WILLIAM 149 



"One thing about him was that as a two-year-old and a 

 three-year-old he had speed for three-quarters of a mile and 

 then would go rough, yet would not slow up. He could go 

 a quarter as a three-year-old in 29 seconds. I first tried 

 him light as most pacers go that way and then he would trot 

 and mix. He went best in his three-year-old form with 14 

 ounce shoes and 4 ounce toe weights and won his first race 

 shod that way, pacing one of his miles in 2:111/4 over a 

 half mile track which was at Terre Haute, in July. 



"After that I began taking the weight off a little at a 

 time every week until I had his front shoes 8 ounces and his 

 hind shoes 41/^ ounces, all with bars, placing his toes at 

 3'*^ inches in front with 50 angle and 3^ inches behind with 

 55 angle. I continued to train him much as other horses. 

 He did not have many fast miles. In 1914 he began to leave 

 off his rough way of going and before starting in a race that 

 year he could go a mile and a quarter without getting rough- 

 gaited. 



"I have been asked many times what I gave William that 

 made him go so fast and so far. The only answer is that 

 William never had any drugs inside or outside. We did 

 not use any bandages on him. He never was shipped in ban- 

 dages or cotton by me or my men and we had him three years 

 and when he was turned oxer to Mr. Billings after his return 

 from the Montreal race he was as sound as any horse that 

 ever lived. 



"The day William paced in two-minutes in his race at 

 the Grand Rapids Grand Circuit meeting, Mr. Walter Cox 

 asked me if that was a hard job. I forget just what I said 

 to him in reply but in substance it was that I could truth- 

 fully say I had worked much harder to get a horse to go a 

 mile in three minutes and then did not succeed. 



"History can tell you better than I can what William 

 was as a race horse from July, 1913 to September, 1915." 



Adding to what Mr. Marvin says about the shoeing of 

 William it might here be noted that Arthur Thomas, writing 

 for The Chicago Horseman stated that he wore only quarter 

 boots in front and coronet and shin-and-ankle boots behind, 

 remarking: "The latter somewhat unusual on pacers." He 



