238 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS. 



tlie story of that trip is worth a long journey, but suffice it 

 to say at this time that he got the horse for $5,000, shipped 

 him to America, and soon after reaching here re-sold War- 

 lock to Messrs. Brown & Stockbridge for $15,000. That 

 this horse will get trotters is not to be doubted, as his rela- 

 tives trot fast, and his pedigree contains the strains of blood 

 — Rysdyk's Hambletonian and Pilot Jr. — that have given 

 us Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See, the two fastest trotters in the 

 world. 



The brood-mares at the Browne farm are standard under 

 the highest rule that has yet been formulated. They are 

 either the possessors of records of 2:30 or better themselves, 

 have produced a 2:30 trotter, or are out of mares to Avhom 

 the same distinction attaches, and when it is said that every 

 one of them — 100 per cent — come under this head the high 

 standard of the farm in regard to blood lines is seen. Some 

 of these mares are by Grand Sentinel, a horse that Mr. 

 Browne selected many years ago, when he was alone in the 

 breeding business. Being by Sentinel, a full brother to Vol- 

 unteer, it was natural that Grand Sentinel should trot fast, 

 and had it not been for an accident in training he would un- 

 doubtedly have greatly bettered his record of 2:27^, as in his 

 work he could trot quarters in 35 seconds, and that he was 

 a brave, level-headed and determined horse he showed in 

 his races, winning the ones in which the heats were split. 

 Empire, another stallion on the Browne & Stockbridge farm, 

 is already well known by reason of having sired Eminence, 

 that as a four-year-old last season showed herself one of the 

 best of her age that has ever come out, winning nearly all 

 her races and making a record of 2 :21 J. 



The night before the Clingstone -Wilkes match the town 

 was filled with people who had come from all parts of the 

 country. All their talk was of the race, and the chances of 

 Clingstone beating Harry Wilkes were eagerly discussed. 

 The friends of Harry were very sanguine, and the betting 

 was $100 to $50 in favor of their horse. Mr. France, Harry' s 

 owner, told Mr. Gordon that he was sure Wilkes was in first- 



