later develop into fast trotters and win races or take fast 

 records at two and three years old. 



At the Allen Farm, where I have been located for a 

 great many years, I have seen results obtained by foot fixing 

 and shoeing that satisfied me that there were secrets hidden 

 from most of the public in the art or science of foot fixing 

 and balancing faulty action, and from my experience and 

 the results obtained, I felt that the public was entitled to 

 my knowledge so gained. I have seen yearlings step eighths 

 of a mile from 15^4 to 17 and 18 seconds, and many of 

 them. I have seen a yearling step the last sixteenth of an 

 eighth in seven seconds, a 1 :52 gait, on this half-mile 

 track which should go a second faster on a mile track. 



Now if the foot fixing and shoeing that I have ex- 

 plained in this book and have been practising for years is 

 not the nearest approach to the proper and correct way of 

 balancing the action of the trotter and pacer, why has 

 Bingara become the champion fourteen-year-old sire of 

 2:30 peformers, located as he is in this cold climate and 

 far away from the section where are the greatest number 

 of producing dams? Mares by Kremlin 2:07^4, the cham- 

 pion living brood mare sire of the world, have produced 

 wonderful results. Through these channels came Baden 

 2:05)4, a trotting race horse that raced on both half-mile 

 tracks and mile tracks and was badly handicapped in many 

 of his races by being scored ten, twelve, fifteen, and as 

 many as seventeen times before getting the word. This 

 scoring was not all done by one driver or one horse, but by 

 different drivers and different horses trying to break the 

 horse's heart repeatedly, and when they could not rupture 

 his legs, unhinge his back, rattle his thinking box or break 

 his heart, Mr. Geers and Mr. Cox, the great race drivers, 

 said that Baden 2:05)4 was the greatest race horse ever 

 seen. In all my experience with the produce of Bingara 

 I have never seen one yet that wanted to pace if looked 



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