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trotter that had ever appeared on the turf. 



While being raced Lu Princeton was interested 

 only in two things. Number one was to never miss 

 a meal and number two was to never race a step 

 further than absolutely necessary. When the bell 

 rang he stopped. 



At times it looked as if this cunning old fox was 

 wandering along a path made by himself. He never 

 did anything that would lead a person to believe that 

 he enjoyed racing, and also as evidence that his 

 disposition to move off under protest was a bluff, 

 one morning when a rein parted he ran off like a 

 wild horse and kept it up for over a mile. When he 

 was caught and the harness adjusted, he was the 

 same old soldier, determined to go his own gait until 

 something came along that was worth beating. That 

 was different as when under a full head of steam 

 this stout trotter had the whiz of a torpedo. 



Lu Princeton, as he stood on his clean black legs, 

 was a monument of skillful training on a foundation 

 of patience. In 1916 he was raced the entire season 

 without doing anything to recommend him as a use- 

 ful racing tool except at Lexington where he was 

 second in one fast heat and at Atlanta where he won 

 a heat after the colored boys scared him by yelling 

 as he passed the three-quarter pole. 



Walter Cox purchased Lu Princeton from J. H. 

 Ackerman in the winter of 1916. He found him in 

 either the second or third story of a livery stable in 

 Patterson, N. J. and paid $2,500 for-him after see- 

 ing him led out on the floor. He also had to work a 



