The Monitor-register., 1897-12-24
Horse Notes.

Horse Notes.
Notwithstanding all the nonsensical
twaddle vishnary theorists have of late
years been %inodNging in, as to what they
have so wisely tsrmed, ''the passing Of
the horse" when electricity and the
wheel, as they selaimed, we're to utterly
supplant mans modest friend" More
practical observers have all along con-
tended that sooner or later the, horse
would again be in such q demand as
would warrant breeders a handsome
profit upon the cost of his production and
development. Knowing full we'll that
prices of any article are largely depen-
dent upon the supply aud demand. they
saw. that while the rush of hundreds
from every walk of life, a fewyears AGO.
to establish farms had unduy doomed
prices, so when prices Of horses, III kSsp,
ing with all other values, began to ds.
cline. and these noyitiates were throw.
ing their stock pell NELL on an already
overwhelmed market, these experienced
breeders knew that with the almost total
cessation of horse breeding that was
sure to follow; that just as soon as the
over-suppfyso of stock was used up or de-
stroyed, a healthy demand and good
paying figures must again prevail; but
the horses most sanguine friends were
not prepared to witness SO loon such a
demand as has already arisen all over the
country for good horses. as is shown by
all the latest market reports, q demand
doubtless accelerated by the rapidly
growing foreign demand that within a
few years has risen from less than 1000
to 90, 600 head last year and about rs, 900
head of horses in 1897.
Perhaps we cannot better illustrate the
growing scarcity of good stock than by
quoting several leading. dealers in fine
horses, men whose prominence in that
business and as winners in the leading
show rings have given them a national
reputation. q
-. M. Ware says: tsThe constantly in
NsAsing difficulty sin procuring horses
'sExhle,fQr park&ud StoA work Is daily
and hourly brought to my notice from all
quarters of the eonntry;SsThat there is
at hand az-famine in bsable, saaable,
sound and Young fresh" horses for
these purposes no one conversant with
the facts will dispute, and what is true Of
the market nowsis but q slight Indication
of the state Of affairs that must inevi-
tably obtain in America for the next five
or ten years. w bile our export trade is
Increasing by 30 per cent. annually,
,bQmad demand, due to increase of popula-
Hon returning prosperity, and the
newly developed. appetite for the fash
ionabie horse In all the large western
cities, is also steadily and rapidly in
ass#4$s - .annoro r;i1 for1
~asaaI%~ Morse, for a new
lich they are in
any of the most
nave were mum.
nd i'm Be long pastwho, like Ixion of
fascinating astheir wheels" for
@ssml5oe rhapS its great -
The p-~Tr>frO7ce 1se, a luxury to our
fathers, has like SO many of the
modern a ccessories of comfortable living,
become an essential to their children,
while the broad and independent en-
vir0nments of modern life make such
appendages of elegance as inconsplcuous
as they are requisite.
AS the first step toward retrenohment
by the well to-do is the dispensing with
srEhe carriage" etc. So the first indioa-
ton of renewed prosperity or returning
a~f1uence, is invariably an Investment in
an equipageAszerses, etc.
Fashionable dealers have heretofore
found it comparative easy to obtain sin
the rough" numbers of horses of excel
lent conformation, with good action, and
with speed, mouths, m anners and good
looks to suit the most fastidious critic,
but the very profusion of animals of this
type was the direct cause of the present.
Observation-Disclosures.
People could obtain, for a really alb.
surdly low price, material that cannot
now be duplicated in any quantity any
where in this country, or for any money,
and for a time reaped the benefits of this
,profusion. SoS& nsowever, geldings of
being mostly go horses anyway,
were not produces With any regularity,
conformation, having usually been sac
rliced for speed only.
The demand increasing, as appreeia-
.tieps of the accepted type spread, mares
5NsH ages Of "the proper Sorts" and
stations, which had some shape and
could "pop'em up a Bit" were marketed
by the thousand, the latter sex in the
'guise Of .stags." The country was
seeared. and is being raked over to.day
to little profit for large, handsome, en-
tire horses Of any age. Tlese animals
were promptly marketed and to-day we
may see in the parks and on the city
drives hundreds, probably thousands of
""stags," which, In former days, were
shining lights in the harem and on the
race track, having sons and even grand
SONS to the third generation Ia their
native State. | say %grandsons adyisedly,
because it is well known that one pair
which won a blue ribbon in the wheel of
four. at Madison Sagages EArdsnsweLf
upWardsokt weaSyf gx4Easeaah1 sad tne
carpiDg critics did whisper that the
united ages of the four would surpass by
several years the allotted age of q |
have seen one, pair sold in the exchange
for a very long price, of which q was
the sire of the sothers and the latter in
turn no giddy thing, having a family of
his own. l also know of a consignment
of GO horses to New York market among
Whichlwere A stays.
The time to get into any business is
when every one else is out or getting out.
I'wilgo on record now as predicting
that in one yesr, and for the next ten
years, the fashionable road and carriage
horses will bring in this and all eoan-
tries prices as yet upheard of and sun-
realized.
Chas. F. Bates, widely known as
FATTY Bates" president Of tho-fSeYs.
York Hafse and Cab Company firm
that handle and sell a large percentage
of all the finest road and carriage horses
sold in New York city, says nine-tenths
of all the horses of known breeding
shown in Madison Square Garden in he
New York Horse Shows are trotting
bred, and that if he were a breeder he
would stand by the trotting horse for
both sides of his foundation stock. of his
wonderful show horse, "Coxey," he says
he comes nearer being the perfect park
horse than anything he has seen in a
long time; stands 154 hands and weighs
$50 pounds, a rich brown; strip him and
you see a c~lose-built, rugged, smoothly
turned, big little horse of remarkable
symmetry, style and power; in harness
full of spiri t, always cheerful aud well
hammered and his action looks as easy
and effortless as the stealing stride of
Azote, Q 042. He is inbred both sides
to Mambrino Patchen, Lady Thomas
great brother, his dam being a daughter
and his sire a grandson of that great
rsre. Bates says speed is an essential
element y she best roadsters.
Another ~. dealer in fine horses
and snccesss saoittas of blue ribbons at
Madison SD Garden. DR.. Geo. S
Gagon. savs NJ are all standard
bred and have ~ y Of 4 high order and
saws if he don. epss. the speed they have
the more vim use TO put in their
sssoa. ssysl- a sh v ppiy is now so
united that it might as we'll be called
Exhausted, that he don't know whatw will
,e done for recruits for the next five or
six years, but that he does know he has
no horses for sale, except at prices rep