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POINTERS ON PICKING YEARLINGS. C. T. Patterson of Hamburg and Ornament Fame Gives Interesting Interview en the Thoroughbred. Charles T. Patierson. who dt -ve loped tlie mighty Hamburg, and who campaigned OnuMlt and many sthei ii.jiv.-v unii ran anrrcea. has loand ideas en the thoroughbred, and in a recent interesting later rlew m the New Koch Telegraph, he set forth the requlstt lea .r :i first ctaaa bone: "It lakes lime m get | good stable even it* von -riWTC millions .,1 dollars," said he. "II ball l-aiu- roiiid wait until April to re their stayers together, hej areaM net hare ■ chance to win a pennant, i. ..aiivc ..;ii,i tetuM would hare all the fleet player* .mil yea w..uM not be read] when the umpire said •play ball. li.st people claim that you cannot tell anything •boat a yearling. I claim jroa can. Here a my reaaoa: rot laatance, Hamburg, Byaoabj or Colin. stalling lor the first time, may inn a "sensational race, ami everybody roe* wild shout them alter the race is over, but the winning of the rare, eveu hi record tun., did not change the appearance of the horse, lie looked the mm before lie treat into the- race as he did whin be cann oat Of it. "We have i -great UMMJ trainers and BOOK extra good ones, but few horsemen. What I mean by that is. we bae many a man who eau train a horse ami train him well it" you give hiiu the horse, but give him the money and tell him to buy some untried .Mailings or the raw material, he cannot do it. There are few people that know the horse business. Anybody can see a thing after it has happened, but there is not ■ man in ten thousand who can see a race horse before he shown. "Munj yearliaga are ruined by running them at i.p speed before thej are ready or seasoned. "Their leg* are aofl and the becoaae uaaoaad; they eaaaot ■hoar their best If they are unsound. One of the greatest horses 1 ever saw — Salvid.re — could beat I an] banc be met when sound, but he could not beat the ordinary bone when he became unsound. As tor boraea running over a distance- of ground. 1 think we bare .iust as man. now a- are did in the • ;.i daya, bat they are tralaed and race differently. We train so niucb for speed nowadays horses become what j on call apeed crazy. Von cannot place thorn unless you pull ihem hard. When a horse is run-i.iii- under I strong plll his heart and lungs are working .jusi as hard as if you were letting him ran on the same principle as putting an automobile against a atone wall an. I turning on the engine. The engine would be working .iust as hard and you would be using just av ameh gasoline- as if "the auto was moving, "There iv a wide inference between a great horse and a test bene. The Teal liois.. is a fast horse ;,t any distance, while the fast lo rse, or sprinter, caa oalj run ■■■ short distance. There are lots of fast horses, bat few great . a. All horses are not made alike, bill any great bane, when you come to look him over, jron will led has aoaae points to make liim -real. 1 he greatest deep mini horse 1 ever saw was Judge Hyuma and when I looked him over I found a horse with wonderful shoulders. "We have what 1 would call natural and manufactured tare horses. The natural race horse is the belter, for the teaaoa that he can run at any and all times provided, of course, that lie is sound and well, A striking example of a manufactured race bone was Bean Gallant, The spring he was two years ..Id he was gel ting beaten in selling races and in I In fall In- beat the great Commando and gave him oio- | n,|. This waa alter lie had been trained all summer and ever* miisole was set and he was in perfect condition. After be was thrown out of I raining lo go into winter quarters he never showed anything like the van,.- form. If he had been a natural runner this would nol have happened, btcanse the natural runner can always rim: oxen when out of training be has bis speed, bill, of course, has to be i ..ndiiioiie.i to carry il over a distance of ground. "Action is a glial thing. The nicely act awed horse will always run more true to form than the horse With bad action, because If be is knock..! .11 his stride in a race be can recover it immediately, while the had actioaed horse cannot do 1 hi-. "We have some fairly good horses with bad action because they have great si length. King James was one of these. He was considered a great horse, but when he met Ballot and Cell he had lo be contented With Hi place. "I think when you sum up everything the head is the most import anl thing to be considered. All great horses, like great men. have a head on them that looks lb.- pari. Gnat breadth between the eyes, will: a big, strung jaw and a good, full eye. Beware of the bane with the hog or elephant eye. "A great horse looks the pari, but there are few people who .an aae ii. This. I think, is a gift born in a person something one cannot acquire. 