The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-13
HOW TO BREED
FAST TROTTERS
Views Of Judge Kline Are Out Of
Ordinary.
PEDIGREE OF Lou DILLON
CHAMPION TROTTER COMES
FROM COMMON RAGING STOCK.

II. j. Kline. when seen on his return
from his official tour on the grand cir
cit i'm Chicago last week. md asked
his opinion Of the breeding of the new
champion tTotter Lou Dillon. had this to
say;
Lou Dillon is certainly bred outside the
channel prescribed by the critics for
breeding fast horses. She lnherlts quite
a lot OF what we call trotung blood. Ana
she likewise inhCritS lot OF blood that
we don't know what TO call. But that is
neither here nor there In my opinion
she IS quite as well bred as "a great host
OF other trOttefS that are M the Register
under the very hlSnesJ st0hoarq Iule.
I'm other words, she is well enough bred
Tor me
81 never did care a lot for the blood
that couldn't stem out on the race track
and DO things. These pedigrees that you
can only frame and that you can't get
the money with never did interest me,
except as an opportunity to study human
I nature As q rule, while the owner OF
one Of those pedigrees is telling the pub
lie about lts many virtues and is keep
ing still about its inability to cop out
the coin some trOtter like Lou Dillon Is
gObbiing the worlds record or winning
all the big stakes. And there is where
tho Lou Dillon lesson should go nome TO
a raft of breeders Their stations and
brood mares ninth-seVen crosses 10 m
ported Messenger, all leading up the back
ALLEYS instead of the main road, are al
right for purposes or p4ohcauon curing
the stud season. But they ought 10 Dc
wrapped in moth balls the day me Dell
} rings for the first race down the grand
! circuit.
Facts About Lou Dillon.
Now. what are the facts about Lou
Dillon that have a bearing on the efforts
Of the breeders to produce the two-nlin-
/ ute trOtter? One Of them is, ana no
amount of hedging viii get you away
from it, that il she had been offered Tor
/ sale as a yearling, on her breeding alone
I her owner would have had to dig for his
! life to get a buyer at a hundred or less
! If, i'm 1901. her sire had been taken to any
great breeding center in the world ne
/ would have attracted about as much at
/ tention as a crossroads orchestra billed
/ To play as a rival attraction to Sousa
/ band
/ down the line last year. and was show
ing lightning speed every time he turned
her around. the real wise men of the
/ trotting-hOrse world shook their heads
and said she wouldn't do. They looked up
what little is known Of her breeding
which was that the breeder who combined
the blood of Sidney with the blood Of
] Happy Medium. and expected to get any
thing out of it but a counterfeit, ought
! to be put into the detention hospital De
( fore he contracted the habit OF embez-
Zling his own money.
I but now Lou Dillon has gone and done
! II, not in any half-hearted. pleaSe-carry-
/ ELECTROMAGNETIC sort Of way but
,
J ter in ~ seconds. And what is the re-
/ suit? Every Tom Dick and Harry who
/ can get his stuff into print is telling the
| world that Lou Dillon represents the re-
/ suit of a century of progress in the breed
/ ing Of the American trotter, when. as q
matter of cold fact. the blood that pro-
duced her was laid on the shelf, by the so
called advanced breeders, ten years ago.
/ Even the wonderful dOings Of the Sidney
| colts and the marvellous performances OF
] Nancy Hanks were insufficient to stem
! the tide, and the SidneyS and the Happy
! Mediums were relegated to the rear ranks
I with an apology for every appearance OF
/ their blood in a pedigree.
| Talk as we may now. that was the
verdict Of the wise men. And if we want
60 stick 10 the truth we had as well adj
init that when we take up the pedigree
of Lou Dillon we fail to find anything in
IL that can be twisted into encouragement
Tor those who are today endeavoring to
breed the fastest trOtters and PAGERS.
AS Regards Blood Lines.
! so FAR as I am concerned. the blood
lines OF the mare don't interest me at ALL
| thing to attract the attention Of the pub
lie. has just as good blood as produced
/ Lou Dillon. And he has just as much OF
a chance to breed the next world beateI
as the breeder of that trottins machine
ever had
Since the advent of the bike suIky we
have had five new champion trotters. OF
the five, three were sired by stations that
any breeder would have bet 100 to
{
a stallion thar was supposed TO have out
lived his usefulness and had been put into
the list Of sireS for which the apology Is
usually made that their blood Is all right
in brood mares, but cannot be depended
upon for anything else. The fifth was
bred foF "A champion. But ! can't find
many people now who We're enthuset
over him. great horse that he surely was
Summing it all up, Lou Dillon has upse
about all the theories of breeding thai
have been rampant for the past dOzeI
years She is the wonder of the world
/ and yet when her breeding Is given z
cold analysis the analyzer is forced Il
admit that If she is bred for two-min
ute trotter. then the books and most o
the teachers are dead wrong. But Lol
Dillon is it and threatens to remain 1T
Tor some time. The trOtter that lowers
her record viii probably come from Z
source as unexpected as that which pro
duced her All of which but serves to EN-
phasize the glorious uncertainty of breed
ing the trotter And. after al IS saiG anc
done that very uncertainty is its chic
charm
But YOU will admit that the breedin,
Of the new champion points the way 70
the breeder TO go in his future opera
/ tons? was suggested
! IN admit nothing. for when the mex
champion comes I'd probably have to TAX
III il ali back