BREEDING THE TROTTER 



watched the outcome closely. He was bred to 

 fifty odd mares and got about thirty foals. In 

 1887 he was bred to sixty-two mares and got 

 about forty-five foals. After that time, with rest 

 and care, he proved as sure as the average stal- 

 lion. Previous to his severe campaign he had 

 been a very sure foal getter. The dam of Topsey 

 (2.091/2), Almonarch's fastest trotter, was covered 

 twelve years after his retirement. Homora, the 

 dam of Fantasy (2.06), and Satory, the dam of 

 Mandolin (2.16) and grandam of Dare Devil (2.09), 

 were both gotten in 1881, before the severe cam- 

 paign. The register gives Satory as foaled in 

 1884. This is incorrect, she was foaled in 1882. 

 Her dam, Mollie O, produced Golconda, by Mam- 

 brino King, in 1884. 



Almont Jr. and Almonarch are two good ex- 

 amples of the deteriorating effect a severe cam- 

 paign has on a stallion for from three to five years 

 afterwards. I know of a number of other stal- 

 lions which could be cited as examples, but the 

 reader may draw his own conclusions. Mention 

 could be made of many hard-raced stallions to 

 which breeders flocked, after those horses had 

 made arduous Grand Circuit campaigns, that have 

 not proved successful sires, or did not, until 

 many seasons after their retirement from the turf. 

 Of course there are exceptions to all rules and 

 once in a while you will run across a fast trotter 

 gotten by an over-developed sire soon after his 

 retirement from the turf. Such a trotter is often 

 found to be from a mare of great vitality or was 



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