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wonderful manner. 'What a color! What action! 

 What a gait!" I said to myself. Well, you know," 

 said Young, ''I am never easy unless I have a bet on 

 a horse race, and from what I fancied I saw in the 

 mare, I thought she could be so managed as to win 

 against the gelding, who could come heat after heat 

 in about 2:50 or 3:00. So I went up to the owner 

 and told him I had a bit of money on, and if he 

 would do as I told him he had a great chance to pull 

 it off. I told him his mare was young and inexperi- 

 enced and not, perhaps, able to stay up as long as 

 the gelding. 'Your game,' I said, 'is to go right out ; 

 let your mare step for all she has in her, and I be- 

 lieve we'll win it in one heat. Come down a little 

 ahead if you can, and don't let him get up.' 



Well, sir, he did as I told him, and, thunder and 

 lightning! if the mare didn't step right away and 

 distance the gelding the first pop in 2:42. Soon 

 after one of my patrons got the mare and used her 

 on the road. That winter there was great sleighing. 

 One day after a match to sleighs on the avenue for 

 wine, between a mare called Mendham Maid, who 

 could trot in 2:38, and Katy Darling, which my 

 mare won, the mare's owner and Mendham Maid's, 

 both pretty full, hitched their horses double to a 

 sleigh for a moonlight drive. They came up this 

 road. Just outside where we are now Katy Darling 

 slipped on a loose stone or a piece of wood and 

 stopped dead short. The men knew just enough to 

 have her turned in here where she has been ever 

 since. Being drunk, I suppose they forgot the mare 



