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NO PATENT FEEDING FORMULA Hirsch Jacobs Feeds His Horses Like Any Other Trainer. States Horses With Injuries or Illness Simply Need Chance to Becover Has Enviable Reputation. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 7. "Perishable goods horses," mused Hirsch Jacobs, one of Americas leading trainers, as he and a visitor strolled the length of his stables recently. "One day they may be worth 0,000 and the next only ,000," he continued. "They can roll in the stalls and damage themselves as much as they can on the track." Damaged horses are a Jacobs specialty and it is believed that hed rather take on a horse that was down and considered out by most experts, than he would start out to train a sound, undisputedly good horse. To support the belief is the fact that he considers Action the best race horse he ever trained and Action he rescued from a pasture. Even while he discussed past performances of his horses, he interrupted the conversation frequently with asides to a man who was at work on the teeth of the horses. Looking for all the world like a business man in his well-tailored, well-pressed clothes, the red-headed trainer gave his orders with the authority of a veteran of turfdom. It is hard to remember that Mr. Jacobs hasnt always been a horsemen, that he is practically a newcomer to racing and horse training. This native New Yorker first gained prominence as a pigeon trainer and has established, within the past ten years, an enviable reputation as a horse trainer. THINKS GRAZING HELPS. There is a legend that this newcomer to racing has a formula for feeding horses that he emphatically denies. He says that his horses get the same grain and hay that other horses gef, but it is known that he likes to turn them out to graze as often as possible. The farm where the horses he trains are turned out is at Sparks, Md. Mr. Jacobs is an experimenter. Whether he tries new tricks with horse diet or not, he says that if a horse has something wrong with it you have to give it a chance and try first one thing and then another until you get the desired results. Patience seems to be the Jacobs motto, and the casual and unruffled trainer says that he just takes his time with every I horse. Strangely enough, Mr. Jacobs wasnt attracted to horses when he was a boy, he has never ridden anything more spirited than a stable pony and doesnt even do that now.
