. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1891. BTJBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. SIZE, CONTRASTED WITH ACTION- Where Does the Ability to Carry Weight Enter into the Horse. The progress of racing in America has developed the fact thai a truly game horse does not mind a trifle of weight, although yoa coald handicap our own Salvater or the match- less Carbine of the antipodes, till a jackass could beat either or both of them. Yet the "inexorable logic of events" has proven that the fastest time has been made under the heavi- est weights, not ooly in the case o
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JAN. 10, 1891. BTJBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR. SIZE, CONTRASTED WITH ACTION- Where Does the Ability to Carry Weight Enter into the Horse. The progress of racing in America has developed the fact thai a truly game horse does not mind a trifle of weight, although yoa coald handicap our own Salvater or the match- less Carbine of the antipodes, till a jackass could beat either or both of them. Yet the "inexorable logic of events" has proven that the fastest time has been made under the heavi- est weights, not ooly in the case of Carbine's recent cup race at Malbooroe, which would have left Ten Broeck half way up the stretch, bat in many other contests I conld instance. Take that of Incommode, who did a mile in with 14S lbs. in the saddle, yet I can remember when Mammona, a big and well grown four year old mare, broke the record wilh 101 lbs. up in £. In 1861, when employed as principal writer on the Spirit of the Times in this city, I advocated a scale of weights as follows: two year oldB in stakes, 110 lbs., in paries 95; three year olds, stakes 121 lbs., purse 105; four year olds, stakes 126, parse 115; five year olda to be classed as aged horses and to carry 130 in stakes and 126 in purses. Piper of ! Bat didn't some of our largest horse owners and most intelligent trainers climb my neck for the three months following that article? Jim Merritt, tiow long since dead, told me I did not know which end of a horse went first. Robert Wocding was more courteous, but equally condemnatory and said I was an Anglomaniac. Robert O' Hanbn told me I was a theorist and had nothing practical in my composition, while poor old "Uncle Nathan" Coombs, a most esc silent man outside his prejudices, said he thought I wanted to see every horse break down in his first race. As Mr. Coomb3 was breading the largest and heaviest thoroughbred horses in the State, I regarded this proposition of mine as
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