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well the horse ought to go, each fractional part of it, in 

 order to make his best possible record. I have often seen 

 men in running and trotting races both make a very serious 

 mistake, particularly in riding or driving what we call a 

 waiting race. They would sim^^ly be governed by how 

 slow the other man went. I saw Turner once win a race of 

 this kind through a mistake of his op]3onent. In a race 

 that came off in 1876 one of the starters was a horse noted 

 for speed, and also lack of ability to stay, the other one 

 with not as much speed but plenty of game. The speedy 

 horse won the first two heats, the game one then came to 

 the front and won the next two. As a forlorn liojie, some 

 one suggested putting Turner up behind the what looked to 

 be at this time the beaten animal, and here is where Turner 

 made an impression on some j)eoiDle that his title was not 

 an empty one. In scoring for the fifth heat. Turner s ani- 

 mal seemed to be entirely without si)eed. They scored 

 several times, finally got the word both horses going at a very 

 moderate gait, Turner apparently clucking and switching 

 his horse along for all there was in him and the other gen- 

 tleman with his horse in front, driving him with as much 

 confidence apparently as though the race was over. In fact, 

 everybody who looked at the performance gave it up as a 

 settled fact, and were very much surprised when the horses 

 straightened into the stretch. Turner pulled his mare out 

 and went at her about the same as Garrison would at a 

 quarter horse, brushed the other man's horse off his feet, 

 he being taken unawares, and thereby losing the race. If 

 Hay ward had been driving this horse from his knowledge 

 of pace and his horse having the ability to go, he wouldn't 

 have X3aid any attention to General Turner, but would have 

 set the pace fast enough to have insured the General's 

 defeat, or in other words would have driven his own horse in 

 the manner he thought best calculated to win. 



Always remember one thing, that you are not the only 

 man that, as the boys say, is doing a little clieating. You 

 may have your own horse under cover, know that he is 



