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say he is my friend. Any man might also be proud of the 

 distinction. 



Julius S. Walsh is one of the leading men of the entire 

 South and West, and he is known and liked by everybody. 

 As president of the great Mississippi Valley Trust Com- 

 pany, he stands at the head of one of the largest financial 

 institutions of the country. He has been a director in the 

 Fair Grounds Association, but he has never had the time to 

 take an active interest in racing. However, he has always 

 done what he could to promote the interests of the breeders 

 of the State and has always been anxious that Missouri 

 should forge to the front in this respect. A liberal-minded, 

 big-hearted gentleman in every respect, he is esteemed by 

 all who know him, and his name will never perish in the 

 hearts of the people of St. Louis. 



Ben Lyons, of Sedalia, is a broad-gauged sportsman in 

 every particular, and there is probably no man in the State 

 enjoying a higher reputation for forcibility, fairness and 

 cool-headedness. He owned Sue Derby, by Derby, out of 

 Eglantine, and she was a most wonderful animal. Mr. 

 Lyons was also interested in the great Alvin Adams and a 

 score of others, including Lottie Lee and Pittsburg. He 

 has a host of friends wherever he is known, and everybody 

 has a high regard for him. All the turfmen of the different 

 parts of the State always like to pass through Sedalia in 

 order to shake the hand of Ben Lyons. 



Col. Samuel S. Brown, the mighty coal king of Pitts- 

 burg, was one of the foremost turfmen of recent times. For 

 years he stood as a monument in the South and West and 

 some of the best horses that ever strode across a race track 

 have raced in his colors. The principal stallion in his string 

 was the great Troubadour. Col. Brown was a man of ster- 

 ling integrity, kind to almost a fault. 



Charles Reed, of Gallatin, Tenn., who has a large 

 breeding establishment there, was one of the foremost turf- 

 men of the South. He is an enterprising and nervy man, 

 and when he bid $100,000 for the great St. Blaise and got 

 him he certainly showed his gameness to a marked extent. 

 He also owned Thora, by Longfellow, and a host of others 

 of a high class. Most of the time of Mr. Reed is spent in 

 New York, where, as a man of great intelligence, honest as 



