120 THE AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE. 



Breed horses for beauty, brains, and business. Beauty 

 always attracts customers who pay the highest prices. Brains, 

 exhibited in good " horse sense," is an important factor in a 

 horse for any purpose. A good pedigree is very valuable pro- 

 vided you have an animal to match it. Standard bred horses, 

 eligible to registration as such, without an animal to correspond 

 to the pedigree (as often witnessed in combination sales when 

 highly bred animals sell for less than half enough to pay for 

 their siring), is a deplorable state of things and very discour- 

 aging to the breeder. 



There are scores of horses in this country, which, from 

 their individual merits and breeding, are evidently equal to the 

 best, but which are reckoned " no good " simply because they 

 were never trained for speed. 



Great horses, like great men, live on for years after their 

 death ; and, like great men, often spring up from obscurity, as 

 was the case of Columbus, the founder of the Columbus fam- 

 ily, of Pilot, the founder of the Pilot family, and Blue Bull, 

 the great Indiana progenitor of speed. 



The ignorance of the American public — and of the world 

 — in not knowing the full breeding of these great horses, as 

 was the case with Justin Morgan, don't go to show that they 

 were not well bred, but that, like the ISTarragansett Pacer, their 

 breeding has not been handed down to us through history, but 

 lies locked up in the brains of those of their day, most of whom 

 are no longer with us. 



The breeder who breeds for speed alone is as much a specu- 

 lator as he who plays the Board of Trade. Because Williams 

 raised an Allerton and an Axtell, hundreds of small breeders 

 imagine they are capable of obtaining the same results. 



Speed is a valuable adjunct in the sale of any horse, and, 

 when added to beauty, size, and good disposition, makes the ani- 

 mal most desirable in the eyes of the purchasing public. 



Breeding the American Trotter is a progressive science, the 

 limits of which are, as yet, by no means achieved. 



Among the lovers, breeders, and patrons of the American 



