Show ROADSTERS MANY agriculturists in this territory have begun during recent years to breed horses on scientific principles aud and with a view to producing classes of animals that would fill certain demands of the market probably Pro bubly the animal which pays the breeder best all things considered is the proud showy high stopping roadster he must be a good goer though not necessarily a track horse of this flaps class of animals and the way to breed them A T maxim writes in the morn horse andS taUe as follows there is no class of horses except perhaps the fashionable bred colts colls that will sell so readily for cash as the gent lemans roadster that is of good size and finish plenty of knee action and speed enough to trot in from three and one half to four minutes such horses will not sell for as much as a fast trotter that can go in 2130 or better but buethe they y will sell much quicker for the reason that men are not so plenty that want to pay out 1000 or more for a trotter sefor this reason the horse beeders who do not feel able to go to the expense of breeding to the fastest and best bred trotting stock and cevelo developing the produce spare no effo effort rt to d discover 8 the best methods by which to produce the quick road horses with the greatest uniformity many imana advocate that the best way is to strive to produce horses that shall not only possess fine size lofty style and action but extreme speed at the same time this is not the wisest course for w while ii ile I 1 would by no means advise the bie bleeders eders of roadsters and coachers poachers coa chers to undervalue the importance of speed or to go outside or of our best beat trotting families to select their breeding stock block yet I 1 am convinced that the met hod bod of selection I 1 and mating best beat calculated to produce size I 1 great style and high stepping action with the greatest uniformity would not be the best beat method calou to produce trotters of extreme speed and and campaigning qualities it seldom happens tuat our greatest turf celebrities are of commanding style and lofty action nor are such qualities at all compatible with extreme speed or great staying qualities in view of these facts how shall the breeder who would fain produce the showy road and park horse from trotting bred stock proceed so as to make a success of it in other oher words how will he produce horses that will all be of good pronounced knee action and some speed now while I 1 believe that as a general rule the foal partakes of the qualities of the nire hire and dam in nearly equal degrees yet there is ii one thing that the thoughtful and observant horsemen will agree on od and that is in that the get of big gaited high stepping V stallions nearly all have pretty 9 good a action and can goa go along longsome some even though none of them may ever trot in they will also agree that large roomy wares mares are much more inere likely to produce good sized colts than are small mares of compact form although the small mare is fully as likely to produce extreme speed and perhaps more so for a majority bority of the great broodmares broo dmares of the land are mares of moderate size itis it is also known that a majority of the greatest sires of extreme speed were not exceptionally big gaiti gait d horses this being being incompatible with extreme F speed if my conclusions are correct then I 1 it is of the most utmost importance that we should produce combined size aim and trotting action with the greatest certainty should never fail to obtain good sized mares to breed from and to mate them with stallions of the most pronounced and loftly trotting action to make a specialty of breeding the ideal gent lemans driver may not require C so great an outlay of capital as I 1 I 1 0 f 1 breeding for extreme 8 speed but cut tt it c certainly 1 irta requires full as an much or more care skill and enterprise |