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To offset these bogus representations and follow- 

 ing a clue that the horse called Jack Dempsey was 

 in reahty Red Bon 2:07l^ by Bonnivard in 1925 I 

 went with Dick McMahon to Copenhagen, Denmark, 

 where he examined the horse raced as Jack Demp- 

 sey and pronounced him Red Bon. McMahon pur- 

 chased Red Bon for Chauncey H. Sears, Fall River, 

 Mass., during the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, 

 111., in 1918, and had him in his stable until Novem- 

 ber, 1921, when the horse was sold at the Fasig 

 Tipton Co. Sale in New York. Red Bon was foaled 

 in 1914. Before being shipped from New York his 

 teeth were bishoped to show that he was foaled in 

 1916, or in other words that he was six years old 

 instead of eight in 1922. 



TIPTON, THE BUILDER 



Ed A. Tipton put the ''trot" into the association 

 at Lexington. Prior to his arrival in 1887 the meet- 

 ings held in the blue grass city were on a par with 

 a county fair. A few wanted the status continued 

 even when the Wilkes boom was bringing thousands 

 of dollars to Kentucky every week. They were willing 

 to produce the goods without going to the trouble of 

 displaying them to the best advantage and under the 

 most favorable conditions. A few of them also hesi- 

 tated before extending a welcome hand to the young 

 man from Bourbon County when he showed a desire 

 to change from the revenue service to racing, while 

 at the same time they tossed him another chill by 



