The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-10
TRICKS on HoRsEMEN.
How Horses are Doctored With Intent q
Deceive.

Jockey tricks Bless you, me boy, l
can't stop to tell you about 'em. Il would
keep me for week, and then 1 wouldn't
have told the half of them," said well.
known horseman to q reporter.
Jockey tricks are, indeed, innumerable,
and some OF them undoubtedly as old as the
existence of the very quadruped himself ON
whom they are practised. They are as old
as the hills, and still SO new that the green
ones are caught by them every day in the
year. Horses sold by the professional deal.
er too often " are not what they SEEM" II
is, perhaps, due to this fact that the very
name of the horse dealer is in German
rosstauscher" q. g., horse deceiyer).
showing in what low estimate our cousins
across the water hold him. From an ex-
uberance of tricks, as given by gentleman
having comprehensive knowledge of them,
the following are chosen as among the most
startling.
10 quickly subject horse and make him
amenable to his owners or his trainers will
nothing works SO unfailingly as cummin
and oil of rhodinon. Rub some cummin
on his nose, strew o little over his fayorite
food and, while he is eating, watch YOU,
chance and pour some fifteen drops or 40
OF the oil on the tip of his tongue. That
brings him to every time.
10 make horse, perfectly sound, appear
lame oil a clever trickster has TO do is TO
pull out hair from his tail, thread n needle
with 1t, shove the needle through the skin
between the outer and middle tendons of a
foreieg and put down the foot again. An
hour later the horse will 60 lame. The hair
pulled out again, the horse quickly RECEIVERS.
and there is no harm done, except. perhans
an unwilling owner of fine beast is forced
to sell at half price.
among such owners, who ere doubly
sold, may also be reckoned those who buy
a horse apparently quito we'll, but which
the next day has the heaves in an unmis.
taxable manner. Such old cases can be
temporarily cured by giving theanimal one.
third of pound of bird shot. Until the
shot passes through the system the horse
will not heave
IL a horse, previously good, gentle and
steady puller, should suddenly develop
great aversion to even pull pound. or hi,
own weight, after his owner has given him
to dealer to be sold, it may be that the
dealer Inns produced the metamorphosis bv
simply bathing the shoulders of the horse
at night with mixture composed of tine.
ture of cantharides and corrosive sublimote
Again, applying tallow on n horses front
teeth and to the roof of his mouth will make
him not touch his feed and be, apparently.
very sick, whereas, i'll reality the poor beast
merely harbors very natural feeling of dis
gust for the depravity of the human race.
and especially that portion of IL known as
horse dealers.
Without having drunk from the fabulous
fountains of youth, it is within the resources
of well-equipped dealer to make an old
fellow of a horse look and act like frisky
colt. To do this nothing is necessary but
10 file down his teeth, dot the cavities by
using red-hot iron, puncture the skin over
The eyes, blow in some wind, close the hole
pull out the white hairs, and presto,
change we have sleek and lively young
horse, after his coat has been manipulated
with white Of eggs and some cantharidos
given him to make him gay and sportive,
The animal may be Us old as Methusalem,
but for the time being he'll jump around as
lively as a cricket.
One of the wickedest tricks even for horse
jockey is that of making a horse appear
glandered, scare his owner half to death
about it, threaten to report him for having
beast with such dangerous disease in his
possession, buy him for a $40 note, and
then let the six ounces Of melted butter
which you have poured into the animals
ear come out in day or two, and enjoy the
bargain of having bought Isl 900 horse
for next to nothing. Most men will agree
after having been made the victims of such
little scheme that melted butter is all right
on Welsh rarebit, but out of place in
horses .-CHicago Ne,os.