MAKING Sl'KED WITH YEARLINGS. 



her to the extreme limit of her effort, or to the 

 point of exhaustion. The chief thing in the training 

 of Edna the Great was to be able to say 'whoa' often 

 enough, as she had ambition enough to try to beat 

 any horse on the track. It was not very long before 

 she began to go miles. A mile around three minutes 

 seemed a romp for her, and she was given a mile 

 every morning that we had favorable weather con- 

 ditions, with a brush at the end of the mile. A little 

 later in her work we began to take her down to the 

 eighth pole at a good, stiff clip, then ease her up 

 to within a short distance of the wire and let her 

 step a short distance at the end of the mile. 



"She was worked very early in the morning in 

 order that she w^ould have a light rub and then 

 walked through the dewy grass and allowed to have 

 a good lunch of grass; and made an effort to have 

 her legs well bathed in the cool dew each morning 

 when it was at all possible. She never had a bandage 

 on, and her legs or her general physical condition 

 would not indicate that she had ever worn harness. 



"She was gradually dropped down in her work 

 to the 2:40 mark and beat that notch upon two oc- 

 casions prior to her record mile. One mile was in 

 2:33^, with the last half in 1:10. On the 29th day of 

 August, at the Columbus, O., State Fair Grounds, 

 upon a track that was exceedingly slow due to rainy 

 weather, she was sent against the record of 2:34^ 

 made by Benear at Goshen, N. Y., with the result 

 well known to all that love the American trotter. 



"Her shoeing and rigging was of the simplest kind; 

 in front she wore a 4^-oz. shoe, no toe weight at 

 any time, with a short toe, and behind she wore a 

 shoe as light as could be made to afford sufficient 

 protection to her feet. 



"Her harness was plain, breast collar, blind bridle 

 with a nose band attached to a standing martingale, 

 and carried her head level with her body. Her boots 

 were the lightest that I could procure and she never 

 showed any marks on them." 



The next cliampion yearling trotter over a 



half-mile track was U. Forbes. Despite a sticky 



track and high wind he trotted a mile in 2:213/^, 



