Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-17

and when he talked about hooding, scrap
ing and cooling out, and when saw all
the array of boots, bits. blankets, hoods,
raps. soaking outfits, etc, |, like Gold
smiths schoolmaster, "wondered how
one small head could contain all he
thing marvellous and even puzzled him,
and when we started out to the track
with one of our small yearlings with
boots. some upside down, some made for
old horses. and boots made for cripples,
for horses twenty years before that time,
with boots that even now l would not
know what part of the anatomy they
were made for, yet all were strung on to
one of the four feet. Oh, how the boots
did fly, and it required picker up to
follow In the wake of the colt. We were
q strong team at training, yet Minnehaha
in spite of both of us would trot any
way. But in time the boots gave out.
1t began to dawn, too, upon my mind,
that perhaps some other trainer might
get along with less boots, and hired an
other young fellow who had "llttle
knowledge" but an immense amount of
energy. sent him up to the ranch to
get up Mnnehaha.
As soon as he got her to the barn he
harnessed her to a cart and she being
able to trot fast ard willing, he sampled
her much to his satisfaction. The mare,
of course, was entirely unfit for such
Gilpiu rattle as he gave her, for she had
been out on pasture for six months. The
result was she famed, from which she
never recovered. At the time it caused
me much sorrow and regret for she
would have made fast mare for racing
nurposes and would no doubt have been
used for years for racing and driving
purposes, whereas. being unfit for either,
she was bred to The Moor and produced
Beautiful Bells. that remarkable daugh-
ter of remarkable mother. Beautiful
Bells was a wonderful filly. Beautiful
in form, being a queen whether walking
or trotting and as true, honest and fast
trotter as a two-year-old as l ever bred.
The quality of honest, square trotting
without breaking was her popularity to
a marked degree. BY this time had an
other trainer with experience, but none
with colts, and had all the belief that colt
trotting was very injurious. He saw
that she was a remarkable filly, but to
work her was always under protest and
hurt him. At last his time was put in by
petting her, saving her from all hard
work or work at all, and when others
were driving on the track to keep every
thing away from her to prevent from
exciting her. She soon took in the stu
alton like any other spoiled child and be-
came wlful and notional and would go
when she felt like it or not as the inclina-
ton prompted. Going from the score
she got in the habit of breaking, and let
ting her have her own way about it the
habit became fixed, and nothing would
ever make her change in that respect,
nor would she catch but would Jump
up and down to an aggravating extent
until every other horse would be hun
bred yards away, then she would trot
true and fast. and if she made break it
would be only skip. As a five-year-old
she won six races out of seven. but all
were of six or seven heats each. She
had so much endurance and speed that
in time she would tire everything out and
| in the end win. She was hard trial for
the judges, for she would keep a field at
the post by her breaking as long as the
Judges would stand her capers by break
ing. The following year she had to go
in faster elias and could not give away
a hundred yards and then win. OF
course it was very disgusting to me to
know that she had the capacity of win
ming, yet by her contrary action would
get dstanced or lose every race. Being
disgusted ! traded her off for mining
stock out of which never realized a
cent, yet this losing her entirely. al
though at the time a sore reflection. was
in the end very fortunate. "All for the
best Had she not been spoiled but
trotted true she would have sold for SlO.-
600.
| would have sold her and she would
have spent her life as racing and driv-
ing animal. As it was. the man who
traded for her got Disguised with her
after short trial at racing and bred her
to Electioneer. His mining enterprises
turning out bad prevented his having the
means of keeping her. Gov. Stanford, to
save his service and pasture bill. was
forced to buy her, and he got her for
about $1,000 or less. This gave her op.
portunity. Electioneer and Marvin did
the trick to make her the greatest young
mare in America, and believe her pro.
duce would bring more money at auction
to-day than the produce of any mare in
the world.
OF course Minnehaha would have rep.
resentation of her own, but her own is
dOuhled nv tho rannwn of Raant;ful DoIIe