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

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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
AS an evidence foals run back to different
members OF their families, the really
great race horse, Tom Bowling, was
known to have onl y few crosses of
thoroughbred blood. He was in his day
wonder, but in appearance he was the
counterpart of his sire, Lexington. lie
had five brothers. None showed the
strains of blood he did in appearance,
and not one of them was more than ordi-
nary as performers. The word prepotency,
now so 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 Longfell0w was not better
race horse than his sire. Imp. bennington,
and though Ten Brock was the son of
worthless horse as 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 supe.
rior TO Himyar. | could name indi-
vidual mares that produced as many as
twelve or fourteen foals, and of each
number only one race horse Of first quail
ity appeared, so il surely must be appa-
rent TO the thinking breeder, that
although a mare with tinted pedigree
may produce a great race horse, she is
much more likely to throw a foal that,
even when well trained and matured can
not run fast enough to carry boy for
your doctor" Domino has fulfilled
Major Thomas theory to n 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 latter
was by the English Derby winner,
Orlando, who was son of Touchstone
one Of the greatest horses that ever lived.
Himyar won three stakes as atwo.year
old: The colt. and colt and fillies' stakes
at Lexington, and the Belle Meade stakes
at Nashville. As a three-yearold he
won the Belle Meade stakes at Nashville,
the Phoenix Hotel stakes at Lexington,
and the January stakes at st. Louis,
losing the Kentucky derby Of that year,
in which he was second 10 Day Star,
solely because he was virtually left at
the post. As four-year-old in his four
starts he was unbeaten, and he was only
defeated in his five-yearold form when
out OF condition, and at that he won
such races that season as the merchants
and turf stakes, In which event he beat
oil the best horses then on the turf. His
performances are thus reviewed to give
the public an idea Of Just what sort of a
horse sired Domino. and those who ARE
acquainted with racing in Himyar's turf
days say that when in condition he was
unbeatable, and his performances 60 w
good Ways towards holding out bom'r3f
! tISesd promises, as Himyar ran % ntti|
- boues. best q rst'sNx : y ~ ~;