CARE AND TKAIXIXG OF TROTTERS AND PACERS. 



September 1—8:45%, 2:33, 2:20, 2:23, half l:07y2, quarter :31%. 

 September 7— (Rain between)— 2:43, 2:30, 2:20, 2:15%, ^4 in :33V4- 

 September 10 — 2:49, 2:34%. 



September 13—2:40, 2:2Sy2, 2:161/. (i/o, 1:041^; %, :31%), 2:151/2. 

 September 17—2:50. 2:37. 



September 19— Second start won In 2:27%, 2:22i4. 

 September 21 — Shipped to Columbus. Ohio. 

 September 23-2:42, 2:29, 2:21, 2:19y2, quarter in iSOVa, 

 September 24— Third start. 1-2-2 in 2:14%, 2:09%, 2:lli/2. 

 September 30 — Shipped to Lexington (delayed in shipping). 

 Octi ber 3— 2:43. 2:28i/o. quarter in :35y2. 

 October 5— Fourth start, won in 2:liy2, 2:09 1/2. 

 October 10— 2:4iy2. 2:271/.. 

 October 13—2:45, 2:401/.. 

 October 17 — Shipped home. 



October 19 — Shoes off and retired for season. Shoes weighed 5% 

 ounces forward, 3 ounces behind. 



Axtell, 2:23. 

 The two-year-old training of Axtell, a cham- 

 pion two-year-old trotting stallion, on both mile 

 and half-mile tracks, was rather peculiar, and will 

 doubtless be of interest. He was driven to a 

 record of 2:23 at Lexington, Ky., Oct. 8, 1888, 

 by C. W. Williams. The following is an excerpt 

 from Mr. Williams' own story from the Christ- 

 mas number of "The Horseman" in 1889: 



"Some time between March 1st and 15th he was taken up and 

 Jogged from four to six miles a day. It will be hard for any one to 

 believe that he could be made to eat the amount of feed given him 

 during March and April: as, think of a two-year-old being fed 

 live quarts of oats, two of bran, two of carrots, and three or four 

 e-.'TS of corn, ihree times a day. and all the coarse feed he would eat. 

 This is not exaggerated in the least. As the weather became warmer 

 he was fed less, but could not. at this time, trot a quarter in less 

 than a minute, while I am informed Sunol could, at that time, go the 

 same distance in thirty-five seconds. Up to this time I had driven 

 Axtell but a few times, but as the man that had been jogging him 

 was sent to Michigan with some mares, I took him to work. At 

 first I wa.s not pleased with the way he drove, as he was stubborn, 

 and wanted to have his own way a little too much to suit me. 



"After driving him two or three times I became disgusted, and 

 one day struck him rather sharply with the whip. He squared away 

 and went straight far enough and fast enough to convince me he 

 would make a trotter if I developed him as I should. Up to this 

 time I had never worked a colt that could trot in 3:00, did not know 

 how others worked their colts, and the only thing for me to do was 

 to use what little common sense nature had given me. 



"I had for years been quite a pedestrian, practicing a great deal 

 for pastime, and the exercise. I knew b.v experience how long it 

 took to get the muscles i» condition for hard work, and how sore 

 and lame it made me after any great effort, be the distance ever 

 so short, and this after I had supposed I was in condition for this 

 kind of work. I also knew to have great speed for a short distance 

 It was necessary to cultivate the muscles for such efforts, and the 



