RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



covered this in his race with Patron at Cleveland 

 last July. After he had gone to the half-mile pole 

 in 1.06 in the second heat his head began to swim, 

 and he had no stomach for a third heat. All of us 

 are talking about lowering our records, and the 

 way to do it is on a fast track in races of heats, two 

 in three. Maud S. can trot all day heats in 2.20, but 

 one heat under 2.10 pumps her. The thoroughbred 

 is the highest type of equine courage, and the jockey 

 clubs no longer require him to run heat races. Ten 

 Broeck cut down the mile record to 1.3 9 J by running 

 a single dash. Why, then, should we continue to 

 punish the fast trotter by compelling him to fight 

 through heat races of three in five? I have not 

 shown the least inclination to waver from the chal- 

 lenge of March 19. Belle Hamlin and money will 

 be ready. The daughter of Almont Jr. is willing 

 to try to beat the best of her day. 



C. J. Hamlin. 



In one of his letters to me, Mr. Hamlin stated 

 that Jerome Eddy had been offered for from $16,000 

 to $18,000, and this brought me a communication 

 from Owosso, Michigan, signed Dewey and Stewart: 



" Presuming that you and the public desire to 

 know the correct price paid for Jerome Eddy, we 

 say that Henry C. Jewett & Co. paid us for him 

 $25,000, which is a much larger sum than has ever 

 been paid in this State for a single horse, and we 

 think him the cheapest horse sold in a long time. 

 We very much doubt if double the money can buy 

 him to-day. We regret exceedingly his retirement 

 from the turf, and would gladly give Messrs. Jewett 

 ^1000 to place him back in Peter V. Johnson's hands 



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