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MISTREATMENT MAKES SOME HORSES MEAN. Jacob Pincus Tolls of an English Racer That Despised- All Blacksmiths. In the paddock at Belmont Park the other day the conversation turned to mean -horses, and - the remark was made that starter Cassidy and his assistants were doubtless glad that Proper ..and one or two others from the same stable had taken thelc departure. "Cassidy himself had a horse named Drizzle that was both a man-eater and a goat-eater," said one trainer. "Hed bit the arms off two or three negroes, and a goat wasnt any more to him than the cherry tart was to the famished soldier. But its my belief that the aggressive propensities of horses are developed by rough treatment, aud Ive never known It to fail that they only show resentment against the individual that has injured them. Of course, I dont blame any horse for kicking when a goat Is put in his stall, but Ill bet at some period of Drizzles career hed been mistreated by a negro." "I think that theory Is true," said Jacob Pincus. "I remember a horse that under ordinary circumstances was as docile as a lamb. A friend of mine bought him in England after winning a selling race. The morning after his arrival at his new owners stables the horse was visited by the blacksmith who went around the stalls each morning to inspect the horses feet. The minute the man approached, the neweqmer, the horse, without so much as a wink of warning and before he was touched, turned and madly attacked the blacksmith. The man had never seen the horse before and the peculiar aversion was not explained until my friend learned that the horse treated all blacksmiths the same way. He seemed to scent them afar, and one day his owner determined to test him. ; "A stableman put on a blacksmiths apron and approached the horse in the yard. The horse im-. mediately pricked his ears, began to shy about and in other ways to put himself on the defensive. We decided that at one time, probably while he was an impressionable two-year-old, he had been pricked during the process of plating and never forgot it nor the looks of .the man who inflicted the injury. Horses certainly have long memories. "Ill never forget Worcester, the great English horse," continued Mr. Pincus. "He might easily have been matched against the boxing kangeroo, for he used to rear aud stand up ou his hind legs and hit out right scientifically with his. fore left. 1 remember in the City and Suburban of 1S90, I think it was, he tried to savage a horse, as they call It iu England, while running and the Jockeys leg had a narrow escape."
