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learnedly on what constitutes a good boot-jack, treating it 
in the most esthetic way, constructing boot-jacks from his 
inner consciousness, though utterly incapable of sawing 
out a real boot-jack. 
—Now,in the pleasant autumn weather of merrie England, 
under the spreading oaks, across the green lawn, speed 
the arrows, and the targets of gold are thickly studded with 
the shafts. Pleasantautumn weather? Not always. Just 
as an example o: pluck and endurance, showing that Eng- 
lish ladies will not melt like sugar, here we see that the 
Mersey bowmen, almost all of them women, shot eight 
dozen arrows ina furious and gusty day, a drizzling rain 
falling all the time. Imitate that if you dare, ye frailer 
American ladies! Whether by courtesy, or not, when one 
reads the names of the winners, the ladies at the English 
archery meeting always carry off the prizes. There is a 
contest now going on in regard to length of range; a dis- 
tance of 100 yards would seem to us quite a long range, but 
it is being advocated. It is argued that as all things must 
have had a precedent, that it was Robin Hood’s shooting 
distance, and that if Robin Hood, or Friar Tuck, or Little 
John had attempted to get a fat buck in Sherwood Forest 
ata less range, they probably would have had no venison 
pastry for their suppers. When next year, as we sincerely 
hope, archery will be introduced and our ladies may draw 
their bows, we will be satisfied with less distances. 
Che Horse and the Course. 
—The American Jockey Club held the second day of the 
autumn meeting at Jerome Park, on October 8th. The 
weather was delightful,the track rather heavyand the attend- 
ance unusually large for an ‘‘ off ’ day. Those who enjoy rac- 
ing as an amusemeut will always find it to their advantage 
to visit Jerome Park on a quiet day, so as to avoid the im- 
mense crowds and inconveniences attending them. The 
first race was for a purse of $500. Seven horses 
started; distance one mile and five-eighths. True Blue 
won easily by ten lengths. Warlike second. Time, 2:57}. 
The second race, the Hunter stakes, distance, one mile and 
three-quarters, for three-year-old fillies, which brought to 
the post two, Katie Pease and Lizzie Lucas, was an excit- 
ing match. They ran together neck and neck, Lizzie Lu- 
cas finally winning by alength. Time, 3:173. The third 
race was for the Maturity stakes, for four-year-olds; dis- 
tance three miles. Four horses started. Mate led all the 
way round and came in the winner in 5:51. The fourth 
race was fora purse of $500, for two-year-olds; distance, 
five furlongs. After several false starts, they all jumped 
off together to a fairly even start, King Amadeus leading, 
with the others close up. On coming past the stand the 
race resulted in a match between McDaniel’s entry by As- 
teroid, and Amadeus, the former winning by the shortest 
of heads in 1:06%. The fifth race was a handicap steeple- 
chase; distance about two miles and: a half over an excei- 
lent imitation of a hunting course. The horses started evenly, 
going at slow pace, Duffy leading, George West second, 
but on going over the stone wall alittle to the right of the 
stand his horse struck his near fore foot on the top of the 
wall, throwing his rider and rolling over him, but for- 
tunately the jockey was scarcely hurt at all, and in a min- 
ute or so walked to the stand. Duffy continued on over 
the course and finally won in 5:55. 
—The American Jockey Club held its third day of the 
Autumn meeting at Jerome Park, Fordham, on October 
11th. The day was fine, the attcndance large and fashion- 
able, perfect order and decorum were observed everywhere, 
and altogether it teaches the old country a lesson so far as 
respectability, good feeling, and politeness are concerned. 
The first race was the Annual Sweepstakes for three year 
olds of $300 each; distance, two miles. Only two horses 
came ta the post—Tom Bowling and Mart Jordan. Tom 
Bowling won in a canter, and Mart Jordan, with his head 
betwecn his fore-legs, 120 yards behind. Time 3:373. The 
second race was the Grand National Sweepstakes of $100 
each, half forfeit, with $1,000 added by the club; distance 
two miles and a quarter. Four horses started—Harry Bas- 
sett, Preakness, Fellowcraft and Galway. Harry Bassett 
took the lead, but failed to keep it, as Preakness came past 
the post an easy winner by three lengths. The third race 
was the Champagne Stakes for two year olds, $100 each 
and $500 added by the club; distance three-quarters of a 
mile. Ten youngsters came to the post. They all started 
pretty evenly, and ran together at a fine racing pace all the 
way round, and on coming up the homestretch three of 
them were abreast, and on passing the post the judges de- 
cided Grinstead first, Dublln second, Weathercock third. 
