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surely have had a two-year-old record below 2:25. But 

 after he went into Mr. Hamlin's stable he went back, 

 for when I saw him later at Cleveland he was not at 

 himself. After this I was informed that Mr. Hamlin 

 had toe-weights put on him. and if that be true I can 

 readih' understand his falling away from his true form. 

 We wore a ten-ounce shoe on him, and he had no need 

 of toe -weights. He has, I understand, grown very 

 large, not being so compactly, strongly and closely 

 built as his more distinguished brothers, and under his^ 

 new training he has never been the horse he was be- 

 fore he left Palo Alto. 



Bat the list of the good ones seems endless, and after 

 I have w^ritten far more than I intended of a historical 

 nature I find that a brilliant galaxy of trotters that I 

 ha7e trained and developed must be passed by without 

 justice being done them. Ansel, 2:20; Azmoor, 2:24|^-y 

 Carrie C, 2:24; Chfton Bell, 2:24; Maiden, 2:23; Ger- 

 trude Kussell, 2:23^ : Rexford, 2:23, and many others, 

 would afford good material for additional chapters, but 

 we must hasten on to the chapters on training, and so 

 will end our historical chapters with a strong finish — 

 the history of the greatest trotter the world has yet 

 seen, the peerless and unrivaled Sunol. 



•'' None but herself can be her parallel." 



