The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-18
GEORGE N. REED, Houston.

or half bred animals viii occasionally pro-
| duce speed bun not with uniformity. TO
reach the highest pinnacle OF success a
breeder must determine that the choicest
animals that no raises are too good to sell
and must be kept for breeding.
IL you will start with the best bred ones
that you can command and intelligently
grow and educate their offspring for few
generations, reservng always tho best. we
| may yet produce not only the 200 but the
$50 trofter on Texas SOIL and, l hope. upon
| the Lomo Alto farm.
When our colts have long lines Of sue
| cessful speed producers on the side Of both
sire and dam. with size. substance, intulli-
gence. docility and speed that trot natural
ly and with little training. the type OF tie
American trotter will be fixed and the
wealthy world will take at handsome fig
ures all that we can raise
The breeder who viii cause 500 bush Is
OF oats and 10 tons OF hay to produce a
horse worth from $500 to possibly many
thousands Of dollars instead of horse
worth from s25 10 500, will make fortune
for himself md set an example that should
be worth millions to his countrymen.
When the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders association decided to open the
$4,000 Kentucky Futurity many horsemen
predicted that it would result in failure.
On so heavily on the breeders OF trotters.
This was the only large stake opened in the
United states this year, and, strange as 1t
may seem tho entry list. which closed this
week, shows that more breeders have nom
mated mares than ever before.
Eight hundred and thirty-seven mares
have been namoi. Fully half the mares
are entered by men who nominated one and
two each, the nominations coming from all
sections. from Nova Scotia to California
and from Now Orleans 10 Canada. Mares
aud stations whose names havo been fig
ured In the entry list OF the grand circuit
or OF any OF the Southern circuits are
entered
The leading nominator. as usual. Is A. II
Moore or Colmar Pa. who names thirty
eight OF his richlybred mares with foals
to Director Red Wilkes and Andrew.
Jockey Willie simms predicts grand rae
Ing In the East this season. He says.
There Will be a better lot OF horses rae
ing m and about Now York this season
than last. Last year there were some hilh
Grass colts, but the aged horses were of n,
account. Mike Dwyer viii not race In the
west this year. l, Is too much to II, a
morse IN mo East ship him West. race him
then ship him back again and race lvsn
AGAIN, II VIII hreak any horse down early.
Ben Brush would have been inyincihio
ing campaign around st. Louis and Louis.
Nilie. That took the life out OF him. II
stable Is sent West II should be given a
rest at Saratoga before 1t begins o cam
paign around New York"
since Michael DIVER first went on the
turl ne has owned, wholly or in part many
race horses. but II is unlikely that either
ne or any one else ever owned such an Inn
POSING looking string OF breadwinuers as
inc horses In the lot are not stars of great
nagnitude' Probably even there is not one
mat deserves 10 he clsssed az a star OF
the first magnitude; but for an all round.
uscinl string OF horses that have been tried
anu proven. they are Incompatible
The stable IL rot a large one only con-
tanning eleven horses. OF which one is a
s-year-old colt, by Imp Meddler, out of
Sunyside. and another maiden s-year-old.
Both OF these can. therefore. be left out Of