New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-15


that was beyond doubt the most cantankerous and
dangerous OF the string great powerful, raw-boned
stallion named Jupiter black the Of spades, and
with the devils own temper For some reason Car
rots chose him as his particular own Of al the then long
Roiercls string And Jupiter though he barred his
teeth and struck al him yicously when he first
poking into his boNstal after awhile seemed 10 return
the same feeling horse fashion Why Heaven knows.
Horse tanners are born. not made Bcsiics a raochorse
is much ike a woman and why some women like some
men II wager even Heaven isn't quite sure.
Anyhow, where Jupiter would tear a shirt from
other boys back with bite Of his barred yellow teeth
he even let that rcdheadcl little tikc Carrots crouch
at his very heels and brush and bandage him. standing
quiet for all the world like a great black statue But
let someone else only step into the stall we'll then
things started
And stranger STILL in fact the oldest thing Of ALL
was that Iupitcr- liking for the boy seemed extend
even 10 Legs. Time and again when that inquisitve
nonicscrip noscd into the stall and the boys outside
said "Gooiby, Dog and waited in silence 10 hear the
single kick that would send his Lcghp into log heaven
bv some vagary Of horse fancy Jupiter stood silent and
still as mouse, and once even hunted Legs shaggy
coat playully with his nose when he would have broken
the back of any other dog with single bite and sent
him liyiing straight up 20 dogs Saint Peter.
In time the strange friendship that grew up between
these three became So marked about the stable that it
came to the notice Of AIattcrn, Rodcricks trainer.
decided 10 sell him bad actor that no could
even get ready for race; but, finding that the boy
could handle him, Alattern rcconsilered his decision
and assigned the horse 70 Carrots his particular
charge. And ten days later Jupiter ran and won
in a canter.
THAT settled it, From that time on Jupiter. Car.
rots and Legs were nseparablc. At Shecpshead,
Belmont New Orleans, Louisville, everywhere went
the three sleeping in the stall at the track
the road while Jupiter raced and kept on winning, "a
great black demon with flaming rel nostrls paving
the air and kicking everything in sight while at the
post but after the race gently nosng like a kitten in
the pocket OF little redhairci boy who took his bride
and led him away he turned into the paddock
Even Miss Lucy noticed il one day, and called the
boy over to compliment him on it,-a day marked in
Carrots memory with fire, and 20 be compared only
to one other day when he had smelcd yiolcts. And
that night Well, YOU know Rodcrick in those days
always gave "a gold piece to the groom when his horse
won-anyhow. when Miss Lucy rose the next morning
she found little bunch Of fragrant voets on her dress
Ing table bearing q tag the scraWl Mis- Lucie. and
her maid told her that the man had found them the
mat when he opened the door early that morning.
So. while Fortune smiled, things went on. Money
came on wings swift and blue and gold like the Roller
lex racing colors. At Sheep>hcad Belmont, Louis
vile, the Roicrict Stables swept -erything before
them and Jupiter in his turn won his share Of the races
all except two And strange % say, on only those
two occasions lid Miss Lucy fail 20 find bunch Of
yiocts on her dressing table 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 wonicringly the identity Of the donor
who always scrawcd the same legend on the little tag
Mis- Lucic."
pUT after awhile things began to 20 the other way
- The winning habit was broken, broken of short
V-l,r before the Roio~ick horses couldn't lose then