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is to be done at extreme speed. If, after a fast exhibition 

 mile, I wanted an exceptional mile a week the next workout 

 I would not beat 2:12 with him. We were compelled to go 

 many fast miles with him and load him on the cars within 

 three or four hours afterward. Yet, under those conditions 

 he would come right out and go another great mile. All 

 tracks looked alike to him and I cannot say that he ever went 

 a disappointing mile. He kept his form wonderfully well. 



"In training him during the winter months we jogged him 

 five miles a day on the covered track. When spring came 

 I gave him three double headers, in about three minutes, 

 every week, gradually dropping him until I began to repeat 

 him twice each week, dropping him two or three seconds 

 a week until he went in 2:10. I also gave him five or six slow 

 miles on workout days. 



"With one exception he had no habits that needed correc- 

 tion. Often in scoring him when I would pull up for some 

 reason or other he would not want to turn to the left. I 

 fooled along with him for a while, letting him have his own 

 way, but got vexed one day and hit him one hard rap, straight- 

 ened him out and from that day on never had a particle of 

 trouble with him and he would turn anywhere. I had him at 

 Indianapolis once and, jogging around the track slowly we 

 came to the gate on the back side and he started for the barn 

 right out of the gate, something he had never done before and 

 I could not stop him. I did nothing to him but in due time 

 just turned him around and took him back to the track as I 

 was not prepared for such a move from him at that time. 



"He was a w^onderful feeder at all times and a wonderful 

 doer. I never knew him, except in case of illness to refuse 

 a meal. And he was sick but once — at Topeka, Kas., where 

 he was ailing for a week. Sixty days from the date of that 

 illness he beat the world's record at Memphis. The week 

 after he was sick he was walked by hand for a week, then 

 jogged one mile the first day and increased gradually up to 

 five miles and so on until I was able to work him. In Septem- 

 ber, about six weeks after that severe spell he gave an 

 exhibition in 2:04 at Springfield, 111., then was shipped to 