Time 1:17%. The fourth race was for a purse of $700, 
mile heats. There were seven horses started. First heat, 
Minnie Mc won and Springbok second. Time 1:48}. Sec- 
ond heat the horses reversed, Springbok first, Minnie Mc 
second, the others distanced. Time 1:48. Third heat, the 
start was very even, the filly and the colt running side by 
side, but the pace of the colt was too strong for the filly, 
Springbok winning easily. Time 1:484. The fifth race 
was a Sweepstakes, $50 each, with a piece of plate of the 
value of $300 given by the club, members of the club tc 
ride, welter weights; distance one mile and an eighth. 
Three horses started—Gray Planet, Stockwood and Village 
Blacksmith. The members of the club rode extremely 
well, showing good judgment and skill, and notwithstand- 
ing the apparent unconcern on the part of the people, taking 
into consideration the weight of the riders, it was one of 
the best if not the best ridden race of the day. Gray Planet 
won and was ridden by Mr. Purdy. Mr. D. J. Bannatyne 




rode the second horse, Stockwood, and Mr. J. Wadsworth 
rode Village Blacksmith. The distance apart of the three 
horses at the finish was scarcely two and a half lengths. 
—The Fleetwood Park four year old colt race took place 
on October 8th, and was a very private affair. The Sweep- 
stakes, for four year old colts, mile heats, best three in five, 
in harness, for a $1,000 purse, was won by D. Mace’s Mid- 
dletown, winning the three last heats in 2:58, 2534, 2:44. 
—The Beacon Park commenced their autumn meeting on 
the grounds near Boston on October 8th, but owing to the 
cold weather the attendance was very small. The first race 
was for horses of the three minute class, and was won by 
the bay gelding Howard Snow. On October 9th the first 
race was for 2:30 horses, which was postponed from Octo- 
ber 7th on account of the darkness, Frank Palmer and 
Rex Patchen having each one heat, and Fanny two. The 
fifth heat was won by Fanny, Rex Patchen taking the sec- 
ond money, Frank Palmer the third, and Rowe’s Tommy 
the fourth. The second race was for horses that never beat 
2:40. Hight horses started. Stenly won the race, Pearl 
taking second money and Flora third. Time—2:414, 2:41, 
2:40, 2:39. Third race, 2:35 horses; five horses started. 
The first heat was won by John F. Russell in 2:40, and the 
last three by Brown Kenney in 2:38,-2:38, and 2:373.. Oc- 
tober 10th there was a much larger attendance, and the 
trotting was excellent. The race for 2:50 horses was won 
by Howard Snow, beating Modoc Chief, Eddy, Gray Eagle, 
Tontine Bell, Peter Simple, and Thought in the same order. 
Time—2:404, 2:48}, 2:42, 2:48. Eddy took the second 
money, and Tontine Bell the third. The race for 2:31 
horses was a grand exhibition of fair trotting. Colonel 
Moulton won the first heat in 2:35, and Rex Patchen the 
last three in 2:324, 2:34, and 2:34. Mr. Rowe, of Hartford, 
protested against the third heat being given to Patchen, and 
declared he would outstart his (Rowe’s) horse Tommy for 
another heat. The judges were unanimous in awarding 
him the heat, and upon Mr. Rowe’s refusing to start in the 
last heat, enforced the rule laid down for such cases, and 
expelled both horse and owner from all National Associa- 
tion tracks. 
—About four thousand persons attended the Amenia 
races at Poughkeepsie October 9th. The first race was for a 
purse of $800, which was carried off by Gulnare, who won 
the first, third, and fourth heats, Jupiter winning the sec- 
ond. Time—2:44, 2:414, 2:414, 2:432. The purse of $1,200 
was won by Tom Keeler in three straight heats. Time— 
2:314, 2:314, 2:304. October 10th, Tanner Boy won the 
postponed race in 2:343. In the three minute race Mystery 
won the first heat and Rifleman the three next. Time— 
2:54, 2:52, 2:52, 2:52. The 2:50 race was won in three 
straight heats by White Cloud. Time—2:414, 2:40}, 2:414. 
The 2:25 race was won in three straight heats by Crown 
Prince. Time—2:32, 2:324, 2:304. 
——At the Winchester (VYa.) Fair, October 9th, Mr. 8. D. 
