. Breeder and sportsman . ndid spring water is at every hand,my paddocks at the course are in keeping with the general to may lie seen by the change in medical practice to vears ago a person having a fever of any kind orpneumonia was allowed but little water to drink, and then ithad to be tepid. To-day practitioners prescribe all the ice Iwater the patient can possibly drink, and in addition coldbandages are applied to reduce and control the temperatureof the blood. What is applicable to man will never injure ahorse, tse common sense and human feeling. Dont thinkit is a horse, and c
. Breeder and sportsman . ndid spring water is at every hand,my paddocks at the course are in keeping with the general to may lie seen by the change in medical practice to vears ago a person having a fever of any kind orpneumonia was allowed but little water to drink, and then ithad to be tepid. To-day practitioners prescribe all the ice Iwater the patient can possibly drink, and in addition coldbandages are applied to reduce and control the temperatureof the blood. What is applicable to man will never injure ahorse, tse common sense and human feeling. Dont thinkit is a horse, and capable of enduring any and all things. Adriver who sits in his wagon and lashes his worn-out, half-curried, half-fed and half-watered team shonld never complainof anv abuse he may receive from his master or employer, forhe is lower in character, harder in sympathy and less noblethan the brutes he is driving, and deserves, in the name of allthat is human, the same punishment as a criminal. Duties and Powers of the THE STOCKTON TRACK. This very important subject, the duties and powers of thestarter, has been commanding the attention of the best meninterested in the trotting horse C. A. AVillis, of New York, has. afterstudying the views of a large number ofprominent breeders, secretaries, trainersand drivers, summed up his own conclu-sions as follows: First. He (the starter) should havecomplete control of the race or races sofar as the calling of the horse, for theheat; of entirely directing the move-ments of the horses on the track up tothe time he gives the word go. andshould be empowered by rule to punishby tiiK-. or by any ntber punishment tie-scribed in the rtde, any driver who breaksany rule which applies before the word•? go is given. After the word go isgiven his powers and duties should be co-equal of the powers and duties of histwo associate judges, and, regarding allthin?- happening during the contest afterthe word is given, the judgment of them
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