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to produce. Failures in horse breeding, as in most other things, 

 usually have been due to the man believing himself capable 

 of doing things for which he was not qualified. 



Perhaps in no other field have so many breeders found 

 themselves mistaken regarding their abilities as in the breed- 

 ing of the trotting horse. This type appeals strongly to the 

 majority of Americans, and many farmers and others have 

 believed that they knew a safe and sure system of breeding 

 for speed. Even in the best of hands, the breeding of trotters 

 is very doubtful as to results, and only a small percentage of 

 the foals ever attain anything noteworthy on the turf. Speed 

 is an elusive quality dependent on such a rare combination of 

 good qualities in the animal as to make results in breeding very 



Fig. 154. A Highly Successful Sire. 



Undefeated Belgian stallion, Farceur, and eight of his get. This group 

 contains the first and second prize get of sire, Iowa State Fair, 1915 and 1916; 

 the first prize futurity filly and champion mare at Iowa in 1916; the world's 

 champion group at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915; the first, second 

 and third prize two-year-old fillies and champion mare at the International, 

 1916. Owned by Mr. Wm, Crownover, Hudson, la. Farceur was sold in 

 1917 for $47,500 to Mr. C. G. Good, Ogden, la. 



uncertain, and it should be understood that only a few men 

 possess the special qualifications necessary to success in breed- 

 ing this type of horse, and that only the wealthy, who are will- 

 ing to accept the pleasure and fascination of the undertaking 

 as partial remuneration for the capital invested, can ordinarily 

 afford to take up this difficult art. A few men of moderate 

 means have made a success with trotters by selling yearlings 

 as "prospects" to be developed in the hands of some one else, 

 but even this method is uncertain as to results financially. 