Long’s sorrel filly won the running race and took the pre 
miums. Mr. John F. Sower’s three year old colt Buckskin 
won the trotting race. At the start of the first race 
Mr. Upton G. Long, of Cumberland, Md., was thrown from 
his horse and fatally injured. The horse shied the track, 
jumped the fence, pitched him over head foremost, and fell 
upon him as he landed on the opposite side, breaking all 
his left ribs. He died that evening. Mr. Long is the sec- 
ond rider this horse (Harkaway) has killed within a year. 
The fair of the Agricultural Society closed to-day, October 
10th, with the trial of speed racing. T. Collin’s Lady 
Alice won the trotting race, best three heats in five, and 
took the $200 premium. The best time made was 2:48. 
In the running race to-day Upton G. Long’s horse Harka- 
way, who killed his owner yesterday, won the best two in 
three mile heats, and took the $100 premium. Time—1:57. 
—October 10th was the sixth and last day of the Nash- 
ville (Tenn.) Blood Horse Association. The weather was 
clear and pleasant, and the track in splendid condition. 
The attendance was large. The first race was for the Max- 
well House stakes for three year olds, mile heats. Four 
horses started. Nellie Green won. Time—1:48, 1:463, 1:45. 
The second race was for the Association purse of $300, mile 
heats. Planchette won. Time—1:45, 1:4532. The time of 
the first heat was the fastest ever made over the Nashville 
course. The third race was for the Association Purse, 
mile and a quarter dash. Lamp won in 2:144. 
PirTspuRG, Oct. 9.—The races to-day were well attend- 
ed. The trotting race for a purse of $1,250 was won by 
Tom Britton in three straight heats. Time 2:394, 2:37, 2:88. 
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How to Manace A Horss.—-A beautiful and high-spirited 
horse would never allow a shoe to be put on his feet or any 
person to handle his feet. In an attempt to shoe such a 
horse recently he resisted all efforts, kicked aside every- 
thing but an anvil, and came near killing himself against 
that, and finally was brought back to his stable unshod. 
This defect was just on the eve of consigning him to the 
plow, where he might work barefoot, when an officer in 
our service, lately returned from Mexico, took a cord about 
the size of a common bed-cord, put it in the mouth of the 
horse like a bit, and tied it tightly on the animal’s 
head, passed his left ear under the string, not pain-. 
fully tight, but tight enough to keep the ear down and the 
cord in its place. This.done, he patted the horse gently on 
the side of the head and commanded him to follow, and 
instantly the horse obeyed, perfectly subdued, and as gentle 
and obedient as a well-trained dog, suffering his feet to be 
lifted with entire impunity, acting in all respects like an old 
stager. The gentleman who thus furnished this exceed- 
ingly simple means of subduing a very dangerous propen- 
sity intimated that it is practiced in Mexico and South 
America in the management of wild horses.—Commercial 
Advertiser. 
THOROUGH-BRED HORSES. 
——. 
HE word ‘‘thorough-bred” has an artificial and a 
natural, a technical and apractical, significance. Tech- 
nically considered, the thorough-bred horse is one whose ped 
igree can be traced back through imported stock to the 
English stud-books and through these to the East, whence 
the modern English thorough-bred horse ancestrally came. 
This is what I call the artificial or technical significance of. 
the word ‘‘thorough-bred.” It does not prove that a horse 
isa good animal, for many, both in this country and in 
England, whose pedigree can be traced back to an Arabian 
source, are comparatively of little value. In England you 
can find hundreds of ‘‘weedy” colts, with neither lungs nor 
‘legs able to stand the necessary work to fit them for a race, 
or, indeed, of any considerable value any way; and the same ~ 
is true with us. To buy a horse simply because he has a 
long and noble pedigree is to buy as a fool buyeth. And 
especially does this hold true in the case of breeding; for 
which purpose, none but the best specimens of the family 
you desire to cross with should be purchased. A poor 
horse is a poor horse the world over, in all families, and in 
spite of pedigree. 
is what the breeder needs; 
closely adhered to. 
risk all. 
