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ilECULIARITIES OF FILLY HERO WAS Hcrodias the gray English filly which won last AVedncsdays fine filly handicap nt Saratoga was one of the Sledgeinere hand of yearlings which Mr W R Cue bought in England two years ago She is the only one of the band that has so far amounted to anything and is extremely fast But she fcj also extremely finieal Daily Herodias shows wonderful intelligence and is the pet of the stable But she is almost human in her likes and dislikes She isnt fond of AAilliam Karrick her trainer lie makes her work But never did any kind of animal show such fondness for a person as she displays for Alonzo Aikcn tlie negro hostler who has charge of her Unless ho is at her side she will neither cat nor sleep sleepAll All the other stable hands can heap her stall with feed but unless Red as the negro is called is present she will not touch it And if VRed fiiils to sleep In her stall she wont sleep If she feels like either eating or sleeping in the after npon she will go to the door of her stall and whine until iledV arrives To make her lie down it Is necessary for him to build a bed of straw for him ¬ self aiil lief on it A minute or two after he r asleep or pretend he is asleep she throws herself to the ground and lies beside him
