The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1903-08-19
THE CAR SICK HORSE
HOW A RAILROAD JOURNEY AFFECT
ED A HIGH BRED HACKNEY.

Bonfre's Trip TO the Horse show and
Why II Ended So DisastrOusIy-Ter-
rifyIng Ride In Wheeled box
AFTER IA dollhouse 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
neys name, but he did not look Mt all
fiery at the moment The author says
of him:
In his stomach was 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. Streaks 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 malady differing
from scasickness largely in name only
> also II well developed cold compll
Gated by nervous Indigestion.
Tuned to the key, he had left the
nome Stables. MN ll'S h''' ~ '''
into that box on wheels, and the trou-
BILE had begun. Men shouted; bells
changed; whistles shrleked. Bonfire
felt the box start with Jerk ana,
humping, rHmbling, jolting, swaylng'
move somewhere off into the night.
In an agony Of apprehension neck
stretched, eyes staring, ears pointed
al iffpnpd-Hnn-
fire waited for the end. But OF END
there seemed to be none. Shock after
shock Bonfire withstood and still FOUND
himself waiting. What 1t all meant ne
could not guess There were the other
horses that had been taken with MIN
into the box, some placidly munching
hay, others looking curiously about
There were the familiar grooms who
talked soothingly In his ear and patted
his neck in vain. The terror of the
thing. this being whirled noisily away
in a box, had struck deep into Bonfires
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 ms one with aGue.
OF course IL was absurd for Bonfire
to 20 to pieces in that fashion. You
can ship Missouri Modoc around the
world, and he will finish almost as
SQUAD rs he started. But Bonfire had
blood and breeding and pedigree
which went back to Lady Alice of Burn
Brac, Yorkshire.
His coItdom had been sort of hot
house existence, for Lochlynnc, you
know, is the toy of II Pennsylvania coal
baron who breeds haCkncys not for
profit, but for the JOY there Is In It,
just us other men grow orchids and
build cup defenders At the Lochlynne
stables they turn ON the steam heat in
November ON rainy days you are eX-
erciscd in n glass rooted tan bark ring,
aud 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 n coCkncy groom imported with the
pigskn saddles and British condition
powders. From the day your name IL
written In the studbook until you
leave YOU have balanced feed. all wool
blankets, fly MEETINGS and coddling That
never ceases. Yet This * the method
that rounds YOU into perfect hackney
form.
All this had been done for BONFIRE
and with apparent success, but II few
hours of railroad travel had left him
with set of nerves ms tcnsely strung
as those of high school girl on grad
uation day That IS why n draft of
cold mir had chilled him to the bone;
that is why, after reaching the Gar
den, he had gone as limp as n cut rose
ut bali