HOW HIND A ROSE WAS WOKKED. 12'3 



Bell Bo}^ and Hinda Rose — beat 2:20 in their three 

 3^ear old form, while another — Palo Alto Belle — has a 

 three-year-old record of 2:22^. The dam of Beautiful 

 Bells was Minnehaha, the dam of Sweetheart, and four 

 others in the 2:30 list ; so our filly was bred well enough 

 for a world-beater to begin with. She was well broken 

 earh^, and in her yearling form I began working her. 

 Her serious training began Jul}^ 5, 1881 ; I had now 

 gotten well into the Palo Alto system of training, and 

 could work " the new fangled ideas " pretty skillfully. 

 She was worked on the method described in cha]:)ters 

 further on, until Xovember 5th, the date of her first 

 public performance. The yearling record was then 

 2:56f , 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 Bucca- 

 neer, owned by Count Yalensin, and driven by John 

 Goldsmith, who has since handled Guy Wilkes, Sable 

 Wilkes, and other horses so successfully for Mr. Cor- 

 bitt. Pride made the mile in 2:11^. I then drove 

 Hinda Rose and she went from wire to wire in 2:13|^. 

 On the 21:th we gave her another trial, when she went 

 in 2:36|-, and this stood as the yearling record until 

 1888, when it was lowered successfully by the Ken- 

 tucky filly, Sudie D, and our lost Palo Alto star, Xor- 

 laine. In her two-year-old form Hinda Rose was quite 

 Tinsteady. She had carried a nine-ounce shoe as a year- 

 ling, and in her first easy work as a two-\^ear-old I 

 began with her barefooted, the only weight she carried 

 being her quarter boots. Then she was lightly shod, 

 and still acting as tho^igh she wanted more weight to 

 balance her, I kept increasing until she carried eighteen 



