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bons were given, three to Philadelphia and one to 

 a coach team that had no business in the ring. The 

 only way they could beat me was to declare the team 

 unsound. Otherwise, all the blue ribbons of the 

 week would have gone to my stable instead of to 

 Philadelphians. If beaten on my merits, I should 

 have said nothing. After this decision I at once 

 shipped my team to New York, and sent for a vet. 

 to examine them. He was several days at it, and 

 gave them a most critical examination. He and his 

 assistant pronounced them absolutely sound. If My 

 May was broken-winded, she would not have re- 

 covered her form in one day." 



Colonel Kip wound up his letter with the remark : 

 " I shall be more domestic in the future, and others 

 may profit by my experience." 



Mr. A. J. Cassatt, President of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, who was President of the Philadelphia 

 Horse Show Association, in sending me a courteous, 

 but caustic, reply to Colonel Kip, wrote me a per- 

 sonal letter: 



" I send herewith an answer to Colonel Kip's 

 letter, explaining the position of our Association, 

 but I would be very much obliged if you will simply 

 Insert it with a quiet heading. Please do not call 

 it the Cassatt-KIp Controversy, as I do not want 

 to have any newspaper controversy with Colonel Kip, 

 or anybody else. What I am writing Is simply In 

 justice to our Association, and to refute Colonel 

 Kip's unsportsmanlike and unneighborly attack upon 

 us, and I shall drop the subject here." 



I complied with the request of Mr. Cassatt, but, in 



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