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and after you get in front ease way on him, keep him there, 

 and don't let the other horse get too close to you." Later in 

 the season Mace had Hopeful at Buffalo, and as he had a 

 misunderstanding with the association there he declined to 

 drive the horse. There was a great deal of talk about who 

 was to drive him, etc., one paper stating that Dan would 

 send for his brother Ben. Dan came to my room and said 

 to me : "I think this association has been treating me badly 

 and I won't satisfy them well enough to drive over their 

 track. I \^ant you to drive Hopeful. I think there will be 

 pretty fair betting on the race. He will have no trouble to 

 win, and we will try and get ourselves some money." There 

 was nothing said in public about my driving Hopeful until 

 the bell rang for the horses to come out, when I appeared 

 behind Hopeful and won the first heat easily. In going 

 away in the second heat I took him back a trifle, and when 

 the judges said "go" steadied him around the turn and 

 Great Eastern rushed up head-and-head with him. The 

 moment he did this Hopeful broke. Great Eastern took the 

 pole and I could not get Hojjef ul to try to beat him after he 

 had lost the lead. AVhen I got out of the sulky I told Mace 

 it was my fault that I lost the heat. He said : "Don't tell 

 anyone, as they all think that Eastern will beat him, 

 and we will have a good chance to win something." When 

 they scored for the next heat I had the long sights on Hope- 

 ful and when they said "go" his head was at Great East- 

 ern' s heel, but when they struck the first turn he was in the 

 lead and if Rarus himself had been there after him he would 

 not have iDeen going faster. I took him back there, but I 

 had never let Eastern get closer than within three lengths of 

 me, and won the heat without an effort. The last heat I 

 followed the same tactics, and he won the race. I doubt 

 very much if he would have done so if it had not been for 

 what Mace told me. 



There are a great many little things about horses that it 

 takes time for a man to learn. Of course I think the man 

 that is driving every day and is behind a great many differ- 



