The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-06-23

| is called San fcurO. Wnen ulScOV-
cred he was engaged in the solemn
and slow occupation of drawing a
hearse, for which he was at last con-
sidered too small. lie is said to have
trotted in 2 20 and has paced half in
05.
Bad drivers make bad horses. A
horse cannot be screamed at and
cursed without becoming less valua-
bic in every particular. To reach the
highest degree of value the animal
should be perfectly gentle and relia-
BILE, but If it expects every moment
that il is in harness to be scolded and
struck it will be in a constant state of
nervousness, and in excitement is liable
through fear to do something that is
not expected. 1t is possible to train
horse to be governed by speaking to
him, almost as completely as it is to
train child, and when thus trained
the horse reaches his highest value.
When horse is soothed by the gentle
words of the driver, and we have seen
him Gained down from great excite
mcnt by no other means, it may be
fairly concluded that he is valuable
animal for practical purposes, and it
may be certainly concluded that the
man who has such power over him is
a humane man and sensible one.
In fitting the shoes, says Joseph
Cairn Simpson, many smiths apply
the shoe red-hot, and keep it to the
foot sufficiently long for the shoe to
burn bearing for itself. This is an
extremely dangerous and pernicious
habit and should not be permitted
under any circumstances. The result
Of the application of rcd-hot shoes to
the foot is to set up certain amount
of inflammation in the sensitive portion
of the foot. The shoe should be only
applied sufficiently long to ascertain
where the Irregularities on the wall
exist, and these should be reduced
either with the knife or rasp, the latter
for choice. The shoe should be fitted !
to the foot, not the foot to the shoe, as
is done in many instances. The shoe |
being fitted it should then be nailed |
on, five or seven nails are quite sufli-
cient if the horse has a good, sound
foot; too many nails have tendency
to split the external wall and in many |
cases cause lameness. The nails |
should not be driven more than half
way up the external wall, as the wall
becomes thinner towards the coronct,
and there may be possibility of
tanning the horse by driving them too
high. In many cases side clips arc
used, and in most cases toe clips. The
clip is equivalent, .er should he made
so, to one or two nails. The clip
should be of moderate size and
should not be hammered down too
tightly.
Another common practice is to rasp
the external wall after the nails arc
clinchcd. This should never be per-
mittcd. A smith will remove in one
rasping more than nature can produce
in three months. The continual
rasping will so weaken the foot that
after time it becomes almost impos-
3iblo to keep shoe on.
George Starr has charge of the
Plcasanton place, and Starr has meth
IDS of handling his horses that differ
somewhat from those employed by
he average California driver. lie
gets them into condition by slow and
Easy work and leaves the fast miles to
&c done in thc races. All the stories
bout fast miles and halves and quar-
ers have 10 foundation upon fact.
Not horse on the ranch has yet been
8kcd to do his best. That is not
5tarr'S style.
Margaret S., , ;l2., is of course the
tar of the stable by previous per-
Ormance, and she is likely to hold that
Xaltcd place this year. She has won
more money on the trotting turf than
ny fOur-year-old that ever lived, and
) second in record only TO the incom-
'arable Sunol. Among the rich
Kings which She has put to her credit ;
re the Spirit of the Times Futurity,
von in straight heats in her three !
ear-old form, and the Great Expecta- !
ion Stakes, won in five heats, in Z
which she dstanced the field and won .
he entire stake Of 80, 500.
She belongs to the highest rank.
'o-day in her flve-year-old form, she !
J sound, without touch of the lame G
ess which affected her at the close of g.,
lst scason-a good actor and fit for !
he fastest company that the grand
ircuit affords. She showed an easy
llle q bit slower than . 20 Saturday q
nd did it so easily as TO show that 0
nc is up to her form of last year. She n