Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-05-27
THE CAR SICK HORSE
HOW A RAILROAD JOURNEY AFFECT
60 A HIGH BRED HACKNEY.

uonnre's Trip TO Inc Horse show and
why rt Ended So Disastrousfs-Ter-
rifyinE Ride In "a wheeled Box
After Hothousc Training.
The story OF what happened to a
high bred hackney when he was sent
by rail TO the Madison Square Garden
horse show is told by Scwcll Ford IN
Horses Nine" Bonfire was the hack
ncy's name. but he did not look at all
fiery at the moment. I've author says
OF him:
In his stomach was a queer feeling
which he did not at all understand. In
his head was dizziness which made
him wish that the stall would not
move about so. Strcaks 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 sickness-a malady differing
from seasickness largely in name only
also well developed cold compli-
Gated 10y 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-
BILE had begun. Men shouted: bells
Changed: whistles shriekcd. Bonfire
felt the box start with a Jerk and,
humping. rumbling. joiting. swaying,
move somewhere of into the night
In an agony Of apprehcuSion-ncck
stretched. eyes staring. ears pointed.
nostrils quivering. legs stiifened-Bon-
4 ri nnH
there seemed 70 be none. Shock after
shock Bonfire withStood and still found
himself waiting. What II all meant he
could not guess. There were the other
horses that had been taken with him
into the box. some placidly munching
hay. others looking curiously about.
There were the familiar groOms who
talked sooth.ngly i'm his ear aud patted
his neck in vain. The terror OF the
thing. this being whiricd noisily away
in a box. had struck deep into Bonfire 5
brain. and hc could not get IL 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.
or course Ii was absurd for Bonfire
10 20 20 pieces i'm that fashion. You
can ship a Missouri Modoc around the
world. and he will finish almost as
sound rs he started. But Bonfire had
blood and breeding ana pedigree
which went back 10 Lady Alice of Burn
Brac. Yorkshire.
His coltdom had been n sort OF hot
house existence. for Lochlynnc. YOU
know. is the toy OF Il Pennsylvania coal
baron who breeds hackneys not for
profit. but for the joy there is I'm il.
just rs other men grow orchids and
build cup defenders. At the I.ochlynne
stables they turn on the steam heat i'm
November. ON rainy days you are ex-
ercised In glass rooted tan bark ring
and hour after hour you are handled
over deep stNaw 10 Improve your ac-
ton. You breathe outdoor air only in
high fenced grass paddocks. around
which you are driven i'm surclngle rig
by cockncy groom imported with the
pigslSin 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 ncttings 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 tensely strung
as those of n high school girl on grad
uatiOn day. That is why a draft OF
cold mir had chilled him TO the bone:
that is why. after reaching the Gar
den. he had gone rs limp as a cut rose
at ball