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-j. COMMENDABLE SHOWING OF NEW YORK BREEDING BUREAU i : In response to a request of Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff and senior Major General of the United States Army, who, with oilier officers of the military service, is making an effort to introduce thoroughbred blood into the army, Algernon Dalngerfield, assistant secretary of the Jockey Club, has furnished the War Department with a complete history of the organization of the Jockey Clubs Breeding Bureau in 1000 and its work since that year. General Wood and his helpers in the task of Improving the efficiency of the service have tried horses of all types for cavalry and artillery remounts, whether for officers or men, and they have decided that thoroughbred blood is the blood they want most. It is significant that with the request for information as to. the quality and breeding of the thoroughbred stallions the Breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club has Vacod since 1000. the War Department asks for the addresses of the New York farmers .-.villi whom they have been placed. Obviously there is about to. be created a ready and profitable market forthe produce of the Breeding Bureau stallions and it is soon, to be brought home to the farmers of Xew York that it is .to their immediate pecuniary interest, as well as of economic importance to the commonwealth generally, that they stand firmly behind IJio institution of racing, which enables the Jockey Club to maintain among them the Breeding Bureau stallions. Xot the least interesting feature of Mr. Daingerfields report to General Wood Is that part of It which gives the present domiciles of the thirty-one stallions the Jockey Club has In service tills spring. These horses were great horses on the turf in recent years and are located as follows: Horses Standing. Keepers. Address. Accountant E. L. Munson Hempstead, Nassau County. X. Y. Advance Guard A. B. Gray Poughkeepsie. Dutchess County, N. Y. Arabo G. A. Richmond Springvllle, Erie County, X. Y. " Barney Burke J. A. P. Ramsdcll Ncwburgh, Orange County, X. Y. Busbcy Top J. R. Williams ;.. R. F. D. 4. Troy. Rensselaer County, X. Y. Carrolton V. William Bull Chittenango, Madison County. X. Y. Clark Griffith JColler Bros R. F. D. 1, Hammond. St. Lawrence County, X. Y. Don de Oro L. J. Cross Berkshire. Tioga County. X. Y. F.aston William L. Race Olmstedville, Essex County. X. Y". Escort A. F. Been R. F. D. J. Glens Falls, Warren County, N. Y. Fatherland Dell Ware South Hannibal. Oswego Countv. X. Y. Fanlconbridge B R. and O. A. Knapp Cortland. Cortland County, X. Y. Girdlestone F. K. Armstrong Kden, Erie County. X. Y. Goodrich George B. Servis Genesco, Livingston County, X. Y. Gov. Griggs H. F. Benson East Randolph, Cattaraugus County, X. Y. Hermitage Moynihan and Anderson. ... 70 Glen Street, Glens Falls. Warren County, N. Y. Ladsarion H. M. Prime Keeseville, Essex County. X. Y". Margrave David McCauley Caledonia, Livingston County. X. Y. Oakwood . ....F. J. Holmes Mayfield, Fulton County. X. Y. On Deck P. F. Cullen Ossining. Westchester Comity, X. Y Race King John Ryan South Fallsburg, Sullivan County, X. Y. Red Eye ,. .John T. Collins Camden. Oneida County. X. Y". Rensselaer , Brinton C. Mitchell Manhasset, Xassau County. X. Y. Saceharometer ........ M. A. Lain Westown. Orange County. X. Y. Saints Day William MeGIven Montour Falls, Schuyler County, X. Y. Saladln . II. W. Terpenny Bridgeport. Madison County, X. Y. Shot Gun W. A. Wadsworth Gcneseo. Livingston County, X. Y. Spring -. John Armstrong Monticollo, Sullivan County, X. Y. Traveller Capt. C. IL. Boyd Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. Water Color . .George- S. Raggett Memphis, Onondaga County. X. Y. Willard C. F. Hewitt Arkville, Delaware County, X. Y. If the state of Xew York bad undertaken to place such horses as these at the service of the farmers the cost to the taxpayers would have been something like half a million dollars. They are in no sense culls. They are the representatives of brilliant thoroughbred families. Eaqli horse is or more In height, with a weight of 1,100 pounds or more, of approved conformation, good bone, healthy feet and logs and fine temper. They were selected with discriminating care and every one of them Is admirably suited for the purpose of getting halfbreds for military uses. Some of thorn, notably Accountant, Advance Guard. Watorcolor. Don de Oro, Goodrich, On Deck, Margrave. Rensselaer and Spring were among the greatest racers of their time. Don de Oro, a contribution of August Belmont, was one of the brilliant two-year-olds of 1S0G. He was a first-rate three-year-old of ISO" and he raced successfully at four and five. Moreover, he begot first-class race horses at Mr. Belmonts Xursery Stud before he was turned over to the farmers of Xew York. On Dock was a capital stayer as. a three-yea r-oid in 1807 and he is today an animal of superb appearance. Accountant, the most successful three-year-old of 1900. cost James B. Brady 5,000., He won upward of 00,000 in the course of a racing career of two seasons. Advance Guard, which started in 152 races, of which he won forty-eight, earning .1911.sh4."S7 all told, was known the country over as the "Iron Horse." And he was all that the soubriquet implied. Water-color was the first of the brilliant sons of Watercress. Goodrich today holds the American record of 2:."0Vl for one mile and a half. Rensselaer, a contemporary of The Friar. Ornament. Tillo and Bannockbiirn, distinguished himself in America, England, Belgium arid France. Spring is one of the swiftest and sturdiest of the offspring of Atheling. Sixty-seven stallions have been accepted by the Breeding Bureau since 1007. Several have since died and others, not proving sure fOal getters or developing unsoundness of body or eccentricity of temper, were either returned to the donors or gelded and sold. The breeding record of the bureau shows that: In 1000 thirty -seven stallions were mated with .100 marcs. In 1007 lifty-foiu stallions were, mated with 1,085 mares and 100 living foals reporled as the result of the breeding season of-1000. . In 100S forty-nine stallions woreimatcd witli 1.05S "mares and 5S1 living foals reportinl as the result , of the breeding season of 1007. In 1009 forty-one stallionswere mated with 72S mares and 110 living foals reported as the result of the breeding season of J00S. In 1010 thirty-four stallions were mated with 7S0 mares and 42S living foals reported as the result of the breeding season of 1000. Tile total number of living foals reported to date is 1.510, and there were manv that were not reported. Mr. Dalngerfield says of the bureaus work: "The Breeding Bureau lias been greatlr aided bv the generous co-operation of the various racing associations in offering special prizes to rurther interest in the thoroughbred horse throughout the state. The racing associations prizes were 00 each, and were offered for the best half-bred colls and Allies through all the different agricultural fairs. The stallions were delivered free of expense to their keepers, the advertising being done from the otlice of the Breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club. The only expense to the keepers has been their actual maintenance, the keepers receiving every dollar of the stud fees, and it is confidently believed that thev have been a source of revenue rather than expense to the men who have bad them in charge. "It is worthy of note that, immediately after the creation of the Breeding Bureau of the .Tockev Club of the state of Xew York, similar organizations were started in Canada. Kentuckv. Mississippi Louisiana. Tennessee, Maryland and Virginia, to which organizations the Breeding Bureau of the Jockov Club of Xew York has contributed its advice, anil In many Instances several of its stallion?. "The office of the Breeding Bureau has been in correspondence with Capt. Charles "Conrad captain and quartermaster of tho United States army, and Hon. George- M. Rommoll of the Department of Vri-culture, inviting inspection of the get of these stallions, and it is our sincere hope that arrangements may bo made to facilitate this inspection to officers of the United States army." ;
