Horses Wind up Winter Trainingto Start New Season at Bowie

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C„ MARCH 31, t 7. 5 Wind Up Winter Training to New Season at Bowie ¦¦¦ » .' , ... , . _ Horses _ Start r 'd&Sb ¦ , H j *r*f t • -1 I ty3 ¦ I Jilmo9My BEmB % BBBmBB ' H& hb - V i B& | >i"' Bf IT "- i jt gEf Mi Bfc . J& 9 t HB aBTH y Iply J M |B9 ¦ <* mkgm •m |9h 9 Otf #1 . gn j % f UB ¦ HR 1 •- <*» 4 « T(fc*VlP " '\ <-«. ¦;- -, ¦. v-. I J 'TWBlivSstA, v 1 ' #**• " - ....... , . , __i, N. Everett and L. Cheyne, well known steeplechase jockeys, looking over War Fain, by Davies. Behind the Scenes at Benning’s Winter Misty Bfymm, 'u Trainer Bryan Harris’and Sonny Workman, jockey, owned J. ([ Spring race meetings at the ready for an early \) “horse” and ' f camp. one of 4 ( . Quarters Where They’re Putting on the morning breeze at Benning. Benning training Workman, Kay Beck, in the saddle, is the leading jockeys, is a Washington lad. Finishing Touches to Get the Thor- given his instructions by y Owner Sam Ij(talking Johnson. A oughbreds in Trim—Sidelights of A the Grooming and Training Game. Whims and Caprices of the Temperamental Race Horse. fsf g i fag mm \ BY DON GLASSMAN. receive the care and attention trainers give line horses. Figure what percent- blood’s running true blue age of children subsist on $7 a day, not this Spring. Out at Benning’s counting insurance and overhead. Prob- Horse Hotel 125 fancy prancers ably during the prime of a good race- are practicing the lightning horse, four to five years, more money is HORSE Ally past stroke that drives a spent on his care and well-being than the finishing post by a head and wins on sustaining the average man during the golden purse. i a lifetime. All Winter the thoroughbreds have "Do you know what rearing children been rooming, boarding and exercising is?” asks the trainer. “Well, take my at this fashionable watering place for advice, never, never try your skill on a reasonable price of $7.00 a day. bosses. Because hosses are as ticklish Last Fall the horse hosts put out a as sticks of dynamite. sign advertising the famous horse ho- “Some mares won’t eat while the sun tel “Open to thoroughbreds only. shines. Others insist that you hide their nags, plugs F.osinantes, and war horses food under the straw bed, so they can find other stables. We invite your at- fool themselves into believing they are tention to special appointments and hydrant stealing it. service. Fresh drinks of water “Why, I had a filly last year—thank three, four or five times a day, in I sold her—that wouldn’t eat Warrior, owned by Dick Williams, and Landlord, owned by clean buckets. Forty-two pound oats Heaven Imported any place unless my dog was out of the stable. Bostwick, ing at Benning for the from that can sup- She shied from anything colored red A. C. train ply forty-two pound oats. If “Temperamental guests treated with and would shiver at sight of a cat. Spring steeplechases. attention. beds lined a man were playing ball several hundred aklllful Our are yards away, she’d have a fit because with Spring timothy and alfalfa. Only one In a stall. Social she thought he was trying to .hit her. horse permitted “Now, you eould talk that out of a What happens when you feed or head to be groomed. He has a dignity gathering every morning. No fleas. and of refinement must strike are child—but never out of a hoss. What water a perspiring horse? Believe i sense that Our thermometers sterilised, and all you helps it or not, but his muscles and auxiliary us humans as uncanny. He demands other sanitary provisions observed.’’ learn from one hoss rarely you with another. The Lord made ’em running gear stiffen and become in- the strictest punctilio, will not stand Now, the thoroughbred’s awakening! for insult or maltreatment. New .grass and sprouting buds, the all different. Especially when they get flexible, or he succumbs to an attack of high-toned and know they're making pneumonia or some other dangerous To overcome his stubbomess takes bright morning sun fire him with elec- malady. time and the patience of an under- trical energy. He touches the turf as lots of money for the oats they eat. standing “Hoss feeding In a horse heat is a strange thing. man. The animals must not though it were a hot stove. Look to is an inexact science. be coerced, but rather tempted. His signs Take my hoss Turk. I weigh his dinner A cold horse does not prance about to the blue-blooded horse for of keep warm unless he is in