The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22

her miles. We have never had a quar- rel.
 'She needed understanding, trust and sympathy. for, as have said, she is very feminine. There never was saf- CT horse. but she is most ambitious, wanting to go all the time.
 As acquaintance with Lou ripened I became more and more convinced that she was worthy of the higher education, and so the following season I brought her with my stable on the grand cir cult, which includes the tracks at De trCit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston, New York, Lexington, Cincinnati, etc. This is an opportunity that very few young horses get, and it is most improving. After a time horse becomes tired of racing on the same track against the same competitors. It feels the monot- ony, just as man would. I am sure that wild animals that are caged suffer from this purely mental effect in the same way, and that the reason so many of them sieken and die is that all inter est and excitement have been taken out of their lives.
 AANL-AA4As lO 4bbE G1I anu nothing to do and they are simply bored to death.
 "On the grand circuit there is con- stand change and excitement, and Lou Dillon tried all sorts of tracks and had brushes with all sorts of rivals, and all the time she was gaining in expe- rience and confidence. She had all the benefits of racing and none of the strain.
 "She proved to us that there never was a faster, gamer, steadier or more reliable trotter, and feel sure that her best days are yet to come. expect to see her beat even the pacing horse record. She has pacing horse speed, and the strongest heart of any horse l ever saw.
 AS an instance of her courage and steadiness, may mention that the first automobile she ever saw was on the road at Cleveland, during her first season away from the farm. The ma chine came at us, making deal of noise, but Lou only looked at it, prick ing her ears. The automobile stopped and began letting off steam. Yet at my request she walked up to and exam ined the strange thing with curiosity, but without fear, while the automobilist took her picture.
 "One advantage that Lou has over most horses arises largely from the fact that in spite of her dainty airs and grace she is so gentle and so true. We can give her the utmost freedom. She wears no checkrein or martingale. Her head is not forced away up like the heads of other horses, and she goes easy to herself, with the reins slack on her back. Then, again, her legs are not swathed like those of other horses. She wears only a light pair of shin boots and very light pair of barter boots, and her shoes are the lightest ever worn by a fast trotter. her front shoes weighing four and one-quarter ounces each and hind shoes two and one-haf ounces each. .......... @...... s..
 Lou, who has her own personal att tendants, to whom she is much attach ed, sleeps soundly in blankets till 6:30 o'clock every morning, and then gets up and has breakfast, which consists of two and one-half quarts of oats and some carrots. e
 After breakfast she is brushed off and the night dress of bandages and cotton removed from her limbs. Then follows her morning exercise hitched to sulky or wagon when intended to go fast, or to Payne cart when going slow.
 At the end of this work she is rub bed with alcohol, getting regular mas sage treatment all over. Then she is bandaged and blanketed again and walked about for nearly two hours and an hour and half later takes an easy jog. After this comes her dinner, ex- actly the same as her breakfast, and succeeding that she rests utnil four o'clock, when she is walked about for an hour. e.. = When she returns to the stable her bandages are put back on her and she is given her hay, which costs $S0 a ton. It is California hay, brought on special ly for her, as we find it is better for her than the ordinary timothy hay. At six o'clock she gets carrots and oats ] again. and another feast of the same sort at 9:S0 o'clock, after which Queen Lou goes to bed, well wrapped in blan- kets, from which only her fine head protrudes.'
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