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CARE OF SIRES IS IMPORTANT Model Whitney Establishment in Kentucky Brings Results in Foals and Racing. BY EXILE. It goes without" saying that the care and management of stallions is one of the most important details in the conduct of a thoroughbred stud. Haying had a more or less varied experience in horse breeding, in many quarters of the globe, I have naturally taken notice of the different methods of managing stallions. In all my experience I can truthfully say that the best .system of stallion management I have ever seen is now in practice on Mr. II. P. Whitneys Lexington establishment on the Maysville pike. I am convinced that horses prefer being housed in wooden rather than in stone or brick stables, be privileged to see at will others of their kind, have all the freedom possible and live as far removed from the breeding shed as convenient. My observation is that ImrssH prefer wooden to brick or stone stables because they do better therein, and in this I am barno nut. by the observations of others who have or have had stallions in their charge On Mr. AVhitnoys farm are some five or six stallions, their twenty by tweny single stall, wooden boxes, situated on . the back part of the farm, at least one mile from the breeding shed and coaxing -pen, thus they are not exxejted or disturbed by the whinnying of the mares or their accompanying foals. . Each of the stallion boxes open into a spacious paddock, some three acres in extent, where abundant herbage and shade trees grow. The several paddocks arc seperated from each other by a double line of open rail fence, . thus, enabling the "occupant of each to see all there is to be seen, including his neighborhood fellows. When the time comes for a horse to be -used, he is ridden to the breeding shed and subsequently ridden back once more to his stable, and this is not only an assistance in keeping him physically fit; but also an aid in the restoration of his normal mental ..equilibrium.-Onee-baek: 1nr-ht.tp.alffiJcirdoTlig"0es-hls head again, to -attack, his provender anew. . The fact that quiet, together with exercise with and without restraint and opportunity for sight seeing is the proper plan io pursue, is attested to by the docility, cpmpanionableness and demeanor of the horses themselves, as also is the small per cent of barren mares now on the Whitney Farm even Artful is in foal this time and, in addition, the position of Mr. Whitney as leading winning owner for the present season.
