Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-07 | Page 34 | Good and Plenty Makes Great Record in Hurdling

GOOD AND PLENTY MAKES GREAT RECORD IN HURDLING Good and Plenty, tho greatest stcople-chano stcople-chano horse ever developed In thin couni try or perhaps any othor, won hln flrut sixteen successive races over fencco, and throughout his entire enrcor never ro-fusocl ro-fusocl or fell. He was. of course, a horse of great Intelligence and courage to olart with, but It was tho education which he received 'from his owner, Thomae Hitchcock, Jr., which made this extraordinary extraor-dinary record possible. Mr. Hitchcock believes that good horses can bo mado to be safe conveyance! over any country. One of his own records Is as Interesting In Its way no wna that of Good and Plenty. Three years ago he hunted an entire winter In HI5I1 Leicestershire and never had a horse fall with him over a fence, and this In spite of tho fact that he was one of the hardest going men over seen In that country. Ono fenco that ho Jumped In tho Cottcnmore torrl-lory torrl-lory proved to bo tho biggest, obstacle negotiated successfully In many vears II. consisted of an ox rail, a ditch olghl foet. deep, and about twelve feet wldo, an uncut un-cut hedgo on tho far sldo of tho ditch, another smaller ditch and still nnothor ox rail beyond that. Tho distance between tho two rall3 measured nineteen feet, and between tho last footprints of tho takeoff take-off side and the marks that tho Irish mare made upon landing beyond the far rail was a npaco of thirty-two feet.