BREEDING THE TROTTER 



and begins where it left off will not be left 

 behind. Messrs. Knox and Good, in my opinion, 

 have realized this better than any others, as will 

 be seen by reading a portion of the announce- 

 ment of their first catalogue, that of 1905 : 



" In establishing Ideal Stock Farm it has been 

 our aim to use, for foundation material, stallions 

 and brood-mares bred on the most advanced lines 

 and representing the results of the life work of the 

 man who accomplished more in the way of breed- 

 ing race-horses of extreme speed than any one 

 breeder. When the Village Farm was dispersed, 

 it was there we looked to secure the foundation 

 for the Ideal Stock Farm, for the reason that Vil- 

 lage Farm stood far in advance of all others in 

 the production of horses possessing, in combina- 

 tion with speed, the beauty of conformation which 

 enables them to win the highest honors in the 

 show ring where beauty and good individuality 

 are the qualities demanded." 



Mr. Hamlin's desire to combine beauty and 

 speed was born of an admiration, in the early 

 days, of such stallions as Ethan Allen and George 

 M. Patchen. 



Mr. Hamlin used to say : " When you go into 

 a ball-room you would much rather choose as a 

 partner a beautiful woman that can dance well 

 than a homely one that can dance equally 

 well." He held similar views concerning beauti- 

 ful horses with speed and horses with speed but 

 which did not come up to his standard of 

 beauty, 



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