, 1877-02-18

| the American trottng turf, BY putting In
three heats below geo, and wiping ont
| with her, aud tho young man who had previous
| II been regarded Us merely an average handler
| Of trottcrs was, in the minus Of the public,
| transformed into q second Hiram Woodruff,
| a man who could make any horse trot.
1t IS All Old saying among horscmen that Is II
you have one good trottcr you can get all the
others,:' and this was never better exemplitied
than In the case Of Doble. When the Maid
lowered the time standard, the great majority
OF people imagined that Doble did It all, and
from that time his SUCCESS was assured. Every
man owning good horse was anxious to place
IT in Doble's stable and it is fact that Budd has
been extremely successful with these
horses, But this Is not at all strange. IT. the
taslon. he has not taken horse that had NOT
shown grcas speed, either in public contests or
private trials, before passing into his hands,
ThornJale and Clementine might be cited by
some rs exceptions to this rule, but, tn the case
OF the former, he won colt race in fast time,
aud had frequently shown half-lnle heats in
LIE, while being used for stud purposes at Mr..
Thorn's breeding farm, and Clementine was
known to possess a world OF speed, and to be q
1ea1-game trOtter+ when in TIE HANDS OF GrnVes
IL LooIpis, of this city.
Another thing that has attracted the attention
OF horsen1en and which the general public over
looks, Is that the horses in Dobe's string are al
ways in the flower of condition, and Ut to trot
1Uf man. lllEs 10 AQFE = uOi5C III klOtA1Ak
form during the entire campaign is half the vic
tory, especially when the contests are close, and
the heats divided. Everybody who witnessed
the race at the Cleveland meeting In 1878 be-
tween Clementne aud MAY Queen, one driven
bv Do5le, the other by Charlie Green, saw that
although the former was suffering from bad
feet, she finished every mile OF that six-heat
contest in manner that showed her to be IN the
primo Of condition, and it was The opinion OF
many good judges that it was to this that she
owed her victory rather than to any advantage
in speed or skillful driving. The credit OF keep
inr Doble's horses in such fine fix to trot
should be giveu to s'Old Charley" the veteran
who Inns charge Of their stable management and
exercise. It is his eye that watches each horse
in its daily jogging, and his province to say
when they shall start in race Once on the
track, and while the pretty work" Is being
done, Deble Is in command, but when heat Is
finished, and the horse goes to the stable trem-
bling in every limb, It Is ''Old Chariey's" Skill
that cools out the exhausted animal IN tue most
approved manner, go that WHEN the Dell
sounds for the next heat, the horse appears
on the track fit to trot. While Budd Doble Is
one Of the best drivers In the eoon~
try, and much OF his stables success IS due to
the slillfui hand and cool head that guides the
horses in race it Is also true that the a-essen-
tial work of conditioning these horses Is In
the hands Of another man.
While on the subject OF Doble, it may be we'll |
TO state that the rumors which have been in cir |
culation for SOME time, to the elect that he III
tends abandoning the turf and assuming charge
of the hotel being built In San Francisco By his