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feather edge, but on trial that did not seem to do, as it took 

 away her speed, and she did not do as well as she ought to, 

 so I shortened up her work from ten miles a day to four. 

 With this treatment she commenced to do better. I think 

 this is enough for a majority of horses when in training and 

 trying to develop speed, though there are exceptions, some 

 horses seem to require fifteen or twenty miles before they will 

 settle and trot, but such horses I don't care for, because they 

 are not much good and won't last long. 



The first race in which I started Kitefoot was at Elmira, 

 N. Y., June 3, 1886, against Aleroy, 2:23, and Kit Sanford, 

 2:21;|-. I had no idea of giving her a very hard race, as it was 

 her first that season and she and I also were not very well ac- 

 quainted up to that time. Aleroy won the race, the time be- 

 ing 2:26, 2:25 and 2:26. Kitefoot got second money. I was 

 very well satisfied with the race, as it was three good heats 

 over a half-mile track so early in the spring. On June 15 1 

 started her at Island Park, Albany, N. Y., against Windsor M., 

 2:20J, Merry Thought, 2:22J, Charles Hilton, 2:17^; and Prince 

 Middleton, 2:20J[-. Windsor M. won the first heat in 2:22|- ; 

 second heat in 2:23^. Kitefoot won the next three heats in 

 2:24:f, 2:25 and 2:23|-. This proved to me that my opinion of 

 her was correct, that she was a genuine race mare, and that 

 they did not have her beat until we got clear to the wire in 

 the last heat. If the heats got broken, the race was her mut- 

 ton sure. The next time I started her was at Phoenix, N. Y., 

 July 7, over a "half-mile track, against Star Durock, 2:25. It 

 was not much of a race, as she had nothing to go against, as 

 Durock could not go a bit. The time was 2:38^, 2:36 and 

 2:29|. The next place I started her was at Cleveland, Ohio, 

 July 28 and 29, against Belle Hamlin, 2:13|, Manzanita, 2:16, 

 Spofford, 2:18f, Longfellow Whip, 2:20, Orange Boy, 2:18^, 

 and Lowland Girl, 2:18^, There was a great battle between 

 Manzanita and Belle Hamlin. They seemed to be the great 

 contending horses, and a great fight they had, too. Manzan- 

 ita won the first heat in 2:16 J, and the second in 2:19|. Belle 



