ROBERT BONNER ON SHOEING 



innumerable I drove him from my stable in the 

 upper part of the city through the streets of New 

 York and Brooklyn over to Prospect Park, where he 

 made the fastest time to a road wagon that was 

 ever made up to that time. Before I bought him 

 he had never been driven without blinds. Besides, 

 his feet hurt and irritated him and made him ner- 

 vous, but I remedied all that. So it was with Maud S. 

 Mr. Vanderbilt drove her and Aldine a mile in pub- 

 lic to a heavy road wagon in 2.15!, and I have 

 driven her a mile to wagon in 2.13^. I could drive 

 her on the road with as much ease and comfort as 

 I could sit on a chair in my library reading a book 

 or a newspaper. When she was delivered in my 

 stable on the i6th of August, 1884, she was lame in 

 her off hind foot. Her trainer told me that no 

 veterinary surgeon could stop that lameness if she got 

 fast work, but, after I had shod her, she reduced her 

 record that year to 2.09^, and the following year to 

 2.o8|, without showing a particle of lameness in that 

 foot. I could go on and tell how other great horses 

 with public records, like Rarus, Alfred S., Edwin For- 

 rest, May Bird, Music, Pocahontas, and Pickard, in- 

 creased their speed after coming into my possession; 

 but to go into details would occupy too much space. 

 Suffice it to say that when I bought Sunol from Gov- 

 ernor Stanford, with a record of 2.10^, she was 

 lame in her off forward foot. After I told Marvin 

 how to level it she immediately went sound on it and 

 reduced her record to 2.o8J. 



" From the foregoing statement it will be seen 

 that I own the two horses that have made the fastest 

 miles that were ever made to the old sulky Maud S. 

 on the regulation track in 2.o8f, and Sunol in 2.o8i 

 on the kite-track, and that, although they were both 



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