BREEDING THE TROTTER 



and sold him to John Scott of Gait, Ontario, for 

 four hundred dollars. 



The next season or two my mare missed but 

 afterwards produced a gray filly and a gray colt 

 by Tom Kimball. The latter I sold, for a road 

 horse, to William Hamlin. 



A MARE THAT HAMBLETONIAN DID NOT COVER. 



To show that I always believed in breeding 

 mares to the best stallion I could afford I might 

 mention that after selling Pelham Tartar Jr. for 

 fifteen hundred dollars, at which time I had about 

 twenty-two hundred dollars in the bank, I decided 

 to breed my mare to Rysdyk's Hambletonian, 

 standing at five hundred dollars. I found that 

 the freight and keep of mare would cost an addi- 

 tional one hundred and fifty dollars. This was a 

 lot of money for a youngster to put into a foal, 

 but Hambletonian at that time was on top, and I 

 wanted some of his blood. No sooner had I made 

 known my intention of breeding my mare to 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian than George Oile and the 

 neighbors raised a terrible howl, pronouncing me 

 " horse foolish," and some of them went so far as 

 to call me insane, a monomaniac would be the 

 term nowadays. Public sentiment was so strong 

 against me that I did not send the mare. I con- 

 sider this one of the mistakes of my life. 



FIRST DAY ON A RACE TRACK. 



One of the memorable events of my youth was 

 my first day on a race track, which was also the 



