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GERMAN CRITICS FALLACY His Contention Regarding Salva Salvators tors Sire Prince Charlie Is IsWrong Wrong Says Expert SAN FRANCISCO CaL January 13 The ¬ orists in breeding are a help to men engaged in the improvement of the breed of the thor ¬ oughbred at times Once in a while they wander far from the past of things that have happened and have been recorded as facts At such tunes they are liable to mis ¬ lead the unwary unwaryA A case in point is furnished by a German critic who has a theory that only medium sized horses can stay and that it is impos ¬ sible for giants among thoroughbreds to possess stamina He makes the bald and bold statement that Prince Charlie sire of our own Salvator could not stay simply because nature made the Blair Athol horse seventeen hands in height He says saysIt It is quite natural giants cannot stay They have to drag too much own weight and therefore tise up their supply of oxygen much quicker than a lightly built horse horseThe The theory has not a leg to stand on at least as applied to Prince Charlie according to James McDonnell of this city who was connected with the Rancho del Paso estab ¬ lishment of the late James B Haggin and later was superintendent of the late William OBrien Macdonoughs Ormondale Stock Farm at San Mateo He remembers Prince Charlie wery well wellMr Mr McDonnell said today that Prince Charlie was allowed to be sold out of Eng ¬ land simply because his wind was affected affectedIts Its all bosh to say Prince Charlie could not stay on account of his size said Mr McDonnell He was the champion miler in England and there is no telling how far he could have gone but for being a roarer Salvators lungs were perfectly all right as were those of all the get of Prince Char ¬ lie foaled in the United States The English seem to have been the victims of their own peculiar sense of humor in disposing of the no account grandson of Stockwell em ¬ peror of stallions Salvators brilliant rac ¬ ing record must have made the breeders over the pond heave heavy sighs that they had ever permitted Prince Charlie to leave his native land landSalvator Salvator was placed on exhibition here at horse shows in the old Mechanics Pavilion and is well remembered by San Francisco men and women Racing fans that saw Sal ¬ vator heartily agree with Mr McDonnell that the conqueror of Tenny was a remarkably handsome horse Especially when seen alongside his old swaybacked antagonist as in the horse shows in this city did his symmetry and balance strike one He was somewhat of the type of Friar Rock RockAlthough Although Prince Charlie may have been fully seventeen hands in height his son was not near those proportions Probably Sal ¬ vator was just a shade more than 15 hands 3 inches
