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JUDICIOUS PUNISHMENT FOR HORSES. It would be a mistake to suppose that judicious punishment may not at times lie used both for horses and boys with the best results. What a horse reseats is being knocked about by an ignorant, angry man, who. as often as not. is himself afraid of the horse. Sam Darling in his book tells the story how. when Disguise was found to be almost incorrigible he decided that "corporal punishment" was necessary, hut he first communicated with the owner, and. being given full discretion, lie put up a powerful jockey on Disguise with an ash-plant, and in- , structions to let the colt on the first signs of mis- ! behavior have it on both sides and all over without a moments intermission. He himself stood by and gave the word when enough had been done. From that moment Disguise was a reformed character, and he won the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket soon afterwards. Sam Darling also had on one occasion to chastise Galtee More for cow-kicking him into a corner of the box. at "stables" time. The I horse knew he had done wrong, and when he got two or three smart cuts down the shoulder, so far I from resenting it. never again erred in the same way. Dorses have plenty of sense, just as the bov I had who. after he had been flogged bv Dr. Temple I afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. said, "Temple is a beast, but he is a just beast." 1 As to Diamond Jubilee. I have on several occasions seen Diamond Jubilee in the Argentine and heard all aliout him from his owner and the attendants at the Las Ortigas Stud. Again and again I have ; been assured that he never showed the slightest vestige of ill-temper from his first arrival in South America. The man who was given charge of him was a native who had never "done" a thorough- bred stallion before, and the idea of the horse being dangerous did not for a moment occur to him. This change, however, in Diamond Jubilee was not due to , stud life as distinguished from that in a training stable, for he was anything but an agreeable animal while he was at the Sandringham Stud. The real cause I believe to have been the climate of the Argentine, which seems to have an enervating influence on all horses. They grow big and tleshv, but show small trace of kick and vitality when von see tiiein stripped in their lioxes or in the paddock. With scarcely an exception they are all as quu-t i as sheep, and they do not seem to have energy enough to resent racing week after week always on I the same track. It is to be observed at the "same time that the natives are born horsemen, and all ! horses are well handled. Horses certainly have long memories where unfair treatment is concerned, and the most remarkable case I ever knew in my own experience was that of Beaudesert, a perfectly good-tempered horse, which for some mysterious reason would not look at a certain mare from tiie Hampton Court Stud, and she had to be sent home to some . other horse. Beaudesert stood at Marden Deer Park and the following year the same mare was sent ! to him again. When he was led out he recognized her. and evidently thinking that his trusted attendant had played a low-down trick by again introduc-ing him to the object of his aversion, he set atniut the man. savaged him badly, got him down in a corner of the yard, broke his arm, and would have J killed him had not assistance been at hand. — "Tlie Special Commissioner in London Sportsman.
