The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
A HORSE TRAINERS ART.
HOW METTLESOME STEEDS ARE
TAUGHT VARIOUS TRICKS.

"To be successful in training horse:
you must manage them exactly as {
sensible woman does her husband"
That is the way in which Nine,
Marantette sums up the horse trainer
art, and Nine. Marantette probably
knows more about horse training thar
any other woman; perhaps more thai
any man. She is q Michigan woman
and a sister of Myrtle Peek, both O.
whom claim Mendon as their home,
She has been handling. horses eve,
since a girl of seven and has been 9
familiar figure on race courses, al
State and county fairs and horse
shows. Last fall she sold her stable
of exhibition horses to James A. Bal
ley, the circus owner, and she is now
handling horses in that organization as
''next best man" to John O'Brien.
The horses that Nine. Marantette
sold to Mr.. Bailey were six in mum.
Der, the most valuable being Ever.
green. a white menage horse, which
she has taught 10 take all the steps OF
which q horse is capable, but which is
exhibited by her in novel fashion, be.
ing driven to harness.
Evergreen has fourteen distinct
gaits. Moonraker, a brown jumper,
and Filemaker, Jr., a sorrel jumper,
are also ridden by her. Cyclone and
Jupiter, two other jumpers, were sold
by her to Mr.. Bailey, but they are
ridden by boys,
Menage horses are O specially in
the Bailey show this season. There
are fourteen, not counting the pyra-
mid of seventy, nor the madame's sta-
bic. The best is probably Black Ea-
gle, the 'couchee-couchee" horse,
which was put into the ring by
O'Brien in 1889, and does half a dozen
different styles of dancing. Others of
these horses are Oxford, a white jump
sr, which was formerly the property
of Mayor Grant, of New York City;
Splass, a retrieving horse; st. Peter,
i four-year-old that has been taught to
skip the rope; Mutt and Romeo, two
white Arabs which do "a double me-
mage act; and Grimaldi, Cato, Sultan
and Ashland, four f%ull-blooded black
Trachean stations, which do q full
drill, with pedestal %pirouetting.
81 control horses by kindness and
the proper amount of frmness," said
Nine. Marantette, describing her
method of training. eff they are
good they get sugar; if they are stub
born they get the whip-but little OF
the last. Horses are very like men.
Sometimes they must be humored and
made to think they are having their
own way, when in reality they are do
ing what you will they shall do. For
instance I am handling q horse Of high
courage that is not thoroughly broken,
and he insists on going one way and
I want him to 60 another, I turn him
around several times and distract his
attention, and the chances are that he
will go as I wish without a.contro.
rersy. If he persists I compromise
oy starting him his way and gradual
~ GuLulAS AlLu IlluS.
"I got my first valuable lesson in
breaking fractions horses some time
after I became a professional horse
woman. My sister was handling a
vicious, strong-willed horse and used
her whip vigorously. + suggested
that she fought him too much and she
said'I would fight him, too, if Ihad to
handle him. I tried him and we had
trouble at once. T gave him several
sharp cuts, but it did no good, then I
lost my temper and whipped him
severely. In O few minutes I realized
that I had acted foolishly. The horse
was so excited he was crazy. He
lidn't know why I whipped him and
was so wrought up he hid no control
over himself. I took hirl to the stable
and let him cool off. Then I cultivated
MS acquaintance. He soon found out
that I would not hurt him, and he put
confidence in me. In a few weeks I
had him under absolute control"
Nine. Marantette is a slender, gray
haired woman, with the clear, gray
eyes. She was born in Michigan, and
is proud that she is an American.
"The best horse I wei rode" said
she, twas old Filemaker. / made the
worlds record for high jumping on
him. Rosemary was killed while try
ing to go e q fence an inch higher
than the seven feet four inches that
Filemaker cleared with me on him.
"There is a great difference in
jumpers. Some are good for high
jumps, and some for broad. Senator,
the horse I ride now, would make q
better broad jumper than a high. He
Uses some distance back, and has a
tremendous forward movement. Old
Filemaker rose close to the barrier,
with his hind feet we'll up under him,
and went nearly straight up. Oxford,
the gray jumper, has the same move
ment, but he hasn't got Filemaker's
courage. He won't take a Jump that
he can't see over. No horse can be a
great jumper unless he has high
temper. He should be at least half
thoroughbred. The warm racing blood
gives them courage. Chicago TrI.
bune.
Runaway on Three Legs.