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BELL-THE-CATS JUVENILE EDUCATOR. Tin- scv. ti year-old bay gelding, Bell-the Cat. which ha won two iteeptechaan ami finished Me i .nd once out of four stars threatrh th- field, is the siilijcct of an inlei-f sting Btory of horsedotn. When Mnis Cassidy was doiiiM tin- start lag at the City lark track at New Chi— a last winier. In- was looking around for a well behaved saddle horse tor his son Marshall, and finally decided to offer J. H. Baker M lor Bell thc-C.it. whili was accepted and the horse was shipped to New York. Vaajag Caaaldj praeeedHd t» "y out his m-w jm s session ov.-r the Cravesend course ami was par-tii-ularly fond of putting Bell the-Cat over the .iunips_ :, f;,,.t which Thomas Welsh, trainer of the Newcastle Siablc ohserved and reported to starter issidy who sold the horse to j. f Qeldehecaaajh lor |JM at He- request of his wile, who feared Hi. hoy would fall from the horse and Ik" kill. d. «.old.sbniou-_-li i,,.,k B.-ll-thc Cat to the Jamestown in. -cling and won live races with him. then soil him to J. K. l.aue. the Virginia turfman who re-lii.d from racing a. month at*, selling his horses at private sale in N. w Orleans. Flippen lxnight Brii-ihe Cat. whereupon OaaaMv adrlaed him to race III. hois, through the field. "Can he jninpV asked Flippen. -Why. that boy of mine schooled him up around New York ami tells me that he is a world ■water, l had to s.n the horse beeaaea I did not want the boy to In- killed, relumed Cassidy.
