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CHAPTER X. 



FINANCIAL MATTERS DISCUSSED A LITTLE. 



It takes a smarter man to campaign a trotter or string 

 of them and come out in the Fall with enough morvev to 

 pay him for his time, risk and amount of capital invested, 

 even if he has a winner to handle, than it does to do any- 

 other kind of business. You may inquire, how can this 

 be; that a man controlling a winner, viz., one that is an 

 average horse in his class, and not make anything out of it? 

 It is this way : these men ordinarily beat themselves. 

 They get into some job to work the pool box, and the 

 first they know they are left. Jam.es Wade, formerly 

 owner of Red Cloud (now dead), can tell you how it 

 works. He entertained the writer I-ist summer one after- 

 noon with his experience with a trotter who, by the way, 

 wars a winfier. The business left a lasting impression 

 upon Mr. Wade's mind. He went into the campaign in- 

 experienced, but he knows all about the business now — 

 no little job to let somebody else win will ever capture 

 him now — not if he can win. If you are going to 

 handle one horse to develop him, you might as well have 

 two or three. It would use up more of the time and 

 not be so monotonous. You could help pay the ex- 

 penses by handling a couple of others besides your own 

 horse, and afford to hire a good man to rub and take 

 care. When you hire a rubber you had better give him 

 double pay and get a good man than to have a bummer 

 do your work for nothing. Good horses cost money and 

 are worth money, and no class of property requires as 

 faithful, sober men to take care of it as property invested 

 in race horses. Still, fifty per cent, of the rubbers in 

 charge of good horses representing a large outlay of 



