BREEDING THE TROTTER 



let me drive. In the next score Goldsmith took 

 the gelding way back. Jim White stayed on his 

 feet but was far in the rear. Goldsmith nodded 

 for the word and it was given. The horse made 

 a double break on the first turn and I gave a sigh 

 of relief. When he got settled at the quarter 

 pole, Nelly Parks was entering the head of the 

 stretch the first time round. Jim White set sail 

 and trotted so much faster than she that he easily 

 won in 2.37 >, which was five seconds faster than 

 any heat in the race. He trotted the last half in 

 i.ioj/2- The judges awarded Goldsmith fifty 

 dollars of the winnings for driving and mercifully 

 let me off with a lecture. No judge ever had 

 occasion thereafter to take me out of the sulky. 

 I had had enough of that sort of business. 



This is one instance which upholds a theory of 

 mine that more drivers are made to do crooked 

 things by their employers than do so on their own 

 account. And just here, one word of advice to 

 all young trainers : Win by all means if you can. 



BACK TO BUFFALO. 



In 1879 I returned to Buffalo and opened a 

 public stable. I had sixteen horses, including 

 Monk Boy, Gray Salem and Lady Upton. That 

 fall Mr. C. J. Hamlin placed in my stable Rockey, 

 Almont Jr. and Knox. In February, 1880, I 

 engaged to go to East Aurora, N. Y., to take 

 charge of Mr. Hamlin's horses. 



At this point mention might be made of a race 

 which did more to bring me close to Mr. Hamlin 



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