BREEDING THE TROTTER 



are not likely to come from them. It is beyond 

 dispute that a horse which trots race after race 

 passes through a vitality-sapping ordeal. The 

 stallion that is trained, season after season, for 

 the purpose of forcing him down to the lowest 

 record made, goes through a continual strain which 

 necessarily takes from him something of the vigor 

 so important to the highest results in the stud. 

 The hard work of the track causes a waste of the 

 vital force, so much needed in perfect stock-get- 

 ting. I believe that the stallion which is over- 

 worked for the sake of a record has his ability for 

 reproducing speed weakened instead of increased, 

 and to show my sincerity on this point, to prove 

 my faith by my words, I offer the following chal- 

 lenge : 



A CHALLENGE. 



" I will trot this coming season heats, best two 

 in three, tinder the rules of the National Trotting 

 Association, over any good mile track, as con- 

 venient to reach by both parties as possible, four 

 of the get of Mambrino King (an undeveloped 

 stallion), foaled in 1885, bred, raised, devel- 

 oped and owned at Village Farm, against any 

 four of the same age, bred, raised, developed and 

 owned by the owner of any stallion having a 

 record of 2.22 or better, the said four to have been 

 sired after the stallion had obtained his fastest 

 record. I will make each of the four races for 

 from one to one thousand dollars a side, and I would 

 prefer that the challenge be accepted by the owner 



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