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Show Champion Trotting Horse Bolts Track to Eat Grass An inordinate appetite for fresh grass Is the reason for the wearing of blinkers by Urunie, France's champion cham-pion trotting mare and about the only trotter In Europe which can turn In around two minutes for the mile. The possessor of n kindly temper, the mare, cairn and cool at the post, never shies or breaks during a race and horsemen were inquiring of Trainer Train-er CapovIIla why he found it necessary neces-sary to put blinkers on her. "So that she won't run out If she sees a grass patch alongside the track," Capovilla replied. "She pulled that stunt on me once In Brussels when as a three-year-old and leading her field by 20 yards, she suddenly halted and bolted Into the landscape." He explained that Uranle was allowed al-lowed to roam at large in the fields near Bordeaux until she was nearly three years old and she could never get out of the habit of nibbling a few blades of grass, regardless of time, place or conditions. |