BREEDING THE TROTTER 



I would not presume to limit you to any par- 

 ticular blood line for there are many successful 

 strains. 



THE STALLION'S SIRE. 



I prefer the sire of a stallion to be a horse known 

 to possess great natural speed and descended from 

 a line of stallions known to possess great natural 

 speed. If the sire of the horse which you are con- 

 sidering was raced severely and campaigned to 

 death, I advise you to make sure his son was 

 gotten either before his severe campaigns or from 

 three to five years after his retirement from the 

 turf. The sire of your stallion, if old enough, 

 should be a successful producer of speed, and in 

 all events descended from a line of successful 

 producers of speed. By a successful speed-pro- 

 ducing sire I do not mean a horse that has sired 

 a large number in the 2.30 list with but a small 

 percentage of good race-horses, nor a sire that has 

 sired just one or two fast performers. A truly 

 successful sire is one that gets a fair proportion 

 of speed from every crop of colts. The best way 

 to compare sires is by the amount of money their 

 produce win at the races. The time is bound to 

 come when more attention will be given to statis- 

 tics in this direction and less attention will be 

 paid to the number of a horse's 2.30 or 2.20 per- 

 formers. The sire of your stallion should be a 

 beautiful horse and the sire of beautiful horses. 

 The farther back the stallion's paternal ancestors 

 have combined beauty and speed the better, 



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