Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1909-09-24

posed by his boasting OF the long
line OF performing and producing
ancest ~ OF a we'll bred one that may
chance 10 fail into his hands.
Three are none SO poor but what
they can acquaint themselves with
the history of sires that have establI-
shed families of repute, and il obli-
WON is sought it will surely come TO
the breeder who attempts To gamble
on the uncertainty Of breeding TO a
stallion not bred In standard lines
While il is true that many dams of
unknown breeding have produced
speed i'm theii offspring it will near.
ly Always be found that individual
merit OF those dams in action or con-
formation was the cause that promp-
ted the owners 10 try the experiment
OF breeding in standard lines, and il
is the merest twaddle of a fellow to
point TO that product and pose as a
Solomon for having departed from
the usual lines. Such wiseacres are
prominently qualified To cover much
space in telling the public i'm print
or the painstaking breeder by letter
how little they know about the
breeding problem. Their slushy
'suffusions" are nauseating because
they are the gaseous exhalations of
empty heads, inflated by accidental
success.
A richly bred stallion may make a
poor man independently rich, but no
man in an intelligent community
can at this day get patronage from
breeders OF harness horses il his stall
zion is not eligible to registra ion.
The owner or breeder who "don L
care how they are bred Just so thew
90" never did take rank among in
telligent breeders OF the harness
brigade. He may be noted for the
length OF his bristles and his swinish
piopensities may keep him in The
game for brief period while his I'M
known dam product fills his Golfers.
No lover of harness horse ever lived
that would not welcome the know
ledge of the true source OF speed i'm
every meritorious producer OF perfor-
mer, and the greater the intellectual
ity of the breeder the greater will be
his ambition to know and impaIt
information for the perfection OF a
higher type of harness horse.
Why should not the standard bred
horse be more highly esteemed than
all others when we recall his ACHE
vements shown by recent records
He has com peted and won blue
libbons under the saddle over the
registered saddle horse.
He can travel faster and farther
under saddle or in harness than any
other horse that ever lived.
He holds and has held the world S
records since 1856 over the saddle
horse for speed under the saddle.
He is in fact the only genuine
general purpose horse ever bred in
any age.
He is the only stallion patronized
by mares sent from foreign counties.
He has caused the most sagacious
breeders IN Kentucky TO abandon
other breeding enterprises and breed
exclusively in standard lines.
He is attracting foreign buyers
II IN all civilized countries.
He has turned the tide OF profit 10
American breeders over the importa-
ton of any and all other breeds. He
Is sold AT much greater average prices
to foreign buyers than any other
animal ever bred in this OF any other
country.
1t is notable fact that foreigners
are critical buyers on pedigrees as
well as performances. They do care
how he is bred, and they know that
good breeding is the surest guaratnee
of good performances
Nj. s. HOLT, Weston, w. Va.