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Honorable Guy Cox, District Attorney, from under 

 the seat and put May Morning in the stable. His 

 mother then interviewed him in the woodshed and 

 added the usual remedy. 



The opportunity to make a dollar prompted Cox 

 to go with the trotters. After scurrying around the 

 half-mile tracks, he appeared in New York in 1903 

 and won with Prince of Orange. Since that date his 

 colors have been seen behind many fast performers 

 as well as a few that were sold for the high dollar. 

 He prepared Peter Scott and sold him for $30,000, 

 while he also received large amounts for Lady 

 Wanetka, George Gano, Belvasia, Guy Richard and 

 Adam. 



Cox is a good mixer. He is an inveterate joker, 

 being when he is in a rollicking mood a composite 

 of Peck's bad boy and Tom Sawyer with a vocabu- 

 lary of the Commodore Vanderbilt variety. To him 

 at such times the world looks good, if no one calls 

 his hand. In this Barton Pardee, who owned Mabel 

 Trask, and Lu Princeton, took a special delight. 



There was an outbreak at Hartford in 1919 when 

 the Lu Princeton and Mabel Trask special was being 

 talked over. It was suggested that Murphy or Geers 

 be invited to drive the mare. Geers was preferred on 

 account of him having driven so many races against 

 her with St. Frisco. Cox stood and listened but the 

 manner in which he was grinding a cigar between 

 his teeth showed that an explosion was coming. 

 Finally he could not stand the pressure any longer 

 and turning to Mr. Pardee said: "She's your mare 



