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NEW YORK BUILDINGWISELY STATES BREEDING BUREAU VISIBLY IMPROVING ITS BREED OE HORSES. Eighty-Fivo Thoroughbred Sires Now in Via and Fanners Praise Their Progeny Many Moro Stallions to Bo Secured, u By Ed Colo. Now York. December 1. Notwithstanding the knocks and tackles the thoroughbred has received in this state, the breeding bureau, organized by the Jockey Club in 1900, has been carefully looked after and augmented at every opportunity. .Some believed that when adverse legislation was passed, during the Hughes administration, that it would mean the demist; of the Jockey Club and all its attendant bureaus. This was far from the thoughts of those in command, who not only pooh-poohed the idea of giving up the ship, but went to work harder to revive the sport and keep up the breeding bureau for patriotic reasons. The results of their labors in all departments is sufficient proof of success. To the brooding bureau much attention has been paid until at this writing there are eighty-five stallions placed in different counties in this state. These have done so much towards improving the breed of the army remount and work horses that there is nothing but praise throughout the state for the service rendered the farmers and those who have profited by the experiment. According to statistics the eighty-five stallions h;ive been mated with 0,7:54 mares during the ten years from 1900 to the present year. The result lias been 3,1-19 foals reported. It is necessary to state, however, that those numbers are decidedly an under-estimatc for the icason that the office of the Breeding Bureau has found it absolutely impossible to obtain complete reports of foals. In 1911!, due to the extensive exportations of thoroughbred studs the Breeding Bureau found it next to impossible to find suitable stallions and but one additional horse was placed in the stud.. With the revival of racing, even on a modest scale, twelve new stallions have been acquired and placed, and among the Breeding Bureau stallions of today may be found as handsome and good specimens of the thoroughbred horse as in any country. It is but a fair estimate to say, that in another lecnde there will be in the neighborhood of two hundred stallions added to the bureau list, if they are needed, which should produce an average of between 700 to 900 foals a year of useful quality. These will be half-breeds at the least and in many cases three-quarter thoroughbred. Reports from those who have taken the opportunity to breed cold-blooded mares to the bureau stallions give more than satisfactory results. The colls are sturdier, faster and more willing than the old-fashioned horse. As one fanner expressed it, "the thoroughbred sticks out in all the half-breds. Put a half-thoroughbred and a cold horse in a team, and a blind man could almost pick the one witli thoroughbred blood in him." From all quarters the opinion is unanimous that the Jockey Club Breeding Bureau has done much to improve the breed of horses throughout the state.
