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for publication in this volume is well worth while. He 

 says: 



"Mr. Andrews shod the colt in the fall of 1913 with 

 8^ ounce plain front shoes which were not changed for 

 some time except to square them at the toes. He carried 

 3 ounce toe weights but not when he took his record, nor at 

 all that year — 1916. Behind he wore 3% to 4 ounce swedge 

 shoes always with the toes squared. By the time he took 

 his best record the weight of his front shoes had been re- 

 duced to six ounces each. 



'"Most of the time he wore hinged quarter boots and hind 

 shin boots with speedy-cut attachment. He would wear 

 a pair of scalpers out in about two weeks and always wore 

 them for jogging but not when asked to step. 



"At first he was rigged with a pole but he found a way 

 to break it, for he did not like the way it held him when it 

 was rigged with the usual halter and ring. Finally, one day, 

 he broke the halter and Mr. Andrews just put the end of it 

 through the bridle and let it go at that. So did the colt and 

 never offered to fight it the least bit when it was put on him 

 that way. 



"1 have seen him, fighting that head pole before it was 

 changed until he would fall into the ditch that ran alongside 

 the track. Mr. Andrews would just dismount, push him 

 back on the track, remount and go merrily on his way. 

 Shortly after one of those incidents the pole was changed 

 and that ended the trouble from that direction. I suppose 

 he was the only horse whose head pole was put on without 

 the halter and ring. 



"The day he first showed Mr. Andrews any trot was, as 

 1 remember, late in April, 1914. He hit a trot on the upper 

 turn that was real trot. I met him just as he came into 

 the stretch and he shouted to me: 'I've got him.' He stepped 

 tlie last eighth of that mile in 16 seconds and Mr. Andrews 

 turned him right around, without leaving the track and 

 worked him a mile in 2:27^. 



"The colt had been priced to a resident of Thomasville 

 at $150 subject to the consent of his trainer but the deal 

 was. never made, of course, yet there were many times when 



