394 LIFE WITH THE TROTTERS, 



the same as he woukl have to his father. Bennie lost his 

 health and Dan in making his will left the bulk of his 

 property to be held in trust for Bennie's use. But as Ben- 

 nie only outlived Dan about three months he had no use 

 for it. 



Dan had another brother that the public never heard 

 much about, Joe Mace, he was by long odds the handsom- 

 est one of the family ; very much the best educated one, 

 and had other advantages over Dan and Bennie that would 

 have helped to make him a success in the world. But he 

 did not have the determination and will to apply himself 

 to business that they did, and while he was very fond of 

 horses and had some very good ideas about them, he seemed 

 more willing to sit down and talk and read about them than 

 he was to try to make a living with them. He always left 

 that part of his affairs entirely to Dan. I have seen him 

 drive a few races, but if it came to anything like a close 

 finish he would send for "the old man," as he and Bennie 

 always called Dan. I think that oftentimes one very 

 bright man in his business in a family is liable to over- 

 shadow the other members in such a manner that they do 

 not appear to the best advantage. I am sure this was the 

 case in the Mace family and also in Hiram Woodruff's fam- 

 ily. He had two brothers, William and Isaac, who in their 

 prime were horsemen of ability way above the average. In 

 those days trotting horses were very scarce in numbers and 

 those that were anything like good ones could be 

 counted on the fingers of your hands. And Hiram with 

 his great reputation of ability, coupled with his honesty 

 which always gives any man an advantage in his business, 

 as a rule had the pick of the world, Isaac and William 

 drove all kinds of races well, and both were experts in the 

 saddle and could ride a horse any distance. Isaac is still in 

 the land of the living and it has never yet been proven that 

 any of the new generation of drivers and trainers have out- 

 managed or out-driven him for the money. Budd Doble is 

 about the only exanq^le I ever saw of a man following in 



