26 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



honesty. While others have depended on trickery for 

 success on the turf, Marvin has earned a greater repu- 

 tation than any of them, and has kept his character 

 unstained. The tinge of jobbery never attached to his 

 name. He has left to others the work of swindling 

 the public, pulling horses in races, and driving for the 

 pool-box. In this book you will find no boasting over 

 "smart" jobs that were carried through — boasting that 

 seems to afford some trotting-horse drivers infinitely 

 more gratification than their honest triumphs — as 

 trainers. The chief shade that rests on the trotting- 

 turf is the shameful fact tliat men who are notoriously 

 and forever indulging in fraud on the tracks do so with 

 impunity, and so far has this gone that some have 

 written with boastf ulness the story of jobs of which an 

 honest man would be ashamed. This class of men in 

 their lives and their words do the pitiable work of in- 

 culcating in the minds of young horsemen the idea 

 that an honest man cannot succeed on the trotting-turf , 

 that the price of success is the sacrifice of honor, ex- 

 cept that honor that is by tradition supposed to exist 

 among thieves. But tliis class of men are gradually 

 finding their level in the public estimation, and the 

 trainers that are entrusted with valuable horses, that 

 have the confidence of rich and representative breeders, 

 are not those whose names are always spoken lightly, 

 but men who, like Charles Marvin, have a character to 

 maintain that is worth more than all the money that 

 was ever won by chicanery and fraud. Such men de- 

 serve well of the horsemen of America, and all the 

 better class of turfmen and breeders feel a personal 

 gratification that the highest pedestal of fame on the 

 trotting-turf is reserved for men of clean character. 



