The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10

range for the use Of one Of his Ara
bian horses In an endurance test OF
500 miles against thoroughbred.
lieutenant Mecabe, who halls from
Petersburg, Mr.. Dunlops home town.
/ is an officer In Uncle Sans cavalry
service and he has the reputation OF
being one Of the very finest horsemen
/ in the army. His proficiency In horse
manship liz rather surprising to his
old friends and neighboTs OF Peters
burg, For he WAS town youth, whose
opportunities for riding were circum-
seIibed and he entered the army from
civil life.
Lieutenant Mccabe did not have
the benefit of course OF instruction
at the cavalry school OF the United
states Military Academy which turns
out SO many daring and hardy horse
men No DOUBT ne is throw back.
His aptitude for the management OF
horses probably came to him from
some remote nard riding yirginian
ancestor. Every virginfaii of the Ola
/ days WAS good horseman.
I 1t appears that he was the cham
pion OF the Barb against the thor
f-oughbred in an argument recently
with one OF the Castietons, of Ken
lucky. and Mr. Castleton made him
! bet that thoroughbred would out
! A@St OH al az al q 9pu llllft TEST. lLiGu-
1 tenant MtCabe agreed to tawe the
Kentucktan up, provided he could Sc
4 cure suitable Arab to pit against
his tCastieton'sy thoroughbred, ana
he Is going to appeal to MIR. Daves,-
port for h. horse.
Davenport has long had weakness
/ for ARABS and he has imported d
number of them. some time back
j these arabs were domiciied at q place
in New Jersey on the I.ackawanna
road, Presunia bly, they are there
I yet, and 1t IL TO be hoped that Mr.
! davenport may see fit to furnish one
to Lieutenant Mccabe for this 500
| mile test.
i II Mr.. Davenport owns an Arab
anywhere near fit TO 60 500 miles in
an endurance test with Spanish JACK
/ he owes II to himself to let MeCape
have 1t. Davenport talked voIuabf,
at Albany i'll the course OF the hear
ing on the Hart aid Agnew bills two
years ago about the general useless
ness OF the thoroughbreds for any
other purpose than racing, and infe i
rentfaliy he lauded the Arab. The
Jockey Cub, | believe. refused to
register Mr.. Dayenports Arabs in the
Stud Book because their pediSrees
We're not properly authenticated.
But II Mr.. Davenport caunot sup
Ply an Arab for this test 1t is to be
hVped That some one3 else may ana
that the Barb who tackles the thor
oughbred may be thoroughly fit. 1t is
| high time the advocates of the Arabs
as opposed to the tnorouEnbred.-an,
there are many such in this country
were put right Fer fit or not. the
ARAB VINO goes against Mr. Castle
ton s. thoroughbred ii soins to loss
1.-The HafftR viii nn ~
any event, and ii he Is not prfmeu
Tor the struggle he may get over MS
iaugue. but ne will never look the
same. skiifui handing Will NOT save
MN. The thoroughbred is too much
! horse Tor the Arab. He has all the
Arab had originally and on top III
that ne represents some two or three
hunored@ years OF scientific devotion
ment upon his Barb ancestors.
me morse capable or outsfayinS a
thoroughbred in 308-mtle en,i,r-
ance test Is not set bred. Nor ia i,
probable that there win ever he snch
horse. because he must come from
! the thoroughbred.
being a tastieton and a kentuck ian
the gentleman who has proposed this
! three-hundred mile test to Lieutenan,
McCaoe must necessarily know all
about thoroughbreds and their cana
! bllities. He is aware that the thor
. oughhred viii outstfck the trotter a,
ms own game on twenty-mffe
course, that he win work q farm ~
draught or cab horse blind ana ina,
In endurance he surpasses the
broncho. All that is excellent In the
trotter comes from the thoroughbred
olooa fhat courses In His veins, and
the road, saddle and work morse
crossed upon the thoroughbred out
breeds himself in his progeny.
Dunlop Takes Thoroughbred End.
Mr. Dunlop. who came up from
petersburg the other day on q bust
ness errand. says he viii take the
thoroughbred end OF this battle IL i,
comes off A few years ago Mr.. DIN
, lop owned Coggin Hall Farm, a beau
TRULY situated place on the James
/, river, in Prince George county. Va,
about twenty miles distant from
Petersburg. At this farm Mr., Dun
. Top had established his Sir Modred
stallion, Duke Of Kendall, the same
, with which the late Alex Shields won
many race hereabeuts in the early
years of the present century, ard
with which Dunlop himself took the
! Jennings Spring Handicap OF 1906.
when the Duke was 40 to chance
one hot summer day when Mr.
, Dunlop wanted to run up to Peters
!. burg his chauffeur brought him WORD
that his Fiat motor car and his motor
boat were both out OF commission
Dunlop had half a dozen cold blood.
ed work horses on the place. but they
We're as slow as cold moIasses, and
besides they were engaged in farm
work, from which he did not care to
take them.
But the master OF Coagin Hall had
. to get TO town, 40, with certain mis-
, givngs. he ordered Belle SaucaGe. d
thoroughbred mare by ST. Saviour
who had been bred to Duke OF Ken
! dali seven weeks before hitched to his
buggy. Eastern horse folk will re-.
member Belle Salvage as horse
who bore the silks OF Richard r.
Wilson with some success hereaboufs
4 q few seasons back.
Mr.. Dunlop knew little Of the
docility and capabilities Of the thor
. oughbred on the race track or out
i of the hunting field. He was hall
! afraid that BELLE Savage migllt re-
! sent the inignity OF being harnessed
between shafts and Nick his fine new
buggy 10 ktndling wood. His surprise
: when the ST. Saviour mare stepped
pm with that buggy as though to the
manner born may we'll be imagfned
and hin delight at having her ri
him In Petersburg In Just one hour
and fifty-two minutes over twenty
miles Of vfifainously. rutted. quilted
and ungraded rOa was unbounded.
Mr.. Duhlop's automobile WAS Iii M
hospital upward 81 four weeks. bui