Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-18

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Chicago Record
Tro;tins Race, Under the Saddle
II the government should need lO,OOO
6or.rs FOR tho cavalry service, would u
competent agent select trotterst Lave
these horses proved 10 be weight car |
ricrs? wuuld tllc makeup Of tho average
irottor warrant % purchaser IN selecting
tbcm for hard crvicc uudcr the slddlc'
IL will bc aid by partial friends 81 the
,rottcr the, he viii le equal TO tho O.
c,dpu. but assertions will not do. We
must see Misunderstanding In that way
Ne must foo them cover long distances
In tro,,ina l.t.ct under tho saddle Let
ma see II tho fsu,ttr u the present day
/ hns sufficient strength Tor the cavalry
service. Iro''irg rucc' under mo ian.
die would 10 more popular with the
publir than thee, in the ulky There Is
! charm g. horseback riding that wc
Gamma. nrruunt fW--i feeling that hrlng.
moro excitement than the pluwman or
wagner or suiscr A hor.o has more
animation when he is mounted than
whom he Is ha7ucvod silks ana Hailh'
mako the sccue attractive Besides more
horsc. can h. managed under tho saddle
,b,n can b. done with tho suuy on the
average track.
Two mile aud q half diiih races nm
dor the middle with either PAGER or irot.
tor would simply empty the cities OF
,bcir POPULATION. They would be rop'
Mar. why not handicap the troticr' nH
"a do,e in other countries; This sccms
10 me to be tho only way by which IN or
binary horse Gun win his GATE. There
: arc hardioaps la running races, han
: dicnps 10 foot races, handicaps ia BIZ
; cycle races, hnndicaps In trap shooting
1 handicaps in billiards and IN almost eN'
cry other sport that know Of but no
r handicap, IN the sport n American trnt'
A tiny. where there is such vast difference
I'm the capacity VI the horses, and Where
I bandicars nru needed most u all Ih'
i trottiug business 10 Un the decline The
q associations urc not making money ant
II those who campaign tho trOttcr have
Is long. hard and rocky road 10 travel
y Under those difficulties " Seems Y
l. mo that some experiment should b
= made. A. the old system wiu not d
4 thoro ia necessity for change. and It
Is astonishing tamo that there Il such POI
10 sistency among the trutting horse men
10 cling 20 methods which have no mcr
st In them at all, and tho only practice
or that were Of value 10 the truttor' Ton
u distance racing and racing under u
Of saddle, have long since boon abandonc'
ry / NAV be mistaken. but my idea vi
IT and is now that the troitcr was intcn
&c. ed for nn all round, scrvioeablo hors
and that tho breeding aim WAS TO ma
Tor him a perfect roadster, with suilicic
iy- speed 10 keep within the bounds OF g
in uhty. aud beyond this substance, ond'
ret anco and beauty were TO he looked th''
iiro All o. these qualities, except get the
cc- have leen overlooked. Speed alone
ing been the object aimed at, and to u
be- end tho light draft bicycle sulky
DO boen brought into use. kite shaped trnc
o It Lowell tracks with the turns thrown
inn Science has bson employed 10 make
lin trutter's path an easy one
hes In my opinion the only way to mi
the trotter an all round horse-1n'
eN- Stamina, uno VI beauty, one " siren
I OF and ono VI specd--is to put him un
lock heavy weights over long distan'
isks Weight IL tho only thing tina, will Il
cen oughly test the lega Ezporim'
ugh through centuries tsach Us that M
lock the saddle ia tho only way by which
just development Of the horse for the se'
.rols and the road can DO made, and tho n
X to experience also teaches us that the
0 to- programmes Tor racing are those no'
anne uss throughout tho raoing world
and the same can bo adopted by trottlnG
slit ,orintions -Horasman.