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ble-riveted facts, and yet he pompously corrected 

 me when I stated that Mambrino Chief, Almont, 

 and other founders of families belonged to the un- 

 developed class. To quote his own words: " All 

 had records and all were quite fully developed.'* 

 The simple truth is that Mambrino Chief never 

 started in a race, was never over-trained, and never 

 got a record, while Almont trotted just one heat in 

 public, and the time of it was 2.39I. What am I 

 to think of a man who erects a standard upon a 

 record, and who does not seem to have mastered the 

 A B C of truth? Mr. Wallace is superficial outside 

 of his office, as well as in it. He was seen, imme- 

 diately after Belle Hamlin had trotted in 2.13I, at 

 Cleveland, surrounded by a group of cross-roads stud- 

 horse keepers, and was overheard expounding with 

 solemn gravity the law to them. One of my friends 

 joined the group, and, when the dictum was echoed 

 that the 2.13! would not be accepted as a record, 

 he offered to bet $100 to $10 that the compiler was 

 in error. When Secretary Fasig was told what a 

 fool Wallace was making of himself down on the 

 lawn, he stepped across the track and had the judges 

 announce within the hearing of all that the perform- 

 ance was for a cup, under the rule, and that it was 

 a public record. Had it not been for the prompt ac- 

 tion of Mr. Fasig, some of the cross-roads fellows 

 would probably, on the strength of a Wallace deci- 

 sion, have lost the entire profits of the summer stud- 

 horse campaign. Belle Hamlin's 2.13! was double 

 riveted. It was a record under National rules and 

 a record under registration rules, because she had, 

 previous to the performance, a record of better than 

 2.20. In the October, 1887, number of his magazine, 

 Mr. Wallace came out flat-footed for mile-heat con* 



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