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more jogging we gave them all a physic ball and 

 turned them out in the day time where they could 

 have their till of grass and took them up nights. 

 W'e intend doing this until January ist, when they 

 will commence with slow jog work for the next 

 year's campaign. 



I also had six two-year-olds that had been left 

 home, also a green trotter and pacer that had been 

 trained along slow during the time 1 was away 

 to the races; so after a couple of workouts 1 

 searched them and found I had a good trotter and 

 slow class pacer to stake over the twice arounds 

 another year. I found a pair of two-year-old trot- 

 ters that worked in 2 124!/^ over a half-mile track, 

 so ought to have a good stable to start out with 

 in 1915. 



I have given you some ideas from both the stock 

 farm superintendent's and driver's side. I asked 

 Slew- foot Frank if he could suggest a few words 

 to add to my story from a groom's standpoint. 

 This was his reply: ''Tell them Dame Fortune 

 is on my side this fall. After making a very 

 strenuous campaign, which lasted sixteen weeks, 

 I finally got back home with my hopple bird and 

 spent three whole weeks trying to reduce an en- 

 larged knee enough to put a mild blister on. after 

 which his shoes were pulled off. as well as mv 

 own. but. owing to the number of good races mv 

 pony went, I was presented with a brand new 

 outfit from head to foot. I will take back mv win- 



