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THE NEW YORK BREEDING BUREAU. Steps Just Taken by the Great Racing Bodies to Increase Its Premium Lists. Through its breeding bureau, the Jockey Clnb 5s doing invaluable service to the state of New York in tin- way of improving Its breed of horses. The work is practically in its infancy, but will before long begin to tell heavily in enhanced values, resulting from crossing thoroughbred stallions on coarse-bred marcs. The New York example is bearing fruit and steps to emulate it are already in progress in Kentucky, Louisiana, California and Missouri. Daily Racing Form regrets that Illinois Is not in the list. One or two thoroughbred stallions located in each county of .this state under regulations similar to those prevailing in New York, would add millions to the selling value of our horses after a few years of service. As a practical statement of the case, the following from the New York Sun is of decided interest and among other things show how loyally and effectively the big New York racing organizations are supporting and supplementing the work of the Jockey Club: "There are forty-eight thoroughbred stallious distributed throughout thirty-six counties in New York state. The Jockey Club, in order to encourage the patronage of these horses, last year offered premiums t the fairs for weanlings by them, and these prizes are to be augmented by the Coney Island Jockey Club, Brooklyn Jockey Club, Westchester Racing Association and the Brighton Beach Racing Association. Each of these associations has decided to donate a prize of 00 to county fairs in counties where a stallion of the Breeding Bureau Is located. This will be a total of 4,400, each organization contributing ,500. "With commendable judgment all of these awards will not be for the half-bred type. The trotting horse, which numbers his admirers in New York by the tons of thousands, will be cared for and the general purpose horse, that most useful of horses big enough to plow and quick enough to go for the doctor, will also have his Inning, in short, the rearing of the best types will be fostered by this latest move for the improvement of one of mans most useful allies. "These prizes will be for the home brcds only, that is, the various candidates must be owned in the counties in which they are shown. This will prevent specimens of superlative merit from sweeping the ring. Each county will have its own representatives in competition. With such encouragement it is not too much to predict that in a few years our dealers will not be scouring Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa; Indiana, Illinois and other states for the animal that will bring the high dollar, whether, at auction or at private sale. The following is a list of prizes offered by the various, racing associations for 1003: "The Coney Island Jockey Club donates to the county fair in each county in the state of New York possessing a stallion of the breeding bureau of the Jockey Club the sum of 00 as a special prize, to be named, The Coney Island Jockey Club Premium, "for the best yearling shown at the county fair. which shall be the produce of a mare owned in the county and sired by the breeding bureaus stallion, the winner of the first prize to receive 5 and of the second 5. I "The Brooklyn Jockey Club donates to the county fair in each county in flic state of New York possessing a stallion of Ihc breeding bureau of the Jockey Club the sum of 100 as a special prize, to be known as The Brooklyn Jockey Club Premium, for the best broodmare with foal at foot, such foal sired by a thoroughbred stallion as placed by the breeding bureau of the Jockey Club in the stat? of New York. Competitors must be owned in the couuty in which they are shown, the winner of the first prize to receive 5 and of the second 5. "The Westchester Racing Association donates a special prize of 00 for two-year-old trotters, colts, fillies or geldings, to be shown at county fairs in the state of New York, -where special premiums of 200 or more are offered for the get of thoroughbred stallions installed by the breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club, the prize to be known as the Westchester Racing Association Premium, the winner to receive 5 and the second 5. Competitors must be owned in the county in which the fair Is held. Contestants may bo shown in hand or by the side of a saddle horse. "The Brighton Beach Racing Association donates a special prize of 00 for three-year-olds, mares, or geldings, suitable for general purposes, 5 to first and 5 to second, to be shown at county fairs in the state of New York where special premiums of 200 or more are offered for the get of thoroughbred stallions installed by the bureau of breeding of the Jockey Clnb, the prize to be known as the Brighton Beach Racing Association Premium. There are no particular conditions as to breeding. Competitors must be owned in the county in which the fair is held. Contestants may be shown in hand or by the side of a saddle horse. "The work begun by the Jockey Club, when through its breeding bureau thoroughbred stallions of size and of good conformation were placed in competent hands throughout the Empire State to stand for general service at a nominal fee of 0, which goes to the custodian of the horse, was a tremendous stride in the" line of improvement, as there is no better basic blood than that of the thoroughbred, particularly when the individual possesses those most invaluable qualifications size, bone, color and temper. The members of the breeding bureau commission have made it a point to install only those stallions which meet the above requirements, and as a consequence there are today in this state hundreds of youngsters from coldblooded dams which will become at maturity splendid specimens of a type of the most useful horse in the world. The beauty of the thoroughbred cross Is that the blood of the stallion predominates and refines the coarser elements of the dam. "The best of our heavyweight hunters, a class of horse which commands tremendous prices in the horse markets of the world, are wit of dams whose ancestors were prized because of their size and strength and whose days were spent between the shafts of a cart. Wasp, the largest prize-winning hunter at the recent National Horse Show, is one of these half-bred weight carriers, and he repeatedly flew the stiff jumps with 210 pounds in the saddle. The trotting family, which is probably as near an accepted type as we have in America today, is an ideal cross for the thoroughbred. Some of the trotting families have nothing but their gait to commend them, while others have beauty, but no gait or speed, except what is produced by the most assiduous training. Some trotters bred in trotting lines for generations pace or amble and require artificial appliances to make them strike the gait which should be theirs by inheritance. The thoroughbred cross eliminates these characteristics, and some of our best carriage horses and many of our best saddle animals are the result of the thoroughbred trotting cross."
