Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23
Strange Feline Who Goes to Rae
inr Stable at Washington
Track.
Ne IS CAREFULLY WATCHED.
=. Sacred Cat Of the Egyptians Was
rr.r Treated With More Considera'
ton The Accepted Tyrant.

py,u wen have to ask Hobo about
,,,, before anything's DONE is the
s,tcbvord of Frank Farrell's stable of
s.,,os trained by Frank Weir, now
chartered at Bennings, says a Wash
,nston dispatch.
And they all solemnly look to Hobo
a, ,he last word In all things.
uoho Is a large. handsome cat. He
-, the stable, and no sacred cat Of
IN. Egyptians was ever treated with
h,lf the civllity or regarded with half
.,o yeneratlon that Is accepted by Ho-
n as his proper need. His beginning
With the stable was humble, but now
\, IL the accepted tyrant. His actions
are taken as auguries for success or
s,ipre. Foreknowedse, presclence and
,se Gft of prophecy are attributed to
Tobo BY the stable hands.
Hobo Joined the Farrell string at
esasnshead Bay three years ago. He
,nsde MS appearance at the stable after
ARK one night, dragging broken fore
,SS with him. That broken leg was
'rnugh for the stablemen. The pleas
an, faced young foreman found the kit
90 uckIng It's leg in the stall with
pigadIer. which then held the worlds
.acord for mile. The kitten mewed
olnty and the foreman picked him
w. 100, al r,o,,.n o,a
,ba foreman, addressing the Kitten,
.but guess wen have TO keep you un-
N that dlnky prop Is fixed up"
So the kitten became an attache OF
Hobo's leg was all right In couple
a, wrecks, and he was getting fat. He
was beginning to assume a superior air
a. be made the rounds of the racers
calls and looked them over, with his
ssad cooked to one side. All the men
ana boys around the Farrell barn were
Lifting him have his own way as to
things with which he concerned HIM
seN ln the management of the stable.
Attaches OF the Farrell string Will tell
Won that Hobo knows in advance whe-
,her or not one OF the horses OF the lot
Il goIng TO win race for which IL Is
entered, Hobo invariably climbs into
nat horses stall the preceding evening
and spends the night there, IL, howev-
or on the night before the race Hobo
makes his way 10 the entered horses
stall, looks him over carefully snlffs
and walks away, refusing to hop Into
The stall, there's nothing doing In the
bettlng line on that one so far as the
stable hands are concerned.
"Hobos passed him along" the word
roes around, "and he hasn't got a
chance in the world TO be one-two-
three"
Il may be thought that the horses do
not care whether Hobo approves OF
them and their conduct, but this would
Ne an egreglous error, according TO the
Farrell stable hands. They say that all
Of the horses are Jealous OF Hobo's re-
gard, and that they sulk and become
low In spirits II Hobo's actions are
such that he gives them the go-by
When they have redeemed themselves
BY a good race, Hobo takes them back
10 his bosom, and they act as happy as
yearlings In bluegrass patch, until
once again they fall down In race
lWVugH NHdl llpDO COnslutIs lltll uNli
lalness, and then the at again refus-
Is 70 give them his countenance.
That Hobo has some instinct which
ioretells what Is going to be the out
come Of each race In which the stable
participates Is clearly shown, the stable
men nay, by the way Hobo treated
BTlgadier In his S-year-old year Brig
adler was one Of the fastest horses in
training. Then his legs gave way and
10 could not do anything. Hobo spent
Of least one night week In Brigadier's
talL The next year. after Brigadler's
legs we're patched up. the horse was
started In two or three races and failed,
HOBO made up his mind that Brigadier
was not trying and refused to have
anything 20 do with him. MIR Farrell
oeclded u Brlgader would not do for
he east q d sent him to Chicago and
o. Louis to see what he could do there.
as soon as the decision was made Hobo
raced for Brgadier's stall, That con-
Nhced the stable hands that Brlgadler
"0uld be a winner IN the west.
Inc Old horse was taken west and Ho-
S9 insisted upon accompanying him,
loe trst time BrlgadIer started In the
we" ne was at 10 TO /, and the Farrell