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his shoes I found he went much truer and straighter. After 

 rigging him this way I took off his hind shin hoots and have 

 never used them since. 



"He wears quarter boots in front and also races in front 

 bandages. Little coronet boots behind and a neck pole com- 

 plete his equipment. 



"I started going miles with him in the spring of 1919 

 around 2:45 a little faster each succeeding week until I got 

 to 2:15. The same way the next two springs. I never brush 

 him any fast eighths or quarters, just go the miles all about 

 the same. Then I go a lot of miles around 2:15. I have 

 never worked him a mile faster than 2:04l^ before a race 

 and between his races I work him once, going four or five 

 heats, two of them as fast as 2:15. I do not make a practice 

 of working him the day before he is to race, usually just 

 jog him two or three miles. 



"His first start in the 1920 campaign was at North Ran- 

 dall, where he won, the best time 2:01*'^. The fastest mile 

 he had previous to that race was in 2:06. After that race 

 he had quite a trip. He raced and won at Toledo, was second 

 at Columbus, then was laid up two weeks and invaded the 

 Great West. He won at Davenport, la., half-mile track, with 

 Hammie Allen driving 'and beat Russell Boy in 2:061/4. 

 Then he went to Madison, Wis., where 'Billy' Marvin drove 

 him an exhibition mile in 2:04l/o. At Milwaukee I drove him 

 and won the free-for-all at Hamline, Omaha and Columbus. 

 Louie Grattan beat him in her record-making two-minute 

 race at Lexington and the next week he beat her back in 

 straight heats. At Atlanta he won and paced the fastest 

 three consecutive heats on record — 1:59, 2:00, 2:00^. 



"He was shipped to Indianapolis and wintered about 

 the same as usual and again he opened the racing season 

 (1921), his ninth, in Ohio, at Canton. And he came home 

 as frisky as a colt. The campaign was a long one and 

 a strenuous one and no pacer beat him. You can find the 

 story of it easily if you care for it. ( It appears in this 

 chapter. — Ed). 



"He is what we would call a good doer. He never misses 



