The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-29

secret OF raising an
ideal, phenomenal race horse.
He says: Having long since learned
that every foal was Just reproduction
of some preceding horse or mare in the
family to which IL belonged, my aim
since that conviction has been TO use
no mares for raising race horses except
those who had no stains in their pedigree,
and traced back through good performers
on the turf to an oriental origin, Train
ing improvesa colt something like school
ing does boy, but good material is
requisite in both before a polish can be
made. AT recent sale In Lexington
the expression will buy the horse and
you may have the pedigree, was heard,
but such talk came only from people
who had never bred great race horse.
Asan evidence foals run back "a different
members Of their families, the really
great race horse, Tom Bowling, was
known 20 have only few crosses Of
thoroughbred blood. He was In his day
wonder, but In appearance he was the
counterpart of his sire. Lexington. He
had five brothers. None showed the
strains Of blood he did in appearance,
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nary as performers. The word prepotency,
now 30 much used by writers on trotting
horse breeding, Is alike very applicable
in breeding the race horse. Predomi-
nance is sometimes apparent on both
sides of the families.
"The great Longfellow was not better
race horse than bis sire. Imp. bennington,
and though Ten Brock was the son OF q
worthless horse az runner, his grand.
sires were both great performers. Ithas
been said by old turfmen that Lexington
was no better race horse than his sire
Boston, and Domino WAS even not supes
rior TO Himyar. / could name indi-
vidual mares that produced as many as
twelve or fourteen foals, aud Of each
number only one race horse Of frat quail
Eity appeared, so IL surely must be appa.
rent 10 the thinking breeder, that
although mare with 4 tinted pedigree
may produce great race horse, she IL
much more likely TO throw n foal that,
even when well trained and maturcd can
not run fast enough TO carry q boy for
your doctor" Domino has FULFILLED
Major Thomas theory TO nicely. His
sire was the best on the western turf In
his day. Alarm, Himyar's sire, was at
one time the holder Of the best mile rec
ord, and he In turn was by Eclipse, a
high class English race horse. The batter
was by the English Derby winner,
Orlando, who was d son OF Touehstonc,
one Of the greatest horses that eyer lived.
Iimyar won three stakes a. 4 two.year
Eold The colt. and colt and iillioz' stakes
LAT Lexington, and the Belle Meade stakes
at Nashville. As a threc-yearoId ho
won the Belle Meade stakes at Nashville,
the Phoenix Hotel stakes at| I>cxinrfon.
and the January ntakes az st. Louis,
losing the Kentucky derby Of that year,
In which he was second 70 Day Star.
solely because he wan virtually ielt =.
tho post. AZ q four. year.old IN bis four
starts he Was unbeafeD, and he was Gully
defeated IN HE iive.yearo|d form when
4 out Of condition, aud at that ho won
/ such races that sfason AZ the mcfthnnts'
/ and turf stakes, ID which event nc beat
ell the best horses then On The turf Hi
performances are thus reviewed ID give
the public hn idea u 5u<t what sort Of d
hofse sifed DomIuo. and Those WIN afx
acquainted with raging m iIimyar's tur|
day. <ax that when "a condition, I'c N4'
lnuheatabIc, and his ptrfotnafsces Ia 1
good H,e towards holding oaf Doc1|ro'a
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