The Lamar register., 1898-10-26
WEAR FALSE TAILS.
FAsHioNABLE HORSES owE
MUCH TO DECEPTION.
"ismskers DO the work-so rro,b,.
TO Match Horse. When tn. TaI. Dir.
far--Artinee Ia Maeh In Favor I'm m,
Chicago BouIsv.ra,.

lsh tuaJ the mare | saw you
ufiVing this morning. YES. certain
" u ia What OF it," Wen, She
had a short tail then. and now she is
carrying a regular waterspout. what
does II mean." why. just this.
bad her tail cut on so as to be in the
fashion. md when It was done didn't
iike H. and 50 I got tail made. and
ninety-nins people out Of a hundred
don't know the difference" And this
CONDENSATION between two regulars in
orand boulevard opens up the question
OF what may be called a horses toilet.
A horse Of beautiful conformation may
or may not have a good tall. Ii he
has not full one to start with no
amount Of docking can disguise the
Tact And more horses carry artih-
cial tails thsa the everyday world
knows Of Neither Is II recent
fashion oId-iime horsemen like
GeoFEe Bishop or Dunn Walton will
tell you that as long as they can re-
member, and their memories will go
back half century. the ruade-up tall
has hsured in the furniture OF a nrst-
class stable. and both Of them have
earned lots OF money In setting up and
STRENGTHENING tails. and know what
they are talking about. Fifty years
ago. when the harness horse world
knew nothing about class races. when
every event was a match. artificial
tails were In use, no; 20 much as an
adornment, but TO befos the betting
element Those were the days OF Mos
COW. Riptun, Flora Temple. Taeony La
dy Moscow. and Hero. the PAGER. and
all Of their kind. were horses with
bobbed tails. as any one Who has seen
pictures o, Flora Temple. the FIRST trot-
ter to bes, :. 20. or any OF her coutem-
poTariss. can verify Well now and
again a man with a fast trotter would
make a match for big stake. the said
trotter being disguised on the day Of
the race with false tail and perhaps
a forehead mark painted out Ais
fair In love and var. and also In trot-
ting matches. And the cult has sur
vived TO this day.
Leonard jerome In New York had
four-in-hand team Of fine looking bays,
up heSdsd. high sisppers. and every
one had the crowninE glory Of horse
"a full. towing tail Old John Bau-
douine. another four-in-hand whip Of
those hy-soar days. had team OF
elinkers. and Sas a road rival to Jer-
ONE But one OF his leaders, the best
horse o. the bunch. had rat tail, and
so the. appearance Of his team was
spoiled. Get a tail made for that on
leader" suggested friend. and he did;
not a taxidermist's cured tail. but a
regular out-aad-outer, made by a Wig
maker. Il cost a lot OF money, but
that didn't matter, aud after that. on
the question Of tails. the Jerome and
Bsudouine teams were equal That
sas about the time when all the car
riaEe horses in Gotham were trotting
bred. though many people seem TO
think that the use OF the trotter as
heavy harness horse is OF recent date.
The carriage horses OF that day were
for the most part big animals, sixteen
hands or over and according TO their
breeding they had good full tails or the
reverse. and Il was then that the false
tails were first used. just as they are
today. though few people knew OF 1t.
II was a date when breeding from old
AbdallRh stock and from Star mares
was close up. and almost every horse
man OF middle age knows that Abdal-
lah had rat tail and perpetuated 1t,
and a Star tail was as narrow and at
tenuated a. a Jupiter foot. On the
question OF horses tails. there are any
OF people who have an impress
sloa that the short flag, or bobtail. is a
recent adaptation OF an English fash
ion. II It be an imported style, 1t is
not at all OF recent date. unless sixty
or seventy years ago can be considered
SO, All Of the old-time prints OF fam
Gus horses show them with short tails;
and II the manner in which the said
tails were carried means anything.
they were pricked and dOcked. An old
time dealer. who used to bring many
a good load OF horses to this city, al
ways had every horse in the lot
pricked and docked and pulled. They
would arrive with full tails. standing
well out. and purchasers could have
them cut to any length desired-eight
or ten inches or banged-lt did not
matter which.
In this city today there are many
weII-known road horses Haunting
splendid full tails which do not belong