Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-31
VARIOUS NOTES.

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hackney in getting the qualities enumer-
ated. Moreover, this type of trotting
horse possesses bone and substance,
clean cut head and beautifully nodded
neck, oblique, sloping shoulder, muscu-
lar forearm, short cannon bones, large
knee and hook joints, barrel round in the
ribs and back short but quarters long
and full, with closely knit frame and
| light footed free goer, who would lose
the average hackney, imported or ma
tive, in one circuit of Central Park"
C. Y. Larrabee of Montana, the we'll
known breeder of fine road, carriage
and track horses, has four hundred acres
inclosed with fence within which an
nually Craze five hundred highly-bred
animals San Francisco Breeder.
y London press cabegram says:
"Americans can no longer regard horse
trotting races as a sport of which they
have a monopoly. The trotting meet
ings at Trieste, Baden and Vienna, which
have just closed, have shown that this
originally Yankee pastime has not only
captured the Austrian nobility, but has
secured royalty's attention, thus secur-
ing sure foothold along the banks of
the Austrian Danube. There are no
more ardent lovers of the horse than the
subjects of Francis Joseph, and this
years events at the three meetings have
been centers of interest in a measure
for all who indulge sporting proclivities.
In several cases the entries have been
for the most part or altogether of Amer
lean animals and the excitement aroused
by their performances has been keen.
The result of this international compe-
tition is to extend the market for Amer
lean horses in Europe and to spread
knowledge of the superior American
methods of training and drying race
horses"
According to returns to the United
States treasury department our exports
of horses for 1895 reached total of
1911, valued at S2,7O5, OS9, an average
of about SIG per head.
at is the least that can be demanded
that where gambling exists on the
tracks it should be purely incidental"
writes 'IcOnoclastn in the Horse Re-
view. whenever that inhunee becomes
predominant, trotting will be abandoned
by very many of the best men now en-
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an influence already is conceded by
most thoughtful men; that it should
thwart or prevent a very much needed
reform is intolerable and the moment it
becomes the ruling authority, that mo-
ment the trotting horse business will re-
ceiye a fatal blow. The running horse
has greatly deteriorated under this in
| fluence and running races are no longer
attended by any class except that which
desires to speculate on the results. The
only sport is in the betting, not the win
ming. No man who loves the trotter for
himself, and loves trotting sport for it.
reduced to the present condition of the
running turf, or the trotting horse re-
duced to the vulgar level of a mere
gambling machine
Ever since it was started the Amer
lean Horse Breeder has urged the breed
ers of New England to Use the best
mares of Morgan descent that they
could secure for brood purposes, re-
gardless of standard rank, and breed
them to the best stations within
their reach. The writer says
this journal, sis more firmly convinced
than ever that those of the small breed
ers of the North who follow that course
will make the most money. There are
plenty of mares in New England that
are descendants of Daniel Lambert,
Gen. Knox, Golddust, Winthrop Nor
rill, Fearnaught and their sons, as we'll
as other successful Morgan sires. These
mares can be picked up at REASONABLE
prices and if they possess the right quail
tiles Individually, they will prove the
best of brood mares if proper Judgment
is used in the selection of stations with
which to mate them. Every man who
breeds horse stock nowadays should bear
in mind the fact that low prices are sure
to prevail In the future for immature,
undeveloped stock. TO make a surely
paying business of the breeding venture
every man must plan to keep his young
sters until they are from three to six
years.old, and are thoroughly broken to
harness."
1.-The cold-blooded horse, although oc-
casionally he may possess some confor-
nation, ETC., can never be a roadster"
says the Rider and Driver. "The gait
of the roadster should be frlctionless,