12 LIFE WITH THE TEOTTEKS. 



of money, and I doubt very much whether the boys of the 

 jDresent dnj would have much advantage over him. He 

 afterward located in St. Louis, where I went with him to 

 the old Abbey track. It was here that I first met some of 

 the noted horsemen of that day, such as the Carr brothers, 

 who owned Tackey and Dixie at that time. They were two 

 gray mares, full sisters, and considered very well-bred ones 

 for those days, being by Pilot, Jr., and out of a mare by 

 Bellfounder. They were both hrst-class race-horses for 

 what they could do, Tackey being i3articularly hard to 

 beat in a long-distance race. Their owners were always 

 willing to back them against all comers. They were trained 

 at this time by a man named James Rutherford. The men 

 who owned the mares have since become prominent citizens 

 of St, Louis, and Tackey has made herself famous as a 

 brood mare by producing the stallion Pilot Medium, that is 

 the sire of the gray gelding Jack, with which my friend 

 Budd Doble won so much money last year, including the 

 big 810,000 stake at Rochester ; Naiad Queen, that my other 

 old friend, Jack Phillips, drove to a record of 2:20^ ; Tackey, 

 Jr., that produced Onie D., that my other friend, handsome 

 Jimmy Goldsmith, went a mile with better than 2:20 last 

 year ; and Classleader, the gray gelding that led his class 

 home in 2: 22 J over the Cleveland track in 1887 under my 

 pilotage. I think of these things now, when I come to put 

 my experiences on paper^ and it causes a feeling of min- 

 gled regret and pride to pass through a man as he recalls 

 how many years have gone by since the time he saw old 

 Tacke}' trotting at St. Louis and the day that he drove her 

 son under the wire a winner at Cleveland. Tackey was a 

 crack in her day, and her record of 2:26 is fully as cred- 

 itable as one of 2:20 would be in these times. She has been 

 a wonderfullj^ good brood mare, just as she was a good 

 track mare, and in her and her full sister, Dixie, the Pilot, 

 Jr., family has a coui)le of representatives that sustained its 

 reputation well at all stages of their lives. Dixie also pro- 

 duced a trotter, it being the brown mare Dixie Sj)rague, 



