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There never was but one Jock Bowen and there will never 

 be another. He has x^robably seen as many years of active 

 service on the turf as any man in the business. He does not 

 care to call the whole world his friends, but those lie likes 

 lie will go as far for and make as great an effort to serve as 

 anyone. A rather amusing instance came under my notice 

 in connection with Bowen that might be told here. A i)arty 

 from the West went down to Boston to show the Yankees 

 liow to race with paceis. The judges, not liking the com- 

 plexion of affairs, concluded to change drivers. They sent 

 for one of the owners, told him they thought they would like 

 to put Mr. Bowen behind his horse, to which he readily 

 consented, stating that nothing would please him better. 

 The judges asked Jock to take the seat. He declined, and 

 in a quiet way informed the owner that he was not in the 

 habit of going about and interfering in other people' s busi- 

 ness. The owner insisted that Jock drive the pacer and by 

 all means to win with him if he could. Jock took the mount 

 and won tlie race, and all his friends realized well on it, and, 

 as it leaked out afterward, the owner of the j)acer lost liis 

 money, having bet against Jock after being told by some- 

 one that Jock had never driven a pacer and would not be 

 able to win with this one. I have always thought that 

 any man who could play one violin well would be apt to 

 make some music with almost any one. I think the same 

 in this case. You find a man who can drive a trotter as 

 well as Jock Bowen, and he won't be entirely lost when he 

 gets up behind a pacer. 



Horace Brown is entitled to be classed with the free-for- 

 all drivers. His father before him was a trotting-horse 

 driver of rej^utation and a man of ability. Horace drives all 

 classes of horses well, and as a conditioner has always been 

 considered first class. William Weeks is also entitled to be 

 classed with the old brigade as he has been a horseman from 

 boyhood. He shines i^articularly in the saddle and when- 

 ever Billy rides the ladies have a treat. He has given any 

 number of horses their best records and as a manaoer in the 



