The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

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normally low prices that horses brought
IN 1888 and 1894 absolutely shut of the
| source OF supply In California and other
| Tar western states whole herds Of half
| Wild horses, breeding naturally on the
| great ranches for the business market
nave been deliberately shot Horses have
oeen Killed IN the central western states
/ ny hundreds for what their flesh. hides
I hooIs and bones would bring. and not one
/ IN ten OF the breeders of 1890 are now in
/ 'he business. Now truckmen, eNpressmen,
! cartmen, contractors, and the like are
going 10 want horses right along. They
can't run their business with electricity
Inc stock OF horses used by them is wear
I ing out, and i've or six years from now
| the demand viii be so much greater than
/ me supply that prices will go away up.
/ Horses viii have 10 be imported from Can
ada from Mexico and South America
All TINS won't help the breeders of trotting
stock particularly, perhaps, but the de-
mand Tor trotting stock for carriages and
road horses viii, and that demand is 60
ing 10 be a Very big factor of the horse
market in very few years. The hackney
morse is beautiful animal. He holds his
mead hlgh. his coat shines, he has SPLEEN
did action. but he can't go. He isn't fast
enough Tor the American market. Even
now some OF the rich men who have in
vested hundreds of thousands in hack
neys and farms TO breed them on are
-Ne-4AN-+Aie AlAt AAaAu 4dELSs ana are SIElN-
ing by crossing TO save themselves as
much as they can.
The American gentleman driver, whether
ne auects coach or a road wagon, or
simply a good carriage team doesn't want
| 70 take the dust, and he must if he has
hackney horses. The colts of trotting
mares of the Morgan strain, crossed with
hlgh-stepped hackney sires, are likely 10
| snow the speed and knee action OF the
/ DAMS and the hook action Of the sires
ana IN this way, 1 believe, new breed
| OF almost perfect road. coach and car
rage horses Will be produced. Pure Nor
| gan horses have pretty good action anv-
! way but there are few Of them in eNis-
! tenco to-day. l shall never forget that
! most beautiful horse, Green Mountain
/ Morgan II was years and years ago that
hrst saw him at Burlington Vermont
a friend Of mine there told me almost as
! soon as 1 arrived I'm the town. a dav or
two before the annual fair, that he wanted
/ to show me the finest horse that had ever
| seen went with my friend to the stable
! and saw big, hollow ba cked horse that
| didn't impress me greatly but the next
] day when the fair opened, as they used
to then, with 200 or 300 yoke of oxen,
| string OF horses and a lot of sheep and
| hogs IN parade. all led by the marshal
| OF the parade on horseback, 1 saw Green
! Mountain Morgan under more favorable
| conditions. The marshal was on his back.
| and such horse as he was. He had a
thick fringe name, flag tail, his head
! was IN the right place. and when nc
stepped he hardly seemed to touch the
| earth. had never seen such a sight and
l tried to buy the animal, but the owner
wouldn't sell.
Now While the hackney movement has
not turned out as those most Interested
| expected, it has done a great deal of
| good Tor 1t has taught American horse
| men the value of good looks and grace
! ful action in horses and the result Is
sure to be apparent in a very few years"
Mr. Bishops ideas seem to be well
/ supported both by the opinions of other
/ horsemen and the facts. 1t is well known
| that many millionaire drivers and coach
! ing men who a few years ago saw moth
| ing in any but hackney horses have late
/ ~ been buying carriage. road and coach
/ ing horses of trotting blood and as there
! are now so many horses that can 20 in 2.9O
| or better, but we are not fast enough
| to be good track horses these times. the
| demand Is being fairly well supplied
| CoitsVille the chestnut gelding was re-
Gently bought at a very low price for
| Willie K. Vanderbilt TO make one Of a
! carriage pair to be driven by him abroad
A team of carriage horses of unquestioned
trOtting blood was bought for Count Cas-
| tellane just before his marriage TO Miss
| Anna Gould and shipped to France for
carriage purposes, and many purchases
of this sort have been made within the
past few months.
Trotting meetings are held earlier I'm
the season nowadays than formerly The
! Washington meeting. which will be a
very important one, will come off in June
and will be followed by meetings at Bal
/ timore Philadelphia, New York POUCH
keepsie and Boston. Other meetings east
| and west will come along in close success
/ sion, the horses from the far south and
| west trotting their way, so to speak, east
/ and north. As of old. however most of
the great meetings Will come after July.
/ and the fastest time will be made prob
| ably late in the season. Many records
| have been broken in Kentucky after il
/ was too cold 20 trot further north ana
history may repeat itself this year.
! Many of the old drivers were young
! in 1880 when the clipping off of quar-
| tiers from ZIP mark began with Maud S.
| and st. Julien as the record breakers,
are still in sulky. Orrin Hickok who
drove ST. Julien at Rochester on the
memorable August day that Maud 8.
] divided first place with the Saint with
mark for each of 2I1-A has been in Cal
| ifornia all winter training Hulda. w.
| w. Bair, who loved the peerless Maud
almost as a man loves his sweetheart is
now in evidence, though he held the post
of Queens driver for eleven long years
after that day. Budd Doble who held
! the IeluS over GOiuAUlIn MaldS back
when she was Queen and whose head
quarters are at Terre Haute has also been
in California. Geers has likewise been
on the slope with Hamlin's Fantasy:
"Knapsack" Mccarthy has passed the
| cold season in Boston McHenry of Free
port has had charge of John r. Gentry
and Phoebe Wilkes; Johnny Goldsmith
brother of Jimmy" Goldsmith has been
in hospital all winter Girl" Curry, who
| had Guy last season has been in Nash
vile, Jack Curry who drove Joe Patch
in 2:0l and beat Robert J. has been in
California and hopes to drive his favor
lite and make the best pacing mark before
snow flies again. Crit" Davis is at
Lexington; ANDY Mcdowell will drive
for Salisbury this year; jimmy Dustin
will handle Drectum and will soon start
east from California. John Dickerson has
been handling Corbett's horses all winter
on the slope, and Curtis, who drove Pam
leo, has been in Tennessee.
Whatever happens to the record this
year, It should not be forgotten that Maud
S. has virtually never been beaten Her
mark has vet to be tested On a racrtlIaffor