BREEDING THE TROTTER 



farm two good stallions, the best sons of their 

 respective sires. We will call one Primo, the 

 other Ideal. It is your desire to establish a family 

 from these two horses. Take your best daughter 

 of Ideal from a well-bred dam. If she is also the 

 best daughter of her dam, so much the better. 

 Breed her to Primo. We will suppose that you 

 secure from this union a beautiful filly with ex- 

 treme speed, although the chances are it will be a 

 colt, for males generally come when you are look- 

 ing for the opposite sex. The filly has so many 

 good qualities you are determined to go back to 

 the Ideal blood so you breed this filly to Ideal. If 

 a filly results from this mating she should be bred 

 to some good out-cross. If this is a filly you can 

 breed to Primo again. We once had at Village 

 Farm a filly (The Silent One), by Chimes, dam 

 Silent Rose, by Mambrino King, grandam Beat- 

 tie Chimes, by Chimes. 



FIRST IMPRESSIONS. 



Almost as important to brood-mare owners as 

 inbreeding is the subject of first impressions. I 

 have very often found that a mare's first foal is 

 her best. Without attempting to discuss the 

 matter statistically or scientifically I may say that 

 the majority of veterinarians and doctors with 

 whom I have conversed on the subject believe that 

 the impression of a mare's first mating is stronger 

 than any other ; that, therefore, a mare's first foal 

 is likely to be her best one, and that the first im- 

 pression has a more or less lasting effect on the 



