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Title: Training the trotting horse : a natural and improved method of educating trotting colts and horses based on twenty years experience
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Marvin, Charles Macleod, Leslie E
Subjects: Horses Horse racing
Publisher: Franklin, Pa. : Marvin Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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the mile in 2:19^, WilkesBoy and her old enemy Fugue being distanced. Fuguewas a good mare, but she could never meet HindaRose at any time or place but she met her master. With this race Hinda Kose finished her campaign of1883 in a blaze of glory. She had won everything shestarted for durmg the year, never being beaten asingle heat, and outclassing everything of her age inthe East. Hinda Rose did nothing in public in 1884 beyondtrotting a mile in 2:20^ at San Francisco in an unsuc-cessful attempt to beat Elviras four-year-old record of2:18^, which we, after failing with Hinda Rose, suc-ceeded in beating witn Sallie Benton. Though HindaRose was in our stable in the East in 1885 she wasnever ready to start, and in 1886 she only started once,at Lexington, October 1st, where she, in company withTom Rogers, C. F. Clay and Olaf, was beaten byPatron; but the defeat was handsomely avenged afew days later at St. Louis by her stable-companionManzanita, when, in a great race, she defeated Patron
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hJ w cfi m a ei C u C/2 THE BLACK COLT ST. BEL. 127 for the champion four-year-old honors. Hinda Eosewas not herself either in 18S5 or 1886, showing symp-toms of breaking down, which precluded a properpreparation. Indeed, as in the case of Wildflower,though of course to a much smaller extent, distemperleft its permanent effect on Hinda Eose. We havewaited and worked patiently but vainly with this greatmare in recent seasons, hoping that she would standtraining again, beheving that if she could be thor-oughly prepared she would trot to a record not farfrom the head. The black colt St. Bel was the third member of theBeautiful Bells family in point of age, and was thenext after Hinda Eose to earn distinction on the turf.I broke him at eight months old, and had him goingnicely for his age, when I went East in 1883 withHinda Eose, Bonita and AVildflower. On returning, Ifound him and Manzanita somewhat broken up, andboth were some time in roundino^ to ao^ain. He didnot make his first public

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