The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-12-17

greatest Thoroughbred mr. mnfurp
yenrs BY Man O'Wnr. the outstandIn.
champion among tn, two-ycar-oida
and by. Mad Halter. and OF Mr.. Han.
cock, reference has already been made
Major Hitchcock has won distinction
these twenty-five years as developer
II croSx-country performers. Mr. Clark.
like Mr.. Hitchcock, has been aasocIat.
ed With steeplechasing IN the east, and
he has In the course Of the last two
years rendered signal service and with
out compensation 10 the army as a
civilian member Of the wartime re-
mount board Major Strawbridge and
Major Claiming have spent the bet
ter pnrt Of quarter Of a century de-
veloplng horses Of the so-called hunter
type. which are the sort that have rem
dered the most efficient service TO the
armies Of France and England In the
world struggle for liberty. Since the
civilian m mbership Ia to be perma-
nent II Is inevitable that the influence
Of the civilian members will be power
full, II II IL not controlling. In To
shaping of the policy of the remor q
board.
To-Day the remount board, as regards
both the military and civilian ele-
ments. Is unit on the proposition that
the association between effective M
tional defense and the two types of
horses that have not succumbed to
the overwhelming competition of the
automobile and the motor truck, which
Americans call thoroughbreds-the
runner and the trotter--ls of sovereign
Importance. The board 10 agreed to
n man that not only must there be no
farther interference through the
agency of legislation hostile to horse
racing, state or national, with the con-
tlnuous production of runners and trot-
ters, but that the government mast find
means. as was suggested by the bu-
reau of animal industry as far back as
1911, Of stimulating the production OF
running and trotting types.
Racing to be Encouraged.
II the running and trotting types
were not the only light types availabl-
for the work Of creating special army
horse, It would be necessary to give
them the biggest roles in the scheme
of military horse supply because they
are tougher and more enduring than
other types. The life Of the thor
oughbred runner, Independently Of
casualties, in France between 1914 and |!
lplS WIS twenty-one days. The life OF !
the haif-bred was about seventeen
days. The life of the trott-r was about ;
fifteen days. rhe ordinary cold-blood- !
ed horse lasted no more than -four or
five days The trotter more nearly ap-
proaches the so-c;llled running thor
or2hbrVd In quality than any other
Hight horse known in this or IN any ,
other country, because the basic stock i
of the trotting and pacing families was
The trotting and pacing
families were founded about century /
ago by The thoroughbred sfallfons Mes
senger aud Mainbrino, and their bottom
Inns been sustained from time to time
by fresh infuxions Of thoroughbred
blood, mainly on the distaff side. I
There aae more thoroughbred run
nrrs and rrutters available for this
work OF national defense than there
are horses OF other breeds because the.
maintenance OF running and harness
racing by individual enterprise, in spite
Df the difficulties tll-advised aud half
baked legislation In various parts Of
tie COUNTY, impose, has served to make
the continued production Of thorough
bred runners and rioters profitable
10 farmers and stoc+men. The ftrln
tractor and the automobile AMI 40 :