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jogged. Some time during his exercise he would 'light out', 

 sprint a hundred yards or so, then take himself back. Some 

 days he would do that two or three times, and was always al- 

 lowed to have his own way about it. That appeared to always 

 give him his speed. Track work he got to enable him to 

 carry his speed. 



"No better broken horse lives than Uhlan. Automobiles, 

 trolley cars and other city contrivances mean nothing to him. 

 With but one bit in his mouth he has been jogged many hun- 

 dreds of miles on city streets and country roads. At that, so 

 high strung is he that one would find it easy to get a fight out 

 of him, and in all probability he would not afterward tolerate 

 the man who would give him a whipping or even one sharp 

 blow with the whip. 



"He is a rugged horse. When shipped to Georgia the 

 first of February, 1910, he weighed 1065 pounds, and when 

 he took his record of 1:58*'^ he weighed 965. His training 

 feed consists of twelve quarts of oats daily, and he would 

 like to make it sixteen; he has all the hay he wants, and is 

 quite a water drinker. He is not dainty, and has no annoy- 

 ing habits of any kind, for instance, he never awakens at 

 night and demands to be fed, and there is no better shipper. 



"Thad. Logan took care of him for me, and the thorough 

 manner in which he did his work is best illustrated by a re- 

 mark John Splan made when he was led out for him at North 

 Randall the day he took his record of 1:58'^. John looked 

 him over and said: 'Well, I have looked at some pretty good 

 trotters in my time, prepared by the greatest men in the bus- 

 iness, and I want to say that I never before saw one that 

 looked to be in such perfect condition.' 



"I have never seen Uhlan seemed distressed but once. 

 That was at the finish of his mile in 2:021/2 to wagon at 

 Readville, which is why, in my opinion, as I have said, I 

 think it was the greatest one he ever trotted. He was right on 

 edge that day, with all his speed, and the fact that it took all 

 he had and left him tired for the first and only time in my ex- 

 perience, tells what an effort he made. In every other fast 

 mile he has gone for me he has been blown out, practically, 

 before the harness was stripped off him. Miles, quarters and 



