TUEF TALK. Ii9 



of it all is that he met his master, and his friends 

 sought quite unsuccessfully to find an excuse for a 

 performance that needed none. 



As to the race, Patron had the pole and Eagle Bird 

 the outside, with Manzanita between them. Mr. 

 McKinney, the starter, had trouble in getting us away, 

 and warned me to keep Manzanita well back, which 

 Avould have been easier to do if the others could score 

 with her. Finally, after about a dozen scores, the 

 starter succeeded in getting the field of three off fairly 

 well, and Fuller at once started out '• to make some- 

 thins- crack." I laid Manzanita rio'ht at Patron's 

 shoulder, and, when he passed the quarter in 0:34, I 

 was enjoying a comfortable ride. Xow he made the 

 pace hotter, but at the half, in 1:07^, Manzanita was 

 huo^Dfino^ him still closer, and I had not made a move 

 behind her yet. I was not ver}^ anxious when we 

 passed the three-quarters, locked head and head in 

 1:41|^, for the mare was going something within herself 

 and Patron was out to the last link and straining hard. 

 The pace was hot and fast, but the mare never flinched. 

 Turning into the stretch I said jocosely to Fuller, " Hit 

 him on the back." Fuller looked around with an 

 expression I shall not forget, and shouted, " I'll beat 

 you yet," whereat I answered, '' Well, let us go along 

 a little this heat,", for I did not realize how fast we had 

 trotted it so far. Manzanita abated not in her speed 

 in the stretch, but maintained the killing pace with 

 absolute evenness, and, though Patron made a game 

 struggle, he was not the filly's match, and broke just 

 the wrong side of the wire, Manzanita winning in 

 2:1 7f. The fill}^ cooled out to please me, did not 



