16 LIFE WITH THE TKOTTEK8. 



leading bookmakers on the running turf ; William Saunders, 

 better known as " Uncle Bill," who owned at that time and 

 since some of the most celebrated horses in the country ; 

 Z. E. Simmons (of whom I shall have something to say- 

 later), and many others whose names do not occur to me just 

 now, but who were among the best citizens of ISTew York, 

 and its wealthiest and most respected men. 



Mace, in spite of the fact that he was not a man of book- 

 learning, was always popular with, and resjiected by, his 

 patrons. Men who did not know Dan Mace got a false 

 impression as to his talent in matters outside of the sulky. 

 I have never heard anyone question his ability when he sat 

 behind a trotter at any stage of the game, but I have heard 

 men say that his business capacity outside of that was not 

 good. My impression of Mace is that he was a much 

 smarter business man than anyone gave him credit for 

 being. Mace made money by the basketful and gave it 

 away the same, never making any effort until the last few 

 years of his life to save anything. To prove that his busi- 

 ness ability was good, I may say that in the last five years 

 of his life, when his health was bad, he earned and saved 

 something like $50,000, and it seems to me this would be a 

 difficult task for a man to accomplish unless he had some 

 real business cajDacity. I think Mace's great success was 

 due, not only to his being a natural genius in the matter of 

 horses, but also because he was a deep student, and the 

 most industrious man I ever saw in the business. In addi- 

 tion to these qualities, Mace had the very rare one of 

 absolute fidelity to his patrons. If one of the men who 

 were giving him horses to be trained was to (perhaps under 

 the influence of a few glasses of champagne and a good 

 dinner) match his road horse against another animal of the 

 same class, and send him to Mace to be trained, Dan would 

 goat that animal with as much patience and determination, 

 and spend as much time and personal attention on him as 

 though the animal was a veritable flyer — a Maud S. or a 

 Dexter of its day. This was a religion with Mace. It 



