse he has for sale in
form for his best effort on the road. The
buyer Will be well pleased to see the three
minute clip, for a fourth of mile accom-
panied with the disposition to respond to
the viii Of the driver, this being present
with desirable size, form and pure trottine
action, and the horse only in common
farmer-like condition, stamps him as an
animal OF no ordinary quality and the
price on one OF this description can be fix
ed by the owner.
three-minute horse of this quality is
sure sale for five OF six hundred dollars,
II well enough bred to ensure that he will
improve with opportunity and train on to
a two-fifty clip or better, with chance
for more speed as development goes on.
How many horses in your town fill this
description and are now waiting prrchas-
ers?
This kind are not produced from scrub
mares, good for nothing else; neither do
they come from patronizing sires OF nom
breeding with only one or two
near crosses of good speed producing
blood and the foundation of the pedigree.
a mixed lot of worthless trash not wanted
In the offspring we produce.
The country is too much filled up with
stations Tracing in their breeding to
Hambletonian, Daniel Lambert or some
potent sons OF these great sires), them
selves worthless and barren OF every uual-
ty necessary for the production of any Of
he excellence possessed by their great an
:estors.
The Wilkes family leads all other fani-
les for superior roadsters. II is also the
most prolific of speed at the trotting gait.
md Alcantara is one of the best represent
tives of this great family; yet a son of
Alcantara out of a Hambletonian mare.
whose dam was by some non standard
lunk-head sire which had
leither the will nor power to keep up a
tx mile-an- hour gait on the road, is not
Il TO use as sire, no matter how lively
nd spirited himself; many OF his get will
ave the quality OF his dam and her sire
nd only few will by their actions, claim
ny relation to the great Alcantara.
'otent blood will not mix with
hat OF inferior quality and at the same
lme preserve its superior excellence.
IL Is not safe to patronize any sire Of un-
nOwn breeding, no matter how good he
himself, hemsmRsr ths otlspring are
on and by the eight animals in the next
recedng generation, and so on.
No intelligent person will for moment
ainsay the fact that the potent blood of
fessenger, fooled more than hundred
ears ago, continues TO be valuable at the
resent day, and that his blood com bined
18th that OF imported Bellfounder in the
reduction of Hambletonian gave to the
'orld the greatest progenitor OF speed at
he trotting gait and gave the State OF
lew York the honor of furnishing the
,undation for the American trotting
orse. This foundation blood is OF no val
e except when kept pure or blended with
nat equally potent in producing desirable
ssults.
Time ands experience tell that certain
ther Thoroughbred blood, when blended
it'll that of Hambletonian, 10 adds to its
oeed producing quality by quickening
lotion and giving the needed elastic,
pringy action for an-easy, rapid gait.
like every sire, was q horse
opportunity. In his three year-old form
e beat Roe's Abdallah Chief OF the same
ge ,trotting about three minute clip;this
rought HIM into public favor. Good pa
rons was the result; they numbered over
ineteen hundred, in twenty-four years,
nd more than thirteen hundred OF his
pals lived to maturity.
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