160 LIFE WITH THE TUOTTEES. 



road I took her to the track and commenced to give her a. 

 great many slow miles. Some days I gave her as many as. 

 six or seven miles between 2:50 and 3:00 This treatment 

 rather dulled her spirits, but I gave her plenty to eat all 

 the time, and after this commenced to teach her to score 

 fast. We did nothing at all in the way of giving her fast 

 miles, but let her have all her work in scoring. I would take- 

 her out some days and score her an hour at a time. At first 

 she did not take very kindly to it; she would either want to 

 rush uj) against the bit or else break; but I kept persevering 

 with this treatment, and after a month or so of that sort of 

 work saw some improvement in her behavior. Then I short- 

 ened her work and increased the speed. After I had driven 

 her two or three moderate heats in the morning I would 

 take a runner out with her. At first she would seldom let 

 the runner get within hailing distance without wanting to 

 break. I kept this up, trying to accustom her to the runner,, 

 and after awhile commenced scoring him with her. 



It was quite awhile before she took kindly to that, but. 

 after awhile she gave up entirely and allowed me to place 

 her anywhere I liked in company with other horses. I then 

 stopped giving her the long, slow work, but changed it to 

 plenty of road work, and brushed her every day from a 

 quarter to a half a mile. I took her with me on our trip 

 to Indiana, and gave her lots of moderate work, and when we 

 arrived in Chicago we had her entered to trot against Edwin 

 Thorne. Her feet and legs looked to be in as good condi- 

 tion as it was possible for them to be. A week before the 

 race I gave her five heats between 2:30 and 2:24^, twenty min- 

 utes apart, with plenty of scoring, giving her about as much 

 work as she would have got had she been in a race with that, 

 number of heats. In tbis work she was very steady and 

 showed plenty of speed when called upon. I may say that 

 she beat Edwin Thorne one of the best contested races I 

 ever saw, of five heats. He took the first two, she the third, 

 fourth, and fifth. I will describe the last heat in detail: 

 They went away from the wire together, and in going down 



