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mile in 2:23^, and the last lialf in 1:09. This move set tal- 

 ent to thinking, and after that when Calinar started he was 

 not overlooked in the betting. The following week at Co- 

 lumbus he won another race and from there he went to Cin- 

 cinnati where over Chester Park, he made what I consider 

 the star performance of his life 



At this time Chester Park was under the management 

 of John Sullivan, a business man of Cincinnati, and Capt. 

 G. N. Stone, who afterward became famous as the owner 

 of Maud S., and who sold her to Mr. William H. Vander- 

 bilt, and it is reported with the money that he got for her 

 has amassed a fortune. Chester Park was considered one 

 of the best betting j)laces in the country. The Kentuckians 

 always came over there in full force, and are alwaj's as 

 willing to bet their money on their own horses as they are 

 to swear that they have the best whisky in the world. In 

 overnight betting before the race, Woodford Chief, a hand- 

 some s(:allion driven by Gus Macey, had the call. I learned 

 in a second-handed way that the horse had showed his 

 owner a great trial. By this time Mr. Baker, always enthu- 

 siastic, had made up his mind that no comparatively un- 

 known horse could beat Calmar, and on the strength of this 

 and not to have the Kentuckians out-bet him, put his money 

 on his horse without stint. The Kentuckians backed Wood- 

 ford Chief from start to finish. The public were about 

 evenly divided, and the result was long before the race was 

 called there was as much money on the contest as an 

 ordinary horse could have drawn if it had been in silver 

 dollars. 



S. T. Harris, who has since made himself famous by the 

 brilliancy of his newspaper articles on turf subjects, was the 

 presiding judge. Deception, a horse by the way who did 

 not fool the public half as often as his owner did, won the 

 first heat. From that time on the race lay between Wood- 

 ford Chief and Calmar, and proved one of the most deter- 

 mined struggles I ever saw between two game horses. In 

 the last heat at night, it being nearly dark, a large field of 



