. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 72 ®Jje f$v?£b£V c&xb Qp&vi&%x\i\%x+ {Jahuary 29, l&* Breeding and Stamina. The sound thoroughbred horse—and sound, ness is a principal requisite—is more endur- ing under a crushing strain than any other horse, because he has developed capacity io this line through generations of severetests on the track, says the Turf, Field and Farm, The higher the rate of speed the sooner the point of exhaustion is reached. One of the observations of Count Lehndorff is; "The last Btruggle for victory, in'which culminates the exertion _of the race, result
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 72 ®Jje f$v?£b£V c&xb Qp&vi&%x\i\%x+ {Jahuary 29, l&* Breeding and Stamina. The sound thoroughbred horse—and sound, ness is a principal requisite—is more endur- ing under a crushing strain than any other horse, because he has developed capacity io this line through generations of severetests on the track, says the Turf, Field and Farm, The higher the rate of speed the sooner the point of exhaustion is reached. One of the observations of Count Lehndorff is; "The last Btruggle for victory, in'which culminates the exertion _of the race, results from the co- operation of (the intellectual, the physical and the mechanical qualities of the horea- the development of which combined power is higher and more reliable than any that can be obtained in the same animal by other means. The combination of those three quali ties forms the value of the horse destined for fast work. The mechanical, in respect to the outward shape and construction; the physi- cal, as regards the soundness and normal de- velopment of the digestiye organs and motive power; the intellectual or the will and the energy to put the other two into motion and persevere to the ; If the horse has not inherited the three qualities essential to success, if the intellectual, physical and me- chanical qualities do not co-operate, he is more or less of a failure, notwithstanding his pedigree, and grave chances are taken in us- ing him in the stud. The thoroughbred horse picks up an unenviable reputation for lack of stamina only when weeds are forced apoD the public attention and their off-prirg is put through the training ordeal. The indi - criminate and wholesale use of wesdy animals in the stud is one reason some thoroughbred yearlings go begging for purchasers. In the boom days there was so much of this kind of breeding as to flood the market. Here is another of Count Lehndorfs observations: "The thoroughbred is in a much lesser de- gree
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