Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-09-01

stations ever brought to the state.
He also owns "Cuizado," a son of
the great Mckinney" 2:11, who
sired more horses in the 2:10 list
than any living stallion.
And, Capt. c. P. Mccain, of Hood
River, not content with owning
"Patchen Boy" who got record of
2:1OA in a winning race. at three
years old, bought the famous Ken
lucky stallion, THE Bondsman," for
$4,000 about four months ago. So
anyone can see for himself that Ore
gon is fast coming to the front as a
big producer of fast trotting and
pacing horses.
The thoroughbred horse is almost
extinct in Oregon. One can recall
the day when Judge Bybee's great
filly Misty Morn" won the Oregon
Derby, and then went down to San
Francisco where she defeated all the
best three-year-olds in California. But
with Judge Bybee's death a change
came over the breeding of thorough
bred horses in this state. The purses
hung up to be run for at our race
meetings were all gobbled up by a
class of cheap selling platers from
California, owned and handled by a
class Of men who stopped at nothing
in their crooked designs.
Most of the races were run and
won over night, the first money go
/ ing to the caucus nominee. Bybee
was dead and there was no local man
to take his place and compel other
men to race fairly. So the spor,
ran down to such an extent that
most Of the fairs held in the state
give no prizes for gallopers at all
While others limit the amount to
500 which is no inducement for the
jobbers to come up here from Cali
fornia; and with all the tracks in
that state now closed indefinitely, ii
Is hard to say what those fellows
are going to do for living. Serves
them right. They killed the goose
which laid the golden egg.
Heavy draft horses have, however
attained a degree of perfection in
this state far beyond the most san
guine expectations of people engaged
in that branch of business. A Ken
tucky gentleman who visited Portland
some three months ago, said to the
writer:
81 never visited a city of Portland s
size that could honestly compare with
her In the matter of business horses
You naturally look for fine gentle
mems roadsters in city of so much
local wealth, but when you come tC
look at the express horses and dray
horses used in the Wholesale end o1
your city, you see what is to be seer
in no other city of Portlands size
1t speaks volumes for the enterprise
of your breeders"
The truth is that Oregon has three
big and capacious markets for all the
big work horses she can produce
Portland, Seattle and San Francisco
And the horse dealers of the latter
city are never slow about sending
here for just such horses as they
require.
Thus it will be seen that the horse
has entered largely into the spirit Of
Oregon. This Is only one Of the
many lessons which have beer
Learned over again because of the
Astoria Centennial Pageant, opening
August 10 and closing September 9
However, it was this celebration
which started the backward trend o
thought and gathered up the los
strings of time.
The coming Salem Fair, September
II to 16, will make evident the full
evelopment of the horse of today
or the best racers in the country
Jill be there for weeks program