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THE NEW MANAGER OF THE KEENE HORSES. ■ 1 ve i Baingerdeld heritage, saps the Li wis v Hie Oniric Journal •and -e ild bo! bar M:ss Elizabeth Piukuct Daingcrfteld. daughte o| Ibe lal Major I. A. OaingerncTd. Horn hauutiue tin- stable and paddocks - I eliilil .in. I growing up with :in iiriiuiate knowledge • ! the beautiful thoi ougbhreds ul which bet father had charge si Castle ton siinl near Lexington. Ky. making her widely known as an expert. Toda.i Mi-- DatagerttehVs greate i sorrow i- that the hones thai have leal lustre to the racing annals .1 this country are going .ib: .ul and that there is apparent! no futu~o jn Amei . :i i : i In- beautiful youag creatures grot, ing hi on hi Kentucky stock farm where she ha* charge ol the thoroughbreds of the late James K. Ke. i ■ •. Kveu wlnli Mr. Keens was still alive ami toi father was sick, the details ol caring for ih-horses and looking alter theli welfare from mi. .. day ilevol ed upon Mi-- Oaingernehl u..ih h. , unci and Iter father misted implicit i to the hHg on ii. i f Ibis • ni lm-i.i-i io and capable woman a ki twie- i month made hasinesa-llke reports to Mr. Brfinn . •• I am Iu liars I I he K ingston farm. « Li i are stabled Ibe nine stallion- mon tkau fori.* broodmares and thirty -i weanlings composing i In breeding i lablishment ■ •: Mr. Keene. said Mi-Datngerftcld In au interview ■ xborl lime prl the deaths of her wide** known uncle and father. •V an- niii.v now getting settled it 1 1 j i — place. nhtcii Mr. Keeie- • ook over recently from Mr. Ctereme afackaj « ii • had ■ ieaae on It, which he pare up after de id an • -end bbi horses to Pranee. We bad lived ai i i-ib-ioii for tWentJ "ear* before that, al I even i«i • i •• father took charge ol this rautmts in .-•■ I ing farm Ihe thoroughbred horse had woa stj : 1 1 -1 :iiid shared la m t h»re far nj oiii. i| ■ _■ Psg ti • ■ 4 kIx year* I ha e been pi i ticallj the maiiaci of Ibe farm I hare seen ever.i euiniui on the place at b isi once iii tweuty foui ;i at t ! i , hours when I have been at home— and I am seldom away from hoaae.1 *• Colin. I think, was the greatest horse ever bred ■ Castleton and. more thin that, the greatest horse that the Ami-roan turf has ever saea. The meat ran- hatseu bred bj my lather are ■ part of the turf bis tor] of ihe coaatrj Colla, which won , S :H2: Sysonby. which brought hi owner .*ist.i;s. Ballot, tl-54.545: Peter Pan. 16,450: Delhi. *ll.". r.io. all in the small li-t of American winneraof aon than 00,000 iu -lake- ami purses, were brad bj • niv father and were foaled and raised at Castleton. The lisi of lane. us bones thai broegfet lane- to the old farm In Kentucky i- tee Mag to enumerate, but the names of Novelty, Maskette, tap ami Bells. Castleton, Commi ndo, Disguise, sweep. Celt and court Dress will stJr many memories in my opinion. Command., and Hanover were the two greatest stallions that America ever produced. " "As grooms. 1 prefer the oegr ies. as my father always did. What is often objected to in the negro as hi- la/iin— i- reaBj a unlet manner that seems especially pleasing to the thoroughbred horse and ■takes him the friend, not only of the horse but of the excitable young colt. •• One cannot exaggerate the beauty of the blue grays region. Ii la great throughout the rear, and Is particularly adapted i the horse, which i- very sau licular about its Iood. Nowhere throughout Unfavored land i- there ■ spot more lieautiful or more fertile than this far-famed nine Grass Conn trj Of central Kentucky. Vel what a bllghl lia- beea cast upon it by legislative action ha some states against racing. Hem the most fatal results of t In legislative enactment agaiasl racing In various states have been frit. The nam who owned and loved their ten race borsen wen compelled to glee them up. as then was no encouragement for them to rai-e horses as a business ami they could net afford it as a Inxary. A- for the wealthy owner-, ihey have been shipping their bones abroad, wheie do bigotry interferes with the development of the iaeal horses that can give pleasure to man. •"This means ultimately the extinction of the thoroughbred in this country and the imnoselbility of replenishing the blood from which different classes of hones draw their strength. It is a national IN-aster, too. for the cavalry and aitillerc are bound to suffer beyond any power of our- to estimate. Our ls st horses are going to other countries, where the governments are only too glad to iak.- advantage w their presence for the improvement of army hoi-e- If this country were to be suddenly involved In war the people Would nali/.e what a blunder had been committed in letting the best banes bf the count O be doomed to extinction. I say best, for even Bag land which has lieen the standard of excellence for thoroughbreds for hundreds of yean, baa not excel lei 1 the noted hones of the blue grass section. Matt lielil- 1 li.it have spread I heir pleasant unbroken greensward before the eye for generations are now for the first time being ploughed and the wood- add pastures are ilisaptwarlng to make wa for tobacco, that exhausting crop, or for hemp, so unlovely in .•onipaiisoii with grass. "Mi— DeJngerfiehj timl- ii nothing out of keeping with the dignity of women to care for horse-. Sh.-sees a glory in the idyllic life of Kentucky, in which the distinguished horse played so prominent a part, and she rejoices to have had a part in it. She regards the breeding of horses as a science, and sh ■ loves the genial, hospiiable ways that prevailed among the horse raising peo**le in that cominunitv. The care, feeding and the handling of horses -!i" considers as worthy of study and attention as any thing to which one devotes one"s self. The thought that has been put into the American thoroughbred has been nobly spent. That is why ii K such a tragedy that what has been obtained ihrough yean Of devoted and intelligent effo: ; should now be frustrated. "Miss Haiugerrield can tell the history of all the famous horses thai her father raised for Mr. Keene. the pedigree ol everything on the [dace and a lot about their individuality besides. Despite her enthusiasm for horses Miss Daingeraehl has other intere-t-. Sin- i- literary critic for several Kentucky newspapers and is extremely well read. She ha-eonlriliiited. too, to magazine- devoted to the in -lerests of women and has taken an active part in educational and philanthropic work in behalf of the Kentucky mountaineer.-."
