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then took her out and scraped tlie water out and throwed on tlie 

 blankets, walked her to the stable, which was about half a 

 mile, and by that time she was nearly dried out. The boys done 

 her up just the same as though she had been repeated ; ]3ut 

 on the body wash and bandaged her legs ; I worked her in this 

 way for a month every other day, and she got so she liked 

 the water as well as a boy likes to go in swimming. When 

 she got to the bank of the canal she could hardly wait for the 

 men to get in the boat, she would want to plunge right in. 

 After a few days I would give her three plunges, and she 

 would swim eight or nine minutes and would not seem tired 

 at all. This kind of work will take flesh off and clear the 

 wind out, but don't seem to make much leg muscle, but I 

 think it is a very nice way to work a horse that is sore from 

 track work. It wall sweat the soreness out of the shoulders 

 or of the muscles of any part of the body and save the feet 

 and legs. Horses that are high in flesh in the spring that 

 have not had much work get muscle sore all over, as the set 

 of muscles that are used at speed have been inactive and out 

 of use during the winter. 



I had an engagement with Whitefoot in a $5,000 stake 

 race in the 2:25 class that closed May ist at New York, and 

 I was anxious to get my money out. For seven weeks before 

 the race all the work she had on the track was one mile 

 and repeat. I gave her one heat in 2:33 and another in 2:27 

 the week before the race. She started against Jack, Geneva 

 S., Epph and Superior. Geneva S. won the first and second 

 heats, Jack winning the next three and race. Whitefoot 

 was second to Jack in the third heat in 2:20, and the fourth 

 heat in 2:19|^, and was only beaten by about a neck, which 

 gave me third money, $750, which was good interest on the 

 entrance, $375, with a mare that had been decidedly off. She 

 will probably be heard from hereafter, and will be a danger- 

 ous one in any class in which she starts. 



Pacers are not unlike trotters, they do not all want shoe- 

 ing alike or working alike. The pacing gait develops speed 



