86 TIPS AND TOE-WEIGHTS, 



that lie was an A No. 1 race-horse at any distance. The spring of 

 1878 I galloped him in tips, and he went along finely for such a length 

 of time that I had great hopes of him " getting to a race." During 

 the winter he had been worked on the road, with strong exei-cise up 

 the slope from West Berkeley to near the University. When the 

 track was dry enough, he was galloped on it, taking his work well, 

 and moving through the stretches fast. Showing a trifle lame after 

 his last run in April, I concluded to let him rest until another year, 

 though there was very little tenderness or heat in the ailing leg. He 

 had been in exercise from January until April. Thinking there 

 might be some logic in the idea that when there was an injury in the 

 back-tendon, raising the heel was beneficial, 1 concluded to try it on 

 Three Cheers, and had him shod with a full shoe, with the heels a 

 good deal thicker than the toe, in the spring of 1879. The second 

 time he was galloped at any rate of speed, he pulled up quite lame, 

 and the tendon wtxs greatly enlarged. Had the gallop been severe, 

 he would have broken down, and he did not have one-tenth of the 

 work he accomplished safely in the tips. This satisfied me that the 

 elevation of the heel was wrong, and in place of relief brought a 

 greater stmin on the tendons. I was led to try the shoes on him by 

 the statement of a man who was anxious to train him, and he was 

 so sure of the success of a peculiar application to his legs he pos- 

 sessed, that he made the proposition to do the training for a certain 

 proportion of his winnings. 



He took him to Pleasanton, bringing him home, according to his 

 statement, on account of suits being brought against him for feed 

 and board. He told me that he had given him two runs of half 

 miles and repeat, when he made the distance easily in fifty seconds. 

 His legs were in good shape, and as he had *him shod with the full 

 shoe, I reasoned that if he had taken the work which was claimed, 

 there was a strong presumption of the eflicacy of the shoe in such 

 cases, corroborating the principle of elevating the heel. I became 

 satisfied, however, that the claim was not correct, and that the horse 

 remained idle during the period he had him. 



In previous papers I have alluded to the instantaneous photo- 

 graphs of Muybridge, which give an accurate representation of the 



