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amount of natural ^Ut to make a man a success, though much 

 may be acquired by patience and perseverance ; but it will 

 take a man three times as long to develop a horse as it would 

 a man who had a natural gift in handling horses. We often 

 see a man who will step around a horse and see more about 

 him in two minutes than another man with equal intellect 

 would in one hour. We will see a man take a horse with a bad 

 disposition, who has kicked, balked or bolted, and he can do 

 anything with him, while the other man could do nothing. I 

 have learned much in watching that man and learning his 

 tactics, see what he does to bring about the change, and ap- 

 plied it to my benefit at the first opportunity, as I don't be- 

 lieve there is any man so well up in any business but that he 

 can learn something from others in a business in which he is 

 interested, especially in training horses. 



Wonders will never cease, for who would have thought 

 two years ago that Guy would trot in '2:12 in 1888, and no one 

 knows what he will do in 1889. Everyone knows he had been 

 in the hands of talent year after year and yet of no account un- 

 til the right man hit the right horse, as I have said before. 

 This case is proof of my doctrine that horses don't require a 

 great amount of work, as Sanders does not give Guy more 

 than one-third of the work that he had been in the habit of 

 fretting- in other hands, and the result is well known. He 

 gives him the most of his work in scoring. I have seen him 

 on the track for half an hour at a time and he would not go 

 up the track farther than the 150 yard distance stand, and 

 hardly go around the turn past the stand before he would take 

 him up and go back. He had always been a bad scorer. He 

 would start off on a canter and would not strike a trot for a 

 long time. Everyone remembers that at Buffalo in scoring he 

 wore out Prince and Rosaline Wilkes, the patience of the 

 judges, and in fact every man, woman and child that wit- 

 nessed the race. 



At Rochester, the next week, though in a large field of 

 horses, he was greatly improved in that respect, and in fact 



