FIRST-CLASS ROAD HORSES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2659, 14 October 1882, Page 3

FIRST-CLASS ROAD HORSES.

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Very fast roadsters are the most valuable in the market of any class of horses produced, being in demand at high prices for gentlemen's driving. The extravagant prices paid for these fliers by wealthy gentlemen who have a pride in owning fine-styled drivers, that will take the lead on the road, is sometimes almost incredible. Any breeder who raises first or second class trot roes can find a market for them at high figures. Those able to trot a mile in 2.25 or better will soli for from 5000dols to 10,000iols, both the first and second-class, with good style, finding a ready market at these high figures, and bringing considerably more for private driving than they are worth for public racing. The principal reason why breeders train and fit their colte for the trick, and enter them for trotting engagements is, that they want to exhibit their speed and style of going to the public, with a view of negotiating with private parties for their sale for centlemen’s driving horses. It is often not the temptation to win large sums in purses that induces owners to engage their stock in trotting circuits, for it is only the fastest steeds that win any considerable amount over expenses in the trotting circuits, but breeders enter their stock in those trotting events to give them market value There is an extensive demand fer first class roadsters, that will continue to increase us the country grows in wealth and population. Should the present wonderful rate of increase continue for the next forty years it requires but little sagacity to foraee that we must double our animal and vegetable productions in order to supply the demands of our own population. No breeder need to bo discouraged for fear that the market will bo overstocked with horses, for the foreign and home demand will more than equal the supply for half a century to come. The present dem-nd, and future prospects, ought to encourage the breeder, to raise an additional supply of all kinds of stock to meet the rapidly increasing demand at home and abroad. So long as the public prefer fast roadsters for driving purposes, they will pay a good profit on the cost of production. The public demand for fast driving horses has aken from the course some of it# brightest ornaments, which have been purchased and retired from the racecourse to private stables. The intense rivalry between gentlemen of wealth to own the fastest roadsters, has prompted them to purchase the most famous horses on the turf, at extravagantly high prices, for their own use. Speed and style are the qualities they require, and the more of these a horse possesses, the higher the price he will command.