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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma421903sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
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May 2, H03) ©he gvsebev atxii ^povtzman 9 States of the Horse. News from the North. :S With the passing of the winter comes the word from every nook and corner of the country that great activity is noticeable in the horse industry. Never have these reports been so very encouraging as they are now. Take the market first. Week after week it is one long continued story of values well sustained at the highest level ever known in the trade in this country. Trotters and pacers are approaching the values of the good old boom times, when Arion sold for $125,000, Axtell for $105,000 and Williams refused 8150,000 for Allerton. Pacers have far exceeded the prices paid for them in those days. An offer of $70,000, the wires tell us, was turned down for Dan Patch not long ago. The $60,000 for which his present owner bought him is the record price for a horse of the side- wheeling gait. Thoroughbreds are quite as expensive luxuries as they ever were It is thought that the average prices for yearlings from the successful studs this season will break all American records. The heavy harness horse never ranged so high in value. There were never so few of the really good kinds for sale nor so many men after them. There is not one well known dealer in such high priced commodities who has not unfilled orders on hand. Drafters are needed in about the proportion of two to one to the supply. Perhaps the ratio is larger. Horse shows are scheduled to be held from one end of the country to the other from the present week until latein Novemberâopen-air shows, shows indoors and shows in which alittleof both is enjoyed. Several cities are building great houses in which to hold such exhibitions, showing that it is intended to make their holding permanent. New features are constantly beiDg added. The rich men who like to drive tine horses are doing all they can to encourage their pro- duction. Some of them have made standing offers of sums reaching well into the thousands for heavy har- ness horses which may be brought to them when of marketable age. Coaching men have arranged for more runs and better service than in any former year. Coaching clubs have been formed in cities where none ever before existed and more folk have announced their intention of availing themselves of the health- ful privileges afforded. This ought to be the red letter year in the history of coachiDg in America. From farm and training track come stories of numbers of horses in trainers' hands in excess of any previous season. Greater speed is also claimed. In the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Stake (2:24 class), which is annually trotted at Detroit, the eligibles this year include several horses which in 1902 beat 2:10 in their work but were either not raced or if they did face the flag were given no marks in order that they might be entered in the more valuable events of 1903. Many men of means have agents in the field looking for such prospects and all a breeder has to do to get a very long price for a harness race horse is to show him sound enough to win under ordinary racing luck. The racing associations have never before hung up so much money in purses. The horse which can go. down the line this year and win a fair share of hia starts will take home with him in the fall more net' cash than he could have taken in any former year. The prospects for attendance are of the very brightest and most of the more important associations have made large Improvements on their racing grounds. Nor are they alone in their efforts at betterment. The smaller societies and the fair managers are doing their best to make the coming season the greatest on record. The man who is fortunate enough to drive a winner will get more money out of him in the smallest circuits just as the fastest will earn larger returns in the first meetings in the land. In breeding circles all is hustle and bustle. The ownerg of mares are preparing to mate them and the stallion men are determined that they shall have every chance to do so. Firms which sell breeding horses as a regular business report demand better than ever before. Thousands of good stallions have! been sold to stand in the country and at price? cer- tainly high enough to warrant the passing of good,! well bred individuals in exchange. Not in the days to which, a few years ago, we looked back with such' intense longing was the breeding business in more active condition than it is now. A measure of progress also is visible in the breeding world. Many men are1 handicapped by the want of first class mares, but that condition will right itself and in the meanwhile the buyers will take the surplus at paying profits. (Portland Rural Spirit.) Entries to the Everett early closing stakes close on May 2d. They are: $500 for 2:40 trotters and $500 for 2:25 pacers. Every horseman should have an entry in one or both of those big $2000 stakes at the Oregon State Fair. Entries close May 15th, and you will be sorry if you are not in. N. G. Smith, of Everett, Wash., passed through Portland last week with Mary L. 2:23) by Maine Hero; steeplechasers should be selected for their adaptability to the game, in size, conformation, disposition and way of going, and that they should be educated to the business from the very beginning of their racing oareer. What he particularly objects to in the system is the conversion of racing "haB beens" into cross country candidates. In this, as in other matters connected with the prac- tical side of racing, Mr. Madden seems to have taken the common sense view. Dicky legged horses that have been found too far gone for racing on the flat, are patched up and sent through the field to furnish Molly, a four year old mare by Maj. Seattle out of entertainment for race-goers at a game which always Mary L. 2:23£, and Victoria, a two year old by Mc- has proved popular from the spectator's viewpoint, The automobile is steadily increasing in numbers -11 '^1 Kinney out of Mary L., on his way to Salem, where he will locate for the present and opened a training stable. Mary L. and the four year old mare will be bred to Zombro 2:11. They are owned by E. J. Lane, of Everett. E. P. Clark writes as follows from Seattle: Think- ing it might interest your readers, I write you that I have matched up two of our race horses, making the best team that was ever in our part of the country, and sold them for the highest price. The team is Maplemont 2:20 and Adimont 2:18, pacers. I sold them to Mr. James McCullough, of Machias, Wash., for $1400. He will use them as his private driving team between his shingle mill and home. That makes five sales of road horses that I have made in the last year, ranging from $500 to $1000, which, I think, shows pretty good for this market. The Walla Walla County Fair Association has pur- chased for $10,000 the Mrs. Henderson property at the southwest edge of town, and will start extensive improvements shortly, and by autumn will have per. manent grounds, stables and a full-mile race track ready for a complete county fair. The purchase con- sists of 70 acres. Fifteen thousand dollars has been collected with considerable more subscribed or avail- able, and the proposition appears fully financiered. The fair association is just incorporated with a capitalization of 15,000 shares at $25 each. The purpose, apart from building up the county fair grounds, which Walla Walla has needed for so long, is to make the town the big wintering town for race horses of the Northwest. This summer accommoda- tions for 100 horses will be built, and theBe large stables will be made to shelter 150 by anothar year, if the expected patronage materializes. l'Horaemen have been anxious to winter here for many yearB," said Secretary R. B. Caswell, and "lack of stabling equipment being the only preventive." *â Things Booming at Empire Track. There are about 200 horses now located at the Em- pire City track says Trotter and Pacer, and Secretary KeeveB is receiving applications for stall room every day. Some of the prominent trainers gave it out that they would not train there this year unless there were some dirt roads made available in the vicinity to jog over. George Spear was one of those. He visited the track the other day and found that men had been working on stretches of dirt road right handy to the track and have put them in fine shape so that trainers can jog for several-milej on soft and shady roads. A corps of men have been employed to do nothing but keep those roads in good shape. Mr. Spear went over them and said they were all right and that he would move the Smather's stable to the track as soon as the weather was a little more settled. He will put Lord Derby in shape there for his $10,000 match race with Major Delmar. "Honest" John Dickerson has engaged sixteen stalls and will go there in a few days. He will also have Gen. Brayton Ives' horBes and several others from outside owners. A. M. Perren, the Buffalo road rider and amateur driver, has engaged eight stalls for his matinee and speedway horses; Theodore Max- field and several others have spoken for stall room, so that when the horses get up from the South next month and the stables from California the Empire track will be very lively. Monroe Salisbury will have a large string and Secretary Reeves has engaged a professional and scientific farmer to put in a crop of barley for the use of the "Kingmaker," as well as for any other of the trainers who want to use it. P. H. Follette, who will look after the barley, is not only a' skillful, practical farmer, but a well-posted botanist, so that the Californian can rest assured that he will not only have barley to feed, but the very best barley that skill can produce. while the plungers and bookmakers stand idly by and wait for the next race, or handle small sums "just for the fun of it" because of the proverbial uncertainty of everything connected with steeplechasing. If Mr. Madden's plan were to becarried out bysome of the well-to-do owners and successful trainers the sport soon would wear a different aspect. A sound, game and good tempered steeplechaser, thoroughly educated to the business, should be as good a horse to bet on as the sound, level headed flat racer, and over the standard courses, such as obtain on The Jockey Club tracks, the stanch, sound, cross country horse educated to the business from colthood soon would put the culls from the flat racing stables "out of business." Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., who is one of the most ardent admirers of the cross country horse to be found in America, is one of the owners who appears to be- lieve in the theory expounded by Mr. Madden, and he selects his hunters and steeplechasers with the belief that no race horse is too good to be sent through the field; but, of course^ under the old rules, when courses were constructed with the view of popularizing them with the majority of theownersof steeplechase horses, real jumpers, educated to the business, were at a dis- advantage. With the reform already adopted by The Jockey Club tracks in the matter of steeplechase courses, the horses bred and educated for the game soon should be at a premium, and when that stage of progress shall have been reached, it 1b not too much to hope that America may produce the best cross country per- formers in the world.âDaily America. and utility, but so far as can be judged from the facts which can be reached, it has not yet succeeded in dis- placing a horse. The "motor devils" are so common on the streets and roads now that one hardly turns to look and yet more horses are being used and at higher prices than when the automobile first reached this country in practicable shape. Verily, the hor&e has come into his own.âBreeders Gazette* Cross Country Racing. John E. Madden, who talks of devoting some atten tion to the development and racing of steeplechasers, some time ago made the announcement that if he de- cided upon doing so, he would undertake what would be, as far as this country la concerned, something in the nature of a new departure. His idea is, that Horses at St. Louis Fair. The extent of the consideration to be given to live stock at the World's Fair next year is evidenced in the plans the chief of that department has made for innovations in all the classifications. Provision will be made for displays not heretofore given attention at any previous exhibition. Aa an instance may be given the plans for awards to "the horse of commerce." Geldings for all purposes will be provided for. The cavalry, artillery and am- bulance horses are to be in one or more classes, which will show the needs of the different nations as to war animals. The coach and saddle horses, the omnibus animal and the expresser will be on display. The draft horse, the roadster and the general purpose horse will come in for awards. A class of especial in- terest will be the fire department horse, regarding which correspondence is now in progress with fire chiefs of the larger cities. These classes will have a strong influence in giving a clearer understanding of the markets they represent and the opportunities offered in them. The standards as to commercial horses are not so clearly understood as they should be, and the purpose at St. Louis is to bring them out so that those interested may get the most benefit. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Sodaâplain or in a lemonade. Horse Owners Should TJSQ GOMBATJLT'S Caustic Balsam The Great French Veterinary Remedy. A SAFE, SPEEDY AND POSITIVE CURE.
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