Show BREEDING This refers not to the sarcasm of Dickens as illustrated in General hake and the two LLs nor to Mr Arnolds t Culture and Anarchy nor to the con 4 I d I j troversy carried on some years ago in theN the-N ioll as to whether over one American I in one hundred thousand knew how often to change his shirt It refers only I to the breeding of the totter and whe ther running blood is a benefit or a detriment I detri-ment The advocates of the running cross j have been many and eminent but their success has been small As an evidence almost conclusive evidence to some of the value of the running blood and its wonderful effect upon speed the case of Maud Ss dam Miss Russel is cited Miss Russel was out of a running mare but by Pilot Jr12 and Maud S herself is by Harold413 son of Hamblcto nian10 The prepotency of old Ilambletonian and his speed producing pro-ducing power are too well known to need comment Then there is cited as another horse out of a halfbreed running run-ning mare JayEyeSee But he traces directly back through his dam to Pilot Jr 12 and to Old Ilambletonian through I I Dictator 113 The dams of both there I leaders of the turf possess a half blood I from the same horse and that horse himself him-self a pacer Is it not the fact that it was the pacing blood and not the running blood in the dams which made them such I remarkable speed producers The power of the pacing blood to dominate all other blood is well shown in Blue Bull75 who stands at the head of the list of 230 sires leading since last season HambletoniaiijlO and he had no special chances Then again but one thoroughbred thorough-bred horse has become standard and I that horse is Exchequer3551 son of Revenue The two of his get to give him I his place are Lucille and Rigolette both out of pacing mares Has there been any such success as this when the running run-ning cross was with any other than pacing pac-ing blood The pacing blood has always al-ways asserted itself in any combination while the running blood has merely served to neutralize other crosses producing pro-ducing so far as speed goes a hybrid In the breeding of trotters no line has been PO potent as the Hambletonians I where both sides have traced back to I imp Messenger The Morgans stand high and Ethan AUen43 and Daniel Lambert102 are fair rivals to the I house of Messenger The Mambrinos also and the Clays have aided I greatly the establishing of a breed of I trotters but they have all helped because they were trotters and not because some of them have had running blood situ I generations back I It is claimed for the runner that he imparts staying quality and gives life l I On what theory of physiology pan it be predicted that the runner will transmit I only his powers of endurance and not j his instinct to run If there is any truth in the evolution theory it is that the strongest instincts and parts control the transmission of all instincts and parts The instinct to run is tlTe all powerful one in the thoroughbred and it is the one that is transmitted most and as for staying qualities where is the thoroughbred that can stand the campaigning cam-paigning that Goldsmiths Maid has done or that the little black gelding is I doing For trotters we must breed trotters I and not cross running and trotting blood to get them And let thc advocates of the runner remember that every breeder r in England refused to use Mr Blounts Arabians to improve their runners |