EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. Ill 



feed or drink a drop of water and died on the fourth day out 

 with nervous prostration. 



I have had trouble with other horses in loading them and 

 putting them in the box. It is rather a frightful place to put 

 a horse, as they are lowered down three stories into the hold. 

 But when out of the box in the stall they seem to be as quiet 

 and contented as if in their own stable on the land. In fact, 

 some will go the whole trip, if the weather is good, as well as 

 could be wished ; will lie down and get their rest, get up and 

 walk around, eat and drink as usual, and when taken out of 

 the vessel at Bremen it could not be told by their looks that 

 they had been shipped a mile. Others will act dull and stupid, 

 will not lie down and will stand up the entire trip ; thej' will 

 not eat or drink. It will take such horses from one to two 

 weeks to recover from the voyage. Some seem to lose the 

 use of themselves and are stiff and sore all over. One three- 

 year-old colt I sent over had a good passage, was only ten 

 days on the route. When they took him off the vessel at 

 Bremen he did not seem to have a joint in his legs and could 

 not lift his feet high enough to step over an inch board. He 

 staid in that condition about forty-eight hours before he 

 seemed to have any use of himself. They thought he was en- 

 tirely ruined, but he recovered in about two weeks all right 

 and seemed to be as well as ever and has made a good horse. 

 He was a colt by Amber, called Young Amber, bred b}- Wal- 

 ter Pendergast of Phoenix, I sold him to Mr. Smith of 

 Vienna, Austria, who bought Old Amber and trotted him 

 through Europe so successfully, as lie was the best horse across 

 the water for the first years after he arrived. 



I have had a number that have landed there, their desti- 

 nation being about eight hundred miles from the seaport, that 

 were fit to trot a race in ten days after their arrival. 



It is surprising to know that these horses have done as 

 well as the\- have when -we take into consideration the tracks 

 which they have to go over. Most of the tracks are of grass. 

 They just stake them out with poles, setting them endways 



