The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-10-27
SENSITIVE ANIMALS.
Stories Of High Bread Horses and
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Stories of High Bread Horses and
Their Peculiarities.
A noted trainer of thofoughbreds,
who dropped into washington the 9TH
er day to pick out stable room for his
string at the Bennings tracks for the
forthcoming fall meeting, was talking
Of the sulking propensities Of certain
clever raeehorse now running on the
metropolitan tracks. Says The Wash
ington Star u
If the people behind that horse
could only find out what trifling little
thing he, sulking about said the
trainer 1t would be worth tens Of
thousands De dollars to them. They
could easily remedy whatever little
matter it might be that is causing the
horse to carry such avast amount Of
poutishness about in his midriff, and
then, with his wrong redressed, he'd go
fright ahead and win good races until
the end of the season.
You oftetn hear the remark that
thoroughbred horses are as capricious
| as women. I'd rather put it that
they're as whimsical as children.
Their likes and dislilSes are formed
all Of a sudden, like a child's, and as
often as not asthoroughbred horse has
the same sort of instructive guidance
behind his whimsical notion that q
child has. For example. a naturally
sneaky, treacherous man has no more
chance to gain the good will Of high
" hrsd racehorse than he has to gain
Mia
! There IS something in both the horse
is them that the
bad earted man isn't right That some
thing, suppose, is pure instinct.
But horses Of high calibre have an
even wider range Of whims Thata's
why every good trainer studies the
kinks Of every one Of the horses in his
| charge.
] About ten years ago | trained a
4 great racehorse-one OF the greatest Of
his tiIne-Wf1o was as calm and self
contained as a priest, excect for one
thing. He couldn't tolerate the sight
Of a man with a beard.
1T was pure nervousness, of course
but YOU can't tell me that that horse
1 didn't get that aversion somewhere
/ We hear about children being marked
with some trait or characteristic by
their mothers. Don't you believe that
that immortal old four-footed boy Tn
! talking about wasn't mbarked just In
4 the same way that children are before
4 his birth, with that hatred for beard
ed man? / believe just as thoroughly
A as believe that I'm wearing hat
that that horses dam had been abused
by some fellow with al beard and that
she transmitted her fear of and hatred
for bearded men to the son, who made
her name glorious as a stud matron
4 It may not be scientific and all that
i but / know a lot of plain old fact:
/ about horses and other things that are
not embraced In any system Of science
Most racehorses are devoted tt
| women. Yet I've trained thorough
breds that had such an innate dislike
for women that it was dangerous fol
a woman to get anywhere near them
i've got a swell horse in my strius
4 now who is dead gone on the youni
wife Of one of the owners for whom
train, except when she approaches hin
/ Will. LIE lIOu-lIOu iollhCl1 sail
Then he won't tolerate her around hin
at ALL
1.-THE hiss and the swish Of the silkel
skirt startle him and finally drive hin
into a sort Of frenzy Of nervousness o
resentment or whatever you want t
call it. When she isn't wearing an,
rustling silken skirt to bother him
however, he is as gentle with her as
| Newfoundland dog with baby, an,
bends his ears forward to her to hav
her rub them and muzzes her fac
and hair with the affection Of a chile
Early environment has pretty nea
as much to do with the formatio of
| horses character as of a child's
4 Southern-bred racehorses, for instance
are devoted to their black caretakers
and when such horses are switched t.
owners whose stable employees are al
white men the horses suffer severed.
from lonesomeness for the negroes 70
a long time, and they never becom,
entirely used to the white stabl,
hands. On the other shand, raeehorsei