The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-11
HORSE FAMINE AFTER
THE WAR IS OPINION
OF M|llARD SANDERS
FAMOUS TRAINER AND MANAGER
OF SoUTHSlDE PARK TRACK
URGES MORE BREEDING.
war IS DESTROYING STOCK
Demand After the War is Going to be
Great and Owners in America Can
Command Their Own Price for
Good Horses.

Good Horses.
The supply Of good horses is being
depleted by the war and breeding in
Europe and America is almost at
Standstill. The result will be, in the
opinion of Willard Sanders, famous
trainer and manager of the Southside
park track, that owners of good horses
after the war can command their own
prices. America will be the only
place in the world where horses can
be obtained and there is no better
place than Maury county to prepare
for the demand that is sure to come.
Supporting his position relative to
the depletion of horses by the war
Mr.. Sanders quoted as follows from
the Trotter and PAGER:
Save the horse and breed" was the
slogan of several of the great special
izing horse breeding associations at
meetings held in Chicago during the
week of the International. The event
that brought together the greatest
and most notable of Americas live
stock men, and the grandest show of
horses in the history of the country,
gave opportunity for discussion of the
problem of the war in relation to the
horse.
At the Belgium Society's banquet,
speaker after speaker dealt with this
topic. 1t was touched upon at the
meetings Of the Percheron Society
and the Shire Horse Society. These
successful and hard headed special
lists viewed the steady drain of horse
supplies in Britain, France, Italy and
Germany, and the expectations from
Scandinavia due to the war, together
with the vast losses of animals on
the Western Front and formed the
opinion that Europe will experience
great scarcity Of horses after the war.
They further believe that any surplus
in America before the war was rapidly
dwindling, and that as America was
now the chief source of supply for all
the Allies the prospect ahead was one
Of scarcity. From many shrewd
breeders came the advice to save all
the youngsters and mares; to breed
every good mare during 1918, for
after the war America will be called
upon to export horses in vast num-
bers for the restocking Of Europe. The
end of the war would give to the
horse breeders of America an oppor-
tunity such as might never occur
again.
Amongst the speakers at the meet
ings was Richard C. Craven. Field
Director of the American Red Star
Animal Relief. He pointed out that
while agriculture was rendering a
service of the greatest patriotism in
conserving the horse in the United
States and in breeding for future
needs, it was even more important
right now to save every possible horse
on the battle fronts. This war called
for continuous supply of nearly five
million horses and mules. An infan'
try regiment required one horse for
every four men, and every horse that
was killed must be replaced by one
from America. Veterinary surgery
and care for animals had never in
the history of world warfare reached
such a high state Of efficiency as in
the present war. Although the mum
Der of horses killed in France was as
high as five thousand day, the mum
Der of sick and wounded animals
cured and returned to service was one
~ tho wOn1era of the campaign,