view raw text
HORSES IN TRAINING AT WASHINGTON. Washington, 1 . .. February 12. — The identity of the gigantic horse in the stable of William Shields, which, in his sensational work over the | steeplechase cours,- at the Beuning track has been the chief topic of the winter colony there, has ■ been solved. The horse proves to be the five-year- old Ben Hodder, by The Commoner — Mountain Mist. . Ben Hodder stands seventeen hands high and is the star of the string Shields is wintering here. In a letter to a fellow trainer, William Garth, who is at his home at Ingleside Farm in Virginia, says he will not attend the spring meeting at the local track owing to his slow recovery from an operation which lie recently underwent. His horses, together with the Rainey and Dnnlop strings which are at Ingleside. will be handled this spring by his i brother. Woods Garth. Fourteen shipments of horses from Kentucky and New York arrived here during the past week and . training activities are becoming- unusually brisk. Quite a number of tourists who are spending a few days here, visited the course today. They were from northern New York, and in the party was Dr. Johuson, the well-known veterinarian, who said that in his part of the state, near Buffalo, the people were strongly opposed to any anti racing law lieing passed at this session of the New-York legislature. Among the owners who have horses already beta are J. E. Madden. William Shields. P. II. Sullivan. W. P. Bureh, P. M. Burch, Theodore Coles, J. W. Colt. W. C. Daly, W. Keating, J. C. Nally, R. Boyle, E. M. Mitchell, George Connell, H. Chatteiij . Harry Rites, August Muller, H. Flippen. J. Farrell. Jr.. P. Gallagher, A. Garson, E. H. Hanua and EL R. it. BoVle. tsoyie.
