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that he was honest, kind and true, and treated everyone as 

 he wished to have them treat him. This was his religion, 

 and he lived up to it without a miss-score or a break. AVhat 

 wonder then that young Rody with that example before him 

 should already have made for himself a record as a man and 

 a driver? I do not remember of having seen anything X3leased 

 an audience more than it did when Rody won a race with 

 Bessemer and gave him his record of 2:15 the day he was 

 twenty-one years old. I know one handsome young lady 

 who was iDarticularly liaiopy. Besides being a trainer and 

 driver, Rody manages, together with his mother, one of 

 the handsomest breeding farms in Kentucky. He also trains, 

 drives and keeps all kinds of animals for other people and 

 he has my indorsement as being able and willing to fill the 

 position in a satisfactory manner to anyone wishing his 

 services. 



M. E. McHenry is, I believe, a native" of Illinois. In 

 size etc., he reminds me very much of Turner. My first 

 introduction to McHenry convinced me that size cut no 

 figure with him. We were both driving in a race on one of 

 the outside tracks where everyone takes the -pole at once if 

 they can get it, and the first I knew I was having a battle 

 royal with some young man I had never before seen. I 

 returned to the stand after the heat and asked a friend of 

 mine who he was. He re^Dlied, " McHenry, from Illinois." 

 I replied that McHenry from Illinois was about as indus- 

 trious a young man as I had ever seen out with a horse and 

 wagon trying to make a living for himself. I put him down 

 in my book as one of the young men not to be overlooked 

 any time he was in the ranks. In Shuler, Johnny Kelly 

 and a number of other young men whose names I do not at 

 present recaU, the Western country has material to always 

 keep the rank of the trotting-horse drivers up to the stand- 

 ard. In the East, among the shining lights in the new divis- 

 ion is Mr. William Snyder. I think the first lessons he 

 ever took in connection with trotting horses he learned in 

 my stable. In the early part of my career I trained a horse 



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