228 Making the American Thoroughbred 



of an event of his maturer years; and of his official 

 career in which he felt a just and honorable pride. With 

 full knowledge of other versions of this incident the 

 writer deems the evidence here stated conclusive of the 

 facts. 



Much is heard now about the duty of the United 

 States to uplift and educate the people of other countries. 

 Balie Peyton anticipated this propaganda by three- 

 quarters of a century he lifted the Chilians off their 

 feet and taught them how to win a horse race. That 

 they paid him $10,000 for the lesson was wholly aside 

 from the main purpose of the contest, viz.: to establish 

 a reputation for North American talent and blooded 

 stock between the Andes and the Pacific. Nothing has 

 ever happened in Chili that made her people have greater 

 respect for the Monroe doctrine than this exemplification 

 of the Peyton doctrine. As the Chilians jingled their coin 

 into Peyton's coffers they were fully convinced that the 

 United States was a "world power." 



