LIFE WITH THE TR0TTEE8. 15 



April, and made the acquaintance of a man who was my 

 friend nntil death claimed him— ]\Ir. Dan Mace. I could 

 spin a long yarn here concerning my experience with the 

 man who, in his time, was not only a master of his profes- 

 sion, but the oldest one in it ; but there are so many inci- 

 dents connected with my stay with Mace, and so much 

 to be said of his methods in the training and driving of 

 trotters, that I shall reserve that for a subsequent chapter 

 which will deal exclusively with that subject. 



I had met Mace once, years before, at Buffalo, and he 

 had said to me that if I ever visited ISTew York he would 

 be glad to have me come and see him. It was on this invi- 

 tation of the past that I walked into his office. He had a 

 stable on Forty-ninth street near Broadway, and kept his 

 training-stable at the Fashion track. Long Island This Avas 

 in 1864, and at that time Mace was the recognized master 

 of his profession. 



In looks, Dan Mace was not a handsome man. He weighed 

 about 140 i)ounds, with short legs and wonderfully strong 

 body and arms. His eyes and hair were very black at this 

 time. In disposition he was as brave as any man I ever 

 saw. I don' t think there was anything in the world he was 

 afraid of. His temper was perfection. In all my years of 

 exparience with him (and I knew him as well as any man could 

 know another), I never saw Mace out of temper. No matter 

 what x^rovocation he might have had he always seemed to 

 control himself to perfection. His age was an uncertain 

 quantity. I never saw anyone who knew just what it was, 

 and he never would tell. At that time Mace numbered 

 among his patrons such well known turfites as John Mor- 

 rissey, Henry Genet, William TurnbuU, who was the life- 

 long friend of Commodore Yanderbilt ; Edward Jones, the 

 celebrated i:)olitician ; Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island ; 

 Uncle Ben Wright, of Boston, who always had more match 

 races on hand than any man I ever saw ; W. P. Balch, now 

 of Boston; Ed Maynard, of the same city; "Loosh" 

 Appleby, who has since become celebrated as one of the 