a playful fur is soothed and the brush applied Spring. out in ounces, because he won’t eat skillful that please and or less. When I tell some of these mood. Rather, he stands still and with strokes Among these 125 racers may be the more calory almost make him whinny for mm. instance, old hossmen how I feed him, they say throws every and B. T. U. in his Derby winner. Twink, for is natural heating plant. He is still and He learns, also, to help the brushing already second choice for the Church- I’m crazier than Turk. But Turk is process by nodding his head up and Every graven as a bronze image. In real hill Downs classic. one hoss in a thousand. recomputedhoss has frigid his bristles like the down: thus he is tactfully brought back weather coat ** * * his particular diet and appetite.” to his senses and tickled into meeting ** * out an odor well-nigh as- fur of a cat. 'T'WINK might have walked out of * sqnds that A bath under a hose might go well his groom with a smile on his velvet 1 a marble statue. A sable-skinned ALL the foregoing is an amazing ad- phyxiates sensitive nostrils. On the horse, face. with an old-fashioned Are but It well, marvel, not a drooping line in his sil- mission, after all. To think that other hand, a dirt floor does not keep ruins a racer. Cold water applied to . Unless he is not feeling the racer is in fair or foul weather. Not houette. Erect, haughty, he holds his we “non-hossmen” are betting whole rata out. These rodents have been the skin of a perspiring horse soon kills 1 exercised head quite high. Tiptoes to the track bank on horsemeat that is him. For blue-blooded animals trainers 1 all horses rate the same amount or kind accounts known to chew at a horse's hoofs, and of limbering up. Fifteen minutes suf- on four sets of ingenious springs, more more capricious, ensnaring and fickle unless stall partitions are concreted at have devised the Turkish bath. \ delicate than the springs of a wrist- fice for some. Others require two hours than the swellest damoiselles in human the foundations the pests will harass The thoroughbred is taken outdoors of reduced labor. Every trainer is an watch and more closely guarded than society;.to think that if Fire Tail, for and aggravate a thoroughbred. and run until he is wet from exertion. 1 arch-criminal at Devils Island. w Then walked back to the stable, where authority on how long this roan should an Instance, has a grudge against his No need to fear for the racehorse m I be run and how long that bay should All morning, until the sun hangs groom or craves a teaspoonful of salt, he during the long cold Winter. No arti- // a groom has prepared a good supply of directly overhead and the earth, in trot. The practice is for the trainer to crowns will lash us by coming fifth in the race ficial heat in bis stable. He is not be- \ / warm water bottles. Applied with sidelines and give explicit the thoroughbreds dance, trot, jump, of 2-year-olds. hot-air steampipe soap, this is as invigorating to a spirited stand on the pace prance grudged a furnace or orders1 to the riding boys. In the case march, stroll, amble, and But that a trainer should admit so fittings, but his health demands noth- horse as to a man. It is followed by a 1 around the oval. Their tight skins short, sharp shower bath of cold water. of a high-spirited famous' racer the much is gratifying in the light of his ing more that the heat of his body. A 1 exacting. glow and glitter like silken velvet. The fur is rubbed down with clean 1 orders are very track traditional silence. Or call it supersti- dozen well exercised thoroughbreds “Make a wide turn to the left,” orders Now they stretch across the tion. Superstition rules the race throw off enough heat by their meta- cloths, and the horse is then covered and the riding boys whisper “dope” into with a woolen sweating blanket for sev- the trainer. track. Some horsemen won’t permit bolic processes to heat a good-sized 1 Now how does that differ from a turn their sensitive ears. The racing virus! their horses to be photographed. Others stable. If the sun heats the outdoors up, a early Spring speed on the eral hours. After this royal treat, he When it takes effect, the animal loses Misty Brymm, with Jockey Beck shows bit of feels like breaking a world record. to the right? Does a horse understand keep the animals under lock and key to a higher temperature than the stable, the difference? Go ask a trainer.

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