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New England By Frerf Galtani Act to Avert Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Tracks Advocate Vaccine for All Horses Pipe Dream Stables Newcomer Runs Last LastLINCOLN LINCOLN DOWNS Lincoln R I May 4 There is Tstill a wintry nip in the air around these parts many days in a week a yearly occurrence as spring merely flits through New England in rapid advance of summer While the hot dog days are in the future it would not be amiss for horsemen to recall the old adage by some lower case philosopher about locking the barn before the horse is stolen It wontt be long before July is around and with it will come the mosquitoes carrying the dreaded sleeping sickness disease In recent years outbreaks have developed in New England only among farm animals but the repercussions were enough to have other states put an embargo on New England thoroughbreds although not a single one was affected There is a way to combat encephalitis and that is through vaccination a process that has been roundly endorsed by The Jockey Club the Horsemens Benevo ¬ lent and Protective Association Thoroughbred Racing Association and other allied bodies in racing racingNow Now is the time for the horsemen to take advantage of this innoculation as Bill Hinphy who will be among the first to have his string vaccinated strongly supports Dr E L Cole the track veterinarian is forthright in stating the need for vaccination Sleeping sickness is a certainty in this area and will hit the farm animals and birds In the last couple of seasons we have been fortunate that no thoroughbreds have been infected but that is no guarantee that they wont Back in 1938 it got into Harragansett Park and we lost a lot of horses Dr Cole along with other practicing veteri ¬ narians in the area have agreed to supply the vaccine at a price of 300 a shot much the same system as will be used by the MarylandDelaware HBPA HBPAHorses Horses Jailed by Last Years Plague PlagueIt It is obvious why such precautions should be taken by the horsemen in fact it is as necessary as insurance as any turfman who raced around here the last two years can tell When the plague broke out in farm animals New England horses were practically jailed in the area Ohio being about the only place that would accept their presence A similar situation is about 1 to 10 to develop again this year But if a horse has been innoculated he will be free to ship throughout the country The type of vaccine that will be employed will be a bivalent one containing the strains of both the eastern and western type of encephalitis thus giv ¬ ing a horse carte blanche in either sector of the coun ¬ try Dr Cole has already had cards printed on which will be notated the date of innoculation innoculationThe The card will then be attached to the horses foal certificate This will not only be a certification of owners who move their horses to other tracks but it will also be invaluable in the case of claims The new owner will knowTmmediately if the horse has been vaccinated According to Dr Cole the vaccine is 100 per cent insurance against a horse getting sleeping sickness For years said Cole I have been vac ¬ cinating all the horses on B A Darios farm He leaves his broodmares out all night And every year horses get the disease in the vicinty surrounding his place but not one case has ever showed up at his farm Naturally there are some horsemen who oppose the vaccination claiming it affects their horse adversely after the injection Other turfmen swear to innocula ¬ tion as having no effect on a horses ability But theres no question of the seriousness of the problem And the preventative is available for all horsemen if they want to take advantage of it itNew New Contract Form for Apprentices ApprenticesGoing Going from the pharmaceutical end of the sport to the paper work division Larry Lane secretary of the Massachusetts State Racing Commission has come up with a new contract for apprentice jockeys Norman Charlton steward here heartily endorses it as some ¬ thing which will save a lot of excess f iling At present contracts on apprentices have but one space to fill in a transfer of ownership whereas Lanes new form allows for five such transfers In many cases the papers on an apprentice change hands as fast as chips around a dice table in a casino Consequently there may be as many as six notarized additions to be filed with the original form Lanes new blank eliminates all that and Charlton hopes that the new form rapidly gains recognition and use useThe The Pipe Dream Stable which is owned by some 40 members a number of whom are employees of the Providence Journal and Bulletin staff started the sec ¬ ond horse in their stable Friday but Dandy Flo failed to achieve stablemate Miss Linleys efforts and wound up ninth The red and yellow silks however did not arrive at the track until near noon when they were brought out by turf writer John Aborh It seemed the night before the silks graced the comely form of Miss Geri Taraone who appeared in a skit the Journal players are producing in town In the afternoon they were worn by jockey Allen Fairbanks but the consensus of opinion was that they were not nearly as nicely filled out
