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limit intended in my original plan, but when I come to 

 write it I find so much that should be said that greater 

 condensation was hardly possible. Though not as 

 instructive, perhaps, as the chapters that follow, the 

 history we have given is not, I think, without its 

 lessons, and certainly not without much bearing on the 

 remaining chapters of this work. The little glimpses 

 I have given of how we trained these famous trotters 

 will show that we have not followed altogether in 

 beaten paths, and that our departures from old- 

 fashioned grooves have not been barren of good results. 

 To train 



A yearling to trot in 2:31|^ ; 



A two-year-old to trot in 2:18 ; 



A three-year-old to trot in 2:10|^ ; 



A four-year-old to trot in 2:16 ; 



A stallion to trot in 2:12i ; 

 (the four first being the world's record for their 

 respective ages, and the latter within a quarter of a 

 second of the present stallion record), to say nothing 

 of the many others wiiose performances were less 

 sensational, is not a bad showing for ten years' w^ork at 

 one farm. I have told as briefl}^ as I can do so justly 

 what this system of training has accomplished. Xow" 

 I propose to describe w^hat the system of training is 

 that has given such gratifying results. 



