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TOUGH AND ELDERLY GABRI0. J Speedy Illinois "Plow Horse" Fancies the New . Orleans Going. New Orleans. Da.. January 14. — Gabrio, George Arvins Nasturtium gelding which recently won a race here, is one thoroughbred which can overcome a lot of misfortunes and still make good. The "plow horse," as he is called by the regulars. demonstrated that he still can hold his own in his own class when he beat such a sprinter as Resumption, and he has gone through enough difficulties to kill several race horses. Efforts of man and , nature, however, have failed to stop him and hi- owner is of the opinion that he will win many more , races at the local meeting. He has always been ; partial to the Fair Grounds track and last year was a frequent winner over it. Gabrio gained his title of the "plow horse when his first owner. James Griffin, used him to pull a plow on his farm in Illinois instead of sending him to the races, the purpose for which he was intended. Finally he managed to get to the races after Griffin gave him a private trial wlien his other racing material got scare and to the surprise of every one, the "plow horse" made good. Getting into racing action was just the beginning of his , troubles, however. Gabrio was loaded into a car to be shipped from Latonia. Ky.. to Windsor, Out., last summer and when near Terrace Dark, Ohio, thirty miles from Cincinnati, a cyclone came up and rent the car in two. There were twelve horses and a stable ponv in the car and Gabrio was thrown clear of the others over their heads and alighted in a ditch I beside the track. Hi wandered around in the dark- : in— and a lenitic downpour of rain all night and I for five days he was lost. ; When owner Arvin finally found the old gelding | he was in a half starved condition, but was hardly bruised from his experience. In the same car with him were such horses as Blind Baggage, a colt which E. R. Bradley valued at 0,000: Bars and Stars. Diown-eyed Kate, Dorteh, a 2,000 horse: Little Father. .Margaret I, and White Weed and they were either killed or maimed for life, while Gabrio got away. He apparently is none the worse from his close call from death and the long rest which he had previous to the opening hero seems to have made a new horse of him.
