The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-04-24
MT STERLING. KENTUCKY. TUESDAY APRIL "a 1900
The Hackney In Harness.

To the Breeders Gszette.-Many
people claim that breeding horses is
nothing but lottery, aud one never
knows what union Of two fine indi-
viduals will bring forth. We wait in
expectancy for the foal, hoping that
it may be all that is desired if # fails
TO come up TO the standard we expect
we do not feel very much discouraged
and we simply return the mare and
90 gu hoping fsr better results. This
is the theory many breeders work on
and with some breeds no other theory
is possible. II man sets out to breed
carriage horses he should first of an
get d. Typical carriage-horse stallion.
He should choose his mares by Gem.
pairing them with his stallion, getting
them as near the carrisge-horse type
as possible. He may then expect ia
vorable results.
Have we any accepted type of car
riage horse? And what is the type {?
The accepted type of carriage horse is
no other than the Hackney type. The
Hackney is the carriage horse par ex
cellence. Compare them by the hum
dred with any other breed, and the
percentage in favor of the Hackney is
simply overwhelming. The dealers
in New York own to this; when de-
scribing a trOtting-bred carriage
horse they will impress on You that
he is "Hsckney-made oue," i'm spite
of his trotting lineage, aud why should
not they give the Hackney credit, see
ing that it was the Hackney that edu-
Gated them as 20 what constitute the
ideal carrisge-horae in action, weight
and conformation There are good,
bad and Indifferent Hackneys, AS there
are in all breeds, but any good Hack
ney stallion will sire AN average OF
seveuty-fvo per cent of typical car
riage-hCrscs from Hackney msiss.
What he will do on other than Hack
uey mares depends entirely ON the
Judgment OF The mau who mansges.
The Hackney horse reproduces HIM
self, he cannot help doing so, for he
has been bred for generations by men
who all had The same purpose ga view,
10 wit, The production of class OF
horse. having style, action and coufol-
nation, and with the ability to pull
heavy vehicle at fair rate of speed.
AS harness horses The mares are as
good as tie geldings of this breed.
Can we claim the same for the trot-
Jing-bred carriage-horse? The rec
ords of show ring winners does not
show it, All the winners have been
geldings, in other words they were
"stags." The champion of the New
York Show, OF 1899, Red Cloud, is
stallion; where are the mares The
only answer to this is that but very
lew trotting-bred mares have sub
stance enough to fill the bill. II the
trotters are as good csrriage-horses as
the Hackneys, the mares should be as
good as the gedings.
What of the Hackney mares? We
have seen Dsgmar and Her Majesty
win in harness, Spoons, White Socks,
Kitty Glen, Miss Glen, Madge Ken
dali and Queen OF Action, Elegance,
Portia and Jessica, Eccles Wonder,
and those two great young mares, The
Squaw and Princess Olga, by Enthorpe
Performer. The odds were always
against them, yet they won, as did
the geldings of this breed-Lesder,
the Scotchman, Butcher, Blszeaway,
Tomnoddy, Histogs, Storm King,
His Grace and many others, includ-
ing the great stallion, Starlight that
danced away from everything last
year under fifteen hands, being beat
en- only by that phenomenal horse
Lord Brilliant.
AT the National horse show held in
New York last November the Hack
uey horse demonstrated his superiori-
ty beyond question or doubt. Fifty
per cent OF the Hackueys shown ia
harness won prizes, whereas only five
per cent of trotting-bred horses shown
got inside the ribbons. Could an
thing be more plain?
A. MAR.
Suffolk county, L. L., N. Y.