LIFE WITH THE TKOTTERS. 8&' 



to hustle a, horse around in 2:14 as anyone lie knew. When 

 we arrived at San Francisco, and got ready to train the 

 horses, I said to Mr. Doble again that I would consider it a 

 favor if he would give me his ideas about training that par- 

 ticular horse. I have always been a believer in giving every 

 man credit for what I thought was his due, and for that- 

 reason I wish to state here that Mr. Doble taught me many 

 things about training horses that other people might have 

 known about, but which, up to that time, had never entered 

 my head. He was one of the first men that ever taught me 

 the danger of overfeeding a horse. Rams was, without 

 exception, the greatest feeder I ever saw. I held at that 

 time what I have since considered a mistaken idea, that it 

 was proper to give a horse all he wanted to eat in the way 

 of grain, etc. 



Another thing that Budd taught me was that a horse- 

 could be put in condition with a great deal less fast work 

 than I had at that time supposed possible. His idea was ta 

 give them plenty of what we call three-quarter speed, with 

 longer Avork from a mile to a mile-and-a-half and two-mile 

 heats, never under any consideration giving them what 

 some of the boys term "reefing." He advised me a good 

 deal about the shoeing of Rarus, and about this time some- 

 thing happened to that horse that 1 never saw in any other. 

 He had a quarter-crack in one of his hind feet. When I 

 saw that, I thought the jig was up for the present. Budd 

 told me that the Maid once had such a foot, and that he 

 could fix the wound so that I could work Rarus without 

 any trouble. We took him to the shop and had him shod, 

 with a bar-shoe on the affected foot. Then we took a saw 

 and sawed the bearing out underneath and had the fo(>t 

 sewed in a canvas bandage with some balsam of fir. I kept 

 him at work, seeing that the foot was always clean, and re- 

 newing the bandage occasionally, and I never saw any plan 

 work better. For the first thirty days I gave Rarus no work 

 better than 2:25. The Californians who came out with their 

 watches every morning to see him go became rather dis- 



