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hundred and fifty dollars. A well built fifty or fifty-five 



pouna sulky, will carry you around any turn at any rate 



of speed if you know how to sit in it, with perfect safety, 



and will tear down any ordinary buggy if you shuld run 



into it. These well built sulkies may bend, but very 



larely break, so patronize a builder of known reputation. 



You want plenty of sheets, woolen and linen. Your 



woolen blankets which are not in use will come in play 



to hang on lines around the stalls to keep the air from 



blowing through the cracks in the stable, as at some 



places you can throw a cat through the cracks. Take 



plenty of rubbers, a couple of lanterns, curry combs, 



brushes, sponges, pails, foot tub, foot picks, boots, 



bandages, and hooks with screw eye and screw staples, 



are very handy to put on doors while you stay, and when 



you pack up take them away again. You want an oat 



seive and a two quart measure, a Marine clock with an 



alarm, a half gallon of leg wash of some kind, Castile 



soap, hammer or hatchet, foot rasp, a pair of pinchers and 



small saw. You can have a chest or large trunk that 



you can pack all these things into except the foot tub. 



You will need all the articles I have enumerated and 



many more, and it is not a convenient place to borrow 



things at a race track. A couple of camp stools and a 



hammock are articles of convenience and don't take up 



much room. But the most important thing I have 



omitted, and that is money enough to carry you as far as 



you want to go, if you don't win a cent. It contributes 



so largely to a man's peace of mind, and is, I believe, a 



powerful nervine, and will assist you immensely by its 



influence when you get up to drive the race. You will 



meet the gang when you get there, probably, or some of 



them ; they will size you up right away as a "tender foot," 



let them enjoy their convictions, and talk about anything 



but your horses and what you know about the business, 



they will find out all you want them to know, without 



you informing them. After getting located to suit you, 



get plenty of straw, and if your stall has no board or plank 



floor get some boards and put down before you make up 



