The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-03
THE HACKNEY CROSS.
One Man who Has Made Money out Of

One Man who Has Made Money out Of
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The experience Of Hon. Henry Fair
fax, Aide, 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 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 dozen of these colts,
mares and gcldings 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 il must not be assumed by any
means that every hackney stallion.
when crossed on road mare, will get q
carriage horse. just as there are "trot-
tiers and trotters, so there are "hack-
neys and hacbneys 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, 10 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 1 know
of. True, they may not always get up
to the full 16 hands size, suitable for the
heavier equipages, where "a larger, ran
gier, less dashing type of horse is per-
haps more suitable, but as 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 hackneys of the proper typt
and pedigree and mated as indicated
above we would get such results no
once in ten times, but perhaps eigh
times out of ten Let any one interested
visit the horse sales at the Chicag,
stockyards and observe how alert tn,
various buyers, eastern and European
suddenly become when horse of hack
ney type enters the sale ring. There i
kind of magnetic charm about tn
horses appearance and an evident re
serve power of force and action whicl
captivate all real horsemen, even tn,
most bigoted fast trotting advocate
The result is seen in the keen competi
ton of one buyer against another to Sc
cure the plum" which is only accom-
plished after figure has been reaches
high enough probably to buy a half do2
en- of the usual nondescripts that con
stantly fill the stockyards' auction mar
and with which the whole country
: badly saturated. Now that the breedin
season is again upon us it certainly be
hooves the horse breeder to cast asid
all unreasoning prejudice, and thos
who own mares which by reason of thei
size, finish and conformation are suita
BILE for the production of carriage horse
should look around for the best an
most likely stallion, be he hackney
coacher or road horse.
: Remember, however, he must hav
the necessary action, quality, bone an
symmetry of form as well as being we
bred on both sides of the house. TheI
is at present rich reward obtained
the owners of the proper kind of horses
and this reward will be greatly er
HANGED in the next few years, when til
return of more prosperous times and I'll
natural results following the greatly n
stricted aggregate of horse breedin
throughout the United States for severn
years back will produce a condition {
matters approaching an absolute famir
in the line of good horses. Alex Ga
braith in Horseman.