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ness in his stride. He will just slow up naturally 

 like a good horse does that has just finished a fast 

 mile. I never felt so safe behind any other horse 

 in my life. He takes just the right hold of the bit. 

 it is a leather one by the way, and does not pull an 

 ounce. I never saw a horse gaited exactly like him. 

 He is almost a line trotter, except for being a trifle 

 wide behind, still he goes straight behind, that is he 

 is not what is called passing gaited. He is even 

 better gaited than last year. He carries less weight, 

 no toes weights, and has narrowed up behind. I 

 wouldn't know where to improve him a particle 

 even if I could do so. He is a perfect horse. Id^e 

 doesn't know a thing but trot. He is a good feeler. 

 a good eater, and one of those kind that doesn't 

 care whether school keeps or not, and game to the 

 core. He is the only trotter I ever had that T didn't 

 have to make speed with. I like to brush my horses 

 occasionally at somewhere near their limit, but I 

 have never dared to do that with Peter \V)lo. He 

 could always trot faster than I wanted him to in 

 any workout. In the spring if I wanted a quarter 

 in 32 seconds he gave it to me. if 1 thought he was 

 ready for one in 31 seconds he was ready too, and 

 so it went." Peter A^olo wore no toe weights at 

 Kalamazoo but a pair were used on him later in 

 the season. 



As a three-year-old Peter \^olo wore a 9 ounce 

 plain shoe with double crease toe and a 3 ounce toe 

 weight r.nd rubber pads in front and a 4^2 ounce 



