shop and looked at the front shoes and did not like the job, 

 as to the weight and the calks, thinking if he did not knock 

 a leg off, he would cut boots and legs to smithereens. I 

 told him I would change them if he thought it best, but 

 before I got ready to take them off he said leave them on 

 and I will try them and see what he will do with them. 

 The groom drove him out to the track, and Mr. Smith, 

 being present, ordered the groom to drive him a slow mile 

 as the trainer was not there ; he worked the second mile so 

 easy that he was worked another easy mile in 2:21, the 

 last quarter well within himself in 33 seconds without a 

 break, over the same half-mile track on which he could 

 not beat 2:41 previous to this shoeing. They said when 

 he got on his stride there was nothing the matter with him. 

 I had not heard from the horse for nearly a week when 

 one day as the owner was driving by I hailed him asking 

 how was Rustler, he said "he is all right, there isn't a thing 

 the matter with him." He went to the races, started in 

 at Baltimore, Maryland, and after winning seven or eight 

 consecutive races, finished at Readville a close second in 

 2:12. Most of his races were won in the same front 

 shoes it took to balance him, and yet some writers will say 

 you cannot get immediate results. 



XI. SHIN, KNEE AND ARM HITTING PACER. 



H. J. Rockwell and Rustler a pacer and trotter re- 

 spectively, would hit and cut their boots something terrible. 

 I took H. J. Rockwell away from his knees by the mode of 

 foot fixing and shoeing hereinbefore prescribed and that 

 made a race horse of him, whereas he had been hitting his 

 knees for several years. While he was hitting his knees he 

 was rated as a quitter, but after he began to beat horses 

 like "B. B." over the half-mile tracks, the race followers 

 wanted to know from his trainer, the late F. M. Dodge, 



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