his heels, and this balanced him and he would pace 

 square. I worked with him about a month before I 

 went North with my racing stable. The first mile I 

 drove him it took him three minutes and thirteen 

 seconds to make the circuit, but before I went away 

 he showed me a mile in 2.30. He was then turned 

 out and not taken up again until about September ist. 

 During my absence he was started in a race at the 

 Columbia Fair in September, in which he took a record 

 of 2.29}^. When I returned that fall, I commenced 

 working him again and kept taking the weight off his 

 front feet and he kept increasing his speed. I finally 

 got him so he did not require any extra weight, and 

 during his races he generally wore a five-ounce shoe in 

 front and a six-ounce shoe behind. Before I turned 

 him out that fall he showed me a mile over my old 

 half-mile track in 2.17, and I became satisfied that I 

 had a first-class race horse if nothing happened. His 

 hind legs always had rather a curby look, and when 

 he paced this good mile that fall he developed a curb 

 on one leg that caused me much anxiety ; but I 

 blistered it and turned him out and he never again 

 showed any signs of weakness in it. I commenced 

 work with him early the next spring and he improved 

 so rapidly that I was more than ever convinced that 

 he was one of the coming turf sensations and I pur- 

 chased a half interest in him. I concluded to start 

 him first in the 2.30 class at Cleveland that year, and, 

 as he had never been on a mile track, I took him and 

 my other horses there some time before the meeting, 

 that he might get used to the track and surroundings. 

 His front feet were always flat and of a tender and 

 delicate formation. The track at Cleveland was very 

 hard and in the work I gave him before the meeting 



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