Show SHOEING THE RACERS I A Talk With 3rer7 i A J Pcndlctoii j About the Business i In his peregrinations this afternoon a I across Mr A J DEMOCRAT scribe ran Pendleton Sr whose general knowledge I of horseflesh and especially of the man I should be shod for ner in which racers shoul valuable in opinion I the track makes his their regard to that class of equines and I performances on the turf perormanccs You do most of the shoeing for the I racers do you not inquired the reporter re-porter Mr PI do a good deal of it but am j always willing to bo more j i iiu in I race horses in R Did you shoe any the old times in Utah j i Mr PNot very much as people m I had those days run their horses and we no trotting races and everybody though j 10 trotng better without shoes if that a horse was wIhout you wanted good time out of him RVhere were most of the races run I in those days Mr POer Jordan on the old Faust track RVas there any Derby day no Derby Day in I Mr PThero was particular but the time for the general meet was when the auvoo Legion used the annual three to go over Jordan for lnnual days drill That was the time for r racing The officers of the Legion were arrayed in uniforms brighter than the noonday sun uniorms al that radiant lot there was one who drew more attention than all others This was General A P Hock wood lie looked so military that he was more admired than all others His horse was usually poor but the hollow places were filled up with yellow leather till it looked quite fat The General was a born commander but the trouble was that the boys were not born soldiers This was the cause of the races You see the cavalry in parading up and down and around would occasionally scare up a wolf or a fox when a freeforall goas youplease race began I was useless to try and stop the boys and make them reform re-form into line for there was something of far more importance on hand than preparing pre-paring to defend the t country and the boys absolutely refused to obey the I orders 1 HThere are no such races nowadays I nowa-days are there Mr PNo but I have just sent away some horses which go in the races this I month RWhat were they Mr PMr Walkers Countryman Grey George and Ethel Mr Travis Tommy Dodd Mr Richards stallion L C Lee Mr Glanfields Blue Dick and Birds Eye Oretron Short Line Mr Arm strongs Cromwell Jr Alex Grautt runner Davy Andalo Mr Vm Groes becks bay fillcy and a number more too many in fact for you to remember RAre the entries to the races almost fullMr Mr PI think that almost all the races are full and only this morning there were six new entries nVho docs most of what may be termed your fancy shoeing Mr Pfy son Andrew lie shod Wid moor Ordnance Red Boy and some other famous runners that were here in the summer of 82 There are a number of others with me who will make first class shoers vet HDo you charge more for shoeing racehorses than other Mr PYes Why UI just wanted to know Just one question more Do you do any shoeing for nothin Mr 2No We quit that last Saturday day night and are very sorry as we would have liked to accommodate you Guess we could give you a rate though day nNo rates for me thank YOti Good |