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had liis feed reduced, and postponed his training indefi- 

 nitely. 



This treatment we followed for about three weeks, and 

 when the acute heat and fever had been entirely removed, I 

 found, close to his ankle, a small enlargement that had never 

 been there before, and which was the cause of a good deal 

 of the trouble. Of course, I had no idea whether he would 

 stand campaigning again or not. I gave him a few days' 

 moderate jogging, and then shii^ped him East, stopping on 

 my way at several places to trot my other horses. Rarus's 

 leg seemed to improve, and he showed no lameness. I think 

 it is a true saying that misfortunes never come singly, and 

 the truth of this was illustrated to me in this particular 

 case. I went to Rarus' s stable one morning, and found him 

 the lamest horse forward I ever saw, and apparently in great 

 pain. I examined his foot carefully, and found nothing to 

 indicate where the lameness was. I was sure it was in the 

 foot, and commenced to treat him with hot water and hot 

 poultices, which I kept up for about forty-eight hours. His 

 foot gathered and broke near the coronet; the wall sei^arated 

 on the right side of the foot, and we were obliged to cut away 

 a great portion of the wall, and leave the live i^art ex^^osed. 

 I had a compress made with a strap and buckles, and x)ut 

 that on him whenever I worked or jogged him. It looked to 

 me at that time as though he w^ould not be trained again that 

 year. I jogged him along very moderately. Previous to 

 this I had made an arrangement to trot Rarus against 

 Hopeful over the Chicago track July 24. When I arrived 

 at Chicago, I immediately went and stated the facts of the 

 case to Col. John W. Conley, the manager of the track, 

 telling him that I had not the slightest idea that Earns 

 would be tit to start in any race that year. He said to me: 

 " Let the matter stand just as it is, and on the first of July 

 you let me know what the prosj)ects are, and if you then 

 say he will not be fit to start, I will arrange for some other 

 attraction. This race grew out of a newspaper talk of the 

 year previous about Hopeful and Rarus, and the Chicago 



