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gait. He gave Charlotte F. stronger work, and generally- 

 after working lier and Etlian together he would take her out 

 to a sulky or skeleton wagon and drive her a good stiff mile, 

 say in about 2:15, and occasionally he put the saddle on 

 with a light boy and ran her through the stretch as fast as 

 she could go. I think that one day I saw her run a mile in 

 1:50 with a boy on her. There are a great many trotters 

 that when you hitch them to a running mate have to be shod 

 heavier in order to be balanced, than they do driven any 

 other way. That arises from the fact of the runner taking all 

 the weight and dragging them too and going along at that tre- 

 mendous pace, and then again the driver does not have the 

 same chance to watch them he would driving one horse 

 alone. Ethan Allen was a perfectly balanced horse and 

 needed no extra shoeing, and was the only one I ever saw 

 that was a first-class breaker going that way rigged. While 

 Mace was conditioning Ethan Allen and Charlotte F., Mr. 

 Simmons was not idle. In those times such well-known 

 sj)orting men as John Morrissey, Harry Genet, John C. 

 Heenan, Ned and George Maynard, Bariy Cornell, Louis 

 Burrell and a host of others that I could name stood ready 

 to bet their last dollar on a horse-race that they thought well 

 of. They, together with the owners of Dexter, thought the 

 horse did not live that could beat their favorite. In the 

 betting Dexter was a favorite four to one. The public were 

 anxious to back Dexter at those odds and Mr. Simmons was 

 just as willing to back his horse and announced publicly 

 that he would bet all comers, be they great or small. 



About ten days before the race Mace, in a rather open 

 way, told the boys that took care of the team to take them 

 to the blacksmith shop, as he wanted to have them shod. 

 But as it came out after the race, instead of going to the 

 blacksmith shop with them they went to the old Union 

 track where Mr. Simmons was waiting for them, and gave 

 them a trial, and it was so satisfactory that Mr. Simmons 

 went back to New York that night and bet everybody to a 

 standstill. The result of this race shows how near a man 



