not make them go square. I generally shoe them 

 light and when they commence to amble often rush 

 them to a break, and when settled from the break they 

 will trot or pace square and improve in their speed 

 very rapidly. 



Soon after the bicycle craze became prevalent 

 I commenced to ride a wheel, and soon became 

 satisfied that if the ball-bearing pneumatic tire 

 wheel could in some way be made available for the 

 sulky it would be a great improvement, and I formu- 

 lated a crude sort of plan in my mind for their adjust- 

 ment to the high-wheeled sulky I then used, but did 

 not attempt to put my ideas into any practical shape. 

 There was a gentleman in the East who seemed to 

 entertain the same views, that had the genius to gratify 

 his ambition, and during the Detroit meeting of 1892 

 he shipped one of his contrivances to Budd Doble, and 

 requested him to try it in a race. It consisted of a 

 pair of pneumatic wheels adjusted to a high-wheeled 

 sulky frame, and made quite a grotesque appearance 

 when it first arrived. For some reason, Mr. Doble did 

 not care to gratify this gentleman's desire, and for 

 several days after its arrival the sulky stood unused. 

 I had in my stable that season the horse Excellence, 

 and one day I desired to work him four pretty stiff 

 heats, and hitched him to my high-wheeled sulky and 

 drove him a mile, and the time was 2.23^. I then 

 told Mr. Doble I would like to make the next trial in 

 that new-fangled contrivance of his, and he said he 

 would be glad to have me do so. I hitched to it and 

 drove him a mile in 2.21^. The next mile I tried my 

 own sulky again and the best he could do was 2.23^. 

 The next trial I again hitched to the new sulky, and 

 he again trotted the mile in 2.21^. This trial satisfied 



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