IV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



How to train the trotter and keep him ia good fettle — His mouth the first thing 

 to be looked after — An experience ■with Fanny Witherspoon — Don't pull a 

 horse, and he will not pull you — Overfeeding and is consequences — Give 

 water at all times — The groom must be neat in appearance and not a drink- 

 ing man — Too many blankets a bad idea — Some points about boots — The 

 use of pads and sponges — Mambrino Sparkle's bad feet, and the great races 

 she trotted — Why clipping is beneficial — Work in the early spring — Teach- 

 ing trotters to score well — Sulkies, road-carts, timing-watches, etc. 298 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Work a horse with the watch, but don't try to make him beat it — Doble and 

 Goldsmith Maid — The pacer Johnston never worked out at top speed — 

 One speeding each week is ordinarily sufficient — Preparations for a race — 

 Deportment on the track — How to talk to the judges — Laying up heats an 

 important matter — How to drive after the word is given — A case of bad 

 judgment in a postponed race — Shipping horses from point to point — The 

 training and management of trotting stallions 324 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Calmar, a horse that needed only proper shoeing to improve his record eight 

 seconds and make him win good races — His gallant fight with Woodford 

 Chief at Cincinnati — A kind word for George A. Baker, once a promi- 

 nent figure on the trotting turf — How Lady De Jarnette was given a fast 

 record by changing her check- rein — Hints to owners of horses — AVilson's 

 race in which he went a mile in 2:16J-, and the mistakes that caused him to 

 be defeated — Sufiicient preparation is what makes good campaigners, while 

 lack of work results disastrously — Fred Folger's career an illustration of 

 this — Why Budd Doble put tips on Jack the day before the $10,000 race at 

 Rochester — The peculiar manner in which Wolford's Z. was shod and how 

 it improved him — The pacer Argyle, and the trotter Colonel Lewis — Trot- 

 ters affected in a marked degree by changes of climate — Little Gypsy's 

 great race at Cleveland — Pen sketckes of noted characters on the trotting 

 turf .... 350 



CHAPTER XV. 



The trotting interest one that extends throughout the lanil and is growing every 

 year— Famous road riders of New York City and elsewhere — Commodore 

 Vanderbilt's present to his spiritual adviser — Robert Bonner and his sons, 

 the Rockefellers, Mr. Frank Work, and others— Men in other cities who 

 love the trotter for the pleasure and health they derive from driving — Some 



