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legs are, how good his wind is, how well you train and care 

 for him, you may rest assured of one thing, and that is : If 

 his nervous organization is weak or impaired from any cause, 

 you will be unable to get him in the pink of condition or to 

 get anything like his best efforts in the race. If such is the 

 fact, and I am positive it is, then the nervous organization 

 of the horse is one of the principal x^oints to be looked after 

 in training him. One other point I want to thank Dr. Herr 

 for, and that was the advice he gave me in regard to the 

 horse' s stomach. His plan was that if the horse was suffer- 

 ing from any disorder of the stomach or bowels, instead of 

 continually overloading his stomach with bran mash and 

 feed of that kind, to give him something in the Avay of med- 

 icine to counteract or cure the disease. Someone might ask 

 Would I give a horse medicine while in course of training 1 

 I certainly would. In these times of intelligent and edu- 

 cated veterinarians where all diseases of the horse are treat^l 

 with perhaps as much intelligence as diseases in the human 

 race, there is no more danger of giving a horse medicine 

 while in training than in taking medicine yourself if you 

 need it. In talking with men who have trained some of the 

 most celebrated athletes in this country, I find that the 

 medical treatment of a man in training is one of great im- 

 portance, and as I claim that horses are like human beings 

 in more ways than one the same treatment I think should be 

 followed with them. 



Governor Hill, a bay gelding with a record of 2:18|, that 

 was owned by Mr. Simon McMillan of New York City, a 

 self-made man, and sold by him to a party in South Amer- 

 ica for $10,000, made his debut to the public in the hands 

 of Jesse Yearance of New York City, who I think deserves 

 a good deal of credit for the manner in which he trained and 

 drove him his races. He came to Yearance' s stables in the 

 spring, not fairly broken, with some bad habits of unstead- 

 iness, etc., in company, which had to be overcome, and to 

 have a man start in with that kind of a horse and in one 

 season train and drive and win a majority of his races and 



