342 LIFE WITH THE TKOTTERS. 



stallion record of that day, 2:15^. To sliow breeders liow 

 the fact of having a horse developed will increase his value, 

 I maj^ say that when I first saw Jerome Eddy his owners 

 asked for him, I think, about $5,000. After he obtained his 

 record of 2:16|- he was sold to H. C. Jewett&Co., of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., for $25,000, and is to-day at the head of their great 

 breeding establishment. The Messrs. Jewett are firm in the 

 belief that early maturity means early decay, and with this 

 idea in view they have not trained their colts while young, 

 thinking it better to give them an opi)ortunity to be fully 

 developed in their physical structure before they are asked 

 to show their best speed. From the standpoint of a man 

 who makes his living by the racing of a trotting horse they 

 have adoi^ted, I think, the surest plan to raise a family of 

 race horses. Of course if a man wants a fast colt the way 

 to secure this is to begin training him early, but all our 

 best campaigners have been horses that were iiot phenom- 

 enal as speedy youngsters. 



Trotting or pacing horses with a running mate has never 

 taken a very strong hold on the public. It seems to have 

 been always rather spasmodic. About once in so often there 

 comes along a horse that proves himself to be able to go well 

 with a runner; then we have a few races of that sort and 

 then it dies out again. The first race of that kind that 

 attracted anything like widesx)read attention was the one 

 between Ethan Allen and Dexter. At this time Dexter had 

 shown that no horse lived that could give him a race. He 

 had demonstrated his ability to beat all comers one, two and 

 three mile heats in harness, to wagon and under saddle, and 

 his owner was looking around for new worlds to conquer. 

 At this time Mr. E. Z. Simmons owned Ethan Allen, and 

 declared himself willing to match Ethan to go with a runner 

 against any horse in the world in harness. The race Avas 

 made with Dexter and the public said that Mr. Simmons had 

 overmatched his horse. For once the public was sadly mis- 

 taken. Mr. Simmons placed the horse in Mace's hands to 

 train and drive and said: " Dan, you train him and bring liim 



