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halves that would have put a crimp in any other trotter that 

 ever lived except Lou Dillon, did not seem to affect him a 

 particle. The week after he trotted those two miles at the 

 Randall meeting, one in 2:01 to wagon, the other in 1:58% 

 to sulky, he acted like a boy just let out of school. It was 

 August 12th that he trotted in 1 :58%, and when I gave him 

 his first repeat afterward, August 18th, he was, in my judg- 

 ment, in the most perfect order in his life and could have 

 gone the fastest mile. After his first sensational mile in 

 2:02% to wagon, early in July, I was anxious to see how 

 he came out of it, for previously he had not been faster than 

 2:06%, and only five times in 2:10 or better. I was not 

 just sure what its effect might be — but it failed to put the 

 slightest sort of a kink in him. Neither did the mile in 

 2:00^> that I asked him for, to sulky, July 22nd. 



"About his shoeing. It has already been published that 

 I made some quite radical changes in this from the methods 

 employed by Proctor, so I may as well say that I did, but 

 in doing so I do not want to be understood as criticising the 

 way in which Proctor balanced him. When a trainer can 

 do what Proctor did with Uhlan, what call is there for criti- 

 cism? However he balanced him, balanced he certainly 

 must have been. But every trainer has his own ideas of 

 gait and balance, and likes to apply them. If I changed 

 Uhlan, it was not because I wanted to criticise Proctor, but 

 because I wanted to rig the horse my way and see if he 

 would not go good so rigged. It shows what a great horse 

 he was that he could break records rigged both ways. Prob- 

 ably if he was now to pass into the hands of some other 

 trainer, he might make changes in him to correspond with 

 his own ideas, and he would continue to break records. 



"When he trotted in 1:58%, he was rigged as follows: 

 In front he wore a 6% ounce shoe, with a felt pad that 

 weighed 1% ounces, a pair of pacing quarter boots that 

 belonged to Morning Star 2:04, and weighed but 3 ounces, 

 and a 2-ounce toe-weight. His toe was 3% inches long, 

 and its angle was 45 degrees strong. The shoe was a bar 

 shoe, rounded over at the toe (the opposite from what he 

 wore before he came to us, as he then had a grab on the 



