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TIMELY AID TO NEW YORK STATE POLICE Jo. key Club Donation of Stallions and Mares Big Help in Supplying Suitable Mounts. NEW" YORK. N. V.. January 31.- -Rut for fast g« ferocity of the Jockey Club the New York State Ihdice force would be in a bad way. in so far at the supply of suitable mounts is concerned, according to the annual report of Major George F. Chandler, superintendent of the department of state ptlice. The report reads; "It would be impossible to conduct the state police force Without horses, yet there has been no money expended during the past year for acquiring new mounts. "The original pure hast of horses has proved to b remarkable, most of these animals being still in use. Since that time the su| eriiitondeut has purchased only one horse, although the department has been fortunate in having twenty-four horses given us through the Jockey club and some individual L leads. Aside from Ihese gifts we are raising all our own horses and now have thirty-six -plendid colts. By the time our original mounts are unfit for us,, these colts will begin to take their p laces. We will now raise about I vventy - four a year. Horses Hat are no longer fit for service in the department will be sold to the health department for a nominal -aim. and will be used in the production Of anti-t xin. "This is an ideal arrangement, as these anmals are known to he without disease, and after having seived the state as |K lice horses in their prime arc thereafter assured a life of ease in sanitary surroundings with good pasturage, still serving in am tker capacity the state of New York." At the outset the Jockey Club presented tie state notice department with ten carefully chosen marcs to be used as mounts and later for breeding pur poses, and it is from this nucleus that the iiiount-lUK of the poMce became possible, thanks to other donations by sportsmen. When the mates were donated, at the same time thoroughbreds stallions were placed for the use of Ihe state police, and the colts mentioned in the Wporl are the get of these stallions, insuring thai the colts will be at least half-breds and from stock calculated to furnish the best mount. This donation of mares was made in 191S. and the npoii shows that there are thirty-six yearlings now on hand. Ihe stallions placed for the use of the state troopers are Deer Trap. Fashion Plate. Oyama and I haraoh. Beer Trap is a son of Trap Both and Delusion, and is quartered at Palavia. Genesee County. Fashion Plate is a son of Weoistherpe and 1 asaionable. and he stands for Trisip I at Oneida. Madison County, while Oyama and Pharaoh are lx th quartered at White Plains for the accommodatioi of Tiuop K. Oyama is a son of Commando and Ecu My-Chroe. bred by the late James R. Kccnc and Pharaoh is a son of Meddler and Hatasoo,
