. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AUGUST 13, 1898] ®jj* gvssiizv tmb &pwt#tnmu 100 Mating Trotters and Pacers. Trotwood, editor of the pacing department of the Horse Keview, makes the following very intereating remarks on the breeding question in response to a letter recently received by him: I have received a letter from a horseman in another State who has a trotting mare of exceedingly speedy inheritance, and he wishes my advice in regard to breeding her. He is hesitating between a richly-bred pacing stallion and an equally well-bred trotter. My advice to him woili be to breed his trottin
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AUGUST 13, 1898] ®jj* gvssiizv tmb &pwt#tnmu 100 Mating Trotters and Pacers. Trotwood, editor of the pacing department of the Horse Keview, makes the following very intereating remarks on the breeding question in response to a letter recently received by him: I have received a letter from a horseman in another State who has a trotting mare of exceedingly speedy inheritance, and he wishes my advice in regard to breeding her. He is hesitating between a richly-bred pacing stallion and an equally well-bred trotter. My advice to him woili be to breed his trotting mare to the trotter, and my reasons for it are these: There are so maDV pacers coming now from trot- ting, as well as pacing families, that, if it continues a tew years more, the pure gaited fast trotter with no pacing in- heritance is going to be worth a great deal more, speed for gpeed, than the pacer. He is worth more now; but, if the OOAOHING. The First Party of the Season EDJoys a Day at MH. GEO. A Photo by Carl Heymann of the Examiner. NEWHALL'3 thing continues, he will continue to outsell the puer in pro- portions as the one becomes commoner and the other scarcer I believe now that if a trotting sire could be found, of fault- less breeding and a sire of extreme trottiog speed, whose trot- ting inheritance was so great that he would never throw a pacer—if such could be found, I say—he would sell for more money than any other trottiog sire in the land. Despite the small difference in their gaits, there are many people who always will prefer a trotter to a pacer. There are also otherB who will always prefer a pacer to a trotter. In either event, either of them will prefer to breed to a horse who will be sure to sire juBt what they are breeding for. So far, the pacer is the only horse who seems to be prepotent enough to reproduce, with any certainty, his own gait. No one would breed to a pacing bred pacer expecting a trotter, If he did, he would never get
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