150 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



a let up, as we say about a campaigner that has been over- 

 worked, but he still has that easy, courteous manner which 

 makes the perfect host willing to do everything possible to 

 entertain his guests, showing everything on the place and 

 thinking of everything which could possibly entertain and 

 please his visitors. In company with Mr. McLeod, of " Wal- 

 lace's Monthly," who was there in the interest of horse mat- 

 ters, we took a look at the stock. 



I cannot begin to tell all I saw, but will give only a short 

 sketch. I was anxious to see the great Electioneer, and we 

 wended our way first to his stall. I found him a wonderful 

 horse. He is brown in color and as finely balanced as any 

 horse I ever looked over ; very speedy conformation ; consid- 

 erably higher on the hips than on the shoulder, and my ex- 

 perience has taught me that real trotters are built that way. 

 He does not show his age (21 years) except a little droop in the 

 back, and apparently is as sound and nimble as a five-year- old. 

 He has not had on a shoe in- a number of years. His feet and 

 legs are as good as I ever saw on a horse. He is jogged every 

 morning five or six miles, which he seems to enjoy, as I met 

 him coming from his exercise one morning and he acted like 

 a colt. They have about eighty colts and horses in training, 

 from yearlings up to aged horses. There are ten assistant 

 trainers. I will not attempt to mention their names, but I 

 know most of them and they are all good men. All the stock 

 looked bright and were in high flesh, and still they were hav- 

 ing plenty of work. A good many of them were worked every 

 day on the track, what I would call pretty stiff, that is, from 

 two years old up. The yearlings were worked mostly on the 

 miniature track, which is under cover. It is an oblong track of 

 regulation shape about two hundred feet in length. The 

 track was very soft and well thrown up on the outside like a 

 circus ring. It is boarded up tight on the outside and the 

 roof reaches just over the track. There is a railing on the in- 

 side extending around the circle. The track is from seven to 

 eight feet wide. The centre is left open to give plenty of air 



