Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-05-31

of EleCt1Oneer and WaXan2 was
a veritable bundle of nerves, re
quiring the most careful treat
ment to prevent her becoming
unnanageable in the excitement
of a race. Marvin took the high
strung filly out of the Palo Alto
kindergarten, and i'll successive
years captured with her the cham
pion record for two-year-ords,
three-year-olds, four-yearolds,
fve-year Odds and tull-aged trot-
tiers, a seat which no other har-
ness horse has ever accomplished
On the subject of whips, the
famous trainer says: GA few
colts are so dull and sluggish
that o whip is necessary to infuse
am bition into them; but, while |
always carry a whip, it is more
for ornament than for use with
youngsters. With a nervous,
highly organized colt, it is sci
dom necessary, and its abuse IS
absolutely ruinous i'll results.
How often you see a man apply
the whip to young colt when
he breaks, yet that is something
that a boy ten years old ought to
have too much sense to be guilty
of. TO frighten and punish a
colt at the very time when he
needs to be steadied and treasured
is certainly not a sensible thing
to do, and a man who will do it
is not fit to get into a sulky, es-
pccially behind Well-organized
youngster of fine fibre
GOVERNOR STANFORD'S THEORY.
Governor Stanford, who was
himself a horseman of remark
able practical knowledge and sa-
gacity on the subject of training
trottcrs, and who, more than any
other man, is responsible for the
advanced training methods III
vogue among trotting horse
drivers of to-day, was even more
strongly opposed than his head
trainer, Marvin, to the promis
cuous use Of the whip. He used
to spend day after day under the
spreading oaks by the track at
Palo Alto watching the young
trotters take their work, and woe
betide the elnployc who lost, his
temper and vented his anger on
the colt he was driving by all
application of the whip when the
Governor was around. The Of
fender never drove another colt
at Palo Alto. 1t is we'll known,
that OH one such occasion a man
who stood next to Marvin on the
staff of trainers was sumnarily
dismissed at the height Of the
trotting season when his services
were most needed for a single
stroke Of the whip.
Two or three years ago, when
Directum, Little Albert, Matte
H. and other famous trotters
were in Monroe Salisbury S
hands. the California turf1nan
and trainer came i'll for a good
deal of severe criticism on &C
count of the way his drivers used
the whip. Little Albert and
Matte H. were drubbed unmer-
cifully at times under instruc-
lions from Salisbury, but every
body who followed the horses
through the circuit saw them
grow less and less formidable un-
der this treatment toward the
close of the campaign. Little
Albert, one of the gamest t1otters
that ever set foot OH a racetrack,
got so he would sulk and sour
and settle back in harness, re-
fusing to try whenever struck
with a whip. Salisbury says he
has learned a good deal about
training and racing trotters dur~
ing the last two or three years,
and this subject seems to be one
of those on which his notions
have undergone a change, for
Mcdowell, his driver, scarcely
touched Alix with a whip last
season, and there was a notice.
able absence all roun of the
practice for which the Pleasant
on turflnan had gained all unen>
viable reputation in former years.
John Reese, of Great Neck,
one of the old st horsenen of
Long Island, who has had a vast
with all sorts of vici~
Gus and fractions horses, says the
whip is a damage to all horses
whose spirit and III b i on
prompt them to sufficient action.
His experience leads him to be-
lieve with Marvin that the natu-
raj effect Of whipping in case of
fright or nervousness is simply
to add to the excitement. "IfI
the animal is vicious or balky,"
he says, "the whip increase the
angry temper, while gentle, pa
tient treatment with quoting
words III a reassuring tone dis
pelS fear and Cal1nS excitement