162 RACEALONG 



Bruce made the same mistake when he entered this 

 colt among the produce of Reel in the American Stud 

 Book. 



The error is a peculiar one. Lecompte does not 

 mean anything but in good old Anglo Saxon the 

 name of Ambrose Lecomte would read Ambrose the 

 Count. 



JOHN FARRIS 



For many years John Farris was the proprietor 

 of a music store in Hartford, Conn. It is located 

 on Asylum Street, a few doors from the building in 

 which J. Pierpont Morgan was born. The old gentle- 

 man passed away in 1911 at the mature age of 

 eighty-five. From youth up he had a fondness for 

 horses and after locating in Hartford began driving 

 them on the road. When he started there was nothing 

 in the way of blood lines to guide a buyer and all 

 anyone could do was as he termed it ''pick them 

 out." John Farris was one of those who was favored 

 by nature with an eye for form and gait and it was 

 a very rare thing for anyone to find a prospect that 

 could defeat his trotter on the half-mile track on 

 Albany Avenue or on the trip into town. A short 

 time before his death he said that his best trotter 

 was a mare called Hartford Belle which he pur- 

 chased for a few dollars from a farmer near the 

 mouth of the Connecticut River and sold for $3,500 

 to one of the Lorillards of New York City after he 

 had given her a mark of 2 :35. 



