BREEDING THE TROTTER 



he got only forty per cent of his mares with foal. 

 The following season the percentage was sixty 

 and the next year seventy per cent, and in time 

 he became a sure foal getter, which he had been 

 previous to his hard racing campaign. Later, 

 when his produce came on, it did not surprise me 

 to find that his best performers were sired before 

 his severe training and racing season, although he 

 attracted the best mares after his reputation as a 

 race-horse was established. The good performers 

 that were sired after his retirement were foaled 

 several years after the severe campaign of 1881. 

 The following is the list of Almont Jr.'s fastest 

 performers gotten before 1881, with the year 

 indicated in which the dam of each was covered, 

 viz., Belle Hamlin (2.12%), 1878; Globe (2.14%), 

 1880; Maud T. (2.19^), 1876 and Justina (2.20), 

 (2.13 to pole), 1878. The following is the list of 

 the fastest performers gotten by Almont Jr. after 

 1881 : Wardwell (2.15), 1882; Ovid (3) (2.15^), 

 1888 \Glendennis (2.17 M), 1885 ; Play Boy (2.18^), 

 1884, and Lucretia (2.20), 1884. 



ALMONARCH. 



I noticed the same thing in connection with 

 Almonarch (2.24%). His season of 1883 on the 

 Grand Circuit was a severe one, and most of his 

 races were long-drawn-out affairs. In 1885 I had 

 him in charge and he was a well worn-out stallion. 

 He was bred to forty-two mares and got but fifteen 

 foals. The following season he stood on the farm 

 of J. D. Yeomans, East Aurora, N, Y,, and I 



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