Show to trotting A w well ell 1 known santa banta rosa horseman has a scheme for trotting horses which promises to beat the scoot track all to pieces as an important factor in aiding a horse to obtain a fast record he is planning a sulky that will not only ruu run itself but will push the horse hors 0 along a 3 bit too he says it is to be built on the plan of the watch it will have big coil springs to drive the wheels and he contends that it will revolutionize trotting right eight under the drivers seat tho the springs will be located and it is his intention to have things so nicely adjusted that when he wishes to go a gait all h he 0 will have to do is to set it at the figure and it will do the ret rest when wound up the sulky will run one mile and a half A very clever feature of 0 the sulky is the self winding apparatus by simply touching a little spring near his stirrup the driver can make the tha wheels wind up the spring and by a hand device he can throw them out of gear when the indicator tells him that the spring has been wound up to the proper tension thus in scoring whatever power is ia lost loat can be regained and it is so arranged banged that the power can be turned on at will by the driver the tha gent gentleman lern an claims everything for this invention ven tion he says it will transform the slowest scrub into a world beater and make a three minute horse able to go a 2 record the inventor apparently had nothing green in his eyes when he was talking about his wonderful sulky but time and developments will tell whether he has been indulging in too many air castles or not santa rosa republican |