The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-04-22

luIe are not betters. They have rep
uCation to sustain and generally a
family to support, to both OF Which
betting and gambling are deadly en-
emies. Why does he enter them
5hen? Because his business is breed
ing race horses, and he races them to
find out if he is going up hill or down
hill in his business. Other breeders
do the same and the one whose horse
is the best-the fastest, earnest and
best made-gets his reward for the
work, skill, Judgement, zeal, brains
and money he has put in breeding,
rearing, developing, training and nm
ishing off such a horse. And it is the
same principle as paying a farmer
his premium for the best ham, or
grocery merchant for the best display
of his products, or any other producer
who has the best. The Greeks in their
Olympic games early recognized this
difference and not only paid high
premiums for the best in all physical
perfection, but as it was then and
should be now, even higher and more
valuable hOnors for spiritual and in
tellectual superiority. Fast and game
horses are absolutely necessary for
this age, and why should not he be as
great a benefactOr who develops a
breed of horses which can 90 two
miles while another is going one, as
Franklin's benefactor who makes two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before?
w. J. Webster, Esq, who has some
excellent thorOughbreds, is having a
few of his best colts trained on the
kite track.
G.. J. Hamlin makes the statement
that Hal Pointers defeat last fall was
due to the horses sickness, and the
cOrns in his feet he suffered from.
"If Direct or any other horse beats
him this year he will be compelled to
go mile in 2:03 or 2:O4. His feet
have been cared for this winter, aud
the cOrns are not bOthering him in
the least" says Mr. Hamlin.
When an animal shows a tendency
to shy at anything he should be held
i'll by firm and gentle hand and
spoken kindly to. If possible, hold
his head directly toward the object,
let him look at it as long as he will.
Then move him toward it. II the OBJ
ject is stationary, let him get acquain-
ted with il, let him smell it, touch it
with his sensitive upper lip and look
closely at it. The moment a horse
becomes familiar with the things that
alarm him and knows what they are
he grows Indifferent to them. This is
the only way to break horse OF shy
ing at everything he meets on the
road. The man who uses the whip
when the horse shies only aggra-
Yates the evil.-Live Stock Record.
The action of the American TrOtting
Register Association in separat-
ing the trotting and pacing stand
ard, meets with consent of most
of the hOrsemen here, if not
all. There was never any correct
reason for admitting both PAGERS and
trotters under one standard, and still
less for handicapping the PAGER with
five seconds off. The PAGER and trOt-
ter should not appear in the same
book together; they are not the same
kind of a horse. If the PAGER is five
seconds faster it is not his fault.
The fact that Plummer Webster's
old Columbus mare has Just presented
him with her ninth tilly, reminds
that cOlOred encyclopaedia of trOtting
horse lore, who is bent on having
but what "kin go down the
gran circus" that she has been, with
her fillies, fortune for the old man.
Plummer has bought and paid for,
with this old mares colts, a $1,000
farm near Columbia, on which he has
a good home and five or six good
mares.
ooh, give me a home on the sea, a
home on the rolling deep sings the
poet, which is all well enough for those |
who wish to roll that way, but if, as at
present, when the leaves are spring |
ing in canOpies of green from every |
tree and the blue grass gets taller and |
thicker and more emerald-tinted |
every day, there is a spot that in all
the world is more suitable for a home |
than any other, il is in this bluegrass |
blue grass was intended |
by the Almighty for two things-a |
well-bred mare and her FLY colt.
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