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, I , . . , ; i E s : t r j. I t t II 5 a GREAT WORK IN KENTUCKY TWENTY-SEVEN STALLIONS ALREADY PLACED BY BREEDING BUREAU. Such Well-known Thoroughbreds as Elliott, Dalvay, Rossmond, Victory and Bran-tome in the List. Lexington, Ky., December 11. A statistical account of the work accomplished by the Kentucky Breeding Bureau will form a part of the first biennial report of the State Racing Commission, which is to be presented to the legislature at Frankfort next month. "I do not know -specifically, what Secretary Rouse, of the State Racing Commission has said witli reference to the work of the bureau in the report lie has prepared," said Secretary Jouett Shouse of the Kentucky Breeding Bureau to Daily Racing Form today, "but I furnished him with a list of the twenty-seven stallions we have placed, the names of the men who have them in charge and such reports from those men as have been made to me. He wrote each one a letter and received in reply most encouraging reports and in addition there are letters from farmers in various localities who have taken advantage, of the opportunity to breed mares to the stallions and these, I can assure you, go to make up an " excellent testimonial for the good that has been accomplished and to be accomplished through the continuation of the work." The Kentucky Breeding Bureau was organized in December 190G and was created by the American Breeders Protective Association, a body formed in 189S for the purpose of eliminating from the thoroughbred ranks all broodmares Tvhich, on ac-countiof faulty individuality or blood lines, wer.e not deemed worthy of perpetuation. This association banished some 1,200 mares. They were bought at the annual sales and sold Into states of he south and west without pedigree, where many of them were bred to horses of various types and the resulting foals were in every instance an lmprove-.ment on the general purpose horse of the locality1 in which they were born. -s"" The association, realizing that its work in casting off such mares was practically at an end and seeirg the necessity for the improvement of the general purpose horses in this state through the infusion of thoroughbred blood from the male, lines, determined to create the breeding" bureau. Colonel E. F. Clay was elected chairman and Jouett Shouse secretary and treasurer. Associated with them in" the active work are Messrs. J. N. Camden, Jr., O. n. Cheuault and George H. Whitney. The State Racing Commission several months ago passed a resolution sanctioning the work, and now the bureau is operating under the auspices of the Racing Com; mission. Chairman Clay, when asked for a statement as to the work of the bureau for Dally Racing Form, said: "When the bureau was organized we receivdd from the Breeders Association ?G80. We forthwith began to raise other money and through subscript tions made and the donation of stallions we were enabled to place twenty-seven horses in different sections of Kentucky. These horses went to outlying districts, some of them to eastern, some to west- , ern, some to northern and some to southern Kentucky. We were particularly fortunate in the class of horses obtained. We sent out none that was not a credit to the bureau, that were not fine types of the thoroughbred. And the manner in which these horses have been received by the people of the sections to which they were sent is fully attested by the results. I have here reports from seventeen of the horses, which show that they served about 950 mares, an average of fifty-five to a horse. No doubt the remainder, from which I have no report at .this time, yill show up in similar proportion, so that it would seem that some 1,400 mares were served by the horses of; the Kentucky Breeding Bureau during the present season. This, too, despite the fact that some of the horses were not secured in time to send out until May. The men with whom they were placed, however, made both spring and fall seasons, wherefore they were enabled to accomplish such results. "I have no hesitancy in saying that the work done by the Kentucky Breeding Bureau is the most" important work ever accomplished by the breeders of Kentucky. When the foals from these horses, bred to the common farm raares of various districts of the state, begin to appear next spring, they will be in almost every instance a vast improvement over the mares from which they came. I can remember .the day, as can all my contemporaries, when Kentucky had the finest lot of general purpose horses that ever characterized any one section. These horses were in practically every instance large part thoroughbred. Any number of stallions standing for public service in the counties of Cen- tral Kentucky were in whole or in part thoroughbred and gave to the general run of our stock the thoroughbred qualities which so improved them, so increased their excellence, that we had here a type of horse which could not be excelled and -which has rarely been equalled. It is the fact that we got away from that type which has caused our general, class of liorses to degenerate. I do not for a rap- nient contend that ithe average thoroughbred horse is the most valuable general utility horse., Often they make good horses for driving,1 for riding or for V Continued on second page. v GREAT WORK IN KENTUCKY. Continued from first page. farm work. But the thoroughbred is not produced for this particular purpose. I do contend, however, and history will bear me out, that thoroughbred blood is the blood pre-eminent which will benefit any other strain with which it is crossed, and it will do more than can any other