J 12 TRAINING THE TROTTING HORSE. 



2:28. The betting was now $100 to $8 against Capt. 

 Smith, and the prospect looked rather shady. In the 

 next heat I hiid Capt. Smith right on Del Sur's wheeJ. 

 and stuck "closer than a brother" to him for about 

 seven- eighths of the mile. Then I pulled the Captain 

 out, and cariying Del Sur to a tired break, just won in 

 2:32. Now consternation reigned around the pool-box. 

 Strong influence was brought to bear on me not to win 

 the deciding heat — influence not from the Del Sur peo- 

 ple, but from parties who had " got into the box " the 

 wrong way, and who, though it was their duty to look 

 after Governor Stanford's interests, endeavored, by 

 coaxing and threatening, to have me allow the I*alo 

 Alto horse to be beaten. I told these gentlemen that 

 if they wanted to save their mone\^, and could not 

 " hedge," I failed to see any help for them unless night 

 or "something else would suddenly come and cause a 

 postponement. Del Sur was not a game horse, and I 

 had not much trouble in beating him in the last heat. 



The gelding Cla}^ was a half brother to Capt. Smith, 

 being by Fred Low (or St. Clair, 656, as he is recorded), 

 out of Maid of Clay. He was a little black fellow that 

 would not weigh more than 710 pounds, but he was a 

 much faster horse than Capt. Smith. Judigiously 

 handled, 2:20 would not have stopped him, but we gave 

 him too much fast work against the watch. Like 

 Capt. Smith, he became an inveterate puller— one of 

 the kind that would look the driver square in the face. 

 He won a few good races for the farm, and took a 

 record of 2:25iin 1881. 



Elaine was another trotter whose career was marred 

 by that generally incurable fault — pulling. This mare 



