LIFE WITH THE TROTTEKS. 345 



may come to winning a great deal of money and yet not 

 do it. Twenty-four hours before the day of the race Char- 

 lotte F. got cast in the stall and lamed herself in the 

 shoulder and as the boys said "here was a pickle." At 

 this time Jim Dougrey who has since made himself famous 

 as a politician and a horse -driver and a good one at that, 

 was a boy. He had in his stable an old brown horse called 

 Brown George that he had been working with a runner that 

 belonged to Fred Pence, a black horse that had been ridden 

 in the war and had been carried North. But Dougrey rather 

 condemned him saying that after going three-quarters of a 

 mile he would quit, but as he was the best one in sight they 

 were obliged to take him if any. The council of war 

 between Mace and Simmons, Mace insisted in paying for- 

 feit in the match and in that way having all the outside 

 money declared off, saying that he would not trust all that 

 money on a horse he knew nothing about. Mr. Simmons 

 was anxious to have the race stand and go for all the money, 

 but finally gave Mace his way and paid forfeit in the match 

 and the outside bets were all declared off and they arranged 

 to go for a purse given by the proprietor of the track. 

 Everybody in the vicinity of New York was present to see 

 the race, from Commodore Vanderbilt to the bootblacks, 

 and in the betting after the new race had been arranged 

 Dexter was the favorite at any odds, $1,100 to $10 being 

 offered by his backers. Regardless of Mace's caution Mr. 

 Simmons bet everybody that the team would win, and was 

 the only man in all that vast throng that had the slightest 

 idea that Ethan would win. That he did so is a matter of 

 history, and one of the heats, done in 2:15, was the best 

 mile gone by a trotter up to that time, any way rigged, and 

 Dexter was timed separately in 2:16. 



As Mace' s system of hitching a trotter and running mate 

 has never been altered much I will give it as I saw it that 

 day. In hooking the team Dan's idea was to not only 

 hitch the runner so that he would draw all the weight but 

 have him able to also help tlie trotter along. He had a 



