cided he needed a rest and had the heavier foot 

 wear put on. 



While on the subject of weights I will tell 

 of an experience I had at a Southern training 

 camp with a good trotter, owned and driven by 

 a good man and a good trainer. This horse was 

 five years old, had had bad tendons for three 

 years, owing to hard training in his two-year- 

 old form. He had no record, a world of speed, 

 and for three seasons Mr. ''Faithful" had tried 

 to get him to a race, and every time he thought 

 he had him ready he met with disappointment 

 because at the final "rehearsal" the tendons 

 would give w^ay and then he would go through 

 the regular routine of blistering and rest until 

 the next spring. For three years this horse 

 had worn a seven-ounce front shoe and ban- 

 dages and cotton nearly all of the time except- 

 ing when he was blistered, and on the occasion 

 of the last breakdown the much discouraged 

 owner-driver, after a discussion lasting nearly 

 an hour, decided to shoe him heavy, drive him 

 all winter to a runabout over all kinds of roads, 

 cut out all wash and burn the bandages and 

 cotton. When he left the shoeing emporium 

 he carried 24 ounces in rubber and steel on 

 each front foot, and the new treatment was on. 

 Thirty days after that I rode behind him over 

 the brick streets at a 2:15 clip for a short dis- 

 tance. He would jog a 2 140 shot all day nearly, 

 and enjoy it. He never wore a bandage after 

 that, never took a lame step, secured a race 

 record of 2:i2i4: the following year on a half- 

 mile track and 2 '.ogy^ on a mile track the year 

 after, winning a number of long drawn-out 



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