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CARRY THEIR OWN MENAGERIE Pets in J. W. Parrish Barn Represent Dogs, Chickens, Cats and Goats Monkey Mascot. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 19. Stable mascots are common, but a menagerie is something else. Thats what the J. W. Parrish stable represents to some extent. Trainer John M. Goode is a distinct lover of animals and the veteran has surrounded himself with various and sundry. In addition to the twelve horses that are stabled in a barn at Keeneland can be found a goat, several dogs, a cat or two and a flock of chickens. All go with the stable when it pulls up stakes and heads for another point of racing. There are various reasons for stable mascots. Chiefly they are used for a companion of some temperamental equine which might cast all discretion to the winds unless he is provided with a "buddy." t LIKES MASCOT. In this instance Johnny Goode, a veteran Kentucky trainer and developer of many topnotch thoroughbreds in his day, likes to have them around. However, the Goode stable isnt the only one with a mascot. C. W.- Pershalls stable, trained by former jockey Tommy Root, carries a monkey along which not only serves as a mascot but plays the role of watchman at the barn. "Jocko," as the monkey is dubbed, has traveled far and wide with Root in the past three years. Practically every stable has a mongrel of some description present, but ouj; at fashionable Calumet Farm, where Bull Lea is receiving his prep for the approaching Kentucky Derby, theres a fawn greyhound. Perhaps this type of dog was selected as a mascot to imply the speed of the thoroughbreds of Warren Wrights establishment.
