The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-15

keep the young horses going al
through the winter, when the tract
J condition would permit, but this win.
ter that has all been changed. An.
other change is in the trials. In form.
er seasons 1t has been usual to try the
/ yearlings for speed, and long before
I this date this or that yearling would
be credited with furlongs in better
than twelve second and quarters in
better than twenty three seconds.
This winter the same trainers who
formerly tried out their charges for
speed and kept them going more or
less all through the cold weather have
mad no real speed trails, and instead
OF keeping the youngsters going they
have been building paddocks for them
to run In until spring. The only real
special trials have been OF the year
lings that are for sale, and when the
prospective purchaser insisted upon
such test.
At Sheepshead Bay there are more
yearlings than ever before, and at the
same time there have been fewer
trials. There are more paddocks than
ever before and the new crop is gem
orally better-looking one. This sys-
tenn of permitting the yearlings to
run loose and harden in the cold
weather is one that has been follow
ed by r. Marsh, who trains the horses
OF Edward VII and while it may be
that the success of the horses in his
care have nothing to do with the pres
ent system OF the American trainers
the method is patterned after that Of
Egerton house, which has been emil
nently satisfactory.
Hildreth Likes Methods.
Sam Hildreth has made no pretense
of training or galloping his horses this
season and his constructed big pad
docks at Sheepshead Bay for them to
run about in, but he mas only one
yearling in his string, and the idea
OF permitting the horses to grow big
and strong does not apply with the
same force as it does to some of the
other establishments.
James Rowe, who mas a particularly
strong lot for the 2-year- old fixtures
or 1910, has the paddock idea, and the
keene 2-year-olds viii not be hot
house horses when they go to the post.
Wnen the yearlings reached Rowe
from the farm they were not in the
best of condition and after their ar
rival at Sheepshead Bay most Of
them were sick. This deferred the
trials until long after the time that
mad been usual, but when they were
finally asked to show off there was
not one Of the lot that was sent along
at top speed. There was nothing bet
ter than quarters in twenty four or
twenty-five seconds required, and at
the same time Rowe is better satisfied
with the lot than ne has been with
other strings of yearlings that showed
great deal more speed in the fall
Many Others Follow.
w. H. Karick, Charles Littleheld
(who is handling the ]. B. Haggin
yearlings), William Lakeland, william
Hurley and many others are following
the same plan, and there will be moth
Ing to say about the phenomenal speed
of yearlings this fall It is thought
That by permitting them to become big
and sturdy in the open during the
cold weather they will be in much bet
ter condition for the hard knocks OF
training when they are taken up In the
spring, and 1t is hard to find a trainer
that does not agree or the new order
of procedure.
With a moderately open spring the
youngsters can be fitted for the races
In ample time, and permitting them to
rough 1t in the cold months should re-
suit in sturdy lot that would wear
much better than the yearlings that.
while they are babbied, are drilled
more or less long before any occasion
exists for teaching them speed.