The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

observations sense some men neglect
TO their disadvantage and which other
men underrate. No man can be- truly
wise, no man can really mount to the
topmost round Of success. unless he be
keen observer and unites observation
with the experience of daily life Men
of action know this to be true. We
must hand II to Andrews. His critics,
II there be any, may say he had at hand
good material Grant it. But bad me-
chanic may take the best of material
and his job will be miserable botch.
No horse was ever born a made trotter.
any more than a boy is born man.
The colt, IL he be trotting bred, is born
with the instinct to trot; the trainer de-
velopes the instinct into the finished
product.
It matters not how well bred a colt is.
nor how full of trot he may be; 1t Is
no easy task to develop his trot and
make him stick TO it; to develop his
power to carry his speed. to keep him
sound, to keep him from growing stale
and sour. and to make him a high-class
performer The broad highway OF the
trotting turf Is strewn with the remains
of outwardly promising youngsters.
Horses. like marble and granite have
their flaws and seamy sides. Some fall
by the wayside by reason of incom-
petent trainers, others from inherited
defects and are cast aside. A thousand
and one details enter into the making of
a Baden, Colorado e; The Harvester,
an Arion, a Directunl. a Dan Patch, an
Uhlan, and a Sweet Marie that, the lay
mind does not perceive; but. when
massed. in competent hands go toward
the making of top-heavy display lines
in the daily press and give the animal
that meets all demands and the man who
brings to his high estate undying fame.
Whatever Hal Hardin and Bingo are.
as we write. is due TO their trainer, and
to William Andrews belongs the credit
Of their making.
Well, we are compelled to announce
that the representatives Of the Mont
gomery County Fair Association have
felt it their duty to withdraw from fur
Their negotiations in regard 10 the two
and three year old stakes OF 1913. We
are inclined to believe this is due to a
misunderstanding between the principals
interested. Owners of the colts involved
in the stakes want nothing that is not
fair to both sides-the value OF the stakes
to the association-and a guarantee that
the two or three events, as the case
may be. pulled of, rain or shine, crowd
or no crowd. They do not insist on
driving a hard bargain We, for one,
do not question the sincerity of the gen.
tlemen acting in behalf of the fair as
ISOLATION. In their efforts to get the
stakes at the lowest possible cost. they
have acted well within their rights and
bounden duty. The question presents
two broad sides of personal interests.
each endeavoring to get out of the bar
gain the best possible terms. There Us
nothing involved, nor anything said that
calls for histeria or denunciation from
either side. The individual colt owners
can better afford to do without the
Montgomery County Fair Association
than the association can afford to do
without them.
Horses for racing purposes are scarce
throughout the United States-never SO
scarce. in fact. On the Grand Circuit
and on the half-mile circuits the falling
of OF entries Is very noticeable as COM
pared with previous years. The Mont
gomery County Fair Association has
embarked this year on a novel expert
ment. viz, to practically ignore light
harness racing Calbeit 50 per cent Of its
patrons are light-harness horse lovers)
and in its stead substitute a horse show
and running races In this respect the
Montgomery County Fair Association
will truly stand in a class by itself.
1t will do what no other fair association
has ever done in the past and what
quite probably, no other fair association
in the United States will attempt to do
the present year. We sympathize with
the disgust displayed on the part of
some of the directors OF the Montgom-
cry fair with some of the light-harness
racing given at the track in previous
years. Crooked racing. dividing the
purse before the start. can never. per-
haps, be fully stamped out: but II may
be reduced to a mere shadow by the
prompt, vigilant, decisive. and unfalter-
ing efforts of a racing committee that
is fit for its job.