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/ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1952

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"A Colt Has Wobbled Into

By JOHN V. WILSON UNKNOWN to the thousands. who will cheer his name, a future champion was born in Indiana last week.

His now spindly legs will stride around the nation's’ trottinghorse tracks in two or three years, if he lives up®to his eminent heritage. y > A straw-heaped stall at. Two Gaits Farm, near Carmel, was hig birthplace. The well-formed # solt literally. entered the harness racing world feet first. The foaling ‘took place in the glare of a spotlight on stormy Monday night. Within 80 seconds the quivering colt lay’ beside his mother in the soft straw. The 8-year-old bay mare, Bertina Hanover, nuzzled her off-

spring, licking his damp, brown,

coat. The colt was all legs, large

; eyes and head, » »

8 “THAT'S a good looking colt,”

learn how to walk, they can't get over it, and are really frisky. “Some colts have better bal. ance at first than he has, but he’s doing pretty well,” he went on. “We'll let him out in the field tomorrow, and you wouldn't know it was the same colt.” While waiting for the colt to

sald Leo C. McNamara Jr. one master his first lesson, Leo, a 25 of nine sons of the Two Gaits’ year-old Notre Dame graduate, owner. Although the foal had told about the overdue birth. He heen expected since Apr. 21, Leo sald the farm once had a mare had reached the white barn with that went a month and six or

but moments to spare. “I'll betcha that colt will weigh a hundred pounds or better, maybe 125" commented Dr. J. H. Mills, a Russiaville veterinarian, who had arrived later on another mission, The mare's repeated licking of the colt, Dr. Mills explained, was the instinctive display of affection and also helped increase the baby’s circulation and removed

geven days beyond the normal 11month gestation period. n ” ”

COLTS, he explained, are foaled without teeth, as the average human baby. But the teeth begin to pop out quickly, in three or four weeks. After the colts are weaned {in October, they are put on a diet (of oats, alfalfa hay and minerals. { About the same time, nearly all

Ithe farm's colts are sold at the

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named until this fall, He is the! 57th of an expected crop of 89 foals this spring at Two Gaits.! The 680-acre Hoosier farm is con-| sidered one of the outstanding! nurseries in the nation. i A surprising statistic is the high mortality rate among standard breds, as the harness breed is known. Even with the best of care of brood mares, about one in 15 foals die at birth. ~ ~ » “YOU OUGHT to be here when we got five or six foals coming at once,” Charlie, the night watch-| man, noted, “It keeps you pretty! busy then.” As he spoke, the newborn colt raised himself to his feet with! more assurance. He moved a few.

the dampness. o } ; ; i “See the pads on the bottom of Yearling auction at - Lexington, . it's training will be intensified performer, who. won the 1946/Steps toward his mother and be-|

his feet?” Dr. Mills pointed out,(KY: The average price last year ror nis first race. Hambletonian, the Kentucky 8an nursing. “They're nature's protection so Wa A em keep a colt our Derby of the trotting sport. i Only an hour before, he had & __the sharp hooves won't injure the A t€ep A coll = | i Berting Deen foaled. Now the .colt had! mare They'll all come in soon.” |SeIves. Our purpose 18 to produce best colts begin to lower their Althaugn Jia... fly, SLA seed the first test. In Charlie's § © ' ? {colts for the market,” Leo said. mile times to 2 minutes, the mark | Hanover, never raced, she is a words, he was truly “on his own.” |

" 4 u IN THE THIRD year the very

rise, but the y a feptative Stalt to arise, but : A colts training begins with] Two Gaits’ new colt is a good performers this year. Last’ year,| weak limbs folded. The mare gavel 1 him a nip on the leg. {the new owner. In easy steps he/bet to attain this record as indi-|Colby sired 40 per cent of the) {is broken to harness, then hitched|cated by his blood lines. He was|{2:05 2-year-olds. a

