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DR. ARNOLD FRANK DRAWS HOT FIRE. Says Kentucky Thoroughbreds Are Not Suited for Use in the German Army. New York. April IS. — A vociferous protest has -• iic up from Kentucky and all American horseland against the killttarea of Dr. Arnold Frank, the Kalsera official "vet." on the Kentucky thoroughbred. Dr. lrank has been clown in the blue grass reentry looking feci- tborooghbreda for use in the Herman army. Hi- wanted, he said, to buy a thousand head lb- h-Might eight, and then gave it out that the Kentucky horse didnt suit his pur-BSSC . And this in Lexington. Lexingtons answer i- thai Dr. lrank wasnt willing to Bay I he prices of Kentucky thoroughbreds and thats the reason he couldnt tincl anything to suit him. As for the ipialiu of the stock, it Weeds take more than a Herman "ret" to shake Kentiik.i-. faiili in its ,iwn pel product. New fork hor-iinen string their beta with the Keniuckians on this proposition. Major" John M. Burke, lor example, has a roaaMllallU store of horse lore gathered in many dimes. This is what he bad to say: "I do not agree with the Gar Baas earalrj oaacer. The Kentucky boraca were originally used for mountain coiinlry and the- roads in Baron* arc-generally nearly perfect. There-lore 1 think a Ken tue-ky horse, that has a record from way hack." when the roads were only traiK woiilel be- the most valuable animal today for rapidity of mobilization, iiic-ri- -o than the Herman cavalry horse. "fifty or sixty years ago he saddle horse was almost a necessity all over the south ami south west, and the result has been a race- of superior saddle lieasts. "The Kentucky hsrae lenl iletlaetlea to both armies iti the ln-1 war, which malted in such magnificent cavalry service as that of Bosneeaa, Meli Stuart, .lolm Morgan and Little -Im- Wheeler on the one side, and on the other of CrirreOB, Kil Patrick. Ilease ulon. Me-Cook. Cust -r, and the- great est i-avalrv man in historv, Oeueral Phil Sheridan. "It seems to me- thai speed wil In- a gnat as iliiiremout in the next war. as cavalry, to bs ef fe-c-tive. nnivt be used to reach points before the artillery earn cover the objective, and the- c-avalr.v man will have to adopt the Ihil Sheridan melhcHis of "getting there ipiic-kly. dismounting and light ing as infantry to assjt in vii-tory. "1 should judge that the- bene Ileal baa made a reputation under COaMtttiOM where, you might say. there wi-ie- praelicilly M roads, had to forage lor himself and was never groomed would have to be taken into consideration. I allude to die western range horse-, and even with him you have to eon-sieler the Kentinky thoroughbred horse strain prevailed among the best of them. "The typical native- horse is MOW very scarce, but we nil know that the range horse, erosse-d by the Kentucky, has exhibited remarkable stamina. He was a horse that lived umle-r conditions Whieii cxi-le l in no other country and could go further on Shorter commons and carry more in ratio to his own weight than history reeorils for any other borae. He was practically a combination, a Her three centuries of ae pare thai, of the aadeat Rfiaalsb Arab horse brought to this country by Cortes, and the English thoroughbred or Kentucky horse with its distant strain of Arab based via Liigland."
