People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Sings While Breaking Colts. [ARTICLE]

Sings While Breaking Colts.

The man who can sing “Rock of Ages” while training a bucking colt who is almost jerking his head off must be well-nigh a saint, but Samuel Richards, the veteran horse trainer of Hampden park, does this regularly. He drives a great deal in West Springfield and soothes his new and nervous colts by singing Gospel hymns. He rarely loses his temper, and forty years’ experience has. taught him that “the confidence of a horse in his driver is a great deal better than his sea».” — Springfield Republican.