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nership with Edward Eagle. We opened a public stable and 

 trained many high-class horses, including Goodwood, Ice- 

 burg, Vesuvius and Ella D., the grandam of Hanover. I 

 consider her to have been every whit as good as her grand- 

 son, and she was certainly a mighty queen of the turf. 



Goodwood was by Lexington out of Evergreen, by imp. 

 Glencoe, and was owned by Col. John R. Viley, of Lexing- 

 ton. Ben Pryor, a trainer, of Natchez, Miss., had the horse 

 as a two and three-year-old, and he sent him back to Col. 

 Viley, saying there was nothing in him, and that he could 

 never win enough to pay his feed bill. When I separated 

 from Eagle and went into business for myself Col. Viley 

 came to me and suggested that I take the horse on shares. 

 I thought over the proposition and concluded to take the 

 chance. At that time, perhaps, I was about the only man in 

 Kentucky who thought there was anything in this handsome 

 son of Lexington. 



I gave him a careful training till the springtime came, 

 and then I took him to Louisville. First I put him in a race 

 with a number of others just as a trial. There was some 

 interference with Goodwood during the race and he lost to 

 Sherrod. I was somewhat disappointed at his failure to win, 

 for I had had great confidence in his ability. I was not 

 discouraged, however, and, returning to Lexington, I trained 

 him again for the meeting there. This time his success was 

 beyond my fondest expectations. He met Black Rebel, 

 Lila, Starlight, Joe Stoner and other noted horses at two- 

 mile heats, winning handily. Three days later he was in a 

 race with the mighty Colossus and several others. He won 

 two straights without an effort, and was never extended. 

 By this time his fame was established, and the Pryor castoff 

 was sold to Judge Hunter for $10,000 that night. Mr. Ten 

 Broeck was arranging to go to England for a campaign, and 

 he offered Judge Hunter $10,000, the price he had paid for 

 the horse, for his running qualities. 



" Why," said Judge Hunter, proudly, " $10,000 wouldn't 

 buy a hair in that horse's tail." 



Mr. Ten Broeck was so impressed with the perform- 

 ances of Goodwood that he afterward bought his full sister, 

 Myrtle, and took her to England. There she was entered 

 in the rich Czarowitch Stakes, and in a field of thirty-nine of 

 the best-blooded animals of old England she finished second. 



