376 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



race that I remember. He struggled against difficulties, 

 and contended with pain, until finally he overcame his bodily 

 ailments by means of a dauntless spirit, and defeated a 

 very formidable adversary, upon whom 100 to 10 had been 

 going a-begging. 



As I have before remarked, this was the last race for 

 which I prepared him, or in which I drove him. What I 

 have hitherto said about him I knew of my own knowledge. 

 Concerning his career after this, I shall have to proceed 

 upon the reports of his public performances, and what I 

 have gathered from those who witnessed them. When he 

 left my stable, Peter Conover went with him ; and that was 

 no small advantage to the.horse and his owner. Mr. Trussell 

 selected for his future trainer and driver Budd Doble, a 

 young man of high character, good intelligence, and much 

 experience of horses for his years. He had been among 

 trotters from the time that he was a little boy, his father 

 being a trainer and driver; and Budd himself was everywhere 

 esteemed as one of the very best riders in the country. It 

 was very soon understood that Doble would have to drive 

 and ride against Eoif, for a hippodroming expedition between 

 Dexter and the California stallion had been agreed upon. 



The first place they visited was Philadelphia ; but, prior 

 to that, Dan Pfifer published a letter in "The Spirit of the 

 Times," offering to make a match with Toronto Chief against 

 either Dexter or Butler, to be trotted under saddle early in 

 July. The response to this was an offer from the owners of 

 Dexter and Butler to make up a stake of $1,000 with 

 Toronto Chief, to trot mile heats, three in five, and go as 

 they pleased, about the 18th of July. This race was after- 

 wards brought about. 



The trot at Philadelphia was on the 9th of July, and, as 

 advertised, for a purse $2,000. Whether the parties 'agreed 

 to divide equally, or what share Eoff and his horse were to 

 have, I do not know, and we need not inquire. Everybody 

 knows that the terms were fixed beforehand upon which 



