The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-12
fine And FLEET
HORSES AT FAIR
Many of the Best Are Listed to
Be on Hand.
PURSES TRULY TEMPTING
Twenty Eight Thousand Dollars Of
fered Both for Thoroushbreds and
farness Horses. and Amount Pro-
sided for Exhibition Studs.

memorial uat the trite saying mo foot
no horse can have been no more
truthful statement than to now say
no horse no Fair" for in the years
gone BY had there been no racing at
the Great state Fair Of Texas. there
would not have been many horses bred
or raised. You might say that the Great
State Fair Of Texas. al Dallas has been
God mother to all breeders of high
class stock and more especially the
race horse. whether II has been raced
or kept for driving purposes. at home
or abroad il can be said without the
possibility Of rrfutatiou that the Great
state Fair has been built on and
around the performances Of that great
animal The Horse"
Robert lugersoll has been quoted as
having said that much that is good in
man Is the dog that Is in him" In this
W. diiteT with him to some extent and
although the dog is an ever source Of
pleasure and comfort TO man, still il is
our flrm belief that had We to do with
out one or the other. man could have
best. survived the total elimination Of
lle uos' lhdil that OF the horse. And
though many Of US are too young to
recall the Tact, 1t is matter Of his
tory that when railroads were first
put into operation, 1t was most gem
orally predicted that the total disuse OF
the horse would follow. How falaci-
Gus this statement proved 10 be We all
no" wei KNOW. Again when with d
rub thar carried the rich. the poor in
fact all the masses awheel from the
very ilrSi Introduction Of the old-tims
D!'N''r again Was that ever ready pre-
dlctlon often made the horse must 20.
pld he And yet another era, one
"hich does not take an Octagenarian
{" recall was the incoming OF the au
Jomob!Ie, th"n indeed wa our old friend
and erstwhiIe companion, the ever pa
u"ht aud long forbearlug horse to go
the way OF the ancient EohIppus, again
"c dsN, did he
li sou wish To try AL unusual ey-
pertinent, Just HE YOU forth into the
HaihriS OF the East or If you viii.
elsewhere, and see what good ordin-
airy every day horse can be, first found,
ana next purchased for To further
Illustrate. We might say that not a
great time past d combination aslo Was
heId IN a large city OF the East, noted
the world over for its mlllionaires, and
IN mat sale seven hundred and fifty
hoTSrs were sold, can you Imagine for
one minute that this great number OF
horses could be gathered from the four
corners OF t"e earth and have them all
perfect, Is u not more likely to have
been the case tnat some OF them were
TOO young Tor immediate use, and yet
otheIs 10" old, ana IN the Srrr and vel
10" leaf a. ID were. and again might
not many 81 them been afflicted with
some OF TIE many Ills that horse flesh
Is hrIr TO, or nIrmishtd ia drivers and
shhdIS ways, or can you Tor moment
claim mar II is possible 10 gather that
number from tnr many breeders all
over ihc Onlted states and have edch
one OF them a perfect and technically
SOUND morse. At any rate. t." rage
price "i his sale was four hundred and
MY tour dollars each, aud }ot, there
are those VINO would have US believe
mat The h"rse days on earth are nLm-
orFed. Had you ever thought that un-
l.Ae any othtr crop raised bE th- farm
ers "f thls great country mat II takes
just SIX years 10 rrplenish our stock OF
horses II our country MAS suffering
from shortage OF corn. oats. barley.
rye or cotton, one year would be suffi-
cleht 10 DO away with that shortage not
50 however with our livestock for from
baby beef 1" horses, 1t takes from three
lu SIX years 10 nave them ready for