Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1894-10-25

The Great 1894 Futurity Event
Tue Horse not to be Permanent
ly Superseded - Local Horse
Notes.
Here's to the health of Beu-
zetta, her owner, e. w. Ayres, OF
Duckers Station, Ky, and driver,
Gus Macy, who very cleverly
landed the great "Futurity" at
Lexington, Ky, Oct. 8, winning
thereby the snug sum of S22, ,430,
trotting the three heats required
easily in 2.16 Ia, PA Ia and
.2.141.2; not bad for a three year
old who is owned by farmer in
moderate circumstances and to
whom it must be especially graft
flying, for it would take him sever
al years TO lay by a sum like that
raising wheat and potatoes at the
present prices. Here's another to
you, Mr.. Ayres, hoping you will
produce another Beuzetta and win
another "Futurity" when your
time comes again.
Who will now say that it does
not pay to produce a trotter of the
right kind and to show that it can
and has been done, take the histo.
ry of the stake just mentioned
which was opened March, 1891,
for a guaranteed value of s25 600.
More than 1000 brood mares were
nominated at $40 each and 500
made their foals eligible Novem-
Der 10th of the same year when
they were named by the payment
of s15 more.
Every one of the thousand own
ers set about producing phenoin.
enon, satisfied that nothing short
Of that could win the large amount
Of stake, and out of the nine start
ers, each was by a different sire,
showing fully that only the most
approved and scientific methods
were employed in crossing the
great matrons who gave birth TO
the equally great youngsters who
competed for this stake. Now the
cost Of raising, training, entrance,
etc., of these colts could not have
been more than $1,000, a very lib
eral estimate indeed, and many
of them have won themselves out
two or three times over before
started for this event, which was
in the whole s26, ,430; s21 ,430 went
to first, SO, 900 to second, 81 900 to
third and $1,000 to nominator of
the winners dam.
True, stakes of this kind are not
common but they are becoming
more so every year and the yeal
1891 has been a sensational one to
the harness world by the giving OF
large stakes and purses, and the
large fields of high class perform
ers who competed for them. Ev.
cry record has been lowered and
even the most skeptical cynic will
allow that the price of the harness
horse is fast regaining a normal
state, and the supply, while as yet
is greater than the demand for
them, really good individual,
with enough breeding TO warrant
his being a prospect" will com.
mand fair price, even at a COM
bination sale, that haven for the
culls and mistits from the farm of
every amateur breeder in the
country who overstocks himself by
breeding quantity aud leaving
quality only a secondary consider
alton.
In these days Of the electric car
and the bicycle it behooves the
breeder to raise something better
for the public than the sort of in.
dividual Bill N.Y. describes as hav-
ing "high intellectual hips, a
white eye and a nostril you could
set a Shanghai hen in.
That the breeder should be a
practical horseman goes without
saying, for it is only this kind that
can successfully compete with such
formidable rivals. The retired
merchant and capitalist very
speedily finds that horse breeding
is a capital plan by which to re
duce his plethoric bank account
and is a great disappointment all
around. His neighbor is making
money By raising them and it does
seem queer that he can't, and the
truth of the matter is that while
the merchant was weighing out
fourteen pounds OF sugar to the
dollar and advertising sixteen,
the neighbor had been perfectiug
his education on the horse, reduc-
ing breeding to a science and max
ing himself familiar with the wants
of the public, advertising the kind
he had to sell without misrepre.
senting them and above all. never
overstocking his farm and being
by that forced to sell at prices
which cause the public to sing that
well worn, rotten old refrain, 1.-The
bottom has gone out of the busi-
ness
The bicycle is only fad and is
dying out even now as quickly as
j: became the fashion, as a means
of locomotion. The average Amer
ican Of to-day is averse to any
thing like exeriion as a pleasure
and certainly nothing can be more
exhileraiing or health producing
after the labors of the day than a
drive on a good piece Of road be-
hind pair Of speedy trotters, or
single one either, for that mat
ter. The electric car has come TO
stay and so has the horse, but no