Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-26
AMERICAN HORSES.
Great Growth of the Export Trade
Yankee Trainers in Demand.

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From the Scientific Amrri, ~.
In Europe today not n single country
raises enough horses to meet it's own actual
demand in times Of peace. and the facili-
ties for breeding and raising horses are
growing poorer every year There are few
good grazing lands and stock -brc, ding
farms in Europe where horses can be raised
on large scale, and. consequently. this
country becomes more and more the land
for keeping the European armies supplied
with their proper compliment of horses and
mules.
In recent years the American trotterg and
fine carriage horses have become important
factors in the export trade, and. whtreas
a few decades ago such a thing an
American horse was hardly to be found
abroad. today We have a steady stream OF
them going to all the European centers
Not even Russia has hesitated Ia avail
herself of our best blooded stock although
for years the Orion strain of trotting stock
held complete supremacy in the minds OF
the cars patriotic citizens. But loyalty
to a ruling house cannot forever last and
the best thing the Russian horse lovers
could do was TO import American stations
for crossing with their Orloff breed. and
then get a few American breeders and
trainers to go over and show them how the
Americans did it. So We have today not
only American horses and trotters in album
dance In Russia, but American trainers and
breeders practically in control OF the royaI
stables and stock farms. Each year a
good-sized consignment Of the best Ameri-
can trotters go abroad TO add new blood
and speed to the cars stock
Germany, next to England. is probably
one of our best European customers for
horses, and there is steady. healthy de-
mand from that country that promises to
continue and develop indefinitely as the
years go by. The American trotting horses
at the Vienna race tracks are rot only fea-
lures of the exhibitions, but they capture
a lar Of h., ri
no better way to advertise American horses
and methods Of training than to take a
few of them abroad and enter the races In
competition with the European horses
France became so jealous OF our success
in this line her native soil that she
practically prohibited foreign horses from
entering the races. In fact, today very few
French races are open to horses from OF her
countries, and the French sportsmen have
this show practically all to themselves: but
fortunately for them the small glory at
tached to restricted competition of this
character makes IL almost an empty honor
However, a good many French horse men
are purchasing American trotters and In
roundabout way getting the American
horses to the front in the home races. In
time IT will be necessary for the sake OF
the sport to open the races TO more gen
eral competition.
A good many American horses are sent
to Belgium, and then they are taken across
to France, and within very short time ap-
pear on the French turf as home-bred
horses.
Italy, Denmark and Holland are good
buyers of our trotting horses and the an
nual shipments to these countries are con-
siderable, while far-off New Zealand and
Australia make small drafts upon our re-
sources. To see that these American trot-
tiers exported are as represented. the Ma
tional Trotting Association has export Of
fees In number of our seaports to issue
certificates of pedigrees and identity TO the
hieh-grade horses Skipped. This is to pre-
vent fraud, and thus ininry m tho A,a.rg--
can horse trade in foreign countries and,
1t was first suggested by the European
trotting associations. Several thousand
certificates have been issued TO hish-class
racing stock, but these do not include the
trotting-bred roadsters or fine carriage
horses.