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HOW RAMS HORN GOT HIS NAME. Afler the victory of Rams Horn in the Brighton Handicap, a New York newspaper man asked W. S. Williams, the youthful owner jmd trainer of the son of Bute Aunt Tessa, how lie had happend to so name this good racehorse. "Well," said he, "I had sciit in several oilier names and was told by the Registrar that each had leen previously claimed. The question got to be one of moment with me. I consulted some of my friends: They suggested that I name liim Wink, which is my nickname. I didnt like that. I had been up to Louisville and was returning to our home at Spring Station one afternoon when a lady in the train handed mc a paper and said: Read that, young man; It will do you good. I took the paper, and it was that religions weekly called The Rams Horn, and published, I think, somewhere near Louisville. I didnt care very much about reading it, as I was tired, although I suspect It had sonic pretty good things in it, but I took a good look at the cover. "11 was all in bright colors, and had a picture of the archangel Gabriel, or some being like him, riding bareback on a fine-looking, prancing horse and blowing a long, curly rams horn. It was a fine picture, and I couldnt get it out of my mind. Finally I got the notion that I would name my colt Rams norn, after the paper, and I did and have never been sorry. I dont reckon the lady that gave me the paper, nor the people who publish It, care very much for horseraclng, but I havent yet been asked to change the horses, name, and theyd have to get out an injunction to make mc do it."
