308 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



CHAPTER XXYIII. 



THE QUESTION OF BREEDING THE IMPORTANCE OF FORM 



AND ACTION ACTION SHOULD BE PURE " LINE-TROT- 

 TING " STRUCTURE OF THE STALLION ACTION AND 



STRUCTURE OF DAM GOOD MARES OR NONE TROTTING 



BLOOD SHOULD BE GOOD DEVELOPED SPEED THOR- 

 OUGHBRED BLOOD MUST BE CAREFULLY SELECTED AND 



GOOD ITS ADVANTAGES IN FINISH AND QUALITY, NOT 



IN GAMENESS VIEWING THE QUESTION WITHOUT PREJU- 

 DICE PRACTICES IN BREEDING — TIME TOR BREEDING 



THE MARE — EXPERIENCES WITH SPRITE, DOLLY AND 



FLOWER GIRL TRYING AFTER BRP:EDING FOALING 



TIME AGE TO BREED MARES — NUMBER STALLIONS 



SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SERVE — DANGERS OF OVER- 

 BREEDING. 



On no other single subject connected with the trot- 

 ting horse has so much been written as on breeding, 

 and on no other do opinions so widel}^ differ. I do not 

 propose to theorize on the subject, nor to treat it 

 exhaustively, as my main subject is how to train the 

 trotter rather than how to breed him; but I may 

 briefly throw together the conclusions that have formed 

 in my mind from extended observations with trotters. 



First, I hold there has been wide error, not, perhaps, 

 in giving too much attention to blood, but in giving 

 attention to blood to the exclusion of everything else, 

 lorm and action, I believe, have been too generally 



