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bought him for $5,000. He was at one time a very 

 promising horse, but his day passed and left him un- 

 known to fame. 



About this time I had in my stable another pacer, 

 the brown mare Eutland Girl. She was of the Hal- 

 corn blood, and though I converted her to trot, and 

 trotted her a good deal, she never had speed enough to 

 be of much account. I won two good races with her^ 

 one at Topeka, Kansas, September 26, ISTS, and the 

 other at Kansas City, June 2, 1875, for a $500 purse, 

 but her fastest mile was 2:43 — slow for a baby trotter 

 in these days. When, shortly afterward, I went east 

 with Smuggler, I took Kutland Girl along and sold her 

 in Boston to a gentleman from 'New Jersey. 



Another, and about the most promising horse I had 

 up to this time, was the gelding George. He was by 

 Field's Royal George, the sire of Byron, 2:25^, and 

 his dam was represented to have been a daughter of 

 Sir Tatton Sykes. George was, unlike any other early 

 horses, a natural trotter, and he certainly had the 

 capacity to trot close to 2:20. I considered him about 

 as promising a horse as Smuggler, but he died of lung 

 fever before he had a chance to show what there was 

 in him. 



At Hannibal, Missouri, in September, 1872, a black 

 horse of unknown blood called Sealskin made a pacing 

 record of 2:26^, and later he came into my hands. 

 I made a complete success of converting him, and al- 

 though he has no trotting-record, I taught him to trot 

 as fast as he could pace. This horse and a mare called 

 Olive Dunton about completes the list of horses of my 

 early training days, until one came into my hands that 



