Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1920 — BAR WELDINGS FROM BIG RACING STAKES [ARTICLE]

BAR WELDINGS FROM BIG RACING STAKES

Expected to Increase Number of Horses for Breeding. PNjssnt*Day Demand for Stallions Needed at Remount Stations Is lnsistent—Purchase of Good Ani. , mals la Difficult The fkct that geldings will be Ineligible for some of the most valuable racing stakes'of thV future, is expected to increase the number of horses for stud purposes in the United States. While there is a strong undercurrent against the movement to bar the gelding from some turf classics, neverthebm the plan has the support of many progressive turfmen, who believe that. wMle the gelding has his sphere in racing, he has no right to participate in the greatest of tests which are given for the guidance of the breeders of the country. The gelding is unknown In many foreign countries, and some years ago. when C. K. G. Billing’s champion trotter Uhlan. 1:58*4, was shown in Rus•fa, the breeders of that country were indignant at his spoliation, and wanted to know who had dared to deprive future generations of the qualities of midi a splendid horse. Stallions and mares work in the same teams the year round in Russia. Usage has wade the males tractable; and it is a rare thing to find a vicious horse. The present-day demand for stallions of the type needed at the remount stations of the federal government is insistent, and members of the commission having in charge their selection are unceasing in their search for the right type. The fact that there has been but Bttle money available for the purchase of good horses has made the task of the commission exceedingly difficult, and most of the best horses secured to date have been gifts from breeders and turfmen in sympathy with the movement to improve remounts, and also from the Jockey dub, whose chairman. August Belmont, gave the nucleus of what is now the Front Royal Stud in Virginia. Given an appropriation such as Count Lehnorff of the Royal Prussian Stud had at his disposal and the result would be as there are horses racing every day on metropolitan courses that would be Ideal for the purpose. It is related that the count, while on a visit to England, saw the famous sprinter Tzdlypop in Action with big weight up. “Twt the horse to give our German cavalry horses more speed.” was bls and he straightway negotlato& <he pwyhsse of the animal for was the same spirit, backof money, which caused almost SIOO,OOO for the Jjtadßilitt’fJerby winner Ard Patrick.