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Show NOT ALLOWED IN STABLES Dogs No Longer Considered Good Companions for Fast Trotters, Dogs aro no longer tho correct thins as stable companions of horses. Soma 'years ago every trotter or pacer of prominence, and a good many of nc distinction, hnd a faithful dog In Its stall, and there was a sort of Superstition Super-stition among trainers that a doglcss horse would not amount to much, Ileal champions always had dogs, says .tho Cleveland Plain Dealer, , 'Way back In the days of Goldsmith '.Maid, that wonderful mare wns accompanied ac-companied on her trnvels by a small Scotch terrier, for which the old mare had some affection .nltboiigh she was Jealous of tho beast, and when "Old Charlie," who took care of the mnrr and slept In the sthl with her nnd the dog, mndo too much of tho terrier, the mnro would run the dog out of the place without ceremony. And when flnnlly the dog disappeared for good the maro did not seem to miss It. Cats take nnturally to horses, ami most horses like cats. The Godolphln Arabian, founder of the English thor oiighbrcd family of to-day. that llgurei In Eugene Sue's works ns the noblest animal of his kind, hod for compnn Ion a cat that slept on the stalllon't back and fed from his manger. Utr n tho necessities of modem campaign lng cats aro too apt to be lost to mal them available for horso companions and few are seen, although now nnc then one turns up nt a minor meeting fit Cleveland a couple of summer! ago, one trainer hnd four tamo doves that could not be Induced to leavo lilt horses and that when tho stablo movei from ono town to another were alwayi ready to go Into their cago for ship tnent. Some trainers object to having dogt with the horses. Peter V. Johnston who has brought out somo of tho best nags on tho hnrncss turf, says no dogi In his. Ho had one along somo yean ago and It made friends with the lies horso In the string. Ono day the trot ter accidentally stepped on the dog'i toes while moving about tho stall whereat tho cur snapped back ami nearly severed a hind tendon for the trotter, ruining a $10,000 racing prop osltlon In nn Instant. John Turner never had a dog alona In nil tho years ho campaigned trotters. trot-ters. Also ho steered clear of black horses. Not any sablo nags In Turner's Turn-er's barn after ono year of terrifying experience. He had always known they wore bad luck, but that season a patron bought BInck Frank, a trotter trot-ter that looked llko the real thing Ho went lnmo beforo ho had been In tho barn a day, and then misfortunes followed ono another until finally. Nettle, Net-tle, tho best trotting race maro of that day, lay down and died. Turner Is now with tho runners, but his antipathy antip-athy to black horses is still rampant |