CHAPTER 11. 



The Weanling Colt— Halter Breaking— Should Be Well Bred- 

 Commencing TO Develop Speed— Leading with Halter — Work- 

 ing WITH A Saddle Horse, &c. 



I propose to take the colt at four months' old, halter 

 break it, and bring it step by step from a weanling to the 

 mature campaigner, willing and able to earn his oats, besides 

 paying off the mortgage on the old farm. 



In the first place we will suppose that the reader has some 

 material to work upon ; his colt has some expectation of 

 speed by inheritance, either through his sire or dam — if 

 through both, all the better. I am not in this work going to 

 advocate any particular strain of blood or family, but I wish 

 to impress the fact, that the better you breed the more cer- 

 tain the result. The best end of the problem is always the 

 mother ; she it is that impresses the main characteristics upon 

 her sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, and 

 when one queen of the harem is recognized by horsemen, her 

 progeny sell for fabulous sums ; for instance. Green Mountain 

 Maid, by Harry Clay, produced foals which sold, or offers 

 made which were refused, to the amount of -^24:4,000 ; a yearl- 

 ing son has recently been sold for $12,500. Another dam. 

 Beautiful Belle, by The Moor, produces foals which are worth 

 a King's ransom ; one three-year-old son sold at auction for 

 $51 000, and a weanling for $12,000, and Miss Russell, Mid- 

 night and Watervvitch, by Pilot, Jr., produces foals that are 

 known by every child in the land, some of which are beyond 

 purchase price, namely, Maud S., 2:0S|, and Jay Eye See, 

 2:10. 



These are only a few instances of the many hundred 

 producing dams ; so I say look well to the mare you breed 

 from. Stint the best mare you have, or can afford to buy, to 

 the best stallion within your reach. Do not be afraid if the 



