232 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



mile in one heat in 1:()5|. In all the races I had seen Turner 

 drive Spofford he went easy with him until he reached the 

 half-mile pole, and made his brush from there home. I had 

 repeatedly seen him come home in 1:06^, but for all that I 

 thought J. Q. could come home better than Spofford, and 

 the result of the race proved that I was right, as Spofford 

 trotted two of the fastest heats I had ever seen him trot in 

 a XHiblic race, and J. Q. beat him. Both Turner and myself 

 laid up in the hrst heat, each seeming to think that the 

 other Avas the only one they had to beat in the race. In the 

 second heat Turner scored up as though he was out for the 

 money, and I determined to keep my eye on him alone. We 

 went to the half-mile pole in about 1:12, the other horses 

 some distance in the lead. At that point Turner turned his 

 horse loose, and I did likewise and J. Q. won in about 2:18. 

 The next heat w^as the same, Turner and myself trailing side 

 by side to the half-mile i)ole. Spofford led into the stretch 

 and all the way to within about three lengths of the judges' 

 stand, where J. Q. caught him and beat him out in 2:17^, 

 equaling his own best record. The next heat, having two 

 to my credit, to make it doubly safe, I laid J. Q. up, and 

 Spofford won from the other horses in about 2:21. When 

 they gave the word in the next heat I trailed away until 

 well in the back stretch, where I set J. Q. going. At the 

 half mile pole he had the lead, and from there home won 

 easily, thereby furnishing a good day's racing for the public 

 with a son and grandson of the same horse Kentucky Prince. 



On two occasions when the well-known trotter Cling- 

 stone, one of the fastest liorses of his day, performed before 

 the public I had to do with the transaction, and consequently 

 it will not be out of the way to say something of those events. 



The first time was when Mr. Dunbar asked me to accom- 

 pany Clingstone with a runner in a trial against the watch 

 that Dunbar was booked to give him at the Cleveland meet- 

 ing in the summer of 1885. Dunbar told me at the time that 

 he thought Clingstone would go a mile in 2:14, which was 

 his best record. I was a little surprised to hear this, as 



