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Show FOR HORSE LOVERS. . Salt Lake City has a great many lovers of good horses, and there are a number of very good horses here too. At present the prospects are that there will be some sleighing very soon. Any one acquainted at all with horses knows that they are more used in sleighing time than at, any other sea6onr- and they also know that there is no season of the year when the roads are so trying on a horse's legs as when there is 6leighing. When one is out with a good hor3e and the air is bracing and the merry sleigh bells arc jingling, ve -kuow. that - it takes a wonderful self-control not to let the old grey mare "out," if for no other reason than to show a friend and neighbor of what mettle she is made. The speed at which she is then put tries her legs more than a week's hard driving would do in the summer. No matter how sharp shod an animal may be, there is more or less slipping on hard snow, and the strain upon which an animal puts itself all the time on a hard snow road to prevent a fall or wrench is tremendous. All these i things should be remembered, . and ! the result of such remembrance should be .to have a greater care and consideration for the horses. Only a few days ago Robert Bonner, in conversation with a reporter of the New York Sun , said : '. . , . - And then, too,' yon can't be too careful in exercising; and driving horsfts at this season of the year. Thev should be taken outwith-out outwith-out fail when the weather permits, but be very careful. If you speed your horse in the face of a cold wind, all that cold air pouring into his lungs is likely to injure him very much, and give him lung fever. And when it is fine you can't be too careful about the surface on which your horse is trotting. I wouldn't for $10,000 let Maud S. go out arid fly for half a mile at top speed on the hard roads of Central Park, and yet lots of men send their best stock flying over such roads daily. What Robert Bonner says on the subject sub-ject is worth remembering, and if remembered remem-bered and acted upon, many good horses will be saved much suffering, and they will last much longer and be much pleas-anter pleas-anter to use. The man who will ill-treat a good horse, whether it is his own or .some one else's, deserves to walk all his days and spend a year in jail besides. This is the season of the year when horses need most care and are liable to be" most abused, and so let all who own or use horses remember to be' extra careful of them now. |