The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-06
SOME HORSE TALK.
Some Observations that will be Worth
Reading If you are in the
Horse Business

f. j. Berry & Co., union stock yard
Chicago report the market last week
as follows:
Expressers and heavy Drafters. ........ s909l7o
HOO to 400 Chunks. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 25Cg 80
ordinary drivers. ....---.............. W up
Every indication now points to a
renewed activity in breeding horses.
If western breeders have prOfited any
by past prices they will hereafter
AVOID the great mistake they have
made in breeding.simply for colts and
causing the depression in prices by
producing animals that no one wants
at any price. The value of breeding
to good and tried sire should be
recognized by every breeder. 1t
or heavy draft colt you want to raise,
the sire should be distinct type of
his breeding aud unless due caution
is exercised in this the country will
again be flooded with nondescript
horses. Avoid breeding to the all
round horse, simply because. his fee
is low, you have already tried that
with disastrous consequence. The
horse stock OF this country will never
be on profitable basis until we have
distinct types of all breeds and bred
for special purposes. The.thing to do
is to select the breed you think suits
your taste and stick to it and don't
experiment and waste your time try
ing to produce new breed by cross
ing your products on some other type.
If the breed you have selected does
not suit you sell il as it is and buy
some other that you think will and
leave to the man who has more mon
ey aud time the costly experiment of
constructing and infusing new
blood.
The horsemen's term, extreme
speed" is a shifting elastic express
ion which has stood for many differ
ent degrees of swiftpess at the trot-
ting gate within the memory of men
now living. 1t meant a plile in three
minutes no longer ago than 1918 when
Major VIM. Jones at Jockey Club
dinner on Long Island where trOt-
ting had come under discussion made
a wager of $1,000 that he could pro-
duce horse capable of trOtIing a
mile in three minutes. The proposed
feat was then supposed to be impOs-
sible and the odds on time" were
immense but POston Blue the horse
named at the post 10y Major Jones
won the wager gaining as great re-
noun as the champions of today. AS
late as 1915 the horse that could trOt
in $50 was world beaten and any
thing approaching that degree of
speed passed as a sensational perlor-
mer. There are now something like
1900 trotters in the $50 list and the
time has long since gone by when $50
Will win anything much on the turf
Alix would have left the once phen.
omenal 2:30 trotter almost quarter
of mile when she trotted in 2:03a.
Flora Temple whose 2:19 was not
only unbeaten but believed to be I'M
beatable in 1859 would have been just
about furlOng from home when the
famous daughter of Patronage passed
the wire in 1894. Julian 2:1l4 in his
palmy days would have been ungIoI-
iously distanced reckoning by the
records as they stand without max
ing any allowance for improved
sulkies tracks and methods of train
ing the trotter. AS matter of cDuse
there can be no fixed standard of Eek
treme speed as long "a records are
being reduced and scores uf nurses are
each year beating the records which
were not so long ago deemed phrn-
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