RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



" My challenge did not mention any particular 

 horse or horses I desired to mtch Jay-eye-see against. 

 I see the challenge has stirred up quite a hornets' 

 nest, but no one can say that I challenged horses 

 known to have been withdrawn from the track. Jay- 

 eye-see can out-trot anything that stands on four legs, 

 and I am ready to back him at a moment's notice." 



From a letter written by W. H. Crawford, man- 

 ager of the Case stable, and dated Chicago, June 

 28, 1884, I extract: 



" Mr. Vanderbilt seems to be boiling over, but 

 it can't be helped. The best way to relieve himself 

 of heat and work off the bile would be to give 

 Maud S. a little preparatory work and score up with 

 Jay-eye-see. He need have no fears of its being 

 called a hippodrome with $20,000 in the judges' 

 stand awaiting the decision. Maud S., as the prop- 

 erty of Mr. Vanderbilt, challenged Santa Claus, ac- 

 cepted challenge of Trinket and trotted her; trotted 

 in purse races at Cleveland and Buffalo; trotted St. 

 Julien a race, and to sum up trotted the country for 

 specials and gate receipts, and therefore her owner 

 must have a short memory." 



Two days later Mr. Crawford wrote me from Chi- 

 cago: 



" Mr. Gordon matched Clingstone against St. 

 Julien to trot here a year ago, putting up $1000 for- 

 feit and losing to Hickok, as Clingstone went lame." 



The discussion was very warm while it lasted, and 



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