RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



" Let me congratulate you on your article on 

 Decorum. It is the very best thing I have read; 

 clear, plain, fair, and concise. I read it to Mr. 

 Gordon, and it tickled him immensely. He pro- 

 nounced it the ' best said ' article he had seen in a 

 long time." 



At the October, 1905, meeting of the Kentucky 

 Trotting Horse Breeders' Association I met Thos. 

 J. Dunbar, and his greeting was as pleasant as in 

 the days before I felt it my duty to take sides against 

 him. The Cleveland lesson did him good, and he 

 bears no grudges. He no longer drives horses in 

 races, but takes pleasure in watching the efforts of 

 younger men in the sulky. 



In June, 1891, Wm. Edwards told me, in a long 

 letter, of a fast trial trotted by Guy, and added: 



" I do not know if Mr. Gordon's health will give 

 him the energy to take Guy in hand and let someone 

 have him that has had great experience in condi- 

 tioning horses for an effort to beat the record, but, 

 as I have said before, I honestly believe the black 

 gelding can do it. I have always felt that it was 

 cruel that Maud S. was not allowed to have a fur- 

 ther trial to beat the present record. As I wrote 

 you and Mr. Bonner many times, I believe she could 

 have trotted in 2.07 or 2.07^, and I was much 

 pleased, in talking with Geo. W. Archer, to find 

 that he held the same opinion." 



Guy, 2.09!, by Kentucky Prince, out of Flora 

 Gardiner by Seely's American Star, was the fastest 

 trotter ever bred at Stony Ford by Chas. Backman. 



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