St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-05
EQUINE ETCHINGs.

Carrots make most exc client food
for horses, particularly during sickness.
They improve the appetite and slightly
increase the action of the bowels and
kidneys. They possess also certain
Alternative properties. The coat be-
comes smooth and glossy when carrots
are fed. Some veterinary writers claim
that chronic cough is cured by giving
carrots for some time. The roots may
be considered then as an adjunct to the
regular regime, and if fed in small
quantities are highly beneficial.
One of the senseless, as well as in
human, practices of hOrsemen nova
days is the cutting of the foretops of
their animals. A prominent veterinar-
ian gives it as his opinion that the fore
TOD was intended to protect the brain of
the horse, in measure, from the hot
rays of the sun; at any rate, nature has
placed the long hair which hangs over
the forehead Of the animal for wise
purpose, and it looks like cruelty to see
it shOrn close TO the skin.
8 John A. Morris bid more than $4,000
Oh the st. Simon-PlaisaDterie colt at the
recent DOncaSter sales, but failed to Sc
cure the yOungster, who went to Blum
dell Maple for $4,000, which creates
new record for the price of a yearling
IN England, La Fleche, who fetched
$500 guineas. having been the highest
priced one up to that time.
Horses boarded at Cloverdale Stock
Farm. Lake Elmo. Good feed, care and
attendance, and paddocks for exercise.
Stock left at 965 East Seventh street,
corner of Fauquier, will be called for
and returned. Truman Strobridge, man.
ager. 1914 East Seventh street, st. Paul.
In justice to the American trotting
horse, his breeders and patrons should
organize an unprecedented trotting
meeting at Chicago during the worlds
fair year, and it is none too early to be-
gin to DISCUSS the matter with view to
practical action.-rhe Horseman.
The New York bookmakers engaged
in the fight with the Dryers make the
declaration that they will next year run
track of their own near the Brooklyn
establishment, with a free gate and
other special inducements to draw peo-
pie away from the Dryers.
A pony mare, believed to be about
thirty years of age, dropped a foa re-
Gently on farm in AberdeenShire, Scot
land. So far as known, this is the first
foal ever borne by this aged dam. The
start was such as to give good promise
that both would do well.
A society has been formed In Olden-
burg, Germany, to promote the breed
ing Of the well known Oldenburg coach
horse. The main object of the society
is to found pedigree book for all such
horses in the province, and in Hanover
and Bremen.
1t is estimated that 5000 horses will
change hands in Vermont this year at
an average of 1925, which will amount
in round numbers TO S2,000,000. The
horse business now takes the lead in
Vermonts agricultural Industries.
Last year a number of trotting bred
horses were exported from this country
to Europe. among them being fourteen
mares in foal. Reports from Germany
say that all of them have strong,
healthy foals, and are doing well.
Allerton Williams declares that he
has quit betting and declines to bet
$4,000 with Doble In the Nancy Hanks
Allerton match at Lexington. So the
pair will trot Oct. Is for the Lexington
associations money, $4,000.
Incas, by Inca, out of May Day, hay
ing recently reduced his record from
2:17 to 2:1415, makes May Day, 80, the
dam of the two fastest trotters ever
produced by one mare, viz: Margaret
S, 2:124, lncas, 2:1415.
Byron McClelland's great FLY, Sallie
McClelland, mas broken down and will
be bred either to Longfellow or Sensa :
ton. She has never been good since
she fell in her race at Lexington last
spring.
The growth of borseracing in the last
ten years is Illustrated by the fact that
in 1880 the money added in prizes by
the racing associations amounted to
$4,000. Now 1t totals S4,0O0,O0O. @
CaliforniOns talk about a yearling
pacing wonder who is pacing furlongs
at 2:16 clip. She is Wood Nymph, BY
Silkwood, 2:1S19, out of granddaugh-
ter of AleXander's Abdallah
G. +. Dunbar. who owns the old pac-
ing king, Johnston, 2:O614, Is going to
take him to the Independence Kite to
see whether he cannot get the crown
from Direct, 2:06.
Allerton, 2:09I, and Nelson, 2:1O,
will settle their match at Grand Rap
ids Oct s. and the best opinion is that
Allerton will win the race in straight
| heats.
These California two-year-oid trotters
have entered the 2:30 list this season.
Arlon, 2:2515, Lucky B, 2:2Ssl; Kebir,
2:29, and Starlight, 2;291S.
A Vermont trotter that has been win
ming some races lately is called Split
| Ears.