Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-24 | Page 18 | Life of Average Race Horse Short

LIFE OF AVERAGE RACE HORSE SHORT What is tho average life of a race horwe? The q u o ry n r oa r when Cn p t a i n H. Tj. Bell rl'!ar(-fl that the track herald whlcfi led the parade to the post at the recent Ht'lmont park meeting was none other than Monroe Prx'trlm, a chew t nut that raed in the east more than thirty years ao and is now 3G yours old. Any hor.se which attains an :i?c preater than 20 la something of a curiosity, hut a one-time racer a till very nntfh active at 3f years wo though!, doacrving of more than passing pass-ing mention. Monroe 1 'octrine never was a champion, hut he had quite a wood record, writes Daniel In tlie New York Sun. II o made hi debut aa a two-year-old at the famous Iron Hill. Though an equine Methuselah, Monroe Doctrine still is e;irnln his feed, for Captain Hell usijs him to train hounds. And, let it ho salil, tho old fellow looks fine and spry. The average racing life of a thorouRh-hred thorouRh-hred is even shorter than the major league career of the average hasehall player. Take Roamer, for example. Tfere we have a champion who, only last summer, sum-mer, had enough sped to set a new world's TV-cord for a mile. Yet at the ne of S years he r-yms rendy to be retlrerl. 're he not a welding, there is 1JUI douht that Itoamer woud have been pent to the stud last full. Wr remember tlie usf. of llupuenot, which was raced for six yrarK. then snt to the si ud for four ynrs, then gelded nnd drammed out as;;in tu the track. One f ino a f I'tiioiim Huguenot dropjted dead on the tnu-k at the awe of l (. There :ue quite ;t number of awed run-I run-I n epH f-t i!I goi ntf st ron g. A mung them is j Housemaid, the Mroomstlck ma rd tlia t I won ho handily at HeJmout park on Deeo-;r:iiion Deeo-;r:iiion fl;iy. Site won the Fashion al Jiel-1 Jiel-1 irioiit as a two-year-old in L'J 10.