44 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



WicklifFe Curry, who has given records to more 

 yearlings than anyone except Moody, halter 

 breaks as soon as colts are weaned, then has them 

 shod and leads them beside a pony. He boots 

 his colts for protection. After being led a few 

 times, he ground-breaks them, and later on, dur- 

 ing the winter months, they are hitched and 

 broken to drive. The speed making comes in the 

 spring. Stewart Chandler handles his colts in 

 much the same way as Curry. 



Previous to Peter Volo, the champion yearling 

 trotter was Miss Stokes, i, 2:ig%, that was 

 trained by Ed Willis in his usual rnanner, as pre- 

 viously outlined. 



Previous to Peter Volo, the champion yearling 

 trotting stallion, was Wilbur Lou 2:19^^, devel- 

 oped by the late Frank H. Holloway, of Hemet 

 Stock Farm, Hemet, Calif. Wilbur Lou was 

 weaned and halter-broken in the month of De- 

 cember, 1909. When he was nicely halter-broken, 

 he was bitted and ground broken for about a 

 month. He was then hitched and driven a few 

 times, and then turned out. On the 20th of April 

 he was t^ken up again and driven for several 

 days before being shod with 6 oz. half round 

 shoes in front, and 4 ozi plain shoes behind. The 

 next day he stepped an eighth in :30j/^, two days 

 later in :28^, and two weeks later in :225^' sec- 

 onds. Up to this time he had not been asked to 

 go further than an eighth of a mile, and in 



