EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. . 59 



and was willing to get in the car the best way he could. A 

 short time after that, I think at Utica, in loading him the 

 groom had him by the halter-stale close to the head, and about 

 the time the horse's head got in the door he gave him a jerk 

 of the halter and said, "Come on here.'' The man was just then 

 in more of a hurry than the horse was, which caused him to 

 raise his head suddenly and hit it against the top of the car. 

 It not only frightened but it hurt, him, as the top of a horse's 

 head is very sensitive and easily injured. It took me a long 

 time to get him over it. I remember trying to load him once 

 at home in Syracuse. Tom King and I worked fully two 

 hours trying to persuade him to go into the car, but he would 

 not. Finally Tom said, " If you will get me some apples and 

 go away out of sight, I will get him in." So I got the apples 

 and got back out of sight and watched the manceuvering be- 

 tween man and horse. Tom patted him, took an apple out 

 of his pocket, took a bite himself and gave the horse a bite, 

 took another and offered the horse another, and in that way 

 they went walking along eating apples together towards the 

 car door, and before the horse realized where he was or what 

 had happened he was in the car happy and contented and the 

 apples were all consumed. 



The public will remember many serious accidents have oc- 

 curred in loading horses. Lady Thorn, in the prime of life, 

 was ruined at Rochester in loading, and that great horseman, 

 Dan Mace, had her by the halter at the time to prevent acci- 

 dent, as he knew her peculiarities which were developed in 

 the early part of her career by some little mishap in getting 

 her in a car. They had a bridge for loading as good as could 

 be made they supposed, but as she got part way up the bridge 

 she stopped and swung her hind parts around, stepped off 

 with one foot, fell across the iron rail and injured her hip so 

 that her usefulness was ended, except for breeding purposes. 

 I usually load my horses with as secure bridges as I can pro- 

 cure, have the groom take them by the halter stale, say from 

 two to three feet from the head and walk right along in the 



