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When the bell tapped she trembled in her eagerness 

 to get into the fray but jogged to the wire without 

 a ripple as soon as Doble was in the sulky. 



Nancv Hanks was another trotter in which class 

 was very conspicuous. She raced every horse that 

 took the word with her into submission and never 

 lost but one heat. Her legs bothered her near the 

 end of her career. Some nights she would roll over 

 in the stall and stick her feet into the air to reduce 

 the circulation in them but all was forgotten when 

 she appeared on the track. 



A few define class in a race horse as the ability to 

 go on and race in any company at any distance. Sam- 

 ples of this was seen in Cresceus, Star Pointer and 

 Mary Putney, neither of which knew where the wire 

 was and had to be pulled up at the finish of a heat. 



Harry Wilkes, while a very ordinary bred horse 

 on his dam's side, had as much class as any trotter 

 of his day. He started the reputation of his family 

 w^hich still reigns supreme through the descendants 

 of Axworthy. His defeat by Jack at Lexington in 

 1889 also marked the first flash of that quality in 

 the line that subsequently contributed Peter the 

 Great and his descendants. 



TRAINING METHODS 



Every trainer has his own method of training colts 

 as well as keeping aged horses in condition for their 

 next campaign. Some depend on brushes at the end 

 of slow miles while others send them over the route 



