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It was a three-mile-heat affair. Mr. O'Fallon's horse was con- 

 sidered an animal of no speed when I got him, but I had him 

 in such fine shape that he won in two straight heats. A re- 

 markable feature of this race was the fact that Plantaganet 

 ran the last half mile of the second heat in 0:48^. 



We won all the big stakes of the meeting with our 

 horses, and then went to Chicago, where I won two big 

 stakes with Plantaganet, defeating Blazewater and others. 

 Two other stakes fell to our lot through the medium of 

 Altavela. She was a two-year-old at that time and was a 

 wonderful filly. Malacca and Mollie Jones were easily de- 

 feated by her, and she could have carried any kind of 

 weight and won. In the first of these races she was so far 

 ahead that she stopped and turned around and whinnied like 

 a colt for its mother. A stableman who was standing at a 

 gate noticed the predicament of the lad on the filly's back, 

 and he ran out and shooed her along. At that she ran on and 

 won by forty or fifty yards. 



That same week we put The Corsican in a race and beat 

 Moonlight, a grand filly of the year, who afterward became 

 noted for her marvelous performances. The Corsican was 

 my individual property, but I sold him to a man named 

 Holland, and the latter raced him in the South, winning 

 many stakes and purses. Major Thomas G. Bacon was his 

 trainer there and had a farm at Edgefield, S. C. 



At Saratoga The Banshee won the rich Travis Stake 

 and the Filly Stake. Altavela won all the two-year-old races 

 there, beating Oakleaf, who had won all the stakes of this 

 class in the East up to the time our horses arrived at the 

 course. I would have won a three-mile dash with Pat 

 Maloy, who had been purchased by Mr. O'Fallon, but for 

 the stupidity of my rider. He was seventy-five yards ahead 

 of James A. Connelly, the only other contender, when he 

 suddenly pulled up, for no reason whatever, and the latter 

 won. My boy deliberately stopped the horse and took him 

 out to the side of the track. Then the crowd began to yell 

 and shout, and my boy concluded to take another chance. 

 He started in and gave Maloy his head. Even then, with 

 all this delay, he was only beaten half a neck. The boy's 

 mind had become affected through the severe reducing to 

 make the weight, and this accounts for his strange action. 



