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ounces. She, as I have said, acted unsteadily, and the 

 then superintendent of Palo Alto declared that the 

 fault was in her head, that her dam was rattle-headed^ 

 and that before Hinda Kose ever amounted to any- 

 thing the driver would have to furnish her with "a 

 new set of brains." My next experiment was to take 

 off the shoes, and drive her barefooted awhile. Then 

 I put on eight-ounce shoes, and fixed her out with 

 three-ounce toe-weights. I would jog her about two- 

 miles, and when ready to speed would put on the toe- 

 weights. I had no more trouble with her after this,, 

 and she was trained successfully in this wa}^ without 

 performing an}^ operation on her brain. According to 

 the old-fashioned rule, I should have kept on piling on 

 weight, but when I got up to eighteen ounces I con- 

 cluded that we had got past the right point, and would 

 have to 0*0 back and start over ao^ain. More horses are 

 suffering from carrying too much weight than from 

 carrying too little weight. 



I took Hinda Kose East in 1882, as she was engaged 

 in a stake race at Lexington. She had a good field 

 against her, those that afterward became most noted 

 being Fugue, 2:17^, by King Kene; Early Dawn, 2:21^^ 

 Wilkes Boy, 2:21:i, and Lizzie Wilkes, 2:22f, a great 

 ao^crreo^ation of Wilkes talent. I need not take up the 

 reader's time in details of the race. Fugue won the 

 first heat in 2:36i, distancing two of the field, Lexing- 

 ton AViikes and Strathblane. Then Hinda Eose went 

 on and won the second heat in 2:32, distancing all but 

 Fugue, and in the deciding heat she easily beat Fugue 

 in the same time, 



Hinda Rose opened her campaign of 1888 at Chi- 



