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taken along. After he arrived at Cleveland and be- 

 fore very much had been done with him a curb pop- 

 ped out on the other hock. By that time I thought I 

 was up against it but the colt never took a lame step 

 and finally that curb disappeared just as the first one 

 did. Mr. McElwyn went on just as if nothing had 

 happened and after he made a record of 2:04 the 

 idea of gelding him was abandoned. 



"As a three-year-old he raced in 2:02 in the Ken- 

 tucky Futurity defeating Guy Richard and later on 

 made a time record of 1:59%. Mr. McElwyn was 

 kept in training as a four-year-old in 1925 in order 

 to reduce his record. At Syracuse and several other 

 places he failed to get a start on account of un- 

 favorable weather and finally we were rained out at 

 Lexington. 



"After the close of that meeting I shipped to At- 

 lanta leaving Mr. McElwyn with Dick McMahon and 

 requested him to give him as much work as he could 

 so that he would be ready to start when I returned. 

 A wet track kept him in the stall the most of the 

 time. 



"After my return the weather continued unfavor- 

 able and finally one morning Mr. McCourtie asked 

 me what we had better do. I told him that we did 

 not have a chance at Lexington and that there was 

 no place to go unless we shipped to Phoenix, Ari- 

 zona. The next morning when Mr. McCourtie came 

 out to the track he told me that he had engaged a 

 car to ship to Arizona and that he had also called 

 up the Secretary of the track at Phoenix and had 



