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BANASTARS INTELLIGENCE. That horses have almost human intelligence lias been stated time and again, but it remained with Colonel Franklin Bartlett to place Hie thoroughbred racer on a plane above the ordinary animal, when in arguing a case liefore the Supreme Court of Wcst.hcsier he stated in positive terms that the reasons Brooklyn Handicap winner Banastar refused lo start in a race because he knew his owner was a trotting man and noi a lover of the runners. In ihe course of his argument as leading counsel for the Slate Racing Commission in a case against the Kinpiro Cii.v Trolting Club, which applied to Inatiee Isaac N. Mills, of Westchester Oonaty t » Isaac a peremptory writ of mandamus to Compel the State Racing Commission to issue a license and award dales for a running race meeting to the Cmpirc City Ironing Club for 1;m 7, Colonel Bartlett said: Ihe Kmpire City Trotting Club was conceived by the late William 11. Clark, at one time Corporation Counsel of the ciiy of New York. The track was built by Mr. Clark as a ironing venture, and it SM for trotliti races and for trolting brushes and trials and for nothing else. Mr. Clark dearly loved a trotting or pacing horse. It is officially recorded iu turf annals that aliout 1900 Mr. Clark purchased a celebrated running horse named Banastar. When I lie horse was sent lo the post to run in his first race in the color- of his new owner, he stood stock still when the other horses started and refused to -tail himself be.aii.-e he knew he was owned by a trotting man and not a follower of the runners. Is il possible to proline more direct evidence as lo the purpose Intended by Mr. Clark when he built the Cmpire Ciiy track." » llie statement was made in all seriousness, nor wa- the distiagaiahed lawyer ill any way discom-tiled by Ihe lauuli which greelcd the remark, a laugh in which Justice Mills joined heartily. — New York Times.
