The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-29

Yerkes give 81 1900 for the trotting- bred
gelding Dash. who has no particular speed
anu Is DiiIy Naluabie As carriage norsSa
II. A. Hobart, of San Francisco, paid $4,000
Tor seven horses in New York recently and
shipped them to the Pacific coast Mrs. j.
r. Bell. of Philadelphia paid So 900 for the
prize winning carriage team Shining Light
and Sunshine. These figures are very sig
nihcant, and if doubted may easily be veri-
At recent auction sale in the East 261
horses sold for $4,000, an average of $249
a mead. Twelve of those horses brought
$1,000 head or over and thirty-two brought
between $500 and 81 900 a head. Terre Bonnie,
a half-breed mare by. the thoroughbred
horse Terror, brought 81 soc. She was sold
as a saddle mare. Silver Bell, a gray geld
ing by Barrett. thoroughbred, also sold for
a saddle horse. brought 5000. Silver Bell
was bred by 5. s. Rowland, of Mount Nor
ris, n. y. Dash and mate both trotting
bred, brought 81. 500. Golden Rod and Blaze
away, also trotting bred. brought The neat
sum OF $4,000; Many other horses, trotters,
brought good prices at the sale but none
sold on its speed or breeding alone. Con-
formation and action made them sell At
the Fasig sale, held just after the national
morse snow, IN one day eighty-eight horses
We're sold for SlS,5S7, an average of $2ll each,
ana the second day OF the sale ninety-Seven
mead made an average of 1864. Many of
these horses were first sold in Chicago and
were snapped up by shrewd dealers who
horse.
The breeder who says he can't sell his
horses has poor ones to dispose Of That
there are few really good animals to be
bought is the fault of the breeders, and the
REMEDY lies with them. If they would find
out what the public wants, kill off the runts
and weeds they are breeding from and with
a reduced but choice selection of mares
raise saddle and harness horses of the right
stamp their troubles would be over, for
there IL practically no limit TO the demand
for good sized, well-formed horses of good
blood. Above all things let the breeder
avoid the black drop of the ponderous
Clyde and heavy Percheron. They are
worse than useless for any but draft horses.
In their wild desire to raise a Futurity
winner or two-minute trotter the breeders
of the country have been blind to their own
interests. They have flooded the horss
marts OF the country with weedy, worthless
beasts of no value whatever.
One of the greatest of Irish industries and
the mainstay of the farmers of the Emerald
isle is the raising of half-breed chargers for
the cavalry of the continental nations, ana
that, too. on land worth less than the best
grazing land in the blue grass region OF
Kentucky. --.t--.---
The hackney is a fashionable fad now on
the wane. Hackneys are good horses for
some purposes and are expensive The
trotttng- bred horse is unequaled as road
ster, but is seldom a good saddle horse:
but the half-breed, the cross between q
thoroughbred sire and mare of good size,
substance and breeding. is the general pur-
pose horse par excellence. A horse so bred,
of the right size and sound is the ideal
cavalry horse and hunter, and as many
haif-bree1S can go ten miles an hour, they
are good harness horses The horses that
pulled the old mail coaches in England be-
fore the days Of steam were halt-breedss
and they had to be good ones.
Palo Alto, by Electioneer. was half thor
oughbred and IN his campaigns in the East
showed what trotting blood. coupled with
that of the thoroughbred could do for a
more game trotter never went on the Grand
Circuit than Palo Alto