. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 2£ 300 Irjccxler atrtt ^piovi&Mt&u. wou wrei for j Ire: the woo mot that thir and goo- Odc Smi One som mat rod â¢We can, bac: a pi was olae aim one cole the' B* vi â liev at a â > B I g hur Should Not Australia Breed Fast Trotters ? (By Hidalgo.) A man asked me the other day if I intended going back to America at the close of the Exhibition, and on my replying in the affirmative, asked further: "Into what bnsiuess would yon go if yon elected to remain in the Colonies?" I astonished him by telling him that I -should at once begin breeding t
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 2£ 300 Irjccxler atrtt ^piovi&Mt&u. wou wrei for j Ire: the woo mot that thir and goo- Odc Smi One som mat rod â¢We can, bac: a pi was olae aim one cole the' B* vi â liev at a â > B I g hur Should Not Australia Breed Fast Trotters ? (By Hidalgo.) A man asked me the other day if I intended going back to America at the close of the Exhibition, and on my replying in the affirmative, asked further: "Into what bnsiuess would yon go if yon elected to remain in the Colonies?" I astonished him by telling him that I -should at once begin breeding trotting horsesâthat I thought the climate quite as well adapted for it as that of California (where I resided over sixteen years), and that I thonght Australia possessed two signal advantages over the Golden Slate. These were: 1. Better roads, upon which gentlemen after the business of the day was ended could drive for recreation and amuse- ment. 2. A large number of mares aired by thoroughbred Btal- iions, to which trottiug-bred sires conld be mated, thus oarrying out the principle embodied in the breeding of Maud S., Jay Eye Bee, and Palo Alto, repectively the fastest four- year-old mare, gelding and stallion in the world. Before going any further I will state that Maud S. trotted in 2min, 14-Uee. at that age, beating the famous Trinket and others: that Jay Eye See, ihe fastest gelding in the world, trotted three heats iuaide of 2min, ISsec. at that age in dif- ferent races; and that although other stallions had trotted heats lower as exhibitions, Palo Alto was the tirst stallion of that age to trot inside of 2min, 21sec. in a bona-fide contest with other horses. This he did twice m one month, and on both occasions against well-tried campaigners. One of these was a fourth and the other a fifth heat. Maud S. and Jay Eye See were bred from mares which had from five-eighths to three-quarters of throughbred blood, but the dam of Palo Alto was of as pure lioeage as the dam
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