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former. I laid up the first heat and let Bayonet and Gilroy 

 fight it out to a dead heat. Then when the second came I 

 had a fresh horse. My jockey was told to go in and win, as 

 the others were tired and at his mercy. He followed in- 

 structions and had not the slightest trouble in winning. 



In the spring, at the same place, we met with similar 

 success, winning all the big stakes. 



Later, at Jerome Park, the same season, I won the 

 American Jockey Club Handicap with Plantaganet, worth 

 $8,500, giving Abdul Kadir, one of the best four-year-olds of 

 the season, twenty pounds. Hardy Durham, who had the 

 mount on Plantaganet, waved his hat at a girl in the grand 

 stand, and Abdul Kadir crept up and made a dead heat on 

 account of the carelessness of Durham. But he afterward 

 paid more attention to what he was doing and won the race. 

 This was certainly a grand performance for the horse, con- 

 sidering that he carried the twenty-pound impost and was 

 running over one of the worst tracks the country ever had. 



But it was due to a little piece of diplomacy on my part 

 that I won, for Plantaganet would never have been able to 

 have won without the rest necessary. Therefore, I per- 

 suaded the judges to run another race between the heats. 

 This was done and Plantaganet came out for the heat in 

 splendid condition. 



The next day The Banshee won the Jerome Park Cup 

 race, worth about $7,000, from a big field of the best horses 

 of the day. In the race were Pleasureville, Judge Curtis 

 (formerly Gen. Duke) and Voxhall, and they were certainly 

 of the highest class. 



Saratoga also yielded up her golden treasures to the 

 celebrated Davis-O'Fallon string, but by that time our 

 horses were worn out from the strain that had been put 

 upon them. They had raced from the South to the North 

 and back again, and we were compelled to retire many of 

 them to the stud. 



Two years later the get of the famous Pat Maloy came 

 to the front. They were Ozark, Gen. Harney, Lilly Belle 

 and Athlene, with a few others. I took them to Long 

 Branch, and there with Ozark I defeated Aristides, the win- 

 ner of the first Kentucky Derby; Calvin, Tom Ochiltree, 

 and all the distinguished three-year-olds of the year. So 



