LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 49 



leader, Mr. Dougrey returned to the sulky again, and as 

 late as 1888 brought out a first-class campaigner in the big 

 chestnut gelding T. T. S. , that trotted two races a week all 

 the way down the line against some of the best ones in the 

 country, and seldom failed to get a part of the money. 



In looking back over the campaign, I thought I saw 

 where I had made some serious mistakes with Kansas 

 Chief. Perhaps I had done as well as anyone, taking into 

 consideration that it was the first time I had gone through 

 the big circuit with a horse. One thing I am sure of, we 

 were all wrong in starting him after he had begun to lose 

 his form. He had been kept at an edge, trotted a great 

 many good races, and beaten some of the best horses of his 

 year. Perhaps if he had been sound he might have gone 

 right on, but in the condition of his feet it was almost 

 impossible to expect him to continue to take his work and 

 go a race, and if we had stopped him after his Boston race 

 it would have been much better. I simply state this as my 

 opinion after looking the battles all over ; and I believe 

 that in order to make oneself perfect in any business in life 

 a man must be sure to take account of all the mistakes he 

 makes ; and as I am writing this book hoping there may be 

 in its pages some information of value to other people, I 

 shall from time to time make a note of mistakes I think 

 I have made in training, driving, etc. 



That winter we took Kansas Chief to the farm of Sam 

 McLaughlin in Newburgh, Orange County, N. Y., to be 

 cared for. Mike Ward, his rubber, went with the horse, 

 and we commenced to treat his feet where we left off in the 

 spring. We gave him medicine to cool his blood and tone 

 up his stomach, had a nice warm stall with plenty of bed- 

 ding prepared for him, and during the warm part of the 

 day he was allowed to run out in the paddock. When the 

 spring came he looked and acted like a colt. His feet were 

 grown out and very much improved. His legs appeared 

 very clean and sound. When the training season opened 

 we took him to Fleetwood Park, and I think that was a 



