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rumor got circulated that Al cock's horse was entirely too 

 fat or high in flesh and could not possibly run any. John- 

 son, hearing and confiding too in this rumor, bet very heavily 

 on Duane, but lost, and Aicock won at the termination of the 

 last heat. As Johnson was casually passing by where Al- 

 cock stood cooling out his horse, together with a number of 

 distinguished gentlemen friends of Alcock's stable, Johnson 

 called young Aicock, at the same time saying : " I have a bug 

 to put in your ear ; I learned that your horse was a little 

 too fat during the last day or two and in consequence of that 

 rumor I am twenty-five thousand dollars poorer to-day than 

 I was yesterday. Now, my advice is to you to always keep 

 him just a little too fat, but please let me know of it hereaf- 

 ter when you have him that fat, and I shall be under many 

 obligations to you. " 



This list were all from Virginia; there never was an ad- 

 verse rumor about any one of them : Lee Paul, Thomas 

 Paterson, Mat Davis, Gerome Edgar, James Davis, trainer 

 of Jim Bell ; Munk Fowler, Buck Elliot, Buck Franklin, 

 Sandy Barnes, Henry Welch, William McCormick, James 

 McCormick, Isaac Vanleer, old man Ansel, old Charles, who 

 became famous when he trained Wagener, and Charles Car- 

 ter, Edward Harrison, Joe Porter, John Hamon, Benjamin 

 Pryor, Addison Small, Washington Graves, Thomas G. 

 Moore, Wilson Teasdal, and the late Capt. William A. Stew- 

 art, than whom I never knew an abler or more capable man 

 with every and all classes of horses, nor have I ever known any 

 horseman who was held in anything like such general es- 

 teem for his many estimable qualities. Amongst the men 

 who have risen to prominence since the last half of the 

 eighteenth century as trainers of credit and ability, and 

 whose records can be said to be emulous, it may suffice to 

 give a short list, as time and space are inadequate to do 

 more at this time of writing. The late Ephraim Snedica, 

 William Brown of Parole fame, Barney Reily, Matthew 

 Burns, Franklin McCabe, Mr. Charles Patison, Mat Dun, 

 Pat Dun, Red Bill, William McDaniel, Henry McDaniel, 

 William Lakeland, John Huggins, Jacob Pincus, James Mc- 

 Loflin, Charles Mulholland, Peter Wiemer, Jackson Joiner, 

 Thomas Welch, Brown Dick, Preston West, and last but by 

 no means least Mr. James Row, as I know no man of his 



