you hear this one?
from Dec 14, 1938 Harness Horse:
Get Up! Get Up!
Wayne Groves who was one of the officials at the Toledo, O., Meeting last June, had an excuse handed him for the withdrawal of a horse which had already been declared in to start on the second day. As all will remember who were at the Fort Miami plant, a veritable deluge fell on Saturday and Sunday, preceding the opening, and in order to remove the water from the track, the tiles being blocked in places, pumps were brought into use and the surplus forced into the pond in one end of the center-field. The amphibia in the pond, and they were numberless, evidently celebrating the increased size of their habitat, put on some unusually loud nocturnal concerts, as early on Tuesday a trainer dropped into the office and said, "Mr. Groves I'll have to withdraw my horse from this evening's card as he is in no condition to start." "Nothing as serious as a broken leg, is it?" queried Wayne, "No," was the reply, "but those bull-frogs in the pond over near where I am stabled kept continually shouting all night, Get up! Get up! Get up! and my horse kept constantly circling the stall until daylight, never getting any rest. This morning he looks as gaunt and tired as though he had just finished a hard race." "Well, brother," said the smiling and obliging Wayne, "That is a new one for the Book and your originality deserves to be rewarded and your good trotter a chance to catch up on his sleep, so I will see that his name is withdrawn from the score card."
