The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-10-14
ONLY 10 HORSES
STARTED TO-DAY
Seven Had Been Elimina ted When
Endurance Test Was Resumed
at White River Junction.

White River junction, Oct. l4.-The
horses competing in the 300-mile en-
duranee test swept out Of this town
and into New Hampshire to-day. with
| l20 miles TO cover to reach their goal
al Camp Devens, Mass, tomorrow.
| OF the 27 mounts, which started the
race, only l6 remained, seven having
been left in the stables here as re-
suit of lameness or swollen ankles, de-
veloped in yesterdays hard drive.
Again to-day Bunkie and Mile. Den
| Use, the two grade thoroughbreds for
the army remount service, which to
date have shown the way to horses of
other breeds and strains in the COM
petition to determine Of what blood
Uncle Sans war horse of the future
shall be, were first on the trail. Stamp
ing their impatience to be off, they
were groomed and harnessed long be.
fore sun.up and at 5:07 o'clock left
the stables for the leaf -hecked autumn
roads at canter that was almost a.
gallop.
A minute or two later the Kentucky
thoroughbred pair, Moscowa and David
Craig, the former a. grandson of Ees-
simmon, English Derby winner of a
quarter century ago, set out and soon
were at the heels of the pace setting
army mounts. With approximately
two-thirds of the race run, Bunkie and
Mile. Densie led the Kentucky thor
oughbreds by about an hour and a half
in the time score, and appeared to be
in fine condition.
An hour after the first horses got
away, the cavalcade of l6 was stream
ing down the road Still in the run.
ming. the Arab string of pure and
graded breeds of the Morgan type each
was represented by several horses. The
last to leave were Rufik, an Arab thor
oughbred owned and ridden by Major
J. L. Plassmeyer and Kingtisher a
grade Arab, which Colonel Frank
Tompkins. a professor of Norwich uni
versity, owns and rides. Rufik was
bit weary and the judges debated
whether he should be allowed to 60
on, but eventually he was given the
word to try the trail and see how he
stood up to it. Kingfsher, which
opened two cuts on a knee by barbed
wire in last years race, had broken
the wounds again, but it was not
thought his road qualities would be at.
fected
The horses left behind were Majella,
one of the Kentucky thoroughbred
group Captain Hurd, a grade thor
oughbred; Tar Baby and Sally Town
send. grade thoroughbreds; Queen and
Salisbury, thoroughbred Morgan and
Lord of the Nursery, a standard breed
trotter. Withdrawal of the latter re-
moved from the contest both horses
of American turf breeding, entered by
john E. Madden.
The days run of so miles had as its
objective an evening rendezvous at
Concord, n H., with noon stop for
food and rest at Potter Place.
The New Hampshire society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals had
announced that il would have hui
name officials and veterinarians OBJ
serve the racing steeds, after they
crossed the state line, and in the event |
that any suffering was found among
the horses would ask for the arrest |
of those responsible aud seek an in |
junction by the courts against continu-
ing the contest. Officials of the race
no fear of interruption of
the contest. saying that all weak
horses had been weeded over night.
Veterinarians, who follow the con.
test in an official capacity, ran down
the broken column of horses in auto
mobiles from time to time during the
day. on the alert for any sign of eX
ressive lameness or exhaustion.