The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-14

ing contest and are said to be as good
band of riding men as can be coiieeteo
on the plains.
Manager Goulding shipped to the city be-
fore the arrival of the riders twenty-five
ponies to be ridden in the contests Inc
ungainly Cow ponies are now at biaIr
said by the men employed around the pen
10 be as mean and refractory ouncn Oh
ponies as has ever been quartered there.
The animals vicions that no at
tempt Is made to tether them and they are
grazing in the corral waiting TO be ridden
Tomorrow at the show.
MIR. GOULDING'S STATEMENT.
1--WE do not intend" said Mr.. Goulding.
that this contest shall be considered as
similar brencho busting contests in Wild
West shows. Instead. this is contest
where the best riders that have been able
to find in the Western country will try to
ride what have heretofore been unbroken
horses. The horses, the short-legged. wild
and bad animals that are known to all
plansmen, will endeavor to prevent their
training by the best and most intrepid
riders that have secured from the ranches
of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming Most of
these horses were captured in their wild
state by cowboys and the riders them
selves are cowboys, cowboys who have
been reared in their careers and who have
started as fence riders on some. of the big
these unframed horses 1t is more than
necessary to have knowledge of horses
1t is necessary to have a nerve equal to the
danger of injury received from the terrific
opposition of the horse trying to be han
died.
Many of the horses gathered in this con-
| test have never known the weight OF a
saddle or the press of a spur. in fact some
| of them have known no other halter than
the rasping touch of hair rope thrown
about their neck by skilled cowboy. Some
| ridden
| them never will be if the indications of
/ their performance in the Denver horse
show hold good. The horses gathered from
the wild herds of Wyoming and Texas are
supposed by cattlemen to be, when broken.
the best of ponies for ranch and plain serv-
| ice They are the kind of horses that
cowboy likes. He may after some trouble
secure five or six of them which with his
| own good service may be acceptable to
bosses of big ranches as good FOUNDERS OF
| cattle that Craze on unfenced land. The
| ponies called cow ponies are trained for
many purposes the best of them for cut
| ting out purposes and the least trained for
fence riding. Other ponies, used for many
purposes, but principally following in the
train of great herds of cattle, sometimes
graduate into the class fit for the carrying
| Oh cowboys VINO care for the herd.
PONIES NOW HERE.
I'm the search for ponies available for
work the cowboys sometimes find ponies
too obstreperous for use. and of this class
have tried to bring the worst to Indianapo-
lis. We have secured from among the
worst horses known to cowmen as bad
horses, the following entry list:
Tracy, entered by James Forbes, Tie Sid
| ing, Wyo.; Carrie Nation, by Charles L.
| Lewis Cheyenne Wells, Col; Get There, by
G. L. Brooks, Byers, Col. Mary Hades, by
John Fisher. Prescott, A. T.: She Devil, by
Frank White, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Ping Pong
| by A. Il. Schusbrum, Colorado Springs
Col; Tarantula, by John Mclean. Phoenix
| A. T.; Texas Pete, by William Connors,
Ration, N NJ; Johnny on the Spot, by d. j.
Kirk. Grand Junction, COL; Arizona Jane
| by NJ. III. Smith, Flagstaff, A. T.; The Best
Yet, by John Roe, Rocky Ford, Col; Kate
the Outlaw, by j. G. Birdsall, Greeley, Col;
Double Ender, by Henry Thompson Eliza
| beth, Col; Something Doing. by M HI.
Young, Arvada, Col; Look Out fer Me. by
John Rand, Rawlins. Wyo.: I'll Make You
Ride, by Harry Brown, Sheridan, Wyo.;
Stick to Your Saddle. by George L. Could
| ing & Co., Denver, Col; Tangle Foot, by
George L. Goulding & Co., Denver, Col. !;
Bucking Jane, by Arthur Cohen, Joetown,
| Col; Blue Devil, by Ira McMurtry, Palmer
Lake, Col: Stubborn Mike, by M. E. Hol-
ton, Boulder, Col; Merry-go-Round, by
Frank Dillingham;, Denver. Co.; The
Georgetown Loop, by d. X. Lee, Denver,
Col; Timberline. by c. F. White Denver.
Col: You Just Watch Me, by City Stock
| yards, Denver, Col.