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but none of those gents will drive her. Why she is 

 one of the family and if something happened so 

 that the man who was put up hit her with the whip, 

 I would have to kill him." When everybody burst 

 out laughing, Cox saw that one had been put over on 

 him so he walked off and ordered Lu Princeton, the 

 laziest horse in the world, hitched up for a jog so 

 that he could have a fight with him. 



Such is the life and rivalry of the men who train 

 and race horses. But aside from that each of them 

 has a human side which man to man brings them out 

 in the open among the best hearted lot of people 

 in the world. I had an example at Lexington, Ky., in 

 1918, when one morning I received a dispatch that 

 my soldier boy who gave his life in the cause of free- 

 dom was dangerously ill in the hospital at Camp 

 Johnston near Jacksonville, Fla. When the drivers 

 heard of it before I could get a train for the south, 

 dear old *Top" Geers, came to me and with tears in 

 his eyes said: ''Remember me to Billy and tell him 

 I hope he will get well." 



At the time Murphy's wife was critically ill at the 

 hotel. He shoved his own worries aside long enough 

 to ask if there was anything he could do, while Cox 

 sailed in like a diamond in the rough with the tender 

 of his roll and more if needed to get that boy well. 

 To only a few are accorded the privileges of seeing 

 this side of the racing world. Its followers are like 

 other folk. They are born, grow up and die, but they 

 are not forgotten. 



