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onds) and 2:09^. His year's winnings were 

 over $20,000 and he retired sound. The follow- 

 ing is quoted from Mike Bowerman's account of 

 the training of Gen. Watts, which appeared in 

 the Horse Review of Decehiber 17, I907: 



As to aay system of training eolts, I have none. I train hoisea 

 differently from any other nian that I ever saw train. After I 

 thought I had Gen. Watts thoroughly seasoned, I did less jogging 

 than any one generally does.- I went to the track less than al- 

 most any one else goes. If I can get out on the road I care little 

 about the track, only for .speeding purposes. After getting him into 

 condition 1 would work out Gen. Watts twice a week; good fast 

 miles, rated ^11 the way, not driying him any fast Quarters or 

 eighths. After I drove him a mile in 2:15^4, which, my recol- 

 lection is, was some time the first part of July, I began to teach 

 him to get away from the wire fast; after gloing about an 

 eighth taking him badk Snd stepping the last eighth at the end 

 of a mile. I have seen trainers go out to work their horses, It 

 being what they called "work out day" for certain ones. Possibly 

 the horse, for some unknown reason, would ^ not. work -as well as' 

 he had at other times. Then the trainer would whip him and 

 run him and say, "Well. I will work -him another heat; I will 

 make him worse or better." I never do that. When I start to 

 work a horse and he does not act right, I take him to the stable, 

 for it is a sure thing that there is something wrong, with him, and 

 he not being able to talk, I will wait and see what the trouble Is 

 or was, I use less bandages than any one, I use no body wash 

 at all, nothing in the way it is mostly used. In short' I trained 

 General Watts as I do all other horses In my charge. Trained him 

 wheh he felt good, if it was his time to work. 



As to what shoes he wore and the angle of his feet, he wore a 

 bar shoe In front, weighting 6^ ounces, with 3-ounce quarter boot, 

 the angle of his foot being 47 degree, with a 3-inch toe. His hind 

 shoe weighed less than three ounces, 3-inch toe, angle 51. He. 

 wore shin boots behind with a very light coronet boot, a very- light 

 knee boot for protection only, for I had driven him without any 

 boots a little ways as fast as he could go, he never .touching a 

 hair. I wore an open bridle on him with his head checked a lit- 

 tle above the level of back. No martingale. I fed him twelve 

 quarts • of grain a day. with all the hay that he would eat. His 

 stomach and digestive organs were always in perfect order. After 

 I said he was ready to trot he should never have lost a heat, 

 and the only time that he did I myself was to blame for it, not 

 him. While he has done what no other three-year-old ever ap- 

 proached, the world does not know what his real ability was, for 

 I am Just as sure in my own' mind, had I hit the right day and 

 track, he would have trotted a mile in 2:05 or better, as I was 

 sure that he would trot a mile in 2:07% or better, which I did not 

 hesitate to Say the day he trotted in 2:06%. 



Fantasy, 2:08?4. 

 Fantasy was broken and worked as a two- 

 year-old and showed speed at once. As a three- 

 year-old she started seven times and was never 



