328 LIFE WITH THE TKOTTEKS. 



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than Dan Mace. He never disobeyed orders unless it was 

 a case of life and death. Never make a complaint to the 

 judges unless you think it is going to do you some good. 

 If you have a complaint to make never do it when every- 

 body else is talking; be sure that you have the Judges' 

 undivided attention, and then make your statement, and 

 always remember that, everything else being equal, the 

 driver who makes the last statement to the judges has the 

 best of it. I think it a very good idea to be on good terms 

 with the public. I mean that part of the public who pay 

 their money, take a seat in the grand stand and are there 

 for amusement alone. I myself, do not take much interest 

 in the few professional people who go to the race-track to 

 gamble^ They generally squeeze in without paying a cent 

 and imagine that they are the only ones whose interest 

 ought to be looked after. They are willing to go to the 

 stable and avail themselves of information that they know 

 we do not want them to have. They, as a rule, have no 

 regard for the rights of trainers, owners or anybody else. 

 And the less a driver has to do with that class of peoi:>le so 

 much the better he will be off, both linancially and other- 

 wise. There are some men who go to a race-track and bet 

 their money in an honorable and straightforward manner. 

 Their word is as good as gold. You will never have any 

 trouble with this class because of their obtruding themselves 

 on your private affairs. 



As a rule I decide to lay my horse up the first heat or 

 two. Here is something- that the rules say you have no 

 right to do. Tliere has been a great deal written and said 

 on the subject, but I insist from my standpoint that every 

 man should have the right to lay his horse up, or drive him 

 in any manner that he sees fit, providing that at all times 

 he is driving at the best of his ability to win the race. I do 

 not think that any man should have the light to lay his 

 horse up for the sake of beating the pool-box or playing 

 the books, but if in his opinion, he can win an easier and 

 safer race by laying U23, he should have the privilege 



