RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



General Tracy prepared his bill yet? I hope you 

 will bring these parties together." 



February 9, 1897, he wrote me another letter, 

 from which I extract: 



" I told Bradford to arrange with Auerbach to 

 meet General Tracy. I am leaving town next week. 

 I should like to have them meet before the bill is 

 sent up." 



The endorsement of General Benj. F. Tracy was 

 necessary to pass a bill through the Republican Leg- 

 islature at Albany, and to obtain the approval of 

 Governor Black. The ex-Secretary of the Navy was 

 reluctant to give this endorsement, and he declined 

 to do so until, at the urgent request of Mr. August 

 Belmont, I arranged for a meeting between the 

 General and Mr. Auerbach. After that all was 

 plain sailing and racing took giant strides forward. 



At the Boston Horse Show in April, 1902, G. M. 

 Webb, the manager of the stable of Mr. E. T. 

 Stotesbury of Philadelphia, created a ripple of ex- 

 citement by lodging a protest against the mare 

 Blue Seal, owned and entered by Mr. W. M. V. 

 Hoffman. It afterwards was made plain that Mr. 

 Webb was mistaken as to the identity of the mare 

 which he protested, and which, on account of the 

 protests, remained in her stall. At the November, 

 1902, Horse Show in Madison Square Garden, Mr. 

 Hoffman was again in competition with Mr. Stotes- 

 bury, and the awards led to controversy. In a letter 



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