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2:15. At Columbus the next week Murphy 

 worked her in 2 : 14 and 2 :ioJ4 and won the Stock 

 Farm Futurity around 2 :io three times. At Lex-, 

 ington he worked her two heats around 2:15 and 

 then won the Kentucky Futurity. All together 

 she had less than 20 heats better than 2:20, in- 

 cluding all her work and races. In my opinion 

 colts need to be kept fresh. They should not 

 have too many miles, but plenty of speed making 

 and conditioning. They will race with this work 

 if game, and if not game no amount of staying- 

 up will get them to Futurity form." 



Shoeing of 1911, 1912 and 1913 Colts. 

 Speaking of shoeing, we made a comparison 

 of the shoes worn by the fastest three-;year-olds 

 of 191 1, 1912, and 1913, as illustrated in the 

 Christmas numbers of "The Horseman'* of the 

 respective years. The following tabulation of av- 

 eragesx tells its own story : 



No. of Wt. Angle Length Wt. Angle Length 



colts Front Front Front Hind Hind Hind 



Year. observed. Shoes. Feet. Feet. Shoes. Feet. Feet. 



1011 16 7 48 3% 4 63 3% 



1312 12 7 49 3% 4 54 3% 



1913 35 7% 48H 3% 4 52 3% 



Av. for 3 years.... 7% 48% 3% 4 62%, 3% 



Av. for pacers 7 48 3M 4 51^ 3 



The table contains the average for both gaits. 

 A line is added at the bottom to show the aver- 

 age for pacers. As there were only lo pacers 

 considered out of a total of 63 colts, their influ- 

 ence in the main table is not considerable. 



