52 CAKE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS AND PACERS. 



ance. The yearling record was then 2:56^, and at 

 the Bay District Track a set of harness was offered 

 to_ yearlings to trot against this record. The first 

 trial was made by the filly Pride, by Buccaneer, 

 owned by Count Valensin, and driven by John Gold- 

 smith, who has since handled Guy Wilkes, Sable 

 Wilkes and other horses so successfully for Mr. 

 Corbitt. Pride made the mile in 2:44^. I then drove 

 Hinda Rose and she went from wire to wire in 

 2:433^. On the 24th we gave her another trail, when 

 she went in 2:36^, and this stood as the yearling 

 record until 1888, when it was lowered successfully 

 by the Kentucky filly, Sudie D., and our lost Palo 

 Alto star, Norlaine." 



Half-Mile Track Yearlings. 

 Edna the Great, 2:2934, former champion year- 

 ling trotter on a half-mile track, was trained and 

 driven by Dr. W. A. Barber, a dentist of Spring- 

 field, Ohio, who finds recreation in horses. The 

 following is his own story : 



"Edna proved to be a bear-cat to subdue, be- 

 ing unbroken when I bought her early in her yearling 

 form. We found it necessary to pad her stall with 

 baled straw, in order that she would not do injury 

 to herself in her attempts to get away from her tor- 

 mentors. Halter breaking and bitting required all of 

 April and a portion of May before we hitched her. 

 She was a broncho when we hitched her. The brush 

 system was not used, as she had all the speed on 

 tap that was necessary. She was low in flesh and 

 gentle exercise was all that we aimed to give her for 

 the next few weeks. She was hitched daily for a 

 couple of weeks at a time, then a run in the paddock 

 for a few days and she began to take on flesh. With 

 an abundance of feed, plenty of grass and a tonic 

 to tone up her system, we started in to give her a 

 mile every morning, very slow at first, with a brush 

 home, gradually increasing the distance that she was 

 stepped at speed until we were going a pretty fair 

 quarter in almost every workout, keeping always in 

 mind not to ask her for more than she could do 

 well within herself, never at any time did I carry 



