The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-06-10
THE CAR SICK HORSE
HOW A RAILROAD JOURNEY AFFECT
ED. A HIGH BRED HACKNEY.
DonGrc's Trir to the Horse SHOW and
Why It Ended Sc Disastrously-TeE-
rifyinS Ride In wheeled Box
After 6 EcthouSc Training.


The story of what happened to
high bred hackney when he was sent
by rail to the Madison Square Garden
horse show is told by Sewell Ford in
Horses Nine'' Bonfire was the hack
news name, but he did not look at al!
fiery at the moment. The author says
OF him:
In his stomach was queer feeling
which be did not at all understand. IN
his head was dizziness which made
him wish that the stall would not
move about so. StreaNs of pain shot
along his backbone and slid down his
legs. Hot and cold flashes swept over
his body, for Bonfire had bad case
of car sickncss-a malady differing
from seasickness largely in name only
also we'll developed cold compl-
Gated by nervous indigestion.
Tuned to the key, he had left the
home stables. Then they had led him
into that box on wheels, and the trou-
bic had begun. Men shouted; oeils
cionsed. whistles shrieked. Bonfire
felt the box start with jerk and'
humping, rumbling, jolting, swaylns'
move somewhere OF into The night.
In an agony Of apprehension-neck
stretched, eyes staring, ears pointed
nostrils quiverins, legs stifened-Bon-
FIRE waited for the end. But OF eno
there seemed to be none. Shock after
shock Bonfire withstood and still found
himself waiting. What it all meant ne
rould not guess. There were the other
horses that had been taken with INN
into the box, some placidly munchlnS
hay. others looking curiousiy ABOUT.
There were the familiar Srooms VINO
talked soothingly in his ear and patted
his neck in vain. The terror OF the
thing, this being whirled noisliy away
in . box, had struck deep into Bontire's
brain. and he could not get 1t out. SO
he stood for many hours, neither eat
ing nor sleeping, listening to the
noises. feeling the motion and trem-
bling as one with ague.
OF course it was absurd for Bonfire
to 90 to pieces in that fashion. You
can ship a Missouri Modoc around the
world, and he will finish almost as
sound as he started. But Bonfire had
blood and breeding and a pedigree
which went back to Lady Alice OF Burn
Brae, Yorkshire.
His coltdom had been sort Of hot
house existence, for Lochlynne, you
know. is the toy of Pennsylvania coal
baron who breeds hackneys not tor
profit, but for the JOY there IS ID 1t,
lust as other men grow orchids ana
build cup defenders. At the Lochlynne
stables they turn on the steam heat IN
November. On rainy days you are eA-
ercised in glass rooted tan bark ring,
and hour after hour you are handled
over deep straw to improve your ac-
ton. You breathe outdoor air only IN
high fenced grass paddocks. around
which you are driven in surcingle rig
by cockney groom imported with the
pIcsSin saddles and British condition
powders. From the day your name IS
written in the studbook until you
leave you have balanced feed, all wool
blankets, fly nettings and coddling that
never ceases. Yet this is the method
that rounds you into perfect hackney
form.
All this had been done for Bonfire
and with apparent success, but few
hours of railroad travel had left him
with a set of nerves as tcnsely strung
as those OF high school girl on grad
uation day. That is why draft OF
cold air had chilled him to the bone;
that is why, after reaching the Car
den, lie had gone as limp as a cut rose
at a ball.