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Tomorrow the last eighteen horses stationed with the Harvard Regiment will leave for Maynard, Mass., to the MP detachment stationed there. They will be ridden there by cadets with riding passes. The first group of twenty-eight departed for the remount station, Fort Royal, Virginia, last Monday...
Some quickly offered their pets to the U.S. Remount Service. Others, willing to take a chance and lucky enough to get stall space, had their horses vanned to Mexico's Agua Caliente, 150 miles away, where racing is permitted on Sundays only. But many itinerant horsemen will be compelled to apply to the California Turf Foundation for financial aid in order to pasture their horses until the opening of the East's spring season...
Nearest thing to an oldtime cavalry post is a Remount depot. There ex-cavalrymen who have a way with horses "gentle break" Army mounts in 120 days, without rodeo roughstuff. Veterinarians supervise horse conditioning and treat their patients for all manner of ailments, sometimes working on them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready...
...should be. Remount is bossed by an ex-cavalryman, tall, tweedy Colonel Edwin Noel Hardy of Tennessee. Devout horseman, he glories in the 14,000 foals a year that Remount stallions are siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...
...Remount does not have to worry about the breed of the hybrid mule ("no pride of ancestry, no hope of posterity"). It finds the usual breeds good enough, buys the best in sight...