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not untrack herself," and, to cap the climax, they pro- 

 nounced her "foundered." However, I did not give 

 her up as wholly degenerate ; in four or five months 

 there was no sign of "founder," and she could show 

 me a quarter in 0:42 — or say, a 2:50 gait. In her year- 

 ling form she attempted to come out of her box when 

 the upper half-door was closed. She got her foreparts 

 out all right, and then naturally raised herself, the 

 door taking her across the back at the most sensitive 

 spot — right over the kidneys. The result was that her 

 hind parts were practically paralyzed, and the sprawl- 

 ing and dragging-motion of these parts plainly pointed 

 to severe injury across the loins and in the region of 

 the kidneys. It took two months of assiduous treat- 

 ment and care before she could jog well ; and, indeed, 

 I cannot say that she ever recovered from the injury, 

 for, as will be seen further on, she was attacked more 

 than once with this partial parah'sis in her campaigns. 

 After we had gotten her, seemingly, over this disaster, 

 and she could trot along in about 2:40, another barrier 

 loomed up across her path. She threw out a nasty 

 curb, and I thought of giving her up for the year. But 

 after looking over the material I had in training, I 

 could not reconcile myself to the idea of turning the 

 filly out — for, in spite of her ill-luck and consequent 

 backwardness, I liked her — and decided to endeavor to 

 keep on training her and treat the curb at the same 

 time. The double task was successfully acccomplished. 

 I cured the curb with iodine — the application of w^hich 

 I will refer to at another place-^and on the day that 

 Sallie Benton lowered the four-year-old record to 

 2:17f I drove Manzanita to a two year-old trial of 2:25 



