48 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTBRH. 



and I then began training the filly in earnest, work- 

 ing her twice a day. In doing this, of course, I took 

 chances of injuring her, and, indeed, of breaking her 

 down. Had we begun earlier she could have been 

 given more work, and could have been developed to 

 a higher point, with little or no risk, but we never 

 allow such considerations to stand in the way when 

 the suprematy of Palo Alto in colt records is at 

 stake. . The filly took her hard work with relish, and 

 improved under it until November 12th, when we 

 felt that she was equal to the task of plucking the 

 fresh laurels from Sucne D.'s brow. The trial was 

 made at the Bay Distsict track, San Francisco, and 

 she trotted the mile in 2:31j^, a yearling record that 

 has a good chance to last as long as Hinda Rose's. 

 The time by quarters was :39, :36, r38, :38j^." 



We will quote also from Marvin's description 



of Hinda Rose's training: 



"Hinda Rosa was our first youngster that earnqd 

 fame at the early period of yearling form. She was 

 foaled February 22, 1880, and is a brown mare, by 

 Electioneer, out of Beautiful Bells, 2:29J^. * * * 

 She was well broken early, and in her yearling form 

 I began working her. Her serious training began 

 July 5, 1881; I had now gotten well into the Palo 

 Alto system of training, and could work the new 

 fangled ideas pretty skillfully. She was worked on 

 the method described in chapters ' further on, until 

 November Sth; the date of her first public perform- 

 ance. The yearling record was then 2:5654. and at 

 the Bay District Track a set of harness was oflfered 

 to yearlings to "trot against this record. The first 

 trial was made by the filly Pride, by Buccaneer, 

 owned by Count Valensin, and driven by John Gold- 

 smith, who has since handled Guy Wilkes, Sable 

 Wilkes and other horses so successfully ' for Mr. 

 Gorbitt. Pride made the mile in 2:44^. : I then drove 

 Hinda Rose and she went from wire to wire in 

 2v43j/$. On the 24th we gave her another trail, when 

 she went in 2:36j4, and this stood as the yearling 

 record until 1888, when it was lowered successfully 

 by the Kentucky filly, Sudie D., and our lost Palo 

 Alto star, Norlaine." 



