The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14

CTS Importers Association has set aside SzC00 for special prizes for .Percherons al the Worlds Fair, This sum will be di- vided into thirty-seven prizes to provide a number of classes for the special sr- courage ment of American breeders.
 The National French Draft Horse As- sociation has offered $1,OOO in Worlds Fair special prizes for that breed.
 The total amount in regular and spe- cial prizes for Percheron and French Draft horses is $15,410.
 An exceedingly interesting feature of the horse display will be the imported Arabians or Barbs. The Arabian Horse Breeders Association was recently formed for the purpose of. bringing this fiery steed of the Sahara into prominence at the Worlds Fair, and thereby exploit the Oriental blood and type in America. The Arabian horse is admittedly one of the most perfect of equine types. and many attempts have been made in the last twenty-five years to improve the speed and stamina of the thoroughbred race horses by fresh infusons of Arab blood, but the result has always demon strated the undoubted superiority of the modern British and American racer that has been evolved by long scientific breed- ing. The Arabian steed is the horse of art and romance. around which clusters the mystery of the Orient; but, so far, he is always excelled by oIner specially bred types, as the thoroughbred can out run him, the trotting bred horse can out distance him, the saddle horse of Ken lucky Is his superior for riding, the western bronco excels him for polo or military service, and for heavy draft he cannot be compared to the Percheron, Clydesdale or Shire horse. -.
 Randolph Huntington, Colonel Spencer Borden, J. A. P. Ramsdell and Ii. K. Bush-Brown, all known in horse circles, are identified with the present Arabian movement. Mir. Huntington, a quarter of century ago, attempted to regener- ate the American trotting' horse by unit ing the blood of Wadsworth's Henry Clay, himself g. remote descendant of the imported Arabian or Barb, Grand Ba- shaw, with that of the modern Arabians He produced a few very handsome horses, but they were fiat failures as trotters and sold at scrub prices under the auctioneer's hammer. But MT. hunt ington and his friends have not given up hope that they can finally produce good results, and it is announced that the new Breeders Association will start stud book for Arablans and America Arabs, the latter being the name given to the breed established by MT Hunting ton. An effort will made to promote a more general cultivation of Arabians and Americo-Arabs, ana in order to fos- ter this movement both types will be represented in fine exhibition at the Worlds Fair. It is believed that no stud book for Arabian horses is now in exist ence in any country. Their pedigrees can be recorded in the English and American stud books for thoroughbred race horses, but a separate registration bureau has never been maintained in either country.
 The mule. which 'has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity," will be accorded unusual honors at the Worlds Fair, for at last this useful animal has found a true friend in Chief Coburn, who will take advantage of the unpar- alleled opportunity to do the mule and all mule-kin full justice. One of Mir. Co., burns first recommendations to the fair management was to so enlarge the mule classihcation that he could congregate the nnest array of asses ever seen in the world. The Worlds Fair of 1904 will set new standards in many ways, and MT. Coourn will be able to include in these standards those that belong to the ]ack ana Jennet and on down to the just plain mule'
 The mule certainly deserves recogni- tion, for he has been an important fac tor in civilization. The large sugar mule the smallest mule, the pack mule and ambulance mule of the army, the draft mule for the dray, the mule for the cot ton field the sure-footed burro for the mountain road, in short. any mule whose services have been proved in times of war or peace will have chance to cap ture a blue ribbon at the Worlds Fair. And if he doesn't approve of the decision of the judges he will be allowed to exer- else his time-honored prerogative tof kicking.
 It is quite fitting that this greatest mule display ever given should take place in St Louis. for this city is the largest mule market of the world It was St. Louis that furnished nearly all the mules for Uncle Sams packtrains and ambulance wagons in the Yanko- Spanko war, and did the same thing for the British in the Boer war.