The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14
AMONG THE HORSES
NOTES CONCERNING THE TRoT-
 TER AND PAGER.

Notes About Breeding and Training
 Double Team Record-Incidsnt of she
 Grand CIrcuit-Peter the Great-ImeF-
 InO-A Promising Stallion.
 The sale in New York last week of the last consignment Of trotters that will ever go into the sale ring from the once famous California nursery Of trotters, Palo Alto, marked the end of the great breeding establishment, the decline of which began when Senator Stanford dispensed with the services of Charles Marvin. who trained and drove about all the great trotters Palo Alton pro- duced, and certainly all those raced by that farm. Had Senator Stanford lived, he would probably have kept Palo Alto alive as a breeding establishment, but he could have. done so only by making the training department of the farm the prominent feature of it. When Charles Marvin left Palo Alto the farms decadence began, although the engagement of another great trainer and driver could have brought it back into prominence again. History shows that no great breeding establishment has been able to hold it's place when once training was abandoned. The fam ous San Mateo farm in California quick ly dropped out of sight after John Gold smith resigned as it's trainer. Wood burn. one ot the most famous of Ken tucky's great farms, was literally forced 1f none oe it's products was trained. The reputation which the get of sire makes on the turf is what causes the public to want some of them and there is no one who can so thoroughly made that repu- | tation as the owner of the sire. Nam l primo King was a great sire and under 1 any conditions would have attained | fair degree of fame, but it was only the | persistence of c. J. Hamlin in training and racing his best that placed him on the pinnacle he finally reached. Aller- 1 ton and c. w. Williams afforded anoth- | CT illustration of how an owner can as- sist meritorious horse to become an exceptionally great one. AS long as these facts are recognized breeding es- tablishments will continue to be repre- scented by extensive racing stables, and whenever a big farm concludes to abandon training it may be accepted as true that the stock of that particular farm will, from time to time, begin to drop back in the race for popular favor.
 INCIDENT OF THE GRAND CIRCUIT
 One of the funniest things that oc- cured during the season of harness rac- ing just closed was during the pacing race in one of the last of the big meet i ings of the season. A horse in the race with speed enough to win was unsteady, owing to hitting one of his knees, and his owner who had backed him quite heavily had begun to look upon his money as lost. An observing horseman who saw the way things were going went to the owner and said: Do you
 want to win this race?" ''Do l." said l the owner; do look as though had money to throw away?" "If you will tell your driver to take his directions 1 from me I will see that your horse wins" went on the friend. The owner 1 agreed and gave his driver instructions 1 to that effect. The friend went and
 got bottle filled with a mixture of cocaine and menthol and told the driver l to mosten his fingers with the mixture and and brush it lightly on the horses sore knee just before starting out for the next heat of the race. The driver knew nothing about what the bottle contained, but concluded that if a little
 oe it was good more would be better,
 and so when it came time to use it he poured out quantity of it in his hand
 and proceeded to rub it on the horses knee briskly with both hands. The
 stuff worked all right on the horse and
 he went on and won the deciding heat
 of the race oblivious to the rapping his
 sore knee got, but it also worked on the drivers hands. They were, to all prac-
 tfcal purposes, paralyzed when the heat was finished, and he was obliged ot call for assistance to get him out of his sulky. To the few who knew about
 the affair, it was decidedly humorous happening, and when the owner, who is
 one of the best known among the own CTS of Grand Circuit campaigners, learn ed about it, remarked that he had been
 racing horses for a great many years,
 but that this was the first time he had seen a driver cocained in order to en- able his horse to win a race.
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