260 RACEALONG 



RACING VALUES 



Racing values are fixed by earning capacity. There 

 was a time when the price of a trotting bred horse 

 was based on the standard of breeding, frequently 

 when speed was a minus quantity, so long as the 

 individual carried certain blood lines. As soon as 

 this market was overloaded with a lot of horses that 

 could now show a forty gait the demand shifted to 

 speed producing lines, the number of 2:30 perform- 

 ers credited to a sire or dam having considerable to 

 do with fixing values at the auction or by private 

 sale. This set the time record mills running and 

 made the 2:30 list the storm center in each family 

 of horses. A few still cling to this frazzled system. 

 It puts but very little money in the till and pays few 

 training bills. 



The demeand at present calls for trotters and pac- 

 ers which have either shown their ability to race 

 or which come from families that are producing win- 

 ners. It was this feature which made the reputa- 

 tion of Peter the Great and Axworthy and while a 

 few of their descendants carry time records, the 

 most of them acquired their honors in races. The 

 grade was never too steep for the leaders when they 

 met the battlers of the McKinney family tracing to 

 San Francisco and Belwin. 



Sale ring values are based on what the lots offered 

 can show and what their families have done in races. 

 From year to year buyers are paying less attention 

 to the 2:30 list or even the 2:20. Buyers seek pro- 



