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to run or drive, as when broken to harness it was impossible to drive 

 him away from home at any other pace than a slow walk, although 

 when turned to come back he would trot at a three-minute clip. If 

 whipped going away from home he would stop. If given a sharp 

 blow as he was coming back he would kick with terrific vengeance. 

 From that experience I knew that it would not answer to punish 

 Anteeo ; and though there was a perfect deluge of advice, the gen- 

 eral purport of which was severity to the pitch of cruelty, I treated 

 it the same as that to replace the tips with shoes, and kept my own 

 course. That this has been correct is apparent, as in the last few 

 weeks he has taken an inclination to go, and I have the fullest confi- 

 dence that hereafter there will be no more trouble with him on that 

 score. 



It is necessary to be made acquainted with this j^eciiliarity of 

 temperament in order to understand fully why he would show at 

 times a flight of speed, and then in his races and at other periods not 

 trot within ten seconds as fast. That presented in so brief a man- 

 ner, I will take up the discourse from the time Mr. J. watched the 

 setting of the tips. He was not driven from early in November, 

 1881, to Januaiy 28, 1882, and then only occasionally to a heavy 

 breaking-cart, genei-ally on the road. Until May 25th he was driven 

 to a lighter cart, part of the time on the track, with fast work once 

 in a while. The lighter cart will probably weigh 1 30 jK>imds or 

 more, having elliptic springs, and beiiig strong enovigh to carry two 

 men. On the 25th of May he was hitched to a sulky the first time 

 since he trotted in the Embryo the November before. The tips had 

 varied in weight from three ounces, those that were worn by use, to 

 seven ounces, the heaviest I had made ; usually five ounces or six 

 were the weight of those used. 



In the meantime I tried a difierent shoe on the hind foot, a 

 description of which will be given in the Appendix. 



On the 31st of May I commenced galloping X X with him, in 

 order to encoui-age him to go along without so much urging, and 

 from that time his fast woi-k was in company with the galloper. 

 June 7th commenced working him " two-and-two," finding that he 

 was more inclined to trot the second mile than the first. Tliis kind 



