68 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



was delighted, and he paid a visit to the stall 

 of St. Julien and congratulated his trainer and 

 driver, O. A. Hickok. As I write these lines 

 the intelligence reaches me that Hickok died 

 at the state hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, Novem- 

 ber lo, 1903, from softening of the brain. He 

 was born in Harpersfield, Ohio, in 1840, and was 

 one of the shrewdest men that ever sat in a 

 sulky. Those who knew him in his prime, 

 when his brain was wonderfully active, can 

 scarcely realize that decay began with him at 

 the top. I hope that he has entered into refresh- 

 ing sleep. In 1880 Hickok came east of the 

 Rocky Mountains with St. Julien, and his suc- 

 cess was the talk of the country. At Rochester, 

 August 12, he divided the floral crown with 

 Maud S., each trotting to a record of 2.1 if ; but 

 at Hartford, August 27, he reduced the record 

 to 2.1 1 J, and for a brief time was the champion. 

 He caught cold in 1881 and was unable to sus- 

 tain his reputation, and died in the fall of 1894. 

 He was a better bred horse than Rarus, and his 

 dam, Flora, is in the great brood mare list with 

 three — St. Julien, 2.1 1 J, St. Remo, 2.28^, and 

 Unalala, 2.22J. 



