Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-07-18
Lisburn 12os6.

reflection on any other horse, any
farther than facts might place merit
onLisburn. claimed him the best bred
morse IN Howard county, which every
man that knows anything about what
constitutes we'll bred horse, knows
all that is necessary to satisfy any one
Is to compare his tabulated pedigree
with that Of any other horse that
stands in Howard county, and If facts
give my horse preference over some
other horses am not to blame, and
will say get better horse. I do not
desire to go into mud-throwing busi-
ness. have confined myself to facts.
! 90 not desire TO make the public be-
l1eve Lisburn is double standard
horse and the only double standard
horse in Howard county, thus posses
sing some great merit that's very rare,
something that very few horses pos
Sess-a something that does not exist,
as there is no such thing as double
standard horse in Howard county or
any other county. l was never offered
Sl2,O 600 for LiSburn, and If any such a
horse is owned in Cresco, he must of
| been on the high pinacle OF fame, and
must of taken the blind staggers or
something and rolled down the hill of
| despair, and to compare his actual
value to 900 we must say met
tragic death. do not claim that the
produce of Lisburn from offers made
and what they are held at are going up
in balloon, or going higher than a
balloon, but If any one will bring Eu-
gene Howard's yearling colt or Mr..
Culbert's young horse to my barn, at
the prices advertised as offered $3.50
each, can get the cash at once. Those
are the only two mentioned in my prior
advertisement, outside of actual sales,
have little faith in balloon prices,
without any sales mixed in, it seems
to much like milk devoid of cream,
and seems to be placing too low an es-
innate on the intelligence of the pub
lie. AS to the speed of Lisburn's get,
! they are large, good, high acting,
square trotters, and invariably show
great natural speed eOiisiaeriiig their
IdamS. ID. 0. Alleman sold three of
his get at 4-years old that he broke
nicely, drove them on the road never
handled either of them as training for
speed, yet the first one sold when horS-
es were at the lowest point in price, to
Erick Anderson for 5000, he could and
did pull buggy with two men, in
2:50 clip, one of the other two could
4-year old ever showed by the get of any
other stallion in Cresco: the other
could trot a trite better than 3
minutes: the three brought $475. 1t
is the actual sales at marketable age
that talks for horse; their size, ap-
pearance, style and action sells them
for long prices for the eastern market
as fast as they arrive at marketable
age. AS have liberal number of
mares booked to be served yet by Lis
burn, l will say if you have small,
pet pony mare, short barrel, no matter
how nice, that has no natural gait: no
matter if her sire has some trotting
blood in him, a little outside the cur
rent of fashionable breeding, If he is
understood and has back numbered,
out classed hobled record, record
that two and three year olds are beat
ing all over the country for amuse-
ment or money, and that has no
natural gait, and nothing to recon-
mend him as aStock horse only ''Little
Beauty" do not bring her to Lisburn,
for breeding in such a channel, accord
ing to the nature of things, nothing
could be expected but radical failure
from any horse and poor investment
for the breeder. Many horses show
great speed fyr quarters and half miles,
but the trouble is there is no money at
the quarter or half mile poles. A little
weak spot in breeding tells the tale, it
causes them to look for hitching post
before the wire is reached, a little un-
natural or artificial speed is not con-
sidered by horsemen as worth much to
a stock horse; it is line of good breed
ing with proper size and natural
gait, that is considered essential. Red
Wilks is rated second as stock horse
in the United States, he is a large
horse, 2:40 his record. Hambletonian
10, carries the laurels as the father
and founder of the whole trotting
family; all that ever was claimed for
him in the way Of speed was a
trial in 2:4S. Respectfully,
| w. III. ALLEMAN.