80 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



was particularly affectionate in disposition. There is 

 recorded one extraordinary case of friendship between 

 an old horse and a young one. A trotting-bred colt, 

 called Bay, had conceived a great fondness for a gray 

 gelding who was pastured in the same lot with him, 

 his affection being warmly returned. When the young 

 horse arrived at the proper age he was sent to a trainer, 

 but in his new quarters he became unmanageable ; he 

 refused to eat, kicked and plunged in his stall, and 

 kept the whole place in an uproar. Finally he was re- 

 turned to the farm, and put back in the field with his 

 gray friend, where he seemed perfectly contented. 

 His owner then concluded that he would have to send 

 the old horse also to the trainer, as a sort of compan- 

 ion or nurse to the young one. This he did, and there- 

 after the two animals were never separated. When 

 Bay's education was so far advanced that he was 

 thought worthy to go on the " grand circuit," the gray 

 gelding was taken with him from city to city. In the 

 "palace horse car" which conveyed Bay and the 

 other costly racers, a stall was invariably reserved for 

 his humble friend ; and whenever Bay engaged in a 

 race the old horse accompanied the " rubbers " to the 

 track, being always stationed in some place where the 

 young trotter could conveniently see and speak to him 

 between the heats. In another case, a great affection 

 sprang up between a trotter and a goat ; and certain 

 friendships between horses and other animals have be- 

 come historical. Thus the Godolphin Arabian had his 

 cat, Eclipse his sheep, and Chillaby or the "Mad 

 Arabian " was excessively fond of a lamb that kept 

 the flies from him. 



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