The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-17
SOME HORSE TALK.
Some Observations that will be Worth
Reading If you are in the
Horse Business

+. j. Berry & Co., union stock yard
Chicago report the market last week
as follows:
Expressers and heavy Drafters. ........ s6O9175
HOO TO 400 Chunks. .................... 200 As
Coachers and good Roadsters. .......... 100000
Ordinary drivers. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. sos up
The market for good hotses is
steadily improving with an increas-
ing demand for the light harness
horses and all dealers say for this
class the demand at the present time
is little stronger than the supply
which means a return to the times
when the breeder had a hank ac-
count.
Somebody once wrote a book en-
titled "All sorts and conditions of
men" and to see this exemplified in
the truest sense the student of human
nature should attend one of the con-
versationes of the running horse
men. 1t is doubtful if more motley
crowd could be seen anywhere for its
size than that which attended the
Lewis Wilcox race last Friday. Law
yers, doctors, merchants, farmers,
horse buyers, crap shooters etc all
mingled together with that sort of
good fellowship the race track seems
to import to all its devotees, and
while not rejecting on any individual
the crowd lacked that element of
solidity and responsibility that char
acterises trotting or pacing race.
Can a horse who has no record or
does not possess extreme speed beget
colts that will have those qualities? is
question often asked. Certainly,
always providing that he springs
from families who have had it and is
a good individual he will surely have
more power to transmit speed than
one whose vitality has been Slapped
in the necessary training for fast
mark. Happy Medium had only
mark of 2:32, but he sired Nancy
Hanks 2:O4, Harold never was trained
and had no mark, yet he sired Maud
8. 2:Os4. Electioneer had no record
and was still the sire of more colts in
2:30 or better than any horse that
ever lived and so on with many more.
The mere having a record "cuts no
ice" as very many horses who have
had them have been lamentable fail
ures in the steed.
The day of the mongrel stallion is
about gone. Farmers and breeders
generally who have had during the
past two or three years colts of this
kind to sell have received such SAL
utary lesson that they will be chary
of the crossroads horse whose pedi-
gree like his fee is short.
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The motorcycle or horseless carriage
is grand failure as under the most
conditions it takes one as
long to make short trip as it would
a 1900 pound horse pulling a ton or
so of weight behind him.
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The two minute trotter is almost
here despite the fact that so many
claim him to be an impossibility; so
years of breeding up have made
very considerable change in the
horse when one who could show a 8 !
clip was wonder.
The number of horses received at
the Union stock yards Chicago up to
Dec. l, was 108,OS1. For the same
time in 1894 it was 9O,57O being an ia
crease of Il, 1871 for 1895. For the same
time shipments of horses in 1895 were
lO4, 291. In 1894 83.777; increase for
1895 20,514. The number retained for
use in Chicago was $3.50 in 1895 and
{, 793 in 1894.
HambletOnian 10, Ethan Allen and |
Geo. NJ. Patchen were all foaled in
1919. E.K.R