BREEDING THE TROTTER 



excellent chance to win with Josephus. I bor- 

 rowed twenty dollars and bought two ten-dollar 

 tickets which called for one hundred and ninety 

 dollars and one hundred and seventy dollars 

 respectively. Josephus won the first two heats, 

 then Fanny Witherspoon the third and fourth. 

 The race was postponed. I was not so confident 

 as I might have been. My confidence was shaken 

 when Crit Davis came to Mr. Hamlin and sold 

 him Betty Mac, a half sister of Fanny Wither- 

 spoon and then in Kentucky, for five hundred 

 dollars, so as to have more money to place on the 

 Witherspoon mare. Betty Mac is the dam of E. S. 

 E. (2.nM) and Red Regent (2.18%), and the 

 grandam of Ed. Easton (4) (2.09%) and third dam 

 of American Belle (3 ) (2 . 1 2 M) I went back to Jo- 

 sephus' stall and helped work on him that night. 

 No horse received better attention. It was a 

 matter of life and death with me. Josephus won 

 the deciding heat. This put me on my feet and 

 by the end of the meeting I had eight hundred 

 dollars. After that I tried to follow Mr. Ham- 

 lin's advice about betting only ten per cent of one's 

 money on a race, and never since then has John 

 Bradburn been broke, although at times perhaps 

 he has been " bent." 



VILLAGE FARM GRADUATES. 



After I became superintendent, the first trainer 

 at Village Farm was Frank Baldwin, who was 

 employed in 1882 and 1883. Horace Brown was 

 the next trainer, and his connection lasted from 



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