factor to breed up the class and the type of horses of any section of the country. v"The work which we have done here and which the breeding bureaus are doing in other states has brought the utility value of the thoroughbred and the vast value of his blood more prominently before the people of this country than they ever were before. "My friend, Mr. Shouse, has been invited to deliver an address upon the thoroughbred horse at Washington before the American Breeders Association, of which the president is Mr. Wilson, now Secretary of Agriculture. Such recognition of the . thoroughbred horse is of the greatest service to thoroughbred interests and is at the same time of the greatest value to the people of the country. We must not allow the work which the Kentucky Breeding Bureau has so well begun to stop now. That work must be carried on. Our bureau has ; twenty or thirty applications beyond what it was i able to till last jear. The people of the sections j from which those applications have come are as sincere in their desire for horses as were those whose wants we were able to supply. We must : endeavor to scud out other horses, we must try if it hi possible to place a stallion in every county . of Kentucky where the people have not now access to thoroughbred blood and I tell you, that from tills work will come to the whole .thoroughbred Industry the greatest possible benefit. "The sentiment preached by the opposition that t the thoroughbred horse is of no value and of no , Use save as a gauibliug tool, had gotten to be almost crystallized in tlie minds of the ujasses of ? tire people. Lacking knowledge of the subject, without counter-arguments to overcome It, such belief so generally obtained that the very existence of the thoroughbred industry was being threatened. Through the work of the Kentucky Breeding Bureau we have done much to counteract such sentiment. By the literature which we have given the people we have shown the absurd falsity of many of the adverse claims made and by the foals which will come as a result of the horses which we have sent out, we will prove the vast beneficent value of thoroughbred blood." Here is Secretary Shouses list of the twenty-seven stallions in the bureau, together with their present locations: Bel Demonio, b. h, IS, by Uncas Bella Donna; S. M. Billitcr, WilllamstoWh, GrAjlt County. Arguer, b. c, 3, by Macco Tit for Tat; S. B. Marcum, Adairvillc, Logan County. Palm Tree, ch. h, 5, by Royal Emblem Saranac; J. n. Gibson, Somerset, Pulaski County. The Greek, b. h, 12, by Maximo Parthenia, by Alarm; Logan Ewell and W. R. Murphy, London, Laurel County. Elliott, ch. h. 7, by Racine Aurelia II., by Wild-idle; J. -H. Smith, Fonthill, Russell County. Peter Duryea, b. h, 10, by Fordham Free Silver, by Silvermine; Charles E. Dallam, Henderson, Henderson County. Ed Tierney, b.. h, 5, by Montana Loo, by Dare-bin; W. D. Duncan, Rockfield, Warren County. Dalvay, ch. h, C, by The Commoner Levissa, by Brutus; Thomas Conlee, Stanton, Powell County. Rossmond, cti. h, 7, by Hammond Lady Rossing-ton, by Rossington; F. L. Satterwhite, Owcnton, Owen County. Wake Robin, ch. h, o, by Previous Martha Lynn, by Tom Martin; P. P. Mitchell, Edmonton, Metcalfe County. Fernrock, br. h, 0, by Loyalist Irony, by Iroquois; L. Wiedeman, Franklin, Simpson County. Hallowmas, ch. c,,3, by St. Leonards St. Cypria, by St. Gatien; K. M. Couch, Grassy Creel:, Morgan County. Windshield, br. c, 4, by .Wagner Pantomime, by Mask; W- H. Coppage, Leitchficld, Grayson County. Pittkin, b. c, 4, by Huron Taffeta, by Great Tom. M. H. Richards, Glencoe, Gallatin, County. The Virginian, br. h, 12, by Ayrshire Virginia Sliore, by John Davis. Thomas F. Brents, Ida, Clinton County. Victory, b. h, 8, by Brag Viola, by Kisbor; Morton W. Adcock, R. R. No. 1, Paducah, Mc-Crackcn County. The Pepper, b. h, IS, by Billet Vega, by War Dance; Frank Fults, Olive Hill, Carter County. Onisro, b. li, 5, by Orsini Vanish, by King Thomas; W. J. IIopsou, Canton, Trigg County. Brantome, br. h, 11, by St. Simon Clarissa, by Hampton; D. C. Moorman, Glendeane, Breckinridge, County. Trentola, b. h, 17; by Trenton Gondola, by Paul Jones; Messrs. Miller and La Rue, Hodgenville, Larue County. Chamblec, ch. h, 7, by Charaxus Cantey, by Eolus; F. Green, Salem, Livingston County. Yorktown, br. h, 14, by Powhattan Jamaica, by Lexington;. C. P. Howie, Wickliffe, Ballard County. Prince Pepper, ch. h, 8, by Kantaka Golden Fleece, by Wanderer; W. H. Dearing, Flemings-burg, Fleming County. Robervale, b. c, 3, by Blue Devil La Flaneuse, by Roy del Rcy; W. H. Rice; Maysville, Mason County. Caronal, b. h, 7, by St. Carlo Orellana, by Ormonde; E. L. Brooks, Sebree, Webster County. Hauteur, b. c, 4, by Ladas Hautesse, by Arch-due; Centcrtown Live Stock Company, fCcntcrtown, Ohio County. Ben Heywood, b. h, G, by Hermerice Tiddle-dc-Winks, by Jils Johnson; D. Omer, Sturgis, Union County. Of these, fourteen were donated to" the bureau and thirteen were purchased with funds subscribed by various breeders and others interested in the work. The donated horses and their donors are: The Virginian, Milton Young; Victory, J. V. Shipp and L. O. Appleby; The Pepper, S. C. Lyne; Brantome, Edward Corrigan; Trentola, ninde and Baker; Hauteur, August Belmont; The Greek, J. B. Haggin; Peter Duryea, J. N. Camden, Jr.; Wake Robin, E. F. Clay; Dalvay, M. II. Tiehenor; Caronal, H. P. Headley; Ben Heywood, O. H. Chonault; Arguer," J. B. Rcspess and Palm Tree, Max A. Samuelson. The bureau is now soliciting stallions or funds to buy stallions to be placed in about thirty other counties between now and the beginning of the breeding season of 190S.
