The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
United States Exported More
Fast Animals in 1910 Than
in Previous Years.
PURCHASES INDICATE BIG
INTEREST In BREEDING
Horsemen Expected to CurtaiI
Their Readiness in Parting
With Best Stations.
By JAMES z. pockBRALL.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune
NEW YORK, Jan. l4.-Opinion is di.
vided as TO whether or not the big
European demand for high-bred horses
is good thing for American racing and
trotting interests. There is an Gle
ment here who blame anti-race track
legislation for the heavy expectation
OF American horses
Export statistics for 1910 show that
we have sold more trotters TO foreign
ers than in any past year. and per
haps at higher average prices than for
mer records will show. Export certifi-
Gates, issued by David Bonner. show
reached and that the number taken
away is more than two hundred. In
some points the exports during the
year Just closed differ from those Of
former years, the chief feature being
that, while previously, as rule, for
eigners aimed to buy the best in point
OF fast records and fashionable breed
ing, this year standard bred horses and
mares of so-called ordinary classes have
found their wP- to foreign countries.
Some foreign nations who formerly
did not cut a prominent figure in our
horse market came over during the past
wear and carried away in larger num-
Der than ever before, noticeable among
them being the Cape of Good Hope and
y
away nearly one hundred head
The standardized horses exported
are trotters exclusively, with two ex
ceptions, and all either stations or
mares. Judged by the quality of the
stock sought by foreign buyers. il is
apparent that, while speed formerly
was the main attraction, the purpose Of
breeding and raising horses of their
own is now the chief aim of breeders
I \ nj rria n
| ing stock will be in greater demand in
| the future.
! That the foreign buyers are posted
unon breeding lines and pedigTces cE
our trotters is demonstrated by the
selections they have made. and the
fact that they have commenced buy
ing young stock is an indication that
the value of the American standard
bred horse for the Improvement OF
! their respective horse stock is now
fully appreciated.
Among the horses taken out of this
country are several as fast and fash
ionably bred young stations as for
merly, and now that the day has ar
rived when mares of high breeding arc
being bought for export in large nuni-
bers. and apparently at brisk de-
mand, the oft-discussed question wheth-
| er we can stand the constant drain
I without iniuring our breeding opera
| tions in the future is once more brought
to the attention of thinking breeders
of the country in most forcible man
ner
+ When foreigners took away a large
number of our trotting stations and
comparatively few mares our breeders
did not see much danger, although we
have sold stations which should have
never left this country; but now that
mares of such breeding as we need
TO produce and improve our horse stock
are going in large numbers, the export
question takes serious aspects in
spite of the fact that the returns in
cash to producers are large and tempt
ing
Could foreign buyers he tempted to
take away some of our constantly in
creasin~ paeers or such mares and stall
lions that produce them. there would
be little thought of danger of any
decrease in the production of trotters:
but under existing conditions practical
breeders and horsemen must of neces-
sity pay some attention to our export
trade and TO some extent curtall their
readiness in parting with their best
stations, and particularly the class OF
mares which we can use to great ad-
/ vantage