BREEDING THE TROTTER 



After this race I roaded my horses to Oshawa, 

 Ontario, twenty-three or twenty-four miles north 

 of Toronto. It was the first meeting over a new 

 track. I won the 3.00 and 2.50 trots with Doug- 

 las, and the 2.34 and free-for-all trots with Lady 

 Hill, which cleaned up the card with the excep- 

 tion of the county race. 



ICE RACING. 



In the winter of 1876, Mr. Eli Gregory gave me 

 the bay gelding Alexander, by Bett's St. Law- 

 rence, dam by Pelham Tartar, to get ready for the 

 ice races. I also had the gray gelding Monk Boy. 

 My first start on the ice was at Dunville, Ontario, 

 the last week in December. I also raced at Brant- 

 ford, St. Catherines, Toronto, Ottawa, and Mon- 

 treal, shipping home about April 15. Monk Boy 

 won every race in which he started ; Alexander, 

 every race but one, winning fourteen out of fifteen 

 starts. He started twice at Dunville, Brant ford 

 and St. Catherines and three times at Toronto, 

 Ottawa and Montreal. He won two heats and 

 second money in his losing race. It was a very 

 successful season. Alexander was afterwards sold 

 to John Reardon of St. Catherines for one thou- 

 sand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. He 

 was a very peculiar horse, in that he would 

 always take the colic if fed a bran mash, 



ON TO BUFFALO. 



In the spring of 1877 I moved to the Buffalo 

 (N. Y.) Driving Park and opened a public train- 



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