XUV. A GOOD JUDGE OF GAIT. 



In all my experience with horsemen and horses I be- 

 lieve William Russell Allen's judgment about gait and pros- 

 pective or ultimate speed is superior to that of any one I 

 have ever come in contact with. He seems to have the 

 faculty of knowing at a glance the frictionless gait from a 

 fairly good gaited one. To prove this I will cite a few 

 instances. On one occasion he was away on a visit and on 

 his return he said to me that he saw Uhlan 1 :58 as a 

 two-year-old or a three-year-old, I do not remember exactly, 

 but it was before he came into prominence, and Mr. Allen 

 told me he was the best gaited colt he ever saw. This colt 

 must have been just as he said, for it could not have been 

 over a year, or two at the outside, when this same colt 

 trotted to a world's record, and it did not surprise me much 

 after remembering what Mr. Allen told me about his gait. 

 The same thing happened again when he saw Peter Volo 

 2:02, early in his two-year-old form. Also the full sister 

 to Peter Volo, Volga, Mr. Allen told me she was gaited 

 to win all her engagements. 



Here at Allen Farm he picked a yearling out of about 

 thirty early in the season, that was out of a non-producing 

 dam, to beat all the yearlings an eighth of a mile at the trot 

 that season at the farm on a small bet. It was big odds 

 and was taken very quickly by one of the employees, who 

 was wishing he could get more of that kind of bets. When 

 the brush work of the season was over the field ticket was 

 never presented to the pool seller to be cashed. Mr. Allen's 

 first choice out of a large field won by a quarter of a second 

 and we had a lot of fast ones, but any how . he had the 

 laugh on me at the finish. 



XLV. BAR SHOES. 

 If you have a horse with toe cracks, quarter cracks or 

 one that is sore or lame from corns, a bar shoe is the best 



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