. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Mabch 17, 1900] tRije Qxeebsx mtfr gpcxtstnan* 1 Stout Horaee; the Stayers of the Century. There have been great chaoges in ihe estimate of stout horses, says G. 8. Lowe in the London Live Stock Journal Almanac. In the early part of the century a race horse was scarcely a turf performer at all unless he could stay, but in modern times nineteen out of twenty would be acknowledged non-stayers, and it might be very difficult to make up a list that in any way accorded with opinions held by past genera- tions of sportsmen. Some forty years ago the late Admiral Rous
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Mabch 17, 1900] tRije Qxeebsx mtfr gpcxtstnan* 1 Stout Horaee; the Stayers of the Century. There have been great chaoges in ihe estimate of stout horses, says G. 8. Lowe in the London Live Stock Journal Almanac. In the early part of the century a race horse was scarcely a turf performer at all unless he could stay, but in modern times nineteen out of twenty would be acknowledged non-stayers, and it might be very difficult to make up a list that in any way accorded with opinions held by past genera- tions of sportsmen. Some forty years ago the late Admiral Rous considered that the systems of racing alone accounted for the changes seen in his time, and that staying was only to be measured by degrees of competition; that the greatest j ide could slay ten miles at bis own p*»ce, or at a pace below its natural capacity, but that the improvement in the modern racer made pace the greatest attribute. This theory of the Admiral's, great and experienced authority as he was, met with some opposition when even the century had been got through a little more than half way, and in the years that have since gone by it has become more than ever apparent that the falling away of the stayer has shown a marked de- crease in stout horses of all kindsâthe racer, tbe hunter, the hack and the harness horse. I should be inclioed to divide the century into three equal part3âthe first to represent stoutness as the greatest quality that could belong to a horse; the second, to show a leaning toward speed with a certain amount of stoutnesf; and the third, making speed paramount over all There waB a great St. L?ger wioner in 1802, namely, Orville, and that he could stay any distance was proved in the next three years, as, if a little unlacky in getting seconds in acme of his four-mile contests, he was seen beaticg one of his conquerors in a match for £200 a side over four miles (Orville v. Stockton), and on the same afternoon he won a free over
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