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through a process of training subsequently 

 designated as the "kindergarten school." 

 This is probably the earliest known case of a 

 filly being trained in this way at an extremely 

 early age. 



In 1869 a man who owned a two-year-old 

 colt and a one-year-old filly put them in the 

 hands of a Chinaman to have them worked at 

 fast trotting, which work extended over two 

 or three years. The owner, speaking after- 

 wards, said: "My horses were not trained, 

 they were butchered." An authority on 

 horse pedigrees and horse history said of 

 this young mare: "She was broken as a 

 yearling by a Chinaman and worked as a 

 two- and three-year-old, when her butchery 

 was completed. Her so called training was 

 one long battle in which the swift and pure- 

 gaited but high-spirited little filly fought to 

 the last gasp." When the process was com- 

 pleted the butchered mare was bred to the 

 butchered stallion and the product was Beau- 

 tiful Bells, first trained and raced, and later 

 the most famous of matrons. 



