The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-18
NUTBEARER'S RAGE
Story of the Greatest Contest in the Life of the Great
 Geldin.-..
GREAT TEST OF ENDURANCE.
Written by a Great Lover of Horse. flesh Who Saw the Race in
 Providence.

Aside from any regrets that horse men may have for the manner in which the great gelding of Joseph Hubinger. Nutbearer, met his death, there is the sincere sorrow that the men hold for the horse as a horse. His great endurance powers and sterling behavior at all times won world in general.
 Nutbearer won no greater race than that at Providence during his sec ond season on the grand circuit. where he came in first with a worlds record in an eight mile race run off in eight heats with short rests between times. It was a terrible test of en- durance and the horse than young one made a reputation that was as wide as the country at the time
 Lovers of horse flesh in New ,Ha- ven are not few. Some of them have come to the Journal-Courier with as thrilling an account of horse race as has ever been written. It Is the story of the great race of Nutbearer at Providence mentioned above. They have requested this paper to publish this account. It makes good read, ing The name of the author is omitted as he does not wish it to be mentioned. The story of the great race is as follows:
 The Race.
 A matchless day smiled down upon a holiday crowd. fit setting for matchless performance. There were in line with the winner at the time a string, better than which the track ever witnessed. There was the sprightly Dulce Cor, the winsome AL icc Carr. the matinee idol Wentworth. Fl Miargo, proud of carriage like q Spanish grandee, Rythrna, trim as Dutch milkmain, Conseula S., aristo- cratic as befitted her proud name. Nobel, easy and alert of movement, an Directum Spier, a vertiable Beau Rrummell Records they bore which ranged from 2:04 1-2 to 2:1l l-4. Nutbearer, ever modest of bearing, ranked among them neither as the nattiest nor yet as the stoutest and and sturdiest. But there was the fine head, the quiteness of self-en- dLiance the alertness that pronounc- ed him ready for any call.
 A fine program had already whetted the appetite of the assembled thou sands for good things, when the first heat was run. Out of the nine horses Nutbearer came In seventh. The second and third heat counted him fifth. The fourth found him moving a bit closer. and he stood third When Queens were already tagging with the long drawn out battle, and distended nostrils and swaying Hanks told of the efforts or his brother kinds, Nutbearer lifted his head and sniffed the air and with a neigh answered his driaver's call for something good this time. Even the bookies forgot their main chance" by this time. Here was treat in a thou sand Peanut bags and popcorn cakes were dropped fifty cent Havana blos- sons were permitted to wither and die and fans were dropped by the fair sex. A great hush of expectancy fell upon the multitude, nervous tension grip ped the hearts of all On they swept like cyclone across the unprotected prairie, flesh cord-marked, now, Went worth to the fore, now Conseuls, and following them in grand burst of speed Alice Carr and Fl Milargo, neck and neck. pretty race all by them selves, and back of them, steady, true, unnlnching, inch by inch gaining came our prince Nutbearer. A turn about the half and his inches were rapidly running into feet and the feet into yards Neck and neck with the fore most of his foes and then well inside the mark, the shoulder matched his rivals head and the dispute of the fifth heat was ended, Nutbearer the victor this time If horses ever smiled Nutbearer did at the moment and said How easy" The sixth heat and Nut bearer too kanother recess and held ] back to third once more, his driver realizing that ther was no chance of making this decisive heat, holding him in reserve But now came the mo. | Iment for real dispute. The seventh | heat would make or unmake at least three of the others, for they needed but one more first to settle the race. Thert was no chance for parleying this time Nutbearer knew this meant business Horses know. don't you mistake, and they know more than you or 1 do sometimes, brother. If there was any thing demure in his bearing thus far 1 if was all gone. Here was the gladia tor, figuratively speaking, stripped tt | his waist There was determination il the eve, there was the contemptuou' sniff of the air. with which Mont cristo greeted freedom. and the chal lenge to all the earth: "The world i mine" He at once scores for third. No surer to the mark the arrow, not swift CT of more sweeping the wind, no more magnificent the lightning thai this steed. There was never a question from the start as to who was maste
 of the seventh mile, and he claimed hi victory as a matter of course. Sever miles. Can high-bred horsefesh endur
 more? Seven miles with every nervl stretched to the utmost, with ever. heart -throb a hammer -blo-s, with ev cry breath like the heaving of a grea bellows. and yet tho victory in dispute This was no longer a mere test Q speed. It was test of muscle, of en