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was put down and that stopped him. Not liking the lime 

 the next boy that had him, Nick Karper, used talcum powder 

 and the horse never learned the difference. To keep him 

 from tearing his blanket in the stall a stick was put on him 

 and occasionally he would lie down with the stick under- 

 neath him, and on the instant he would flop over as easily 

 as a boy. 



"At night if he happened to drink all the water out of 

 his pail and would want another drink he would rattle the 

 pail against the wall until sleep was out of the question and 

 the only thing to do was to get up and wait on him. 



"In all his racing career he missed one feed. That was 

 his dinner the day l)efore he was to start against the stallion 

 record at North Randall, and he appeared to be a very sick 

 horse. He just refused to eat but we worked with him that 

 afternoon, kept him in a temporary paddock outside the 

 barn and by evening he was ready to eat all he could get 

 at. His ration consisted of two quarts of crushed oats three 

 times a day, making six quarts in all, with a bran mash 

 added to the two quarts fed at night. But he had all the 

 hay he could eat and he could put nearly as much away as 

 an elephant. Hay was to him like candy to a kid, he was 

 ready for it all the time and he never seemed to really get 

 enough. 



"The day he got his record of 1:581 4 he had hay just 

 like he wanted it, which was all the time. Nick booted and 

 harnessed him as he munched his hay and when Mr. White 

 took him out his sides bulged like those of a brood mare. 

 But Nick knew and as he patted him on the belly after he 

 was harnessed and his driver had mounted the sulky to begin 

 to warm him up Nick said: 'He's in great shape Mr. White, 

 you'll lower all the records today.' And he did. 



"He must have known how to feed himself for when we 

 left Thomasville in the Spring of 1916 he weighed exactly 

 900 pounds. When we got back to Lexington in the late 

 fall, shipping from Atlanta and starting against time the 

 day after we reached Lexington, going the mile in 1:59^, 

 he weighed 880 pounds." 



