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results. If your horse gets what the boys call "burnt up " 

 give him a few doses of salts instead of bran, and you will 

 find the result much more satisfactory. I have given a 

 horse thirty doses of salts in as many successive days with 

 good results. Dr. Fair said that if Clingstone did not 

 improve he would change the medicine, but as his condition 

 at once altered for the better we followed this treatment 

 until the race was over. In working Clingstone I gave him 

 very short, sliarj) jogs, stepped him a three-minute gait foi 

 a little way almost everyday, and every three days worked 

 him out a couple of heats close to 2:20 and brushed him the 

 last j)art of the mile as fast as he could go, the result being 

 that every time I drove him I liked him better. 



Eight days before the race I took him to Detroit, and 

 on reaching there about five o'clock in the morning the first 

 man to meet me at the dock was Capt. John DeMass, who 

 had appointed himself a committee of one to receive me. 

 We rode to the track together, and after having Clingstone 

 placed in a comfortable stall I was introduced to the super- 

 intendent, who invited me to go out and inspect the track 

 and see what I thought of its condition. I found the course 

 as near first-class as anything I ever saw, and the superin- 

 tendent one of the few men who knew how to keep it in 

 really superb shape. I think that if track owners knew 

 how many horses are injured by tracks being out of condi- 

 tion they would pay more attention to this matter. They 

 seem to think that any man who can follow a harrow around 

 is good enough to superintend a track, but if they will go 

 and sx)end one day with " Race- track Jack" at Cleveland 

 when he is getting things ready they will learn something 

 that I am sure will be of advantage to them. The next 

 day I gave Clingstone some work, and for the first time was 

 really pleased with him. I drove him a mile in 2:19, the 

 last half in 1:06, which was the best mile I stepped him in 

 his work before the race. From that day I never missed 

 giving him a mile as good as three minutes, never jogged 

 him more than three miles, and walked him but very little. 



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