66 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



continued to improve to the end of the season, both in scor- 

 ing and speed. I saw him trot at New York and Philadelphia. 

 He scored as well as any horse, and his 2:12 at Cleveland goes 

 to show that the disposition of man and horse nicked well. 

 This will apply to many a good horse, or would have been 

 good if he had hit the right man. I could cite many a case of 

 this kind, if necessary, to illustrate my theory that the dispo- 

 sition of horse and man must agree to make a great success. 

 Many failures are made by a man lacking the patience to 

 study the disposition of his horse and manner of treatment 

 necessary, both in the stable and on the track. 



Referring to a case of my own — Jane R. When she came 

 into my hands she was a high-strung, nervous, irritable little 

 thing and everyone that knew her said she had to be worked 

 to death to make her trot ; that is to say, must have a large 

 amount of slow work or she would be flighty and foolish and 

 in fact no good. They had been driving her without blinds, 

 shod with a twelve ounce shoe and a four ounce toe weight. 

 I soon found this long work and the weight she was carrying 

 sored her muscles. She had to have considerable work to get 

 the soreness out of her. She was inclined to be scringy be- 

 hind, had a large heavy tail, and seemed to be afraid of it, did 

 not want me to touch it or take it in my hand, and would 

 jump every motion I made. She not having been driven with 

 winkers on could see every move. They cautioned me that I 

 must be very careful not to touch her tail or attempt to sit on 

 it when driving her to a sulky. 



I started her oVer through the Eastern Circuit in the 

 spring, knowing she had a good deal of speed if I could con- 

 trol it. I trotted her three or four races and got very little 

 money out of any of them, and sometimes was unplaced and 

 was trotting outside of 2:o() all the time. I finally decided to 

 make a change, so I re-shod her, put the Locky pad, hereto- 

 described, under her shoe, left the toe weight off and went 

 out and moved her and found I had made quite an improve- 

 ment. Then I shortened up her work, instead of giving her 



