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 youngone. 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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