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ter ounces an'd the /J«&^C one eight, I put the harness on her 

 and went out and rrioved her again and found, as the boys 

 say, she was four-cornered. She had never showed me a mile 

 before better than 2:33, and the next week she got a record of 

 2:25f, which shows you what proper shoeing will do when ap- 

 plied to correct some particular fault which takes much study 

 and common sense to be able to tell what .the trouble is. 

 Many a good horse has been thrown away as no good that 

 might have trotted fast if they had been properly balanced in 

 shoeing. 



Lady Whitefoot was improving every time I drove her 

 after changing her shoes. I was not quite ready to go out 

 and win against such horses as Queen Wilkes, 2:23|, Cuba, 

 Edgewood and Jessie Ballard in a race trotted at Hartford 

 September 8d, 1886. Billy Wicks had the Queen and is pretty 

 slick when he is out for the money. I told Mr. A. E, Alvord, 

 the owner of Whitefoot, if he would wait another week I 

 would win the mare out, that is, we would have the mare and 

 the money. Mr. Alvord is a very enthusiastic man over a 

 trotter. He wants them driven for all they are worth if it 

 takes a leg off. He was anxious to see her beat 2:30, as he 

 hardly thought she could. I went ofif and won the first heat 

 in 2:25|-. Billy Wicks and Tommy Carr with Edgewood saw 

 they had to do something to keep me from getting their 

 money. Edgewood could go away from the score fast, would 

 take the track, and Queen Wilkes could go away a little faster 

 than I could, and when she would get to Edgewood, Tommy 

 would let her through inside and when I came Tommy would 

 try and see how close he could make me go to the outside 

 fence without going over it, and in that way Queen Wilkes 

 beat me the second heat in 2:25 ; the third she did not beat 

 me over a head in 2:23f, and the fourth heat in 2:27^, which I 

 gave up at the half as Tommy had me on the fence both sides 

 of the track. The judges distanced him for fouling me. 



The next week I turned the tables on the Queen at 

 Springfield. We did not make as fast time on account of the 



