Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-05
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J. w. springall Of Dextefsa has resent
" purchased very handsome team OF
Shepherd and Wheeler. The horse Is
four year-old, of a dapple mahogany
color, is by Lawrence, 2.26la' oy Ut.
FRANKLIN.
c. B. Dore OF Leyant. has sold to Dud-
lev Clement or that place the two
year-old chestnut fiily. Birth Day, by
Action. cSSi. LIST dam Duchess Fear
Taught. nv Young Fearnaught. record
Of 3Sls ID dam Nellie Grant by Grant,
the sire 81 the dams of Thornburg.
c.s1h. Erwin NJ, 2.19A, Winslow. 226,
and others. Birth Day Is an own sister
tn. Rerdan. four-year-old record of
3oh Mfr. Clements bought Birth
Daw exclusively for a breeder and
from her large size. style and action
and..rich breeding crossed with the
right horses she ought to make a good
brood mare.
have a friend, who, for arguments
sake. l believe, more than from any
inward conviction that he is right holds
that the training and racing of yearlings
is beneficial. and cites occasionally a
solitary instance where a horse has
as yearling. OF course. believing as
I do that the campaigning ofyearlings
is done at the expense of their future
usefulness. whenever | find an argument
favoring my side of the case. l make a
note of it, and in recent issue of an
exchange find the following bearing
on the subject: People are now be-
ginning to discover that as rule it is
not profitable to train two-year- olds to
anything like the limit of their capac
ity, that many are ruined in the effort
and that those that succeed pay well
for that success in the diminution of
future usefulness. Doubtless two-year-
olds may be carefully handled, as may
also yeariings. But extreme care is
necessary with animals of such tender
age. Usually very fast yearl-
ing or two-year-old record seems to be
bar to great performance in future.
Even when the horse afterwards makes
a great campaigner there is no certain
ty that he would not have made a much
greater one had his development been
deferred. One cannot have his cake
and eat it. If you use up your horse
when one or two years old you cannot
expect him to bea great matured horse.
The greatest campaignerthe world ever
saw was broken at nine years of age.
Alix 2.03s4 and Nancy Hanks 2.04 have
been pointed out to me as shining eX-
amples of champions that have been
trained from yearlings up. and they are
also shining examples of what ruin is
wrought by early training. Would AliX
or Nancy Hanks have reached theii
limit at six years of age. or Directum
at five, and then been retired crippled
in their legs. if they had been used
carefully and with Judgment in their
younger days? And is it not probable
that their limit would have been great
err than they have reached, but for their
early and severe training and racing?
j. w. Thompson, in Turf. Farm and
Home.
Will Miller of Waterville. has sold to
A. K. Sampson, of the firm of Parker
Sampson & Adams of Boston. a pair of
bay horses that stand 1873 hands high
and weigh POO lbs, that can step a 300
gait together: and has sold to f. S.
Aubene of Lewiston. a promising four
year-old mare standing 1873 hands that
can show 240 gait.
Pressure Isles two best entries in the
2.3S stake are the gray mare Nakomis
by BloOdmont and the chestnut stall
lion Fauntleroy by Viking. Nakomis
won the opening heat of the PAS class
at the fair last September in field OF
eight starters, and would have won the
race in one, two, three order if it had
not been for an accident in the second
heat that compelled her withdraw
and laid her I'M all the fall She ha c
been jogging sound all winter and her
owner, S. w. Duff, thinks she is getting
into Sood enough shape to win this
summer.