The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-05-26

gest that owners choose some names
new to the game for new perform
ers. Many that are named, sold with
these names and ever known by
them, as originally, make speed un-
|expectedly and, once entered, it re-
|quires $50 to alter their title line. 1t
seems hard on the staff of the Trot-
ting Register and the Year Book COM
pliers, at least to me. And another
fashion to be cried down | believe
Ito be this custom of registering some
|animal to secure place in the Reg
lister, and to then, without cause 9TH
er than a desire to be independent,
race the animal under some other
name entirely.
Recently | had occasion to straight
en- out slight matter relative to
giving a producing mare the credit
of 2.25 trotter. AS a daughter has
two very fast ones to her credit, this
mare Ga superbly-bred one) now is a
great broodmare. We found the per-
former to be registered under an
entirely different name. His breed
horse and also raced him under the
new name without stating the regis
tered or true name in parenthesis.
All this term of year-10, l believe,
since the horse was outfits horse
was given to the proper sire, but
breeding untraced" annexed in. stat
listical tables.
Ac IF 70 c4 hi n
$500 daughter of Nutwood, 2.1S%
dam a record and quadruple producer
| by George Wilkes, 2.22, thence on to
the very stoutest thoroughbred blood
| in all the stud book, and a group
| tracing to this George Wilkes mare
have records from 2.05H at four to
l2.10, a fairly creditable showing, and
all because an owner did not fancy
the name originally chosen and, with
out notifying the registrar, changed
| to please. 1t is entirely pleasing
that, accidentally quite, learned the
facts so as to clear up the matter
satisfactorily.
1t never seems hard lines to a SEN
timentalist as he Journeys about big
farms, to have the owner or his SUI
perintendent remark on opening a
stall door: she worked in PIP for
us, but we wished to breed her, so
did not start her." Here is a PIP per-
former actually denied both its sire,
its dam and the man who got it to
that creditable notch And yet, many
times, undoubtedly, it is because of
so much adverse criticism anent "tin-
cupping" them few seasons back.
1t ever seems deplorable that many
, that broke down ere they could take
record were denied their sires, dams
and farms where bred, yet where one
sees absolutely sound ones retired
that had sensational speed, even
though, possibly, not real bulldogs
in matter of repeating, it always is
the more to be regretted.
Horse Breeding FlOurishing.
Judging from the full books which
nearly all the great trotting stations
which are in the stud will get this
year, the branch of horse breeding
devoted to the trotter has never been
in a more flourishing condition than
It is at the present time. Owners OF
good mares do not seem to hesitate
to ship their matrons hundreds OF
miles to mate them with noted stall
lions. 10 years ago many mares were
shipped from the Northern States to
Kentucky to be mated with the fam
Gus sires owned there, but now, while
the Kentucky sires are well patron
LIKED by northern breeders, they have
Inc monopoly in that respect and tc
the great sires located in the North
mot only are many mares from the
Northern States shipped, but also a
number from Kentucky. When the
;owner of the famous California stall
lion Zombro, 2.11, announced during
the winter that he had decided tc
keep that horse at Columbus, O., dur
ling his third years stud season many
breeders asserted that he had made
a serious. mistake; that he ought
to have taken him to Kentucky
Breeders nowadays, however, recog-
nize worth in a sire regardless OF
his location a statement that is upheld
by the announcement that something
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