The Washington herald., 1913-11-16
ny Il. d. SALE.

AA-' Especially IN tne minus OF tuosc
persons who may attempt similar feats
No stake events nor any purely light
harness events can be run and sat
isfactory raced Of when the ''sere is
on the pumpkin and the frost upon the
vine" The public does not care to pay
10 be frozen to death. Oyercoats and
heavy wrap weather Is not conducive
to pleasure; nor Is II conducive 70 speed
and the safety OF the horses. Horses
race best when the mercury is humping
u back In the nlneties and liquid re-
freshments. ornamented with q straw.
are In season. There is q time for
everything.
No one Interested In the events Of
Wednesday last can have failed TO OBJ
serve that colt stake racing is pretty
nifty proposition, provided the goods are
on the counter. And. whether they are
exciting game. The horse bug Is an In
sect that dies hard. No insecticide pow
der ever yet invented has been able to
exterminate &. The real game man in
the horse drama Is not he who owns q
colt that has demonstrated its supe-
riority on numerous occasions and
stands apart from its fellows. but he
who feels be Is making losing fight
and still hangs on. hoping fortune VIII
the eleventh hour.
Had Javins Brothers consigned Kushan.
jr.. to the scrapheap some weeks ago,
as they were advised 10 do. he would not
now be the winner Of the rich two
year-old Washington Sunday Herald
Stake. Had z. +. Hall weakened on
Karc. when Hal Hardin was showing so
much speed. he would not have divided
the stake with him on Wednesday last
and gathered 30 many high honors as
a trotter that must be surely reckoned
with IN the future With his smooth and
frictionless way of going, he Is sure TO
cause trouble for some one In 1914 Had
Norman Corbin. On the other hand. en-
tered In the three-year-old stake his
grahdly bred Main Gallant and persist
ed with him as E =. Hall did with Karo
and Javins Brothers did with Kushan.
jr.. he might have won the big end Of the
stake. Old Tige, is a good dog, but Hold
fast has him beaten a city block.
No reference to the happy ending OF
the racing on OF the stakes last Wednes-
day can be made complete that omits
the name Of our highly respected and
Mccarthy. He is the alpha and omega
Cthe beginning and the end Of the great
triumph achieved. II was Mr.. Mccarthy |
who conceived the scheme, took thel
initiation. did the planning. did the push |
ing, injected confidence and hope into !
the faltering and the weak and the doubt--l
ing Thomases, and who carried the bur- |
den almost altogether on his own shoul- !
ders for over twelve months past But |
NJ M.fN k.rrN 49,
Of 1914 would never have been conceived. |
He blazed the way for the stake and |
made II possible. More power to his arm |
and fertile brain, and all praise for his |
Celtic grit and courage.
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They said he couldn't do Il, but he /
did That he would surely rue It; yes
they did. But Mccarthy took the job, |
and he finished IL, begob. and he put
one over on EN-; yes, he did. Begob,
he put one over on 'em; yes. he did.
Now, the moral of this tale, which no |
one will bewail, is that faint hearts
never travel very far. II you havn't
got the grit, you are surely a misfit.
and your lack Of courage always Is a
bar. Yes, your lack OF courage always
Is a bar. II Forrest had been junk and
Boyd some rotten punk, which isn't !
very pleasant now to think, we would
be a sorry group and our prospects In
the soup, and our colt stake races sadly i
on the blink.
Bedad. we all would be quite badly
on the blink. Mr.. McCsrthy's efforts
we're supplemented by those of Secre-
iered appreciated service. Their re-
ward? Well, men who labor for the
squine uplift should not indulge In too
anticipations. But, in all
heir efforts, The Washington Herald
las been their mouthpiece and their
prophet. Il
Before last Wednesdays stake events
ire finally dismissed, word about the
Youngsters that figured more or less
in them should be said
Sushan, jr., the winner of the two ,
stake, is a good sized brown
,olt, of good action, and was foaled /
he property OF the late George p. Eur
lorst, of Washington. who was In life
prominent breeder of light harness
lorses in these parts. and prominent in
urf affairs in the District for more
han forty years The memory of the {
rood he wrought survives. Kushan, jr.,
las been a difiicult problem for train
RS to solve ever since he was broken {
o harness. By Kushan, 2:1Sk, a sire !
u nervous temperament anu uttcr-
mined disposition, and his dam by Kin q
ter. 2:14%, sire of much the same Z
rider. Kushan, jr., required very care I
ul and skillful handling to get out of !
i'm all that his breeding warranted. A ]
lighthouse trainer would have ire {
rievably ruined him. II
Hanson. Of Michigan. a noted colt edu-
ator. exhausted on him all his skill and {
atience. John Crawford. another noted 4
olt trainer, got him about two months s
go and tried him out and was about
0 hand him back. discouraged and dis !
usted. But before he finally decided to \
o 50 he experimental once more with
hoes and weights and head rigging. and 7
ound he had at last got him hung up
0 that he would go on the trot with
is four feet In the right place and with 1
'ss wasted action. and awoke one morn
ig to the realization that he had at last L
ound a fairly promising colt trotter. 1
ushan. jr., however. still required much a
lechanical tinkering before he graduates L
ito a colt trotter of the highest class. c
lis teeth are giving him trouble; he Is I
bad scorer, and he does not fiatteL out a
uick enough, but when he does hit his e
ride. he carries 1t with ease the mile a
nd like the Kushans and the Kinsters. v
nishes strong. Kushan was q rapid lG
,orer; Kinster slow beginner, but a I,
reat inisher. It was well worth the
rice OF admission to see Kpshan finish, v
iih ears pinned back and teeth barred ii
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