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ing week at Cleveland Gypsy was entered in a race where 

 if the betting fraternity and the public had ever heard of 

 her they must have entirely forgotten the fact, as she sold 

 for $30 in $600 pools the evening before the race, and in fact 

 kept at the same odds until the race started. Some peoi)le 

 took ])iivt in this race who are celebrated not only in connec- 

 tion with the turf, but also in other walks of life. Foster 

 Dewey, who perhaps was the closest friend that William H. 

 Vanderbilt ever had, at that time owned Richard, had him 

 entered in the same race, and came on from N"ew York with 

 a number of his friends to see him trot, his x:)arty including 

 such well-known men as Sheridan Shook, Ed Gilmore of 

 theatrical fame, Charlie Read, the ow^ier of Midnight, and 

 a host of others w4io always helped to make it lively around 

 the pool-boxes whenever they appeared on the scene. 



Mr. Crawford, Terry Barden, Charlie Harvey and Al 

 Carlile formed a trust and at the odds i^laced money enough 

 on Gypsy to win $12,000. So well were all the details ar- 

 ranged and the money put on, that the unsuspecting j)ublic 

 never thought they were being led to the slaughter. In 

 fact, I myself never mistrusted there was going to be a 

 "killing," Mr. Crawford not having said any further to me 

 after our conversation in Chicago, and for that reason I 

 supposed that he did not expect to back his mare. He 

 drove her the first heat himself, which he won in 2:23|. The 

 next heat Mace beat him with an unreliable horse called 

 Banquo, owned at that time by a Boston gentleman. The 

 finish was very close between Mace and Crawford, and I 

 thought at the time Gypsy ought to have won it. After 

 this heat Crawford asked me to take bis place, which I did, 

 and Gypsy won the race in the next two heats, but not until 

 after she had had a fight from start to finish in the fourth 

 mile with a bay gelding of the name of Jack, and he forced 

 her out to her, at that time, best record of 2:22. Here is 

 where it is reported of Crawford that he made his famous 

 remark. The finish of this heat was so ck)se that many 

 people did not know which horse had won. The judges 



