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PECULIAR HORSES AND NOTIONS Purchase is a colt that docs not like to be banged around nnd if he gets any rough handling is likely to quit There is no question of Purchases gameness biit it is just one of those idiosyncrasies or outcroppings of temperament which most often may be traced to some definite source Usually something which happened to a horse while it was a yearling will be found responsible Take St Isidore for instance He simply will not run next to the rail for as n youngster he was thrown heavily against it and he remembers that accident vividly As long as he is on the outside he is greased lightning but let another horse get outside of quitsBet him and he quits Bet the great jumper will not go over the fences alone As a twoyearold she suffered injury to shoulders nnd knees and since then she will fence only with some other horse as company Banshee II is n great morning runner Put her in a small field and josh her into believing that it is only a workout nnd she will run faster than Hun cav ¬ alry Elmendorf will not run on the outside and Barry Shannon and Starry Banner also are distinctly rail runners Lady Dorothy will not take the rail or go through a field though she has shown re ¬ peatedly that she has the speed Corn Tassel Is the champion lazy starter and wont get to going until lie is an eighth i nthe rear whereas Compadre is the allSome fastest beginner of them all Some of the peculiarities of horses may be traced to their sires The get of Sweep sire of Pen Rose have heavy heads nnd touchy mouths They need heavy jockeys as Jimmy Fitzsimmons learned only the other day in the case of Ballet Dancer II Then there are the mud families the most prominent of which is the Ormondale strain Where Ormondale got that peculiarity we know not for Ormonde his famous sire was not a mud runner New York Sun
