132 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



of speed, which ought to give the energetic trainer a hint in 

 the right direction. 



There is occasionally a pacer that requires considerable 

 weight in the shoe behind, it seems to balance him better 

 than if the weight was in front ; say for instance, if you have 

 a twelve-ounce shoe in front, put full as much and perhaps 

 two ounces more on the hind feet ; perhaps the front .shoes 

 are fourteen ounces, if so, use sixteen behind, and follow out 

 this proportion either lighter or heavier as the gaiting of a 

 pacer is an experiment as well as a trotter, if they don't go 

 one way try them another. Patience, perseverance and a lit- 

 tle good judgment will get your horse going straight and 

 smooth if he has any natural speed, and when he is once 

 gaited you can reduce this weight a little at a time, either in 

 front or behind, and not interfere with his gait. 



In the summer of 1888 Elmonarch, 2:17|-, came into my 

 hands with a record of 2:20^, made in June. He was having 

 a severe attack of pink-eye when I got him, which I think he 

 hardly recovered from during the fall, but still he went some 

 wonderful good races for me, and I think him one of the best 

 race horses I ever had. He was not at any time in the pink 

 essence of condition, still he showed his ability to pace a mile 

 in 2:15, as he was only beaten by a head at Hartford in the 

 2:20 class by Roy Wilkes in 2:15. He paced a number of 

 heats for me at Utica and Island Park, Albany, from 2:17^^ to 

 2:18. At Utica, in the 2:17 class, there was in the race Bal- 

 sora Wilkes, 2:17^, Jennie Lind, 2:17, Charley Freel, 2:16^, 

 Johnny Woods, 2:231, Dr. M., 2:17^, and Elmonarch. This 

 was the first race I had started him after his sickness. I in- 

 tended to give him an easy race, but he won the first heat so 

 handily from Charley Freel in the stretch in 2:20-|-, as none of 

 the other horses were moved for the heat, that I thought I 

 would move along and end it up in three heats. I won the 

 second heat in 2:18^. Balsora Wilkes gave me a little race in 

 the stretch. In the third heat Balsora Wilkes and Elmonarch 

 had a great race all the way. I beat him home about a head 



