Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
A PEERLESS QUARTER HORSE
Racing Wonder Picked Up in West
ern Texas.
BIG HORSES PHENOMENAL SPEED
Victory in Spite of Handicap over a
Mexican ChRmPiOn--Racing on n
Ranch-EcOnOmy that Lost
a Great Horse.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-"The toughest
proposition that 1 got into during my early
racing career" said a man whose name
is as we'll known in England as it is in the
United States, and who has trained the
winners of the greatest classics in both
countries, was when 1 was a youngstcr
and owned only one horse in partnership
with another man."
The speaker, who has practically retired
from active participation in racing, was
seated in the Paddock at the HOFFMAN
house, and by reason of his many years of
experience in the game and the fact that
he is one of the cleanest and best liked of
the old guard anything he says is always
listened to eagerly by the rank and file of
sportsmen, who think that racing horses
is the greatest of all outdoor amusements
Il was a youngster them he went on,
and didn't have many cares, and my
partner was a good mate FOR me. we mad
picked up a quarter horse in the western
portion of Texas that could outrun any
thing that have ever seen in any country.
He could beat such horses as we have seen
on our racecourses around New York the
last twenty-five years apON' nv ANHoN
in a lash of a quarter of a mile"
Remembering the speed possessed by
Domino, Hanover, Correction, Kingston,
Voter, Roseben, Commando, sysonby and
many other turf idols that the speaker had
seen race, to say nothing of the fleet
sprinters of England and France, and he
had seen Eager, Royal Flush kilcoek'
Victor Wild and horsessof that class on
49, rs-1a. 49,. IHakAnar Z a IN and tool
notice. one of them finally found his
tongue long enough to say, do you mean
that he could beat our best thoroughbred
three lengths in a quarter"
yes, and he weighed more than any
thoroughbred you ever saw, too. l have
never seen a horse before or since that ap-
preached him in muscular power.
His thighs and second thighs were de-
veloped SO that they bulged and swelled
when he walked. He had as fine a head
as any thoroughbred, but he showed his
cold blood in a heavy name and tail, the
hair being coarse and harsh TO the touch
He was SAID to be by a we'll known
quarter horse and out of a mare of un'
known breeding-probably a close de-
scendant of some of the wild horses which
roamed that country in droves. We hat
/ netTn OF the nOISc ahu We w. $3.50 "N
derful tales of his speed.
Having a pretty fair mare at that TIM
that we had beaten everybody within GU
part of the country, we made up GU
minds to try conclusions with the so-calleS
thunderbolt OF the west. We found no diff
ficulty in arranging a match on our ar
rival at the ranch OF his owner and the!
found no more difficulty in beating us
That big fellow simply smothered GU
mare, and she was good enough 10 hav,
never tasted defeat before, you will re
member.
I'VE took our medicine like little me-
and went back home considerably poore
In pocket, but a heap richer in experience
That fall we sold quite a bunch OF cattle
and among the men we did business witt
was a cowman who had a story about al
old Mexican In Chihuahua who had
Al quarter horse that had trimmed every
\ thing below the Rio rande and that 1