Teller County CO Archives Obituaries.....Rainey, Mike March 5, 1898
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Cripple Creek Morning Times
Morning Times (Cripple Creek, El Paso Co.) Mar 6, 1898, page 1
DANDY MIKE DEAD
One of the Most Noted Hors Trainers of the West Passed Away.
Mike Rainey, known all over the West as “Dandy Mike,” the horse trainer, died 
yesterday at his room in the Colorado Springs house on Bennett avenue, of an 
acute attack of pneumonia.
He had taken the room late at night, and failed to appear in the morning.  When 
found he was far on the road down the dark valley, and medical aid was of no 
avail.  He died near noon.
Little is known of his relatives.  Old friends say he came from Northern 
Indiana, Elkhart or some neighboring town.  The body is being held at Fairley & 
Lampman’s.
Rainey was one of the most successful horse trainers in the United States.  It 
was his boast, well made, and which he could carry out, that he could break and 
train any horse in two weeks time, and the most vicious of animals have been 
brought before him at different times, with the result that he always kept his 
word.  He did what few men could do with a horse, and he did what no other man 
was able to do – that is to make any horse, no matter how unruly, travel in 
every gait known, within a distance of fifty feet, and that, too, without so 
much as touching the bridle.
To him, the exhibition of a horse he had trained was a personal pride, and it 
was his delight to take the animal upon the streets and practice for hours at a 
time, while the streets were lined with spectators, who would applaud every 
movement of the animal he rode.  His experience was wide and varied, and in his 
career he broke and trained horses now famous on the race tracks of the country.
The most vicious horse in his hands, was the gentlest and truest, and as a 
rider he had few equals in the United States.  He has been in all the principal 
cities of the West.  A few years ago he took a string of horses to Ogden, Utah, 
exhibited them one by one on the streets of the town and in a fortnight sold 
every one of them.


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