102 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. 



defeated, except in one heat. At Nashville after 

 winning the fast heat in 2:i()j4, distance was 

 waived and a runner sent along to prompt Fan- 

 tasy and she trotted the second heat in 2:o8j4i- 

 She was a nervous, high-strung mare, but very 

 steady. 



Sunol, 2:08^. 

 Sunol (the last of the high wheel three-year- 

 old champions) was a mare of somewhat whim- 

 sical form. She was 15.2 hands high at the 

 withers and 16 hands behind. She was fast in 

 the paddock but gave trouble in breaking, . being 

 high strung and cranky and had to be handled 

 gently. She was broken to hariiess at a year 

 old, worked a little beside a steady going horse, 

 then tried to single harness while she was very 

 iinruly. At first it took about an hour to hitch 

 her up. She was worked carefully during the 

 winter of her yearling and two-year-old form, 

 but brushed at speed a short distance (say a quar- 

 ter in 35 seconds) every other day or two. On 

 Aug. I of her two-year-old form, four days be- 

 fore her first start, she worked her first full mile 

 at Los Angeles in 2:40% and repeated in 2:38. 

 The next day she was- merely exercised and on 

 the following was repeated in 2:36 and 2:351/2. 

 She won her race in 2:34% and 2:25. She was 

 taken home and brushed quarters and halves. 

 She. w^s shipped to Petaluma and on Aug. 20 

 worked in- 2:38 and 2:33. Two days later she 



