CHAPTER VI 



JTAY-EYE-SEE A.ND SOME MATCH RACES 



JAY-EYE-SEE was a black gelding bred by Richard 

 West, Edge Hill Farm, Georgetown, Ky. ; foaled in 

 1878, and by Dictator, dam Midnight by Pilot Jr.; 

 second dam, Twilight, thoroughbred daughter of 

 Lexington. I saw him in the pasture when he was 

 considered a runt, and Harrison Durkee, owner of 

 Dictator, thought so little of his half-interest in the 

 gelding that he sold it for $75. Mr. Case paid $350 

 for the little horse, and the first time I saw him in a 

 race was at Chicago, July 15, 1882. The stake was 

 for four-year-olds, and Jay-eye-see was the favorite 

 over Bronze, Waiting, Jim Booman, Adelaide, and 

 Ed Geers. I was one of the judges and have before 

 me the notes of the changing positions of contest. 

 In the first heat Waiting led from start to finish, and 

 the time was slow, 2.28i. In the second heat Wait- 

 ing won by half a length from Bronze, and the time 

 was 2.25! . In the third heat Bronze beat Waiting 

 by two lengths in 2.254. Budd Doble now appeared 

 behind Jay-eye-see, and the gelding finished second 

 to Bronze in 2.26^. In the fifth heat Jay-eye-see 

 revealed his true form and won in 2.22f, In the 

 sixth heat Waiting barely saved his distance and Jay- 

 eye-see won by half a length from Bronze in 2.23!-. 



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