PATRON AND MANZANITA. 147 



August Haverstick and Greenlander in a four-year-old 

 race at Lexington in slow time — for her. We started 

 Hinda Eose against Patron, and the latter won com- 

 fortably enough in 2:20^, 2:21^, and 2:24^, Hinda Kose 

 winning the first heat in 2:21 J. In their three-year-old 

 form the two duels of Patron and Manzanita had been 

 the great features of the colt-racing of 1885, and in a 

 manner honors were easy, each once defeating the 

 other. All this made the prospective meeting between 

 them at St. Louis, to settle the question of supremacy 

 and demonstrate which was the greater four-year-old, 

 one of intense interest. Patron's fine form at Lexing- 

 ton was encouraging, and our Kentucky friends were 

 impatient to see the apple of their e3^e make the Palo 

 Alto mare " set down," as they would have it, at St. 

 Louis. 



So, when Patron and Manzanita met on October 2d, 

 it was the event of the day. It is said that there were 

 many more than one hundred thousand people on the 

 ground that day, and I never remember to have seen 

 so dense and interested a crowd as was packed on all 

 sides when we scored for the word. The night before, 

 and the day of the race, the Patron party were fairly 

 bubbling over with confidence. My mare had im- 

 proved steadily with every race, and, although I did 

 not shout it on the grand stand, I felt sure that she 

 was better that day than she had ever been before. 

 My friend, George Fuller, the driver of Patron, was all 

 confidence, and kindly informed me in advance that 

 "Patron was going to make Manzanita set down,^' and 

 that he was backing his horse well. I told him that my 

 mare was right, and that neither Patron nor any other 



