LETTER FROM JOSEPH CAIRN SIMPSON. Xlll 



approacliing the magnitude of what was contemplated by Lis 

 employer. 



Xo one had preceded him in carrying out the designs on the 

 trestle board, and I again repeat that it was fortunate to every 

 one concerned that he was the first. 



In recalling the many educators of trotters I have known, there is 

 ^ot another who was so well fitted for the place. 



To give my reasons for this opinion would demand more space 

 than is permissible in this letter, and there is little require- 

 ment for elaborate arguments when subsequent facts are taken into 

 consideration. Much is subsequent to the time when Mr. Marvin 

 took his residence at Palo Alto ; and, from 1880, when Fred Crocker 

 lowered the two-year-old record to 2:25^, until 1889, when Sunol 

 smashed the three-year-old, and made the marvelous mark of 2:10i^, 

 there have been a succession of victories, an unparalled array of 

 events to prove that the most sanguine expectations were justified, 

 and that reasons for holding the opinion advanced are superfluous. 



Truly yours, 



Jos. Cairn Simpson. 



