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with the same stable, and going to Chicago I won the Board 

 of Trade Handicap with Harry Gilmore. Three days later I 

 won the great cup race, beating John Davis, Lida Stanhope, 

 Farragut and a half dozen other flyers, over a course two 

 and a quarter miles. This is the only one of Buckden's get 

 that ever went a cup distance. 



At the close of this meeting I turned Mr. Bell's horses 

 over to their owner, and they were taken back to Denver. For 

 a few months I rested at my farm, and then I went to Chicago 

 and bought Big Three and another four-year-old called 

 Fayette, by Australian Chief. With them I earned more 

 than $30,000 for the Ruddy Brothers that season. 



Col. Robert A. Johnson and John Churchill then en- 

 gaged me to train their horses. In the string were Powhat- 

 tan, Loftin, Adrian and Miss Bowler, all of which were 

 famous in their day. The horses were in wofully bad 

 shape. They were vicious to an extreme and had been 

 beaten everywhere they had been raced. Every trainer 

 that had had hold of them said there was nothing in them ; 

 but I thought there was and I went to work on them. I 

 knew there was no use in trying to race them at once, but I 

 paid all the declarations and forfeits. Leaving Chicago for 

 Saratoga, I prepared for active business. In a race between 

 Pearl Jennings and Powhattan, a dash of a mile, the latter 

 was victorious in 1:41^. Up to this time Powhattan had 

 never gone a mile in less than 1:43 over the fast Western 

 tracks, and this performance was remarkable. As in all my 

 previous races, I sent him to the post a rank outsider. Col. 

 Johnson had little hope that I would succeed in making race 

 horses out of any of the string, but he had confidence in my 

 ability and knew that if such a thing were possible I would 

 do so. 



The horse had pleased me so well in his trials that I 

 telegraphed the owners to put a good bet down, and they 

 did so, winning heavily. There was very little outside bet- 

 ting on Powhattan, and the odds were as good as 6 to i 

 against his chances. 



Four days later he won another race at a mile and five- 

 eighths, winning easily. 



In the meantime preparations were going on for the 

 great cup race that was to come off ten days later. In it 



