A TRIAL WITH TOE-WEIGHTS, 111 



showing in the Embryo Stake, but on November 26 the following is 

 the record in the journal : '' In the afternoon I drove Anteeo. 

 Jofffred to track and two miles on it to the cart. Hitched him to 

 the sulky, X X galloping to anotlier. Went two rounds of the 

 track the reverse way, the last at a good rate, then turned and gave 

 him a mile in 2:45. Slight scrape and rejieated him in 2:41. Again 

 scraped lightly, and after scoring a few times, drove him a mile, with 

 a break soon after starting, in 2:35. Keeping on, the timers — James 

 Garland, George Palmer and Johnson — timed from the quarter-pole, 

 the last three-quai-ters in 1:54 ; and as the first quai-ter was as fast 

 as the others, that mile was probably made in 2:32." On December 

 5th he trotted the last mile of the third heat in 2:34^. One more 

 illustration will be sufficient. After strong work from the 4th until 

 the 12th, I determined to again try him with toe-weights; though on 

 pi-evious occasions he did not trot as well. On the 21st of Novem- 

 ber three-quarter shoes were put on his hind feet, at that time weigh- 

 ing seven ounces, and on the 4th of December I put on tips of five 

 ounces each. By the 12th the hind three-quarter shoes would not 

 weigh over five ounces, as when jmlled off a short time afterwards 

 they were reduced to three and a half ounces. He was thus rigged : 

 Ordinary walking or ankle boots all around. Quarter boots, weigh- 

 ing four and three-fourth ounces each, on his fore feet, and toe- 

 wei-T-hts of three and three-fourth ounces each. Thus there were 

 about thirteen ounces on each fore foot, allowing for the eight days' 

 wear in the tip. Contrary to the previous custom, he was driven 

 alone. Walked to the track, nearly one mile, harnessed to the 

 sulky, jogged two miles, the reverse way, moved up the homestretch, 

 around the turn and half way down the homestretch. When turned 

 he seemed to want to trot ; none of his usual stubbornness or mean 

 actions. He made the first quarter in 38| seconds, went to the half 

 mile in 1:15-^ and the mile in 2:311 I never drove him a mile so 

 easily, never touching him with the whip or moving the bit in his 

 mouth. On the 8th I drove him three heats, the slowest in 2:42: 

 and on the 9th he was worked sharply for three miles, 'and trotted a 

 heat asrainst Bonnie and Fi-ed Arnold. 



The opponents of tips have laid great stress on the trotting of 



