136 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



When this announcement was read out from the judges' 

 stand, I immediately stood up in front of it, and then and 

 there protested against the Judgment as being wrong in 

 every j)articular. First and foremost, I stated that Mr. 

 Conklin did not control the horse; that he made no engage- 

 ment with the association in any way to trot the horse for 

 them, and finished by saying that, if anyone was to blame 

 or to be ex^Delled, I considered that it was myself. Why 

 they exxDelled Mr. Conklin instead of me, was one of those 

 things that I could never find out. 



By this time it was rumored that Mr. Robert Bonner was 

 the real purchaser of Rarus, and a grand rush was made by 

 all the newspaper reporters to see who could first find out 

 the most reliable information. Mr. Allie Bonner was on the 

 track, and he was interviewed on every side. When asked 

 if his father owned Rarus, I heard him say that he might 

 own him, but that if he did he knew nothing about it. I 

 was rather anxious on the point myself, and asked Mr. 

 David Bonner whether Mr. Robert Bonner had bought 

 Rarus or not, and he said he could not tell me. Nothing had 

 taken jolace in regard to the sale of a horse in a long time 

 that was so much written and talked about as this. The 

 telegraph wires to New York were brought into play, and in 

 that manner Mr. Bonner was interviewed from all sides. In 

 the next day' s papers was the authentic news that Mr. Rob- 

 ert Bonner was the owner of Rarus, and the next day I 

 received a telegram from Mr. Simmons asking me if I would 

 bring Rarus to New York for him, and at his own risk. The 

 following morning I prepared Rarus for the trip, got his traps 

 together, and Mr Conklin and myself went with him to New 

 York. Arriving at Forty-second street, we were met by Mr. 

 Simmons, who directed the horse to be taken to Mr. Bonner' s 

 private stable on Fifty-seventh street, near Fifth avenue. 



When I saw the boy lead Rarus into that stable all my 

 fears with regard to his having a good home vanished. I 

 had always felt that there was one duty I owed Rarus, and 

 that was to see that he was given a home as good as could be 



