The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-02
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The HACKNEY CROSS,

One Man Who Has Made Money Out OF
II.
The experience of Hon. Henry Fair
fax, Aldie, Va, in crossing the hackney
stallion on his finely bred trotting mares,
has proved Of the most satisfactory ma
ture possible As your readers are doubt
less aware, Mr.. Fairfax, some six years
ago. selected n goodly number Of trot-
ting mares Of various strains Of blood
and bred them to the well known hack
ney stallion Matchless of Landesboro.
The results were phenomenally success
full, inasmuch as the most desirable quail
ties Of both sire and dam appeared TO be
transmitted to nearly all the colts, and
the ideal carriage horse thereby pro-
duced. Half a dozen Of these colts,
mares and geldings were sold last spring,
In New York, under the hammer, for
about 81 900 each-one or two making
as high as 81 800. This is exactly the
kind of horses which today the eastern
and foreign buyers are on the lookout
for-the only class for which the de-
mand is far ahead of the supply. OF
course it must not DO assumed by any
means that every hackney stallion,
when crossed ON a road mare, will get
carriage horse. just as there are "trot-
tiers and trotters, so there are "hack-
neys and hackneys good, bad and in
different-the majority being decidedly
Indifferent. But take really good hack
ney stallion, possessing fair size, with
quality, style, action and good back
breeding-that is to say, not only free
from every faint of draft or other ex-
traneous blood, but whose immediate
ancestors on both sides were animals Of
good repute-and cross this stallion with
well bred mares, 16 hands high, of good
quality and conformation (whether
standard bred or not is of less conse-
quence, and if they have dash of thor
oughbred blood all the better), and am
free to say that the produce under favor
able circumstances would come nearer
supplying the article so much in demand
today than by any other means know
of. True, they may not always get up
to the full ! O hands size, suitable for the
heavier equipages, where larger, ram
gier, less dashing type of horse is per-
haps more suitable, but us general rule
they will be possessed of that combina-
ton SO much desired-viz, good looks,
strength, stamina, quality and style,
with the bold, free action of knees and
hooks which distinguishes the breed and
increases its selling value
Without the use of the hackney stall
lion these admirable features are occa-
sionally, but all too rarely, produced by
some of our own trotting bred sires, but
by using hackneyssof the proper type
and pedigree and mated as indicated
above we would get such results not
onco in ten times, but perhaps eight
times out of ten. Let any one interested
visit the horse sales at the Chicago
stockyards and observe how alert the
various buyers, eastern and European,
suddenly become when horse of hack
ney type enters the sale ring. There is
q kind of magnetic charm about the
horses appearance and an evident re-
serve power of force and action which
captivate all real horsemen, even the
most bigoted fast trotting advocate.
The result is seen in the keen COMPETE
ton of one buyer against another to Sc
cure the plum, which is only accom-
plished after a figure has been reached
high enough probably to buy a half doz-
en- of the usual nondescripts that con-
stantly fill the stockyards' auction mart
and with which the whole country is
badly saturated. Now that the breeding
season is again upon us it certainly be-
hooves the horse breeder to cast aside
all unreasoning prejudice, and those
who own mares which by reason of their
size, finish and conformation are suita-
BILE for the production of carriage horses
should look around for the best and
most likely stallion, be he hackney,
coacher or road horse.
| Remember, however, he must have
the necessary action, quality, bone and
symmetry Of form as well as being well
bred on both sides of the house. There
is at present a rich reward obtained by
the owners of the proper kind of horses,
and this reward will be greatly en-
HANGED in the next few years, when the
return of more prosperous times and the
natural results following the greatly re-
stricted aggregate of horse breeding
throughout the United States for several
years back will produce condition of
matters approaching an absolute famine
in the line of good horses. Alex Gal
braith in Horseman.