7**Breedlng i- a great thing, and no matter how tew ell bred the horseis he must be made right— ovory-■ihiiiL must match ahoat him and ho must be perfectly balanced to he a really great horse. The finest f clock in the world will not continue to run if it is not hung plumb or if there is a wheel in it that does not fit. Everything must work in harmony. When yea get a perfect horse, the better the breeding the boiler the horse. "Wo have what you call high and low seared horses, just the same as the high and low speed of i he automobile. The low-geared horse makes a lot of fiivv. Put does not cover the ground, and the liigh-gea:e.l bone .loos not make any fuss or efTo;;. but lie coven 1b ground, and when you put tin- two together for a trial ii is the same thing as a man walking with a lady with a hobble skirt. "Young horses are the ones to buy or bet on because ye i often get lit to 1 on a young horse that : should I.. :: to 5. On the older horse you get ■. to 5 when he should be 0 or 8 to 1. There is a top to 1 every bill. The young horse is on the side going up. w here theres room for improvement, and the older • bar at has reached the top and must come down. But the public cannot see this until they have lost : their money. Adams Express. Plata Class and High Private are goad examples of what 1 call the old 1 horse. The public are always playing them on what they have done, and il is almost a certainty they never will be what they have been. 1 dont care • who trains them. "An expert need man can tell the high-geared I horse from the low geared one. just the same as 1 yoa can sit in an automobile and tell when the . chauffeur changes from low to high speed. The ■ high geared horse looks the parr anil if you were ■ to measure him. you would Bud he had great length 1 from hip to bock, and when you galloped him you 1 would tind he covered ground without any exer-ti • .ii. •Hindoo. Ornament. Africander. Sysonby. Yo Tambien. Artful, and Salvidere were high-geared I horses with splendid action. Any yearling bred I right, that looks the part, with action like any of the above nieni i ui. ii horses, would surely lo to , buy a I any price within reason. A horse of this . kind cannot help but make good. Any man with 1 money going into the racehorse game should not buy ■ a rearing thai did not Iook to have a chance to l.o a great horse. "The great Longfellow was a particularly high-geirod . horse. He had wonderful length from the . point of his hiii to the point of his hoik and was a , horse ..f tremendous stride. He could run fast t ami far. You inn buy the ordinary horse every • day, bui great horses arc few and far between, one ureal horse is worth a stable full of ordinary - ones. Everybody knows of the late James R. Keeae, August Belinotit. J. B. Madden and James Kowe because . they had gnat bones. "As to tell lag the difference about a yearling [ with class and one without class, it is hard to ex plain. About the beat explanation I caa give is the . difference between eul glass and pressed glass. One - ,.iv il,.- hard tlinly. tine look of the cut glass and thiol . her hav the soft look of the pressed glass. • A yearling must be made right. A great many r . of then ai. loin -ient in one place or anoiiu-r. The majority Ol thorn an made wrong in front, either ■ in the knee or elbow. This makes them paddle , ■ad hit then- bocks what we call -swift cutting*. S me ere made like the bulldog -wide in front. As , a rule, those horses a ill not run over a distance of [ ground because tbelr action is faulty. •In buying yearlings you niuvr look for the ones with the rich kind ol ■ nam.-. If you see a narrow frame lor a building y.ni can only expect a , narrow building- the same with the yearling. We , hn. I a great many horses with an extremely short I rib near the bin. These boraea will look all right t when fat, but when they an- ready to race they will 1 . draw up to the rib and look like a greyhound. They havent the constitution to make a great horse. ■The first class stake horse will kill two or three , ordinary horses if you try to train them with him. I becaase be has all the qualities where the ordinary , bone hav not. and he can do his work with so much more ease. Hie actual ruaalag of the hone ii ■ trial or a race does noi hart him al all. It is the nervous strata getting up to «hb going through the ••Yon mav nay, why should I tetl nil this which ii took aae thirty yean to lean with bus of hard , work and worry and association with the best tr-.f-tinc . ami running horsemen. But. as 1 have said aa.ei ore I think picking yearlings is a gift and If 1 , t-dil all I knew there isnt SBC man n ten thousand could do it." ,
