. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 82 ©jj* greefraTonfr §p*vt$mat£ [August 6, 1898. SKY POINTER'S DEATH. Captain Merry Writes Entertainingly of Star Pointer's Full Brother. Los Angeles, July 30,1S9S. Editor Breeder and Sportsman.— The death of such a stallion br Sky Pointer, No. P. 324, an own brother to Star Pointer, the only horse with a record below two minutes at either the iagonal or ''side wheel" gaits, is no ordinary mis- fortune. It falls not alone on the enterprising lady to whom this end of the State is indebted for his importation from Middle Tennessee, the cradle of the pacing h
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 82 ©jj* greefraTonfr §p*vt$mat£ [August 6, 1898. SKY POINTER'S DEATH. Captain Merry Writes Entertainingly of Star Pointer's Full Brother. Los Angeles, July 30,1S9S. Editor Breeder and Sportsman.— The death of such a stallion br Sky Pointer, No. P. 324, an own brother to Star Pointer, the only horse with a record below two minutes at either the iagonal or ''side wheel" gaits, is no ordinary mis- fortune. It falls not alone on the enterprising lady to whom this end of the State is indebted for his importation from Middle Tennessee, the cradle of the pacing horse, but on the beeeding public as well. A day or two ago a very belittling paragraph appeared about him in a local paper, and the scribe went out of his way to attack a dead horse that had excited nothing but admiration on the part of every man who has seen him and vas a half-way good judge of a horse. His greatest praise actually came from rival owners. As to his death, the horse had apparently caught cold on the overland journey hither from Oakland, four days pre- viously. The day ride tbrough the San Joaquin Valley had been most intensely hot and the night ride tbrough the Tehachipe range was very cool. It may be that the founda- tion of pneumonia was laid right then and there, but did not develop for several days later. Martenburst was, as we all know, a sound and healthy horse when be left the Rancho del Paso and yet developed lung fever on his arrival at Los Angeles dying a few hours later, This seems like a parallel case! Of one thing there is a certainty. The horse was not over- driven on the day of his fatal illness, for he went only about six miles in a slow jog and came back almost in a walk. Gen. Nick Covarrubias told me he saw the horse when he came in, looking as cool and as quiet as when he went out. In half an hour later he was threshing about his stall in agony and striking the wall with his forefeet, a thing nobody ever saw him do before, for he was the
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