Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-15
BY HORACE LEWIS ROCKWELL

fanc his Affections seemed to center on the one horse
that beyond do,,bt the most cantankerous and
dangerous OF the string-a great, powerful rawboned
stallion named Jupiter black the of spades and
with the dc.1l own temper. For some Car
chose MIN hi, particular own OF all the then long
Roderlck string And Jupiter. though he barred his
teeth and struck a. him viciously when he first
pokng into hi box,,a after awhile seemed to return
the same feeling horse fashion Why Heaven knows.
Horse tanners born. not made Besides raeehoTse
IS much like d and why like some
men / II wager even Heaven isn't quite sure.
Anyho1, where Jupiter would tear shirt from an
other boys back with bite of his barred yellow teeth
he let that rcdheaded little tike Carrots crouch
at his very heels and brush and bandage him. standing
quiet fo- ali the world like great black But
let someone els: only step into the stal-well then
things started,
AMI stranger still, in fact the oldest thing of all,
that Jupiter liking for the boy seemed to extend
Leg. Time and again when that inquisitive
nonde,rip roscd the stall and the bows outside
said ~Goodbv, Dog" and waited in silence to hear the
single kic; thai would send his Legship dog heaven
by some vagar Of horse fancy Jupiter stood silent and
still rlousc, and once even hunted Legs shaggy
coat piyfull with his nose, when he would have broken
the back Of AM other dog with single bite and
him kiyiirg straight up to dogs Saint Peter.
In time the strange friendship that grew up between
these three became marked about the stable that
to the notice Of Mattern, Rodericb's trainer
Despite the stations racing value Mattern had about
decided to sell him @bad actor that no one could
get ready for but, finding that the boy
could handle him, A1attern reconsidered his decision
and assigned the horse to Carrots his particular
charge. And ten days later Jupiter ran and won-won
in d canter.
THAT settled it. From that time on Jupiter Car
Tots and Leg we're inseparabe. At Sheepshead.
Belmont, New Orleans, Louisville, everywhere, went
the three sleeping the stall the track or on
the road while Jupiter raced and kept on winning
great black demon with flaming red nostrils paving
the air and kicking at everything il sight while the
post but after the gently nosrlg like kitten
the pocket Of little redaaired boy Who took his bride
and led hire away as he turned into the paddock.
Even Miss Lucy noticed It one day, and called the
boy to compliment him it, day marked in
Carrots merrlory wth fire, and be compared only
to other day when he had snelled violets. And
that night Well, you know Roderick il those days
always gaze gold piece to the groom when his horse
won-anyhox when Miss Lucy rose the next morning
she found little bunch of fragrant volets on her dress
ing table, bearing tag the scraWl sNis Luce, and
her maid told her that the had found them on the
mat when he opened the door early that morning.
SO. while Fortune smiled, things went on. Money
wings swift and blue and gold like the Roder-
lex racing colo-s. At Sheepshead, Belmont, Louis
vile, the Rodcrics Stables swept everything before
thcn and Jupiter III his his share of the races
all except t"o And, strange to say, only those
two occasions did Miss Lucy fail to find bunch Of
viocts her dressing table on the morning after and
quicker her pretty brows as, while her maid dressed
her hair she buried her face in the fragrant flowers
and pondered wonderngly the identity Of the donor
who always scrawlcd the legend the little tag,
"Alis Lucic.
RUT after awhile things began to 60 the other way.
= The winning habit broken broken off short.
Where before the Roderick horses couldn't lose then
they couldn't win and what worse the whole