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Show WHY HORSES WEAR HOPPLES YyiLLIAM L, SNOW, the celebrated trainer of pacers, although he uses hopples on his chargea wher necessary neces-sary to accelerate their speed, would be In favor of discontinuing the homely home-ly impediments If tho light harness powers so decreed. In discussing this subject with a party of Detroit horsemen tho other day Trainer Snow confessed that ho had had great luck with hoppled pacers, but that he know that tho objections ob-jections mado to tho fetters wcro well takon. "Ed Geers and Lon -.IcDonald will not fuss with this artificial means to Increase a pacer's speed, whllo Murphy Mur-phy and Cox have always had wondrous won-drous success with tho hopples," observed ob-served Mr. Snow. "As a result we who U3e them have returned many winners through their attachment, and hence will continue to Indulge In them so long as It Is permissible. "My candidate for the Chamber of Commerce, Gamo Maid, can go nearly as fast without hopples as with thorn simply because she was taught to use them when sho started out upon her turf career. Without hopples Darky Hal, 2 02&. would bo unable to negotiate ne-gotiate a milo in 2:24, and I doubt xf The Eel could cope with a lot of tho wigglers in the second fiight if his fetters fet-ters were removed "Last year the Society For tho Prevention Pre-vention of Cruelty to Animals called upon mo in Cleveland for my opinion as to whether hopplles hurt a horse that wore them In the slightest degree. I answered that I didn't bellevo that they did if tho fetters were adjusted properly. On the contrary I believed that the horse that waa accustomed to them felt moro comfortablo with them than without them "Those horses, therefore, that have worn hopples since thoy have been on tho turf will not travel fast without them. In fact, those animals would sprawl all over themselves In a race if tho Impediments were removed." Tho fact that the American and National Na-tional Trotting Horso associations havo declared against the hopplo would Indicate that in the course of time this ungainly rigging will be abolished by mutual consent. Trainer Snow opined that all the trainers using us-ing the things now would most graco-fully graco-fully abide by tho popular verdict |