Breeding and developing the trotter . ogress is not dead, but some breedersare more progressive than others. The cardinalpoints in the make-up of a perfect horse arebeauty, size, strength, endurance, intelligence,speed and balance. The absence of any of thesepoints would cause the animal to fall short of thestandard of perfection. DEVELOPED SIRES. About this time Mr. Hamlin became convincedthat hard-racing campaigns sap the vitality of astallion and make him undesirable for a stockhorse. These views, when they appeared in theTurf, Field and Farm, were widely continued the controv
Breeding and developing the trotter . ogress is not dead, but some breedersare more progressive than others. The cardinalpoints in the make-up of a perfect horse arebeauty, size, strength, endurance, intelligence,speed and balance. The absence of any of thesepoints would cause the animal to fall short of thestandard of perfection. DEVELOPED SIRES. About this time Mr. Hamlin became convincedthat hard-racing campaigns sap the vitality of astallion and make him undesirable for a stockhorse. These views, when they appeared in theTurf, Field and Farm, were widely continued the controversy in his 1888 cata-logue in which he says : All breeders are more or less rivals, each beinganxious to excel the other. This being the case,I feel privileged to say a few words about theclaims put forward by the owners of other stal-lions, especially those stallions with fast combat the theory that stallions with low recordsare of the highest value for breeding purposes. Icontend that the fastest and gamest performers 42. HO g 5 BREEDING THE TROTTER are not likely to come from them. It is beyonddispute that a horse which trots race after racepasses through a vitality-sapping ordeal. Thestallion that is trained, season after season, forthe purpose of forcing him down to the lowestrecord made, goes through a continual strain whichnecessarily takes from him something of the vigorso important to the highest results in the hard work of the track causes a waste of thevital force, so much needed in perfect stock-get-ting. I believe that the stallion which is over-worked for the sake of a record has his ability forreproducing speed weakened instead of increased,and to show my sincerity on this point, to provemy faith by my words, I offer the following chal-lenge : A CHALLENGE. 11 I will trot this coming season heats, best twoin three, under the rules of the National TrottingAssociation, over any good mile track, as con-venient to reach by both parties as possible,
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