The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-14
Smart Horses | Have Known
BY HENRY TEN EYcK WHITE.

When you run across an intellectual
looking horse with a wide forehead and
thoughtful air don't buy him unless you
are looking for trouble, because so-called
Intelligent equines are generally vicious.
The whole trouble lies in the fact that
as soon as a smart horse discovers he is
stronger than a man he becomes a
bully and then often a demon. Some
well known animals, handled by horse
men from the day they were foaled.
treatment. Take Anteeo, for example.
He was one of the best bred sons of
Electioneer, his dam being a thorough
bred, and she furnished the meanneSs.
Anteeo was handled as a colt by Joseph
Cairn Simpson. a patriarch among Cali
fornia hOrsemen, then by John Gold
smith, master reinsman: Silence pass
ing to stock farm in Michigan. The
men on the farm soon learned to look
out for AnteeO, whose fine breeding and
record of 2:1615 made him the premier
club handy, and the rest of the help
SHE'D out when they came TO the stall
lions stall.
Two stalls from the box where Anteeo
was kept the stallion Empire had his
quarters. Anteeo hated Empire and all
hands knew it, but they didn't reckon
on the EIectoneer horses devilish inge-
nuity. AnteeO thought the matter over
for awhile. and then one night after the
stables were closed he began opera
tiOns. First he kicked down the door of
his box stall. That let him into the al
ley, but he was still inside the barn.
Then he went to the rear of the barn
and kicked down the door there. He
was then in a paddock surrounded by a
high and strong tight board fence. He
kicked a hole through the barricade and
was loose on the farm. Going to the
paddock back of Empires stall, he did
some more footwoTk and soon had a pile
of kindling wood where a section of the
fence had stood. Then the back door of
the barn in which Empires stall was
situated confronted him. The tireless
stallion kicked it to flinders and walked
pire's stall and the other horse knew he
had q life and death fight ons hand.
Down came the door with a crash after
few cataDult blows from AnteeO's
iron shod heels, and then the demon
horse attacked his enemy. How long
they fought is not known, but when the
early birds. on the farm reached the
barns they found Empire standing with
dropping head in his box, while around
him Anteeo slowly walked, making
ready to administer the coup de grace
to an already nearly dead enemy.
Pitchforks and clubs drove the horse
fiend away.
But the mean blood seemed to be In
the family. A few years ago there was
by Anteros, a brother of Anteeo. She
was years old and practically un-
broken. because men declined to handle
her. She would kick, bite and strike,
which are the meanest three things a
horse can do. Swipe succeeded swipe on
the Anteros mare so swiftly that it
looked like a procession passing her
stall, but at last came the right one. He
was named Pat. and he hitched the mare
drove away for a jog with her, and
came back unframed. From that mo-
The mare had no terrors for him, al
belt he exercised wariness when around
her
One afternoon I entered the barn and
got what New En0landerS call "a start
Tied In the middle Of the floor was Lady
LightheelS, and sitting under her, OBJ
viously fresh from a split heat contest
with the wassail cup,s was Pat He was
ruobing the mares legs, swaying I'M
steadily the while, and addressing her in
most disrespectful language. The vicious
mare plainly was puzzled, but she never
offered to harm Pat. l induced him to
it that he was sequestered for the bal
ance of the day, the mare being left
where she stood until the renaissance of
Pat about shutdown
Why didn't the mare attack him when
he was under the influence? Simply be-
cause it has been proved in dozens of
cases that when the caretaker of a vi
cious horse has had his foot on the rail
cows milk makes him fearless and care
less, and it. is just this absence of the
usual caution that puzzles the horse and
makes him afraid Of the man. The smart
morse, as has been said. generally is
vicious. The vicious horse always is
Smart, and when the man who for
months, perhaps, has been working
around him gingeriy, a bale stick in
one halTd- and a curry comb in the
other, lurches into the stall some fine
day and falls against the horse Mr.
Wise Nag is up in the air, and he be-
HAYES like a gentleman until the swipe
sohers up and reaches for the bale
stick.