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Show TO CHANGE STANDARD I OF TROTTING HORSES j I NEW YORK, April 1. While there Is a general tendency to dovoto mere attention to putttlng trotting and pacing races on a more popular basis, thero aro some students stu-dents of the horse who also think rules for making horses standard should be Improved Im-proved at tho samo time. They argue that times have changed and horses have changed with then and point out that the standard rules In effect twenty twen-ty years ago nro just as much out of place now as high-wheel sulkies are. The first rulo framed for standardizing a trotter was based on performance, the only commonsenso basis for rules designed to Improve tho breed of horses. This rule framed years ago, reads; "Any stallion that has, himself, a record of two minutes and thirty seconds (2:30) or better, provided his slro or his dam. his grandslro or his grandam is already a standard animal." Rules which enable a horse by kinship to becomo standard hnvo been added to the set until it Is qulto a poor animal that is out of this fold. With about 20.000 trotters with standard records and two or" threo hundred a ycur getting In the 2:30 list by "hook or crook," the "standard horses" will soon bo too numerous to keep track of accurately. Prof. Casper Redtlcld, a close student of the trotter, is out with a sugguatlon that a "safety valvo" bo placed on tho standard. He says It Is tlmo to aioko tho American standard trotter a really oxtremo speed animal. Ho would do away with the 2:30 basis. This is tho standard ho proposes and which he saya would tend to lmprovo tho standard horses: 1. Any animal that has a trotting race record of 2:10 or better. a Any animal that has trotted ten heats in 2J5 or bettor, provided tho slro or dam has a trotting record of 2:30 or better. 0, Any animal that has trotted twenty heats In 2:20 or better, provided that tho sire or tho dam Or oa ot tho grandsiros 1 mm or one of the grandams has a trotting roc- ll ord of 2:0 or bettor. l 4. Any animal that has trotted thlrtv MMU heats In 2:23 or better, provided that both 1 MM sire and darn have trotting records of 2:30 mWW or better. H G. Any animal that hns trotted fifty heats In 2:20 or bolter, provided that both slr- MMU bct,tci;- bred.sD and dam and one grandslro or ono gran- mmm dam havo trotting records of 2:30 or better G. The progeny of a horse that Is stand- MMM nrd by ono of the proceeding rulos when MMM foaled by a nare that Is standard by ono MM of tho preceding rules. H Tho progeny of a standard horso and a t standard mare, provided such progeny has M a trotting record of 2:15 or better. MM |