| Show HORSES AND RACETRACK well informed horseman discusses local and general race track for county and horse Int interacts erets the following ta fow few paragraphs n wore written by one buo whom wo nye consider the best informed horseman in D aels county and ono one of tho the bost best if not tile best in tho the to he has boon been in omalia and other places to train horses and and was tiie the first utahn I 1 if wo we ro to own a three minute horse borso ile ho has haa spent nearly all ills his life training horses and knows all tile the good horses in tile the and ill moat of the best horses of tho the united states also the big horse importing MILL companies of tile tho united states it is principally illy duo to tile the writer that ho horse hoise i racing has become co such an important guipo martof part of tho the state fal butr r of late years which has contributed more to its sue cess than any other factor tile tho first 11 rat of tile tho article con contains taing a very great deal of information in but very few words so it V would uld bo be well to read it over several times and reflect on the yum samo while I 1 do not wish to bo be charged with knocking the horse breeding interests in our 0 county aunt y davis I 1 cannot seethe see tho necessity y of a local race track to develop the speed of our horses as there are so sd few standard dard bred brea hofsess in the county and borie lot 0 obiah hegji class families to w mi rant mhd building 0 of a track and keeping Ice it in repair it IL takes money to trin horses an and d when the fact is known that only about one in ton ten of the best of families makes a race horse it 43 time to stop and consider the day of tile the three minute trotter is past if you get anything now you have lo jo go to the races with one that can stop throe times in and a green one at that if we can raise a good sized good looking horse that is good gaited we can always find a market for him lot let the other fellow do tile the training and by the way I 1 think we had bettor better try and breed a good all purpose horse in tile the main tile the others a side issue in my opinion we have made a mistake in the past we have relied on the sire to do all tile the improving m while wo we should have paid more attention fon to tile the dame for it is conce eded that the maro mare has five ol eighths t liehs in ill forming the quality of her ber offspring 11 I 1 have known a good many horses borses of all breeds that have risen hsen to fame from tile the good producing qualities from a few good mares I 1 have given my opinion about having e a purely local race track on th theothor e other baud band I 1 think davis county is the best and most loo logical place in the state for a general race track if it could be located at or near the lagoon midway between our two greab great cities salt lake and ogden odem E it has splendid water grass and soil as everybody knows it would bo be an all ideal place |
