RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



dressed form once was conspicuous in the Broadway 

 promenade. When the depression came, Wm. L. 

 Simmons closed out his trotting breeding establish- 

 ment and turned his attention to the rearing and 

 racing of thoroughbreds. I have never believed 

 that he felt thoroughly at home on running tracks. 

 Z. E. Simmons, after separating from his brother, 

 established near Lexington, Wilkes Lodge Farm, 

 with Florida, the inbred son of Hambletonian, as his 

 premier stallion. His good luck star had vanished, 

 and the establishment never obtained prominence. 

 The hair turned snow-white, the straight and ath- 

 letic figure was bent, and a dollar was made to go 

 further than a thousand did in halcyon days. Z. E. 

 Simmons had experience with the extremes of life, 

 and passed away without wishing to extend his ex- 

 perience. The friends of the trotting horse who 

 have good memories will thank him for what he did 

 when trotting was weak and badly disorganized. H. 

 M. Whitehead, who was the legal adviser of Mr. 

 Simmons, tells how he has seen his client exclude 

 bills of larger denomination than $10 from his pocket, 

 previous to starting for a stroll up Broadway. 

 Eph. Simmons was well known, and so many suppli- 

 cating hands halted the promenade, none of which 

 was denied, that small bills became necessary. 



Colonel Robert G. Stoner was born on his father's 

 farm, seven miles from Mt. Sterling, Ky., and, at 

 the age of twenty-one, he entered the Confederate 

 Army. At the close of the Civil War he began 



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