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“ “AloNE,” "édmmanded | ora, I ue toa night 10 a jog cart. As a 2-year-old, the/sired by Chestertown, a 2:002/5' The new colt will remain ball watchman, who, with Mike Mc-| Kinzie, supervisor of brood me One § o ® : had assisted the foaling. “He'll K I d | C t | 5 t get up directly.” | ' naiana entra ers an re and ; Charlie, topo, seemed eager to Near ‘ [= ; get the colt on his feet. He un- é Wounded G .. * p | iy folded the long front legs, then t | ‘ i grabbed the youngster's tail and fl py K ra ud ion rogram - Se I holsted him upright. All four oreda The 47th Commencement at 11 a. m. Sunday, June 8, in The S 1 S It | (Novi legd sagged. a | A Hoosler GI, missing 18/Indiana Centtal College will begin University Heights Church. The wim ul ‘Can't make ’er yet,” Charlie =... : Rev. Clinton M. Marsh, pastor sald. “Lots of times if they don't|0Nths, was reported killed in|with a senior Candle Lighting Witherspoon United Presbyteri ’ RES et up. we help them to get on|KOTed in the latest casualty re- Service at The University Heights po an Made Just for Y. 2 : — TRI] 1 seeenees uh A $ Dep & {lease from the Defense Depart- Church Sunday, June 1 Church, will deliver the Sermon. ust ror Tou : R ow 2 vet. . : > At 5 p. m. diplomas will be dis- tiraveve After the colt had rested,ment. bar eriowing Satuay Dai tributed after an address by the] Select Yours Today N TERMS; : Charlie, a rotund man in work| Six other Indiana fighting men ten designate Winn y. Hon, Theodore R. McKeldin, gov- {} OPEN FRIDAY TIL 8 FREE PARKING GALORE 10th at Arlington

clothes and an Admiral Halsey were listed as wounded. 10 4. mi reunions of te grad Total as

’ » Tr . cap, rearranged the forelegs. And KILLED ope Be Mei 2 1 = . HOE Naryiand: ee ois ar ams hy ns aor eit, A nasi’ que wii 112000 Gother Here Charlie managed to boost the Pfc. Joe H. Ogburn, son of Mrs.Iplayed at 2 p. m, followed by a| More than 2000 members, colt in standing position, Jannie Ogburn, Muncie. Philalethean Tea at 4 p. m. in|guests and exhibitors are expected rr WOUNDED the home of Mrs, I. J. Good, 4202|to attend the 72d annual conven-| The colt swayed unsteadily, his| Army Otterbein Ave. A Smorgasbord tion of the Indiana Funeral Di-| rear legs spread wide apart for Dinner, business meeting and rectors Association at the Indi-|

balance. The helpers removed a ae ba lores, son of ur. Senior Class Play fills out the ana State Fair Grounds next, their hands and the colt was afoot! ro po 8 ' a day. duceate 6 or Vidk begin atl aesday, Thursday and ry Jw)f an our after birth, »| Pfc. Robert J. Kopf, son of Mrs. DO a YOU Own now, boy," |; ena Kopt, Lafayette , . 3

Charlie advised him, With "a thud the colt hit the| CPL Alden E. Thornberry, son

board wall and fell on his side in|0f Mr. and Mrs, Ruel HE. Thornthe straw. |berry, Coatesville.

“It doesn’t take but a few spills Marines » like that and they'll soon learn| Cpl. Jay W. Doncaster, son of to stand.” Leo said. “After they Mr. and Mrs. John W. Doncaster, @ e000 000 0 o eo Elkhart. NN oll ®| Cpl. George R. Hedger, son of . *M-E ROTARY TILLERS e Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Hedger, ®, +. More for Your Money (Columb .othen Any Other Tiller] otumbus. = ‘ " v—- g E * IF Sgt. Robert D. McHenry, son| J - . a » ; ® of Mr. and Mrs. Rex R. McHenry,| ['B& a — — Tr (Ag

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