The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-10-21
SENSITIVE ANIMALS.


stable room for his string at the Ben
ming track for the Forthcoming fall
meeting, was talking OF the sulking
~propensities OF q certain clever race
horse now running on the metropolitan
tracks.
III the people behind that horse
could only find out What trifing little
thing he Is sulking about" said h
trainer. ut would be worth tens OF
thousands OF dollar to them. They
could easily remedy whatever little
matter 1t might be that Is causing the
poutishness o In his nlidriff, and
then, with his wrong redressed, he'd
go right ahead and win good races un-
til the n Of the season.
"You often hear the remark that
thoroughbred horses are as capricious
as women. I'd rather put 1t that
they're as whimsical as children.
Their likes and dislikes are formed
all of a sudden, i a child's, and as
often as not a thoroughbred horse has
behind his whimsical notion hat a
child has, For example. a naturally
sneaky, treacherous man has no more
chance to gain the good will Of a highly
bred race horse than he has to gain the
confidence of a child.
There is something in both the horse
and the child hat tells them that the
bad hearted mar isn't right. That
SOIiSIuluS, i suppose Is pure lnSUlICS.
But horses OF high caliber have an
even wider range OF whims. That's
why every good trainer studies the
kinks Of every one Of the horses in his
charge.
great race horse-one of the greatest
Of his time-who was as calm and self
contained as a priest, except for one
thing. He couldn't tolerate the sight
Of a man with a beard.
eft wQS nl1ro nnrU0yxcnnSoS Of Cc11rcc q
but you can't tell me that that horse
didn't get that aversion somewhere.
We hear about children being marked
! with some trait or characteristic by
that immortal old four footed boy I'm
talking about wasn't marked just In
the way that children are, befere his
birth, with that hatred for a bearded
man. believe just as thoroughly. as
I believe that I'm wearing a hat that
that horses dam had been abused by
some fellow with a beard, and that
h 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 I know a lot Of plain old facts
about horses n other things that are
not embraced in any system of science.
Most race horses are devoted to
women. Yet I've trained thorough
breds that had such an innate dis
like for women that 1t was dangerous
for a woman to get anywhere Neal
them.
.Tve got a swell horse In my string
now who Is dead gone on the young
wife of one OF the owners for whom
! train, except when h approaches
him with the frou-frou of a silken
skirt Then he Won't tolerate her
around him at all.
The hiss and the swish of the siAsen
skirt startles him and finally drives
him Into a sort of frenzy Of nerveus-
ness or resentment or whatever you
want to call 1t. When she isn't wear
ing any rustling silken skirt to bother
him, however, he is as gentle with her
as a Newfoundland dog with a baby,
and bends his ears forward to her to
have her rub them and muezles her
face and fair with the affection Of a
child.
EARLY environment has pretty near
as much to do with the formation Of
q horses character as Of a child's.
Southern bred horses, for instance, are
devoted to their black care-takers, and
when such horses are switched to own
ers whose stable employees are all white
men the horses suffer severely from
time. and they never become entirely
used to h white stable hands. ON
the other hand, rae horses bred no
north, In New York OF Pennsylvania or
New Jersey. say, and reared under the
guardianship OF white men. have an in
tense aversion for the black man.
Il recall the ase of a fine handicap
horse which had a sensational record
as a t~wo-year-oid and a three-year-
old on the southern tracks before he
changed hands and was brought to New
York tracks 10 show his mettle. His
new owner had tremendous expecta-
tons OF that colt, but the horse raced
at least thirty pounds below his true
form from the outset.
From q manger glutton he became
q poor feeder as soon as he was brought
east, and only munched enough eats
to keep himself from starvation. Two
or three expert veterinarians examined
the colt and oun nothing that matter
with him. and yet he continued to NOPE
and to lose flesh and to go about his
work In q hopeless. lack adaisical way
which made i y of the question to
get him to any sort OF a racing edge
worthy his known grand capabilities.
His people couldn't make 1t out.
One day a negro stable hand from
another barn wandered into that colts
stall. AS soon AS the colt saw and
smelt the black hand. he almost ate
him up alive with pure, unrestricted
JOY. He licked the black mans hands
muzzled his shirt n whinnted
and paved the dirt and danced around
like a crsAy horse. The trainer Of the
colt happened to be standing by at the
time.
u know what ails that colt he said.
.ne hgnt on him. He was
and he's lonesome for EN-
The trainer promptly engaged three
black stable hands to devote their ex-
elusive to that horse. He be-
gan to gorge his oats as soon as he
made up his mind that the darkies were
around him to stay, picked up meat and
muscle. went at his work like an an
leashed hound. and the next time he
went tosthe races he bowled over his
deld as II they were d~actshunds."
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Proportion Small.
misunderstanding, to statistic. III,
criminals IL small.
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