. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 50 Cfce gfcetftrs* tmb gp&ctmmaxu [July 28, 1900 OONEY BREAKS A RECORD. DETROIT'S BLUE RIBBON MEETING. L. E. Clawsox, who owds that handsome candidate for a 2:08 mark, Phcebe Childer3 by Sir Roderick, says that a horse mast be "swnng" right to trot fast jast as a piece of machinery mast be to ran perfectly. A horse is a machine with life and if it is pot together right and has the strength and *iil to go, it will trot or pace fast according to its con- formation. Mr. Clawson says he has given this idea consid- erable stody and believes he can pick
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 50 Cfce gfcetftrs* tmb gp&ctmmaxu [July 28, 1900 OONEY BREAKS A RECORD. DETROIT'S BLUE RIBBON MEETING. L. E. Clawsox, who owds that handsome candidate for a 2:08 mark, Phcebe Childer3 by Sir Roderick, says that a horse mast be "swnng" right to trot fast jast as a piece of machinery mast be to ran perfectly. A horse is a machine with life and if it is pot together right and has the strength and *iil to go, it will trot or pace fast according to its con- formation. Mr. Clawson says he has given this idea consid- erable stody and believes he can pick fast trotters ont of a band of green horses. The old adage that "fast ones come in all shapes" he does not deny the truth of, bnt holds to the opinion that the limbs and muscles must be placed so as to make speed, and must conform to the shape of the animal o the speed will not come. A short bodied horse needs hi legs hang in one manner and a long bodied one in another. The shape and position of the legs on a narrow chested, flat ribbed horse that can trot fast are much different from those belonging to a chunky bnilt fellow of the same speed, bnt tbey suit the conformation in both instances. Perhaps Mr. Clawson has discovered a rnle by which he can pick out a trotter, and if he picks one daring the next few years as good as Ptcebe Childers we will think this theory has something in it. The street fair fake has about run its course in Cali- fornia and the citizens of the localities where they have been held have nearly all arrived at the conclusion that the same amount of money and energy required to hold a street fair would have done a much greater amount of gocd to the community if it had been expended in some other manner. That the street fair drew crowds and advertised the localities where held U true, but the crowds that came went away dis- satisfied and all were of tbe opinion that instead of being a fair it was simply a collection of sideshows and that its onl
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