. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 6, 1900] ©jj£ Qv&ib'&e tia$ &p&r%&mtm*. Darebin Succeeds in J3oth Lines. Last week four broodmares by npp/'-P&re&in'brought such "Well, that's all right. Then csmes another batch of yearlings to the same sale paddocks from a different part of the country, from an altogether different climate. So there they are, from Maine to California as they call it, all hud- dled in different stalls in one paddock. "And what's the result? More or less sickness is bound to ensue. It does not develop at occe, of course, but the ger
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 6, 1900] ©jj£ Qv&ib'&e tia$ &p&r%&mtm*. Darebin Succeeds in J3oth Lines. Last week four broodmares by npp/'-P&re&in'brought such "Well, that's all right. Then csmes another batch of yearlings to the same sale paddocks from a different part of the country, from an altogether different climate. So there they are, from Maine to California as they call it, all hud- dled in different stalls in one paddock. "And what's the result? More or less sickness is bound to ensue. It does not develop at occe, of course, but the germs are there, for a young horse is extremely suscpptible to sickness under these conditions. "The purchases are made and the yearlings are ehipped to their purchasers' quarters at some of the race tracks, where older horses and good horses are in training condition and they get the infection, which is generally distemper. "The 'vets,' who always have a wise word for anything a horse is troubled with, call it /epizootic,' or something not half as intelligible. But I tell you it is nothing but dis- temper, and it is so infectious and so hurtful to old horses ample prices hb $3250, $2200 and $150O'in a single rale, all of which is eurely an evidence that their worth as producers that I would not be surprised some day to see every horse at is beginning to be properly appreciated, writes W. H. Kowe some race track down with it at one lime and the racing have in the N. Y. Telegraph of Dec. 27ih. Surely it would be tostop. strange were it not so, for a single such jewel as Mesmerist i9 "I take this view of the case from having passed my life- alone quite enough to bring any horse into the heighfof time with horses. I have studied the matter for some time fasbion as a Bire of broodmares, to eay nothing of (he many and I ought to Know something about it. really good class winners already to bis credit. In the male line Darebin's hopes hereabouts have for some time reste
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