DR. LKGEAR'S STOCK HOOK. 11 



in Lexington, Ky., to Kuropean parties, for the sum of $98,800, 

 and shipped on the steamship Prussia to Vienna, Austria. 



"The great success that has been attained by Woodburn and 

 kindred farms is very largely due to the fact that they have per- 

 sistently claimed that speed follows blood, and have insisted that 

 their stallions <;nd mares should be of the highest breeding. 

 These are the only lines upon which very great success can be 

 assured. The short, or half-bred, animal will occasionally pro- 

 duce speed, bill not with uniformity. To reach the highest pin- 

 nacle of success, a breeder must determine that the choicest ani- 

 male he raises are too good to sell and must be kept for breeding. 



"If you will start with the best-bred ones that you can com- 

 mand, and intelligently grow and educate their offspring for a 

 few generations, reserving always the best, we may yet produce 

 not only the 2:00, but the 1:50, trotter on Texas soil, and I hope 

 upon the Lomo Alto farm. 



"When our colts have long lines of successful speed-producers 

 01; the side of both sire and dam with size, substance, intelli- 

 gence, docility and sp^ed, that trot naturally and with little 

 training the type of the American trotter will be fixed, and the 

 wealthy world will take at handsome figures all that we can raise. 

 The breeder who will cause 500 bushels of oats and 10 tons of 

 hay to produce a horse worth from $500 to possibly many thou- 

 sands of dollars, instead of a horse worth from $25 to $100, will 

 make a fortune for himself and set an example that should be 

 worth millions to his countrymen." 



In selecting a stallion or a mare for breeding purposes, see 

 that they arc of a kind disposition, good form, size and action, 

 and free from all hereditary diseases, as heaves, roaring, ophthal- 

 mia, rupture, spavin, ring-bone, weak feet, curby hocks, etc. The 

 colt may not be born with any of these diseases, but if the sire 

 or dam is affected with one or more of them, the colt is liable to 



