The herald., 1897-07-05
THE HORSE

| AprOpoS TO the account or the deatn OF
| Preakness, a famous man-eater, "Au-
CUR" in a recent issue of the Sporting
Life, of London, says:
There are no good reasons for the
difference of tempers in thoroughbred
| horses, as although some people assert
it to be hereditary, there have been nu-
merous cases to refute that argument
My opinion is that some of the best and
| highest horses have been
made bad-tempered by some accident,
probably unknown to their owners OF
trainers, or else by carelessness or mis-
management. A savage kick or a bang
over the quarters with pitchfork may
be done in a second and no one be the
wiser but the singularly highly nerved
animal does not forget it, and maybe it
rankles in his aggrieved mind to make
him touchy at first and then absolutely
ill-tempered.
"The more high-couraged he is the
more likely he is to lose his temper, and
hence it is that some of the best horses
ever known have been the worst tenn
pered. Lottery, the son of Tramp, was
so bad tempered that when he was a
two-year-old it was proposed to shoot
him, and when he ran in the st. Leger
in Barefoots year he would not try a
yard. Fortunately for the turf in the
future he mended his ways so far as
racing is concerned and proved himself
the best four mile horse of his day. II
he had remained the same sulky as well
as bad tempered brute he would most
likely have been unseXed, and the world
would have lost Sheet Anchor, and from
him downwards Weatherbit and all the
Beadsman family. 1t is true the tribe
have been labeled high-couraged and
some of them bad tempered. Beads
man was a savage, and he cost Sir
joseph a pension of $50 a year by biting
a mans hand off. Rosicrucian would
stand no nonsense but many who had
| o do with him declared he was not bad
tempered and the last time I saw him ha
was like a pet lamb. Again, The Pal
mer, brother of Rosicrucian, was a par
ticularly quiet horse. 1t least he was
when l saw him as a stallion at MI.
| Cookson's.
1.-The Baron was such a demon as 4
stallion that the bargain with the
French government would have been re-
pudiated if it had not been for the fact
that when the Haras inspector came to
England to buy him he was left in his
box with him for some minutes, and the
horse. allowed him to pick up his feet
and handle his legs. When the report
came in, therefore, of his savage ways,
the inspector, who was a great author
ity, declared it was an infamous false
hood, as he had found him quiet as a
cow There was no doubt about his be-
ing a savage though, and yet he gor
| IL
we'll and Rataplan out of a grand
daughter of Sultan Ga very fine one)
besides a lot of temperate animals in
France, such as La Toucques, Noelie and
Nobility"
The Montana multi millionaire, Mar
Gus DAILY, last Wednesday cabled from
Chicago to j. Russell Gubbins of Knock
any, Ireland, an offer of $125,000 and half
his turf winnings for the great Irish g.
year-old colt, Galtee More (son of Ken
dal and Morganette), that has won this
1000 guineas derby and the Prince OF
Wales stakes and is almost sure start
er and winner of the st. Leger. This is
the largest price ever paid for a 3-year-
old, and if Mr.. Daily gets the big col
he will not race him much, but put him
in the stud a. his Bitter Creek farm
, Hamilton, Mont.
+ = Y
Palo Alto, 2:OSs4, son of Electioneel
and Dame Winnie. has added anothel
2:20 performer to his list June 18th last
at Mystic park, Boston, the bay geldint
Palon, out of Galepa, by General Ben
! ton, grandam Gazelle, 2:21, by HANDLE