The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-20
HORSES WITH
 B.D TEMPERS Trainer Wishard's Victory Over
 Royal Flush SAVAGE THOROUGHBREDS We're Owned By the Dwyers-All Colds Attack on a Jockey-Casu- aties Caused By Equine
 Combativeness.

From the New 1ork sun.
 The London dispatch printed in The Sun few days ago about the English thoroughbreds having shown such bad temper at various times attracted the attention of an old time trainer who sat in the Hoffman House rotunda and re- marked to half dozen listeners
 q notice that Ladas and few other bad tempered horses were mentioned as having wanted to savage their jockeys and attendants at different times, but I saw nothing about Royal Flush and some other English horses that were brought out here and were cured of tenn per, or at any rate so much improved that they would be considered fairly tol- erablo at home This horse Royal Flush was mighty sprinter, but 1t took half a dozen men to saddle him In the pad dock, and he was liable to run amuck at the post or during a. race and hurt some man or horse seriously.
 "Enoch Wishard. the American trainer. who is now in this country, was training for Drake in England, and he saw the possibilities. of converting Royal Flush The owner and trainer of the big brute were pretty well disgusted. and though the horse was worth big money if he could be handled they knew that the stewards of the jockey club were seriously considering the barring of the horse from participation in all races run under their Jurisdiction because of his savagry. It was, therefore. a golden opportunity not A.. for the horse. taking the odd chance that he could pick up few races after the application of thorough system of whip breaking, at which art the west ern horseman is an adept.
 You should hear Wishard tell of how he conquered the horse. He had him brought to his quarters at Newmarket. The big stallion arrived there full of fight and was put in a special box stall about "A feet square
 ''The box was cleaned of everything but light litter and the horse was fas- tened to the wall on either side. Wish ard, armed with a new coach whip, en- tered. and he gave Royal Flush such thorough drubbing that there wasn't a spot on him from ears to tail which did not show the severity of the pun ishment. At the start the horse fought savagely, but in the end he yielded, as they all will, and fairly squealed for mercy.
 The bruises were treated with a cool ing lotion and the following day, whip in hand, Wishard once more went to the stall and was prepared to renew the r,ft1i cl Uo r1n h0W- ever. and that day two of the youngest boys in the trainers employ made the horses toilet while Wishard lay in the straw and looked on.
 ''The horse knew his master and was tranquil. Within ten days after pur- chasing him Wishard took Royal Flush to the paddock in a halter without a muzzle and saddled and bridled the hitherto savage stallion without assist ance The English trainers and race track habitues were amazed, and they Flush cantered tractably to the post and won his race in a canter.
 He won many other races too-about S20,O00 in all--for his owner before he went wrong that autumn and had to be thrown out of training. It is true that in bringing Royal Flush to this coun- try the person who had him in charge became careless and the horse bit one of the mans thumbs off as cleanly as though it had been chopped away by butchers cleaver but 1t is not recorded that he subsequently, gave much trouble during the time he was in the stud in California and Kentucky"
 'Metuchen was a pretty bad propo- sition," spoke up a listener, ''and he was purely American and his bad temper could not be laid to the rubbing and drumming the English give their horses. Metuchen's original name was c. H. Gillock and he was bought by Mike Dwyer for a fancy price when he was three years old.
 ''I had heard of some of his tantrums around the Dwyer stable at Gravesend and that he had Hardy Campbelrs hair turning gray, but none of us expected that he was such devil as he turned out to be subsequently. It took all the Dwyer force of stable hands, headed by Trainer Campbell, to get Metuchen out of his box at Gravesend the first time they wanted to start him.
 s.As for going to the paddock, there was no question of that at ali. He simply wouldn't have it and the weight and the jockey had to be taken over to the stall. He had to be snared with a long pole through ring in the halter and held by two men while others jumped in and saddled him, the brute squealing like a