Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-17

horses and from stilted-gaited, thorough.
bred mares produce family of trotters,
whose purity of gait has never been
questioned. In speaking of the great
pair of show horses sold by Sloan, Minis
e Bratton at st. Louis for $4,000, Mr..
John S. Bratton of the firm said. "that
show horse was, to great extent,
freak" Mr.. Bratton was right as coach
and trottng horses are popularity bred,
a show horse is a freak, and the rule
laid down by a great many agricultural
papers and writers on horse topics will
bave a tendency to make such freaks
still less common than they are. Because
horse Is the right color, size and style,
is fashionably bred and has fast record
even, is not conclusive evidence that he
will be successful sire. His breeding
may be, and quite often is, a conglomer-
alton of Hambetonian, Mambrino, Clay,
Morgan and thoroughbred. And al
though such horse might be successful
when crossed on handsome mares with
an inheritance of beauty and style
sufficiently strong to control the form
and action of their produce, but when
bred to mares of mixed breeding, like
himself, it cannot be wondered at that
shapes. 1t has been matter of wonder
to me that intelligent breeders, who in
any other live stock would scorn to use
anything but thoroughbred males, who,
even in draft horses, would call grade
a scrub, no matter how fine an individual
he was, and turn right around and breed
their road mare to Il stallion who may
not have two strains of kindred blood In
his veins. There is, however, a way that
the blood Questionable trotting families
may be preserved, the chances of o1-
tanning extreme speed not lessened and
the beauty, style and excellence of
structure, now demanded by discriminate
ing buyers, obtained, and the blood of
the Morgan, which has blended har-
mOniOusly with every trotting family
known. is the blood royal that alone can
work out the ransfOrmation. Baron
Wilkes, who represents the Wilkes
Mambrino Patchen cross Chimes, who
unites the blood of Electionetr and
Beautiful Bells. ana Mambrino King,
who represents the blood of Mambrino
Patchen and Edwin Forrest, may be
mentioned as three grand specimens of
their families. and their blood lines are
the lines of some of the most fashionable
trotting families of the day. Baron
Wilkes has already been bred to few
Morgan mares and the cross has pro-
duced some of the gamest, fastest and
most handsome of the get of that great
sire. G. J. Hamlin, the owner of Chimes
and Mambrno King, who was the first
man to demonstrate that beauty was in no
way detrimental to a high rate of speed
or campaigning quality of high order,
and two of the great sires that have
been owned at this establishment and
that figure largely in the pedigrees of
animals then bred, were out of Morgan
mares-namely, Hamlin's Patchen and
Almont Jr. And Judging from the
money-earning capacity of the Hamlin
stable such breeding did nor handicap
them to any great extent Little need
be said to convince any well informed
horseman that Morgan mares have forced
themselves to the front rs producers Of
beautiful. stout made rOadstcrs, gifted
=
order that unless, from now on, lhev are
given the place t. which their merit
clearly entities them in the great breed
ing establishments of the land, they will
continue 10 make reputation for sires
whose blood lines are not considered
partrcan. And II will be time to con-
denim Morgan sires when one well bred
horse shall have access TO harem of
producing mares aud the pro- poets
regularly and Systematically trained
and fail TO develop speed as great as
sires who have been accorded these
privilege. Remember that had the
great George Wilkes died at eighteen
wears of age in the place of going to
kentucky, where he had access to the
mares that made him the foremost stall
lion of his time. he would have been
outranked by many Morgan stations
who never covered mare with a
standard cross. And had Electioneer,
the great sire of record breakers. died at
nine years of age in place of going to
/ California. he would not pow be credite
with 80 performer. The man who
now selects high bred Morgan mares
to breed to his fashionably bred trotting
stallion is making no experiment.
Rubenstein, Jack, Dandy Jim, Alcidalia
and many others have helped to make
popular this cross; and the man who
selects true Morgan stallion. and the
more successful Morgan breeding he has
the better, and crosses on his fashion
ably bred trotting mares, will not have
TO breed twenty-five to get one good
one. The produce will be what buyers
are now seeking, a class of horses that
have the rare combination of beauty,
action, style and speed. ANCHOR.
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