RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



Each member of the distinguished group, with 

 the exception of Senator Platt, developed a love for 

 the trotting horse. Was the fever in the atmosphere ? 



After breakfast we made the rounds of the pad- 

 docks and the stables at Marshland, and then the 

 young horses in the training school of Charles P. 

 Doble were harnessed and speeded on the track. In 

 his enthusiasm General Tracy removed his coat and 

 stood in his shirt sleeves in the little observation 

 stand, with timing watch in hand, and gave orders 

 in positive tones. On such occasions he was a man 

 of few words, but each word was directly to the 

 point. After dinner, on the moon-lighted porch, the 

 laws of breeding were discussed, and, as General 

 Tracy had been a close student of the subject and 

 has an intensely logical mind, his words carry con- 

 viction. 



In the early days of Marshland Peacemaker by 

 Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam Sally Feagles by 

 Smith's Clay, spent three years at the Farm, and one 

 of the colts sired by him there was Alroy, who won 

 three three-year-old races in 1882. General Tracy 

 was on the bench of the Court of Appeals at Albany, 

 when a telegram was received by him and answered 

 concerning the race at Fleetwood Park. Echoes of 

 the contest, which tested breeding theories, were thus 

 heard in a grave judicial chamber. Oxmoor, Ken- 

 tucky Wilkes, and Mambrino Dudley were other 

 conspicuous stallions at Marshland. The first named 

 developed a tumor, and was destroyed, and the sec- 



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