LIFE WITH THE TROTTEKS. 89 



to hustle a. liorse around in 2:14 as anyone he knew. AYlien 

 we arrived at San Francisco, and got ready to train the 

 horses, I said to Mr Doble again that I woukl consider it a 

 favor if he would give me his ideas about training that par- 

 ticular horse. I have always been a believer in giving every 

 man credit for what I thought was his due, and for that 

 reason I wish to state here that Mr. Doble taught me many 

 things about training horses that other peox)le might have 

 known about, })ut which, up to that time, had never entered 

 m}^ head. He was one of the first men that ever taught me 

 the danger of overfeeding a liorse. Rarus was, without 

 exception, the greatest feeder I ever saw. I held at that 

 time what I have since considered a mistaken idea, that it 

 was proper to give a horse all he wanted to eat in the way 

 of grain, etc. 



Another thing that Budd taught me was that a horse 

 could be put in condition with a great deal less fast work 

 than I had at that time sux)i)Osed possible. His idea was to 

 give them plenty of what we call three-quarter speed, with 

 longer work from a mile to a mile and-a-half and tAvo-mile 

 heats, never under any consideration giving them what 

 some of the boys term ' ' reefing. ' ' He advised me a good 

 deal about the shoeing of Rarus, and about this time some- 

 thing happened to that horse that 1 never saw in any other. 

 He had a quarter-crack in one of his hind feet. When I 

 saw that, I thought the Jig was up for the present. Budd 

 told me that the Maid once had such a foot, and that he 

 could fix the wound so that I could work Rarus without 

 any trouble. We took him to the shop and had him shod 

 with a bar-shoe on the affected foot. Then we took a saw' 

 and sawed the bearing out underneath and had the fo(<t 

 sewed in a canvas bandage with some balsam of fir. I kei)t 

 him at work, seeing that the foot was always clean, and re- 

 newing the bandage occasionally, and I never saw any plan 

 work better. For the first thirty days I gave Rarus no work 

 better than 2:25. The Californians who came out with their 

 watches eveiy morning to see him go became rather dis- 



