HORSES AND THEIR FRIENDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 10

HORSES AND THEIR FRIENDS.

A racing friend ha s been tolling ire J (the "Carpenter" says in the Daily Express), some facts about the friendships of horses. The Derby winner, Spearmint, refused to be boxed v.-i'hout a black cat, and at Cheltenham last week my friend saw the notable Lurdler Vermouth walking up to the course in the company of an ordinary looki lg goat. Vermouth is very nervous and excitable, and the goat always travels by train or road with him. "Vwnont has recently won two £1000 1.-rt;dicaps. Before the goat's purchase he was a rotable failure. Mr Ernest Tanner, vho has just returned from the Argentine, mentioned the case of another strange pet to my informant. The handicap winner, Chili 11., was sent last summer to South America wjth Craa;ar:our. Resenting the company of such a terrible "Jonah,?' Chili became incorrigible, and refused to eat. A little lamb was introduced into his box as a regular companion, and the horse at once r. ended his ways and became tractable—quite lamb-like, in fact, ated.