The Washington herald., 1911-03-19
TROTTER AND PAGER
Match Between Black Patchen, Miss Arcola, and Red
Rock MAY Never Bel Pulled Off

| ney and showed phenomenal speed. She
| is now owned in Delaware, and while
advanced in years, looks well and has
much of her old-time speed.
DR.. J. L. Sansbury, of Forestville, was
in town last week, the object of his visit
being to place doc" Richardson, of For
estville, in one of the local hospitals for
! treatment. Dr. Sansbury says that he
viii be doing business az the same old
tstand the present year and hopes to keep
his track warm with the doings of the
light-harness horses as usual.
| Washington gentleman who was in
So. Mary County a few days since re-
| marked to the writer that he saw a num-
ber of the sons and daughters Of Don
Cozine, and what impressed him most
was that they have strong resemblance
to each other. This reminds us of the
| days when the old pacing sire, Red Buck,
! overshadowed everything in his section
of Indiana. as sire. At the Blooming
Glade fair in 1870 sixteen three year-oId
stations sired by him were led into the
show ring, and after the judges had con-
| sumed nearly whole day in marking
them, adjourned over until the next day.
| Then, after further consultation, they
decided it a tie on account of the bunch
| looking so much alike and scoring so
could not or dared not choose between
them.
1t would be interesting to know how
many local owners of PAGERS will start
out this Spring with the pleasant fiction
in their minds that their steeds will not
need the hobbies. Since hobbies were
| first invented to aid trainers who could
not or would not spend time to balance
! faulty-gaited PAGERS or those who leave
their stride. in critical moments it has
been the hope of PAGER owners each
spring that their horses had at, last be-
come gated and that the straps could be
laid aside. The truth is, however, that
about IS out of 100 PAGERS that have once
/ felt the straps will thereafter feel for
them just when the money is in sight,
until il has become a turf axiom "once
hobbled PAGER. always one" 1t is an
old story that hobbies have made more
poor trainers and, more cheap PAGERS
than anything that has been invented
since the lfght~harness horse became a
type. Despite the rule that after certain
dates hobbies are to disappear, it is
doubtful whether racing associations will
universally observe it. The united
strength of the tracks of the United
States and that of the owners of the
hobbled PAGERS is greater than the conf.
hined strength of the National Trotting
Association and that of its Western sis
ter. -
IN few weeks two important subjects
will be settled. First, whether he will
be great horse next year will make
good; second. whether those bowed ten
dons that were thrown out last year will
stand the prep" How many fond hopes
hang on these results for when a horse
has been carefully nursed through the
long winter months and the animal is
almost ready to ship those front legs
suddenly snap it is blow that not only
almost kills father, but one that almost
send mother to the insane asylum.
As to the horse that did not make good
the previous year. was not quite fast
enough, or begged to ride from the
three-quarters pole home, the fond owner
O. such is not much to be pitied. To
tinker with this kind is a waste of good
cats and hay, especially when the former
is soaring around the -busheI
mark and the latter at the rate of Sl-25
Per hundred.
Maxwell Evarts, Of New York City and
Vermont, and son of the late Senator
William NJ. Evarts, was in the city re-
Gently and held an interview with Sec
rotary of War Dickinson about cavalry
mounts. Mr.. Evarts is one of the gov
ernors of the Morgan Horse Club, of
Vermont, and believes that the govern
ment ought to take more interest in the
Morgan type of horse for cavalry pur-
poses. In the course of conversation Mr.
Eyarts presented to Secretary Dickinson
Walter. Gilbey's book on Small Horses
in Warfare" Mr.. Gilbey has written
several books on horses. During the
Crimean war he was on the shores of
the Dardeneiles and had opportunities to
study the horses ridden by the Bashi !
RazoulIs and the Armenian troops who |
were camped there, some 1900 in num- |
Ter, and was much impressed with their !
ruggedness and power to Withstand hard |
service on light rations. ..... |
These horses carried more or less Arab |
ian blood, ranged in height from II hands |
to l4.3 and performed their arduous |
work on chopped straw and a small ra- |
ton of barley, something that the Eng
lish thoroughbred or half-bred could not |
have done. In a previous issue. of The /
Washington Herald we called attention |
to the fact that Mr.. Hopes, of PhiladeI. 1
phia, and Homer Davenport of New
Jersey, owners of Arab breeding studs,
rad also attempted to get the govern
ment of the United States interested in
the breeding of Arabs or half-bred Arabs I
for the cavalry service
As to the endurance of the Arabian
there is no question, and there can be no
question that, crossed with native stock. |
they would be ideal horses for light cav
airy service, such as scouting and raid |
ing, and especially for quick and long
During the war of the Reyo-
luton Gen. Washington while in New
England had his attention attracted to a
company Of horse in the command of
Light Horse" Harry Lee, father of the
late Gen. Robert f. Lee. These horses
were superior to any in Lees command
or in the command of other generals.
was a lover of a welI-bred
horse and rode nothing but that kind
The horses of this particular command
stimulated an inquiry on the part of
as to their ancestry. when II
was discovered that paternaIly they de-
scended from the Lindsey Arabian that
had been imported into New England T
previous to. the war. Washington in
duced Lee to purchase the stallion Hei
was taken to Virginia, and at times did
service IN, the District Of Columbia.
The Morgans of fifty years ago or more
had many of the characteristics of the
Arabian. They averaged about IA hands
We're rugged. possessed of unusual
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