Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-10
PRODUCING EARLY SPEED.
Some of the Fastest Youngsters Come
 from Mares We'll Along in Age.

The proprietor of the leading stock farms of the country, when recently importuned To buy a certain brood
 mare, is reported to have refused to
 buy on the ground that the mare was no longer young, and stated that he was deSirouS of breeding early speed. His contention was that the way to produce futurity winning colts was to breed them from young mares; that the matrons with the weight of years would fail to be as successful in the production of fast youngsters as those of more tender years. A famous statesman once said that the only way to judge the future was by the past, and the history of the star two and three year old tTOtters hardly bears out the contention of this breeder. Just as test, a western writer investigat-
 ed the ages of the dams of the three
 year old trOtterS and the 19 year old trotters which have taken records of 2.10 or better, and find that in the
 case of the year Olds the figures are all in favor of the older matrons, the
 when the colts were foaled being 15.2 years. while the average age of the
 dam of the 19 3 years olds when the colts were foaled is 10.1 years.
 Native Belle with a year old rec
 ord of POT 3-4, is the worlds cham pion of her age, and her dam, Yellow
 Belle, or Julia D. C., as sine is named
 in the official records, produced her when she was 15 years old. Miss Stokes. with a year old record of
 2.09 IA, was foaled when her dam, Til
 lie Thompson, was 15 while that great
 brood mare Expectation (dam also of Maj. Delmar, 1.59 34, was IS years old when she foaled the worlds cham
 pion year old colt, Justice Brooke
 2.09 1-2. It is a peculiar coincidence that the dams of the three year oids
 which have beaten 2.10 should have
 produced these speed marvels at prac- ticany the same age.
 The year oids show no such uni- fornnity in their dams. The mothers of these 19 21O , year oIds, when the colts were foaled, ranged in age from 3 years to 20. The believer in young dams can find much to bolster his ar gument in the fact that Flossie Me Gregor, dam of the worlds champion
 3 year old. Colorado E.. was but 4 years old when she produced that won Native Belle, who this season as a 2
 year old reduced her record to 2.06 1-2, the worlds record for year old Allies, was foaled when her dam was 15. Car
 pet the dam of Gen Watts. 2.06 3-4
 who until dethroned by Colorado E,
 was the, king of year olds, produce the son of Axworthy when but years
 old Miss Pratt produced The Lead ing Lady, 2.07, former queen of year
 old Allies, when she was 10. Orianna,
 CfIe OILY lldFe to pIOuute IHO A-1V 2 year olds, was IS years old when she
 foaled Czareyna POT IA. whose record in race is the fastest by a 3 year old filly-and 19 when Grace 2.08, winner of the last Kentucky futurity. was produced.
 Virginia Reynolds dam of Baroness Virginia. POS IA, winner of the Ken
 lucky Futurity in 1909, was 10 years
 old when the famous roan lilly was foaled. Homora, dam of Fantasy (3l, POS 3-4, the first 3 year old to beat
 210. and who for IT years was the champion of her age, was when the famous daughter of Chimes first saw
 the light That famous 1natron, Pa ronola, dam also of that wonderful race horse, Country Jay, POT 1-4, pro- duced Kentucky Todd, POS 3-4, year
 old champion colt for three weeks, when F. The trotting queen. Lou Dil- lon, 1.5s 1-2, when years old foaled Lou Billings, who took a record of POS 3-4 the last season.
 The Harvester, now the stallion champion, who took 3 year old rec ord of POS 3-4, was foaled by Noteler at the age of G.
 These figures prove nothing in par ticular any more than that there can be ITO est rule as to age in breeding no more than there can be in blood lines; futurity winners sometimes come from the most unexpected sourc- es, while the breeder who appears to be justified in expecting to breed 9 champion is more frequently than not doomed to disappointment. If win ners could be bred from a formula, that element of chance which makes the game worth while would be lacking. AS John Mccartney, a former well known turf scribe, replied to a ques- tioner: "The only sure way of breed ing 2.10 trotter is just keep breeding until you get one.'
 
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