Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-07
CARRIAGE HORSES.
Opinions of Two Experts ON the Right
Kind of Cross TO Breed.

Opinions of Two Experts ON the Right
Kind of Cross TO Breed.
In The Breeders Gazette Mr. Alexan-
der Mair of Indian Neck Horse farm adj
vocates with zeal and eloquence the fit
ness of the hackney trotting cross for
the perfect harness type. He scouts the
idea that the hackney is not large
enough for carriage horse sire. He says:
''The hackney will produce size if
mated for that purpose and will at the
same time transmit his individuality to
a greater degree than any other known
breed For the benefit and information
of those who claim that the hackney
cannot get size will give list of the
half breds that have been bred at the
Indian Neck stud. In 1891 we bred to a
trotting bred mare by Gooding's Cham
pion the hackney stallion Glendale 1870.
The produce was chestnut colt, now 6
years old. He stands 15.3h and has
been on the pavements in New York
city for two years. Glendale was a
horse only 10 hands high and weighed
in good condition nearly 200 pounds.
The dam of this colt is bay mare Is. 3
hands She has practically no knee ac-
ton and is quite leggy, but the colt has
fine action and could not be called leg
gy. In 1898 this same mare produced to
Glendale brown colt, now years old,
which weighs 1900 pounds and stands
16. hands, He has pulled a private
hanson cab in New York all this win
ter and is big goer and fast enough so
that he does not need to drop in behind
any other hanson In 1894 Russian
Orloff mare 16 hands high dropped a
foal to Glendale, and this colt, now
years old. stands 1885 hands. In 1894
Canadian hunting mare produced a
foal to Glendale This colt, now years
old, stands 10. hands. These colts COM
prise all the half hreds that we got from
Glendale, but i'll every case he got a
horse larger than himself and transmit
ted his individuality TO a remarkable de-
gree.
'Enthorpe Performer is a bay horse
10 i hands high. A brown mare, rs
hands, by Forest Prince, 2:151z, drop
ped foal tt Performer in 1895, and
this FLY, now 3 years old, stands 1862
hands. She weighs 1 300 pounds, and
is beautiful mare, with lots of action
and speed. A full sister to this one, 2
years old, stands 10. hands. A yearling
out of the same mare promises to be
quite as big. Another Is. 1 mare by
Forest Prince produced colt to Per-
former in 1895 which is now years old
and stands To- hands He is an exact
reproduction of Enthorpe Performer and
not the least like his dam. Except few
yearlings that are all of good size the
above are all the colts from trotting
bred mares that we have bred -
Mr.. NJ W. Durham of Wayne, Ills,
breeder of French coachers, is equally
eloquent and insistent on the merits of
the French coacher and American trot-
ter cross for the perfect carriage animal.
He would breed the French stallion to
the American trotting bred mare. He
says on his part in the same number of
The Gazette:
1.-The typical carriage horse must re-
main the highest in price, because in no
country is there, without governmental
supervision, any well directed. popular
effort made to produce him. England,
the country to which we have been
taught to look up as breeding the high
est class of these horses, has in reality
always been the largest importer of
them.
Sin America, with the development
of our cities and the accumulation of
wealth by our people, the demand for
the fine carriage horse became active.
No well directed attempt had been
made to breed this horse systematically,
but in the great number of all sorts pro-
duced enough were for time found to
meet the demand. AS soon as the for
eigners saw that this kind of horse
could be procured in America they be-
gan bidding for the offerings, and it
was noticeable at once that they paid
the largest prices for those animals that
most closely approached the model uni
versally accepted for carriage use. The
question, "How shall we obtain the
best results in breeding horses for this
use?' must be answered in this way:
We must give them the model they
seek, and the only way we can do this
is by ENGRAVING on our stock the form
and characteristics Of the best foreign
breeds. We must seek the carriage horse
of the greatest beauty, greatest sub
stance, greatest endurance, highest type,
best action and as much speed as is
compatible with the possession of all
these desired qualities i'll large measure.
This points to the selection of the
French coacher, and particularly of the
trotting families of that breed, to inter-
mingle with our own trotting bred
mares, and in this cross firmly believe
we shall find the best and highest priced
carriage horse in the world. -