LIFE AVITH THE TEOTTEES. 173 



After selling Rarus to Mr. Bonner, myself and a friend 

 were looking around for a trotter. Mr. Emory had called 

 my attention before this to Wedgewood, telling me he 

 thought him the making of a good horse. This talk left an 

 impression on my mind, and I decided that we would take 

 a trij) to Kentucky and see the horse. On our way there 

 we met Mr. Emory, and he rather surprised me by saying 

 he had already bought Wedgewood. I asked him if he 

 would sell him, and if so at what price. He told me he 

 would, and fixed $10,000 as the x)rice. We went to Ken- 

 tucky and spent a week looking over the trotters, and listen- 

 ing to the stories that w^re told us of the wonderful 

 horses that were owned at that time in the State. We finally 

 decided to buy Wedgewood. The horse had a public 

 record at this time of 2:38, and had shown a trial over the 

 Lexington track in 2:23|-. When we went to Mr. Alex- 

 ander's place in company with Mr. Emory to see the horse, 

 we found that he was certainly one that his breeder and 

 trainer could be proud of and the first time I drove him, I 

 decided to buy him, which we did without any delay. As 

 I remember him on that morning he was a handsome brown 

 stallion about fifteen hands, two and a half inches high, with 

 the best of feet and limbs, had no wind puffs, bunches or 

 blemishes of any kind, and looked what he afterward proved 

 to be, a first-class race-horse in every particular. Mr. Hull, 

 Mr. Alexander's trainer, had nothing but praise for the 

 horse, and predicted that he would certainly beat 2:20, He 

 told me that he had never done much with him in the way of 

 hard training, had given him plenty of moderate work, 

 wishing rather to have a good horse than a fast colt. 



It seemed to be Wedgewood' s fate while on the turf to 

 have nothing but hard battles to fight. In the first race I 

 ever started him, at St, Louis, he made a horse trot in 2:20 

 to beat him. In this race no one had any idea that they 

 would go better than 2:27 or 2:28. I knew Wedgewood was 

 not in good shape for a hard race, but thought at that rate 

 of speed he would have no trouble to win, and on the 



