The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
TOPICS AMONG HORSEMEN
Bringing in a Lot of Handsome Horse
flesh from the Chicago Sale.
Thrush" Can Be Prevented by Care and
Cleanliness-Terre Haute's Big Purses
Notes Of the Turf.

the great Chicago horse sale with some
blue-bIood trotting stock. The Tattersal
sale was postponed one week, and held last
week, simultaneously with the Woodland
and Shanklin sale. The State of Indiana
was well represented with sellers. Two
hundred and ten horses went from the first
named firm and five hundred from
the last There were present
from this State George w. Morrison,
Connersville; A. Gosnold 81 Son. W.. A..
Jones. X. ]. Wilson. or Rushvilie;
Shelby Puett. of Rockville; Thomas Tag
CART. of this city. and q number of Others
from different parts DR.. Armstrong pur-
chased q string of twelve ~trotters. all high
bred. Mr.. Taggart sold q Blue Bull mare
for 81. $50 that was fourteen years old: her
weanling. by Mark Siris. was taken by Dr..
Armstronsat $40. Other stock by Robert
McGreggor and Gsmbetta Wilkes.
Charles Crockett, the old ~ex-conductor on
The Panhandle, was in the city yesterday
looking for high-blooded animals.
To h-orse-owners who desire to have their
horses feet filed with the Iosthsome. foot
w~recking disease known as thrush. it may
be said hi the mud and filth which can
be found at this time of the year in SO
many yards and stalls where horses are
kept, are factors extremely conducive to
that condition If owners would stop to
consider that no other disease is re-
sponsible Tor half so many deforued and
narrow-heeled feet as thrush; that no other
disease Is half so frequently found In the
horses foot. and, wlthal, that no other dis
ease is as easily prevented. and. IN its
earlier stages. cured, as this. they would
certainly be more active In adopting pre-
yentive measures against its onslaughts-
There are some feet so healthy and sound
that il would seem no amount of exposure
TO mud and filth, and even actual conta-
gion. could develop the disease, but the
tract the malady IL the conditions
are particularly favorable. Animals
which are taken from one locality TO an
other. ana, in consequence or imperfect
standardization. found to be IN a state OF
health somewhat below ordinary condi-
tion are particularly prone to the contrao-
ti0n of thrush; in fact. the lowering of the
health status from any cause whatsoever
is q marked predisponent to this condi-
ton. The prevention consists in reducing
the upfavorable conditions to which the
animal Is exposed to the minimum. by
hooking out the feet twice a day at least.
and IT a suspicion of the disease IS found. IN
putting q few spoonfuls Of ten per
cent. solution Of chloride of zinc into the
cleft and interspaces of the frog and bars
two or three times at intervals of two or
three days As it Is almost impossible TO
cure thrush in an animal that Is not IN q
state of health. it follows that both in the
prevention and treatment of the disease n
consideration of the general health is q
matter of primest Importance. after which
cleanliness becomes the next greatest es-
sentlaL -
The Vigo County Agricultural Society's
officers for 1898 are Fraok McKeen presi-
dent. Hugh ID. Roquet yice-president. G..
A. Shaal treasurer and Charles C.. Oakley
secretary. The society will soon send ont
a liberal speed programme for it's fair at
Terre Haure next year. together with the
conditions of q two-year-old stake to be
trotted at the bonanza meeting IN 1924.
when the bill presented will show three
stakes. the aggregate value of which will
BE- about $4,000. -
Very few men nave the pleasure of seeing
IN announcement of their death in print,
but r. W. Davis. of West Williamsfield, o..
is one of them. The report Of his death a
week ago Monday came 10 hand from
Warren. o.. but Saturday bis son writes
that his father is recovering, and Will soon
be out among the horses at Pymatuning
Farm.
NoTEs
Kit Carson, 2:254, the PAGER. is dead.
In 1889 HambletonIan 10 stood at $50 to
insure.
Eighteen years ago the Dis list contained
but one performer.
The Nashville Association cleared $4,000
at it's last meeting.
The SeeIys. of C~arysville. o., want to
lease q good stallion.
Young Jim. by George Wilkes. now has
twenty-one In the list.
The Indianapolis Driving Club got the
dates they asked for in the circuit.
J. b Newman. Indianapolis. sold his bay
pacing mare last Saturday to Ben kindig,
of Pennsylvania, for $1,000.
Ten ~sousand dollars tor q pacing stall
lion don't look as If the PAGER Is an exile.
Reflector, 2:101s, sold for that amount.
The PAGER Frank Smith, belonging to the
Jewett stables, will be one of the sensG-
tionals next season, If everything is all
right
The pnuematic sulky not only reduces the
records In America, but when taken to Eu-
rope IL Is q reeord-smasher of about three
seconds on an average.
The stables now being wintered at the
indianapolis track are those of John NJ.
Wood. Thomas Taggart. Colonel Pat and
Ed Dickeroon and Mettler brothers.
party at Danville, Ind. has a regular
producing mare by q spe-ed-producing son
Hambletonian. dam by Mambrino Chief IL,
sound and In foal to Guy Princeton. 2:2SA.
Float Jolly. of Upton. Ind, recently sold
to Pennsylvania parties the gelding Il. III.
:. and the Curry filly. both by Imprint. son
Of Onward. Consideration for both, &, 200.
The lmprints seem to be In demand
Blue Bull. the great SIRE. met and defeat
ed an indianapolis horse in a pacing race
about the year 1865. He was owned at tba a
time By Daniel Dorrell. of Rising Sun. Ind.
and hidden by n man named Murray.
There are about sixty trotters and PAGERS
IN winter quarters at the Indiana State
fair grounds. Indianapolis. All are in ex-
cellent health, and are furnishing no end of
material for fast trials around the ges
stoves of that section.
At the Grand. Martinsville. Ind. a num-
Der of horsemen have taken quarters for
the benefit of the curative powers of the
waters. Jno. Hignight, of Harrodsburg.
Joe Res. of Danvllle. KY. G. b. Lockhart,
Indianapolis. and others are there.
GERRYMANDERS KNOCKED OFT.