112 TIPS AND TOE-WEIGHTS. 



Auteeo, and I have given this long, and, it may be considered, 

 tedious account, in order that there may be a proper understanding 

 of the case. In the first place, for a colt foaled May 5th, 1879, and 

 with so disjointed a schooling as the record shows, it may be con- 

 sidered a very fair rate of speed. To take the maximum, 2:30-^, and 

 it is more than a fair showing for a three-year-old, if even the edu- 

 cation had been better managed. Had the tips been so detrimental 

 as is claimed, so diametrically opposed to speed, there never would 

 have been a display, and slow time would have been shown at every 

 trial. 



There could not be soi-eness, as the harder Anteeo worked the 

 faster he trotted. Intervals of rest invariably added many seconds 

 to the mile, and fast quarters, halves and miles were made at the 

 finish of long heats. And now for the explanation of the erratic 

 exhibition, and the causes why the second mile would be faster than 

 the first, and the greater the number of the heats the greater the 

 increase in the speed. When fresh he wanted to rebel. In that 

 situation he was determined to resist the attempts to urge him to 

 more rapid movements, and anything like severe castigation resulted 

 in a still stronger will to thwart the driver. When he became 

 wearied — not so tired as to prevent him from trotting — the obstinacy 

 gave way, and then he was willing to go along. When he trotted 

 the half mile in 1:16^ at the Bay District he had been driven two 

 miles as fast as I could work him along, and if it had been permis- 

 ' sible to move once around the track, and then get the word, he would 

 have made a good performance. The mile in 2:31 J- on the 12th of 

 December, so contrary to all his previous actions, I ascribe to the 

 weights distracting his attention at that time, when in the prior failui'es 

 the same effect did not follow. Then there is a manifest improve- 

 ment in his disposition, of which that may have been the forerunner. 

 He has become more docile in the stable ; or, more properly, not so 

 mischievous. Heretofore he seemed to have an idea that men were 

 playmates; that it was all right to jump on them, give them a nijjor 

 run against them, just as a colt is likely to play with another. Until 

 the last few months he could not be led in hand without constant 

 threatening him with a whip, and so I fixed a strong piece of bamboo 