Beyond this technical sense, the word ‘‘thorough-bred” 
has another and practical significance, which I will now ex- 
plain. In the practical sense, the word stands for and sym- 
bolizes certain indispensable qualities which give value to 
the animal, and decide his rank and place in the grade to 
which he belongs. Among these may be mentioned beauty 
of form, toughness of bone and muscular structure, vivacity 
and docility of temperament, intelligence, and above all, 
perhaps, in value, the power of ewdurance, and the desire to do,; 
what horsemen express by the word ‘‘game.” All pedi- 
grees are worthless save as they indicate and warrant that 
the horse with the noble ancestry is noble himself. Itisa 
help to the judgment, as to the value of a colt, to know 
that its dame is a Star mare; because a Star mare isa 
daughter of American Star; and American Star was sired 
by Henry, who ran against Eclipse in the famous match be- 
tween the North and South. To a breeder such a pedigree 
is of the utmost value, because it is a guarantee that the 
colt out of such a mare will have, to some extent at least, 
the noble qualities which made his ancestors famous. Now, 
then, the question comes back to us, ‘‘what makes a thor- 
ough-bred!” Andi say, that, for all practical purposes 
a horse which has a certain verfection of form, a certain 
degree of intelligence, the power to do great deeds when 
called upon, together with the high courage to attempt 
and to actually perform them, is a thorough-bred horse’ 
That is my answer to the question; and I think that 
it will recommend itself to the common sense of the 
reader. Observe, then, what are the facts of the case as 
connected with the trotting-horse. The facts are these: 
that, beginning with Dutchman, and coming down through 
Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple, George M. Patchen, Ethan 
and this rule should be 
To vary from this principle is to 
Allen, Dexter, and Goldsmith’s Maid, we have had for the. 
last fifty years, in this country, a race of horses of trotting- 
action, of as fine a spirit, and as great powers of endurance, 
as any that were ever bred. In perfection of structure, in 
symmetrical adjustment of all the parts, in intelligence,—that 
surest proof of good breeding—in dauntless resolution 
that stopped not short of death itself in the hour of supreme 
performance, these horses, and countless others like them, 
were, I claim, second to none that ever delighted the eye 
and made proud the heart of man. I hold that it is unjust 
to these noble horses, to call them of vulgar or basely 
tainted blood. They were kings and queens in that order 
of life to which they belonged, and proved their royal 
qualities on many a contested field, when the lookers-on 
stood breathless. I object, both on the ground of sentiment 
and proper classification, to such a definition of thorough- 
bred, that, in order to be just to the one class of horses, one 
must be unjust to the other. Where they are equal in per- 
formance, they should be equal in honor. Who shall say 
that Old Topgallant, when he went against Whalebone 
four mile heats, and trotted them in 11:16, 10:06, 11:17, and 
12:15; that is, making his sixteen miles in forty-five minutes 
and forty-four seconds, which is just 2:52} to the mile, and 
that, too, when he was twenty-two years of age,—is not 
worthy to stand beside Eclipse, or Henry, or any other 
horse that ever ran a race? There is aright and wrong to 
this thing; and, for one, I assert that the nomenclature is 
faulty, and the classification vicious, which covers Longfel- 
low and Harry Bassett with laurel, and leaves Dexter and 
Goldsmith’s Maid without a spray. There are, therefore, 
as I understand the merits of the case, two great families of 
thorough-bred horses, instead of one, in this country. The 
one is the thorough-bred running-horse; the otheris the 
thorough-bred trotting-horse. The time has come for horse- 
men to understand this, and no longer be fretted by a clas- 
sification applicable only to a country where the trotting- 
horse is not Known or honored. The English stud-books 
are sufficient for England, where the running-horse embodies 
all excellence; but they are entirely insufficient in this 
country, where the trotting-horse finds his ancestry, his. 
birthplace, and the field of his glory. There is, therefore, | 
A good animal with a good pedigree_ 
in this country a family of horses possessing the very qual- | 
ities for which the English running-horse has so long been | 
noted, and in as great a degree, as the history of their per- | 
formances show, but which are distinguished from the 
English thorough-bred by their style of going; and to this 
family, by every law and rule of justice, the same honora- | 
ble nomenclature should be given.—Hrom Mr. Murray's 
Book on ‘‘The Perfect Horse.” : 

—Dr. Willett in a lecture the other night, told a droll 
story of himself. 
a connoisseur in bird-stuffing, he used to criticise other 
people’s bird-stuffing severely. Walking with a gentleman 
one day, he stopped at a window where a gigantic owl was 
exhibited. ‘‘ You see,” said the doctor to his friend, 
‘‘there is a magnificent bird utterly ruined by unskilful 
stuffing. Notice the mounting! Execrable isn’t it? No 
living owlever roosted in that position. And the eyes are 
fully a third larger than any owl ever possessed.” At this 
moment the stuffed bird raised one foot and solemnly 
blinked at his critic, who said very litile more’about stuffed 
pirds that afternoon. 
<4 -  — 2 
—The woodchuck of New England and the Middle 
States is the eastern representative of the well-known 
prairie dog, and somowhat resembles it, 

He said that at one time, when he was 
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