The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-01-13

oA lCIoQSlloICoS viz IN
Washington the other day TO pick out
stable room for his string at the Ben
ming track for the forthcoming fail
meeting. was talking of the suilSing
propensities of a certain clever race
horse now running on the
tracks.
III the people behind that horse
could only find out what tritiins httie
thing he is sulking about" said th.
trainer. lit would be worth tens OF
thousands of dollars TO them. They
could easily remedy whatever little
matter ii might be that is causing the
horse to carry such a vast amount of
poutishness about in his m'drin' ana
then. With his wrong redressea. he'd
go right ahead and win good races UNI
Ill the end of the Seaton.
You often heal the remark that
Thoroughbred horses are as caplicious
as women. I'd rather put it that
they're as whimsical as children.
Their likes and dislikes are formed
often as not u thoroughbred horse has
the same sort of distinctive guidance
behind his Whimsical notion that n
child has. For example, a naturally
sneaky. t~reacherous man has no more
chance to gain the good will OF a highly
bred race horse than he has TO gam the
confidence of Il child.
There is something in both the horse
and the child hat tells them that the
bad hearted man isn't right. That
something. l suppose, is pure instinct.
"But horses of high caliber have an
even wider range OF whinaS- That's
why every good trainer studies the
kinks of every one of lhe horses III his
charge.
About ten Years g trained a
great race horse-one of the great 81
of his ime-who Was as calm and self
rnpJ.inp1 as n nIipSt 4NCeIJt FOR one
thing. He couldn't tolerate the sight
OF u man with a beard.
1T was pure nervousness. of course
but you can't tell me that that horse
didn't get that aversion somewhere
We hear about children being marked
With some trait on characteristic by
their mothers. Don't you believe that
that immortal old four footed boy I'm
talking about wasn't marked just in
the way that children are. before his
birth, With that hatred for a bearded
man. l believe Just AS thoroughly as
l believe that I'm wearing n hat that
that horses dam had been abused by
some fellow With a 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.
1t may not be scientific and all that.
but l know a lot of plain old facts
about horses and other things that are
not embraced in mr. system of science.
MOST race noFSeS are devoted 10
women. Yet I've trained thorough
hreds that had such an Inmate dis
like for women that it was dangerous
for q Woman to get anywhere mean
them.
Tive sot a swell horse in my string
now who is dead zone on the young
wife of one of the owners for whom,
l train. except When she approaches
him with the frou-frou of a silken
skirt. Then he won't tolerate he.
around him at all.
The hiss and the swish of the silken
skirt s~tartles him and finally drives
him into Il sort of frenzy of nervous
ness or resentment or whatever you
want TO call it. When she isn't wear
ing amy r%llstling siiken skirt to bottle
him, however, he is us gentle With hel
as a Newfoundland dog With q baby
ana bends his ears forward to her tc
have her rub them and mGzzleS her
face and fair With the affection of .
child.
EARLY environment has pretty neai
as much to do vita the formation OF
a horses character as of n child's
Southern bred horses. for instance. ar,
devoted to their black care-takers. anl
when such horses are switched to own
ers whose stable employees are all Whit
men the horses suffer severely from
lonesoneness for the negroes for a Ion,
time, and they never become entirely
used TO the white stable hands. or
NE other hand. race horses bred vi
north, in New York or Pennsylvania O
New jersey. say, and reared under th,
guardianship OF white men, have an i'm
tense aversion for the black man.
II recall the case of a fine handica
horse which had u sensational recor,
AS a two-year-old and a t~hree-year
old on the southern tracks before h
changed hands and was brought to Ney
York tracks 10 show his mettle. Hi
new owner had r~pr1oanln1S av,.,.+,
lions of that colt. but the horse race,
at least thirty pounds below his tru
form from the outset.
"l'rom a manger glutton he becam
Il poor feeder as soon as he was brougt
east. and only munched enough oat
TO keep himself from starvation. Tw
or three expert veterinarians examine
the colt and found nothing that matte
With him. and yet he continued to NOR
and TO lose flesh and TO go about hi
work in a hopeless, lack adaisical Wa
which made it out of the question t
get him TO any sort of a racing eds
worthy his known grand capabilitie
His people couldn't make it out.
One day a negro stable hand froI
another barn wandered into that colt
stall. AS soon as the colt saw an
smelt the black hand. he almost at
him w alive With pure, unrestraine
JOY. He licked the black mans hand
and muzzled his shirt and WINNIE
ana paved tle ulFl ana danced arOun
like a crazy horse. The trainer OF tn
colt happened TO be standing by at tn
= time.
II know what ails that colt he sal,
: the light breaking on him. He wa
born and brought up With the coon.
and he's lonesome for EN-
The trainer promptly engaged th-e
black stable hands to devote their ex
elusive attention to hat horse. He be
gar to gorge his oats as soon as h
3 made up his mind that the darl,ies WEI
7 around him to stay. picked up meat an
muscle, Went at his work like an un
leashed hound. and the next time h
Went to the races he bowled ovel, h,
: field as if they We're ~dachshunds.'
Proportion Small.
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proportion of ha!d headed men anon
= criminals is